CUNY School of Law

International Women's Day Conference | Resisting the Policing of Women’s Bodies: Affirming Individual and Collective Rights in 21st-Century America
2024-03-08 10:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | External Host
This day-long conference hosted at Brooklyn College in celebration of International Women’s Day features remarks by Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace.
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From Brooklyn College:
Speakers will include 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace and Liberian peace activist, social worker, and women’s rights advocate; Michele Bratcher Goodwin, professor of constitutional law and global health policy, and co-faculty director, O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law School; Carine Jocelyn, CEO of Diaspora Community Services, and founder, Haitian Women’s Collective; and Aleah Ranjitsingh, University of the West Indies.
The CUNY Haitian Studies Institute presents this event in collaboration with the Office the President; the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Caribbean Studies Program; the Women’s Center; the departments of Africana Studies, Sociology, and Modern Languages and Literatures; The Haitian American Lawyers Association; and the Institute for Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace, CUNY School of Law.
The event will be held at Brooklyn College in the Library and the Woody Tanger Auditorium.

Good Luck Grams!
2024-03-13 10:00 - 17:00 | CUNY School of Law
Come buy a Good Luck Gram to wish a friend well on their Midterms!
CUNY Law’s PILA will be selling Good Luck Grams for $3. The bags will contain some chocolate candy, sour candy, and good luck. We will also have a station with cute paper and markers for you to write your friend a good luck note.
Room: 2nd Floor Cafe

Hannah Yu, Manhattan DA’s Office
2024-03-19 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Law Community Room
NYS Hate Crimes

Faculty Meeting
2024-03-20 14:00 - 16:00 | 2 Ct Square W, Long Island City, 11101, United States
Community Room 3/115

Weekly CUNY Law OUTLaws Social Meet
2024-03-20 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-03 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

IRAP Presents: Career Paths, Amy Taylor from CUNY to IRAP
2024-03-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Community Room
Amy Taylor, a CUNY law alum and Deputy Executive Director of Program at IRAP. She is coming to campus to have an informal conversation with students about her career path from CUNY to IRAP (brief time at a think tank, 8 years at Legal Services, 5 years at Make the Road, and 4 years at IRAP). She will also chat about internships, resumes, applying for jobs, tips/advice, etc.

Coffee with Dean Sudha Setty
2024-03-21 17:30 - 18:15, 2024-04-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-15 17:45 - 18:30 | 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

Ramadan Kareem
2024-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | CUNY Law Community Room
Ramadan Kareem to those observing!
A few of us are hosting an Iftar next Thursday, 3/21 in the community room (3/115) open to all faculty, students, and staff. Halal food will be served.
Please RSVP to: naz.ahmad@law.cuny.edu so we can order an appropriate amount of food.

2024 Haywood Burns Contemplative Social Justice Law Retreat
2024-03-22 - 2024-03-24 | External Host
About the Retreat
For more than 20 years, a community of staff, students, faculty, and alumni have gathered at this annual treat to sit with the weight of social justice lawyering.
Taking a moment to pause and center yourself is vital for all of us, especially for those engaged in the study and practice of social justice law. This year’s retreat takes place on March 22-March 24, 2024 and will be held at the Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, New York.
For those of you who have attended, you know how valuable this 3-day break is to recalibrate and refocus in community. We want to share this reflective practice and remove financial obstacles for students who’d like to join. In the past, the generosity of the alumni community has meant that student fees have been fully covered! We are hoping to do this again for the 2024 Spring Retreat.
Please consider making a contribution to cover student costs.
Registration
Capacity is limited, so please ensure you can attend if you register for this event.
Students can register here, at no cost.
All other community members can register here.

2024 Hayward Burns Contemplative Social Justice Retreat: The Revolution Starts Within
2024-03-22 - 2024-03-24 | External Host
For over 20 years, a small community of staff, students, faculty, and alumni have gathered at this annual retreat to sit with the weight of social justice lawyering. Taking a moment to pause and center yourself is vital for all of us, especially for those engaged in the study and practice of social justice law.
This year’s retreat takes place on March 22-24, 2024, and will be held at the Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, New York.
This year’s theme is: The Revolution Starts Within. We all benefit from honing our inner strength, to make sure our actions and communications are grounded in our highest alignment with Self. Space is limited this year so we are prioritizing direct CUNY Law folks, and we will let registrants know if we have additional space for including family members.
Alumni are fundraising to ensure that finances will not impede any student from attending. If you would like to donate, go to our GiveGab page.
Students register here, paying as you can $0-$100.
Faculty, staff, and alumni all register directly on the Blue Cliff Monastery website retreat registration page and select the specific CUNY Law Retreat. Cost is $140-$240.
If you have any questions, email Alizabeth Newman.

