CUNY School of Law

Meet & Greet Our New Administrators!
2024-01-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | CUNY School of Law
Meet & greet our new administrators! Faculty, staff and students are invited! Pizza, drinks, snacks and dessert will be served.
Location: 2nd Floor Lobby

Meet & Greet: Dean's Office invites Faculty, Staff & Students to their first coffee of the year!
2024-01-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-23 17:30 - 18:15 | CUNY School of Law
Dean’s Office invites Faculty, Staff & Students to their first coffee of the year! Please join us in welcoming:
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs: David Baluarte
&
Associate Dean of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management: Dr. Joanne Hyppolite
Pizza & Refreshments will be served.

The Climate Crisis: Constitutional and Human Rights Jurisprudence (CLE)
2024-01-23 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
With climate change becoming an ever present threat, people are using the court system to prevent future damage. This CLE will be a discussion of the status of current climate litigation domestically and internationally as well as how these intersect with human rights laws.
Presenters:
Suzanne Sangree, Esq. (’86), Senior Counsel, Grant & Eisenhofer
Eleanor Stein, JD, LLM (’86), Adjunct Professor, State University of New York at Albany
Credits:
3 CLE credits: 2 Professional Practice, 0.5 Ethics & Professionalism, 0.5 Diversity, Inclusion & Elimination of Bias
Cost:
Free for CUNY Law alumni, faculty, staff, and students. $75.00 for all others. Financial assistance is available. Please email john-paul.kocot@law.cuny.edu with your request.
Registration is required. Click here to register.
CLE Credits are provided by the Community Legal Resource Network at CUNY School of Law:
This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys, except that newly admitted attorneys are not eligible for the 0.5 diversity credit. Consistent with NY State regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing the entire session; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit. Also note that for remote trainings, attorneys must attend on the webinar; we cannot extend credit for audio-only participation.

Ace the Interview Program: Sell Your Strengths & Skills
2024-01-23 17:15 - 19:00 | CUNY School of Law
Come hear about strategies to help you prepare for public interest interviews.
Featuring Pavita Krishnaswamy ’02, NY Homes & Cmmty Renewal Tenant Protection; Frannie De Simone, Faegre Drinker Biddle; Lillian Evans, NYC Law Departmentt, who will share strategies to help you prepare for public interest interviews.

Faculty Meeting
2024-01-24 14:00 - 16:00 | 2 Ct Square W, Long Island City, 11101, United States
Community Room 3/115

Collateral Consequences of Incarceration: The Clean Slate Act and Beyond (CLE)
2024-01-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
This CLE will discuss the recently signed Clean Slate Act, which will expand opportunities for over 2.3 million New Yorkers with conviction records. With this new law, New York has joined eleven other states in passing legislation that will automatically seal certain convictions and allow people to overcome systemic barriers to jobs, housing, and education. However, this Act does not cover all those with conviction records. We will discuss what barriers remain for those who are formerly incarcerated and who was not included with the Clean Slate Act and how this can impact clients in a variety of areas of the legal system.
Presenters:
Darren Breeden, Community Intake Advocate, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem—Civil Defense Practice
Aleksandra Ciric, Staff Attorney, Special Litigation Unit, The Legal Aid Society
Zoni (Alexandra) Rockoff (’19), Staff Attorney – Civil Defense Practice, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem
Credits:
3 CLE credits: 2 Professional Practice, 0.5 Ethics & Professionalism, 0.5 Diversity, Inclusion & Elimination of Bias
Cost:
Free for CUNY Law alumni, faculty, staff, and students. $75.00 for all others. Financial assistance is available. Please email john-paul.kocot@law.cuny.edu with your request.
Registration is required. Click here to register.
CLE Credits are provided by the Community Legal Resource Network at CUNY School of Law:
This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys, except that newly admitted attorneys are not eligible for the 0.5 diversity credit. Consistent with NY State regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing the entire session; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit. Also note that for remote trainings, attorneys must attend on the webinar; we cannot extend credit for audio-only participation.

2024 Wellness to Wellbeing Program Foundational Workshop
2024-01-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Open to Students, Staff, and Faculty, designed for survivors, their allies, and/or those experiencing trauma-related symptoms. Attend this workshop and help us create a more connected CUNY Law community grounded in the practices of mindfulness and self-care.

PILA Bake Sale
2024-01-29 11:30 - 17:00 | CUNY School of Law
Second Floor Cafe Area 11:30 until we run out!!

CUNY BLSA "Harlem Nights in Queens" Ticket Sales
2024-01-29 12:00 - 18:00, 2024-02-19 12:00 - 18:00 | CUNY School of Law
BLSA will be selling tickets and advertising for our annual “Harlem Nights in Queens” Soul Food Gala that will be held on February 29th — location in our RSVP link!!
COME & Get Your Tickets — we will be tabling on January 29th, 30th, and 31th AND once MORE on February 19th, 20th, 21th, and 22th.
Tabling from 12 pm to 3 pm on the Second Floor Cafe & First Floor from 5pm to 6pm.

10th Anniversary of Floyd v. City of NY “Stop-and-Frisk” Case
2024-01-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Dave Fields Auditorium, Fl 3
Details
Vince Warren, 2023-24 W. Haywood Burns Chair, will lead a panel discussion on how movement lawyers and community advocates collaborated to address NYPD racial profiling.
Panelists will include Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo; Joo-Hyun Kang, founding Executive Director, Communities United for Police Reform; Jonathan Moore, co-lead trial counsel in Floyd and CUNY Law Adjunct Professor; Shira Scheindlin, Judge (retired), United States District Court, S.D.N.Y.; Djbril Toure, Floyd case witness.
Presented by the Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession at CUNY Law and the Center for Constitutional Rights
Co-sponsored by student organizations
Doors open 6pm, Starts promptly at 6:15pm
Dinner will be provided
New York CLE Credit (1 credit in “Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias”, and 0.5 credits in “Professional Practice”) will be available to attorneys who attend in-person. This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys, except that under CLE Regulations, newly admitted attorneys are not eligible for the 1.0 diversity credit. Consistent with NY State regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing the entire session; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit.