Clinic Preview for Evening Students
2024-03-30 12:00 - 13:15 | Zoom
A preview of the April 2 Clinic Information Program presenting Part-Time program specific information.
Evening students have the option to enroll in a Clinic in either the 5th or 7th Semester. Interim Clinic Dean Stephen Loffredo will hold a Saturday preview of the in-person Information Program CUNY Law Clinic faculty will present on Tuesday, April 2nd at 5:15pm.
This preview provides an opportunity to discuss evening-student specific curriculum planning issues with Dean Loffredo.
This Saturday online program will be recorded, but may not be available for posting in time for the Tuesday afternoon Clinic Information Program, so please consider watching the program live on Saturday.
Zoom Code will be provided by email.

Exhale to Inhale 2024 Trauma-Informed Yoga Program
2024-04-01 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.

Burns Chair Events: Resistance to Autocracy During the Trump Administration
2024-04-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Room
Richard Abel, Professor Emeritus at UCLA and 2007 Burns Chair, will discuss resistance to autocracy during the Trump administration.
Please join us as Prof. Richard Abel, Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA and 2007 Burns Chair at CUNY Law, discusses his three new books on resistance to autocracy during the Trump administration. During his four years as president, Trump violated the most basic precepts of liberal democracy: seeking to overturn elections, issuing illegal executive orders against immigrants, corrupting the criminal justice system to protect his cronies, and undercutting the efforts of scientific experts to control the Covid-19 pandemic. Prof. Abel’s talk, introduced by current Burns Chair, Vince Warren, will discuss these abuses, and importantly, the forms of resistance they provoked.
RSVP

Bake Sale for Moot Court
2024-04-02 10:00 - 18:00 | CUNY School of Law
On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024, Moot Court will host a bake sale on the 2nd Floor Cafe from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.!
The food will be tasty! And the money received will fund classmates to represent CUNY Law in competitions against other law schools.

Clinic Fair
2024-04-02 17:00 - 18:15 | CUNY School of Law
Students eligible to enter a clinic in fall 2024 should come to the Clinic Fair to learn about the clinics available. Clinic faculty will give an overview of their clinical program and answer general questions about registration. Clinic faculty will then meet with individual students answer questions.

Room: Auditorium

Webinar Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gTU5bfykQ2yHMo6EGQQR7g

BDS Teach In
2024-04-02 17:15 - 19:30 | CUNY Law Community Room
“BDS Teach-In” is co-hosted by: Prof. Jeena Shah, OUTlaws, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Law Students Association, Reforma(FIRE), NLG, Women of Color Coalition, Men of Color Coalition, Law and Political Economy, Indigenous Americans and the Law Student Advocates, Irish American Law Student Association, Labor Co, Housing Rights Project, LALSA, CUNY Contemplative Urban Law Project, Environmental Law Coalition.

BDS Teach In
2024-04-02 17:15 - 19:30 | CUNY Law Community Room
co-hosted by: Prof. Jeena Shah, OUTlaws, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Law Students Association, Reforma(FIRE), NLG, Women of Color Coalition, Men of Color Coalition, Law and Political Economy, Indigenous Americans and the Law Student Advocates, Irish American Law Student Association, Labor Co, Housing Rights Project, LALSA, CUNY Contemplative Urban Law Project, Environmental Law Coalition.

Ethics and Allyship Training to Document and Report Incidents of Hate
2024-04-03 12:00 - 14:30 | CUNY Law Community Room
Join us for a special allyship training (with ethics CLE credits for attorneys) on what you can do to help document and report incidents of bias-related harassment and hate crimes against people of any background, especially Asian Americans, Jews, Muslims, African Americans, and LGBTQ people during a time when hate crimes in the United States have increased by 17%, the highest jump in more than a decade, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The program will be presented by Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq.
This event is for students, staff, faculty, alumni, and guest attorneys.
FREE and 1 Ethics CLE Credit – register below
Register through the AABANY website
Food will be served!!
Co-Sponsors:
CUNY School of Law
LGBTQ Committee of AABANY
Muslim Bar Association of New York (MuBANY)
Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY)
South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY)

Law and Political Economy at CUNY Law Presents: Coffee with Professors Hernandez & Howell
2024-04-03 13:45 - 14:45 | Room 1-204
Informal meet up to learn about the experiences and inspiring careers of your Professors

The Student Government of CUNY Law (SG) invites you to attend our General Session of the 2023 - 2024 school year!
2024-04-03 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-04-16 17:07 - 18:15 | Room 1-203
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

April 16th
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfuyvrj8uHNHDsbJFJ5q9Ojeze4xUu1CQ

Combating Imposter Syndrome Through Personal Branding: Registration Required
2024-04-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Room 1-205
Paula Edgar ’06 will host an interactive workshop on building one’s personal brand to fuel a successful job search.
Whether you’re a student studying for a professional career or a professional looking for a new opportunity, we often doubt the credentials we have worked so hard to build. “Do I belong in this setting?” one might ask themselves, or “can I really make the grade as a professional?” These normal feelings of self-doubt must be overcome for a job search to be as successful as possible.
Paula Edgar is a CUNY Law alumna with experience practicing employment and workplace discrimination law. She is currently the CEO of PGE Consulting Group LLC, a firm specializing in professional development and diversity, equity, and inclusion training. She hosts the Branding Room Only podcast, dedicated to sharing career stories, strategies, and lessons learned on how industry leaders and influencers have built their personal brands.
Paula will conduct an interactive workshop on how to build one’s personal brand to propel a successful job search. Guests will emerge from the workshop with tangible tools for authentic self-promotion and self-advocacy in the professional workplace.
CUNY Law Students register through Simplicity Events
All others register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6NgBWA18TlyQX4Wl85zLSQ
Food will be served!

Ethics and Allyship Training to Document and Report Incidents of Hate
2024-04-03 18:00 - 20:00 | CUNY Law Community Room
Join us for a special allyship training (with ethics CLE credits for attorneys) on what you can do to help document and report incidents of bias-related harassment and hate crimes against people of any background, especially Asian Americans, Jews, Muslims, African Americans, and LGBTQ people during a time when hate crimes in the United States have increased by 17%, the highest jump in more than a decade, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The program will be presented by Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq.
This event is for students, staff, faculty, alumni, and guest attorneys. All are welcome.
FREE & 1 Ethics CLE Credit – register below
Register through the AABANY website
FOOD WILL BE SERVED!!
Co-Sponsors:
CUNY School of Law
LGBTQ Committee of AABANY
Muslim Bar Association of New York (MuBANY)
Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY)
South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY)

Contemplative Practice and Social Justice: Honoring MLK Jr.
2024-04-04 18:00 - 21:00 | CUNY Law Community Room
Founding faculty of the CUNY Law Contemplative program, Family Court Judge and former CUNY Law Prof. Maria Arias, and Dharma teacher Jeanne Anselmo, will be co-hosting an event Thursday evening April 4, memorializing the anniversary of the assassination of MLK Jr.
We will be participating in a contemplative group reading of Letters from a Birmingham Jail, written by MLK from jail to his many supposed supporter who were telling him that now is not the time to act. His eloquent and tempered response was smuggled out of the jail in pieces and is a powerful message that a shift in power is never convenient.
The event will use a beautiful process called Lectio Divina (Latin for “Divine Reading”) a traditional monastic practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with the devine and to increase the knowledge of spirituality.
The event will be in-person at the law school and will have a zoom link for those who cannot attend in person.

Spring '24 Wellness Workshop: Addressing Gender-Based Violence
2024-04-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
This workshop presented by SAVI, explores the pervasive issue of gender-based violence on a global scale. Gain essential insights into the impact it has on individuals and clients alike. Join us as we delve into the fundamentals, fostering awareness and understanding to empower meaningful change.

Curriculum Committee Meeting
2024-04-12 13:30 - 15:00 | CUNY School of Law Room 3-201
McKinney’s Public Officers Law § 104
§ 104. Public notice
Currentness

Public notice of the time and place of a meeting scheduled at least one week prior thereto shall be given or electronically transmitted to the news media and shall be conspicuously posted in one or more designated public locations at least seventy-two hours before such meeting.
Public notice of the time and place of every other meeting shall be given or electronically transmitted, to the extent practicable, to the news media and shall be conspicuously posted in one or more designated public locations at a reasonable time prior thereto.
The public notice provided for by this section shall not be construed to require publication as a legal notice.
If videoconferencing is used to conduct a meeting, the public notice for the meeting shall inform the public that videoconferencing will be used, identify the locations for the meeting, and state that the public has the right to attend the meeting at any of the locations.
If a meeting will be streamed live over the internet, the public notice for the meeting shall inform the public of the internet address of the website streaming such meeting.
When a public body has the ability to do so, notice of the time and place of a meeting given in accordance with subdivision one or two of this section, shall also be conspicuously posted on the public body’s internet website.

Practicing Faith and Law
2024-04-15 13:30 - 15:30 | CUNY Law Community Room
Embarking on the journey of law school, we each bring our unique lived experiences and cultural backgrounds, shaping our understanding and engagement with the law and its practice. One of these identities also encompass our faith practices, presenting challenges and questions as we navigate law school and into professional practice. Join us and our esteemed alumni panel for a thoughtful discussion on how they’ve integrated their faith practices and values into their legal careers. Gain invaluable insights, practical advice, and inspiration for navigating ethical challenges in the legal field while championing social justice and compassionate lawyering.