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Speed Mock Interview Night 2024
2024-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 | CUNY Law Community Room
In Person Speed Mock Interview Night 2024!
Speed Mock Interview Night (SPIN) Program will be held in the Community Room on Thurs., Feb. 1st! You can practice interviewing with alumni employers.
Join us to get practice and helpful feedback from alumni interviewers. Also a great networking opportunity!
Look out for email for instructions on how to sign up.

Office of Human Resources: Evaluations Training
2024-02-05 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Law Community Room
This one-hour training will be led by the HR team for managers/supervisors, on best practices and refreshers for conducting their staff’s evaluations.

Exhale to Inhale 2024 Trauma-Informed Yoga Program
2024-02-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Room 2-111, 2 Ct Square W, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
These 45-minute yoga classes will offer time to check-in with your stress levels, connect with your body, and make movement-based choices. Weekly themes: Connect, Anchor, Experience, Restore, Empower, Resilience, Intention, Mindfulness, Courage, Curiosity, Self-Acceptance, and Worthiness.
You are welcome to wear comfortable clothing.
Our classes are perfect for beginners.
Bring your own mat or towel to practice with.

Monthly Community Meeting for CUNY Law OUTLaws
2024-02-05 14:00 - 15:00 | CUNY School of Law
CUNY Law LGBTQIA+ student org, OUTLaws, will meet on the 1st Monday of the month to work on projects, decide next steps, and plan ahead as a community.
Room: 2-113

Auxiliary Board Meeting
2024-02-06 17:00 - 18:00 | 2 Ct Square W, Long Island City, 11101, United States

Weekly CUNY Law OUTLaws Social Meet
2024-02-07 15:00 - 16:00 | CUNY School of Law
Join us every Wednesday afternoon for a chance to hang out with your fellow LGBTQIA+ students and allies. This weekly social gathering is a chance to decompress, gain strength from your community, and have fun.
Room: 2-113

Book Talk: The United Nations and the Question of Palestine w/ Ardi Imseis
2024-02-09 13:00 - 14:30 | CUNY School of Law
Join us as Ardi Imseis discusses his new book, The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Based on primary archival materials and the author’s first-hand experience as a UN Official in Palestine for over a decade, this first of its kind volume aims to provide a critical international legal perspective on why and how the question of Palestine remains a festering wound on the conscience of the international community.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, there has been a continuing though vacillating gulf between the requirements of international law and the UN on the question of Palestine. This book explores the UN’s management of the longest-running problem on its agenda, critically assessing tensions between the organization’s position and international law. What forms has the UN’s failure to respect international law taken, and with what implications? The author critically interrogates the received wisdom regarding the UN’s fealty to the international rule of law, in favour of what is described as an international rule by law. This book demonstrates that through the actions of the UN, Palestine and its people have been committed to a state of what the author calls ‘international legal subalternity’, according to which the promise of justice through international law is repeatedly proffered under a cloak of political legitimacy furnished by the international community, but its realization is interminably withheld.
Ardi Imseis is Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University.

CUNY BLSA Candy Gram Sale
2024-02-13 11:00 - 15:00 | CUNY School of Law

Valentine's Day Candy Gram Sale
2024-02-13 12:00 - 18:00, 2024-02-14 12:00 - 18:00 | CUNY School of Law
BLSA will be fundraising by selling Valentine’s Day-themed candy boxes.
Candy Grams Cost $5 a box!
Second Floor Cafe from 12pm to 3pm & First Floor from 5pm to 6pm.

Wellness Workshop: Radical Self-Care
2024-02-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Learning to care for yourself allows you to be there for others and protects your overall well-being

Coffee with Dean Sudha Setty
2024-02-15 17:20 - 18:15, 2024-02-26 12:45 - 13:45 | CUNY School of Law
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to gather for coffee and conversation with Dean Sudha Setty. Stop by the 2nd floor lobby, grab a cup, and stay if you like!
Location: 2nd Floor Lobby

Curriculum Committee Meeting
2024-02-20 16:00 - 17:30 | CUNY School of Law
The committee will vote on Topics in Law classes eligible for consideration to be incorporated in the curriculum.
Room: 3/201

Black History Month Judicial Law Clerk Panel
2024-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 | CUNY School of Law

The Student Government of CUNY Law (SG) invites you to attend our General Session of the 2023 - 2024 school year!
2024-02-23 18:15 - 19:30 | Room 1-202
At each General Session of SG, representatives of each class/program review the business conducted on school committees, make plans to advocate for student interests, and discuss how to make the student experience at CUNY Law better.
Please review prior meeting notes and see the proposed agenda for upcoming meetings at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iz4z4PHpYEH78ynRI7hqfnq3ldRYYuPiJ8mSnZ61kbg/edit?usp=sharing
Feb 23rd
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-mrrz4tH9X54xcKihm1Icplo1M5ac-w

NDLON Clinic Training
2024-02-26 17:30 - 20:00 | CUNY School of Law
Labor Co is hosting an internal training event for students who will be participating in an NDLON Deferred Action Clinic.
The training will occur over zoom, but Labor Co members will gather and do the training together in room 2/116.
