Third-year students Bradley Ace and Robert Rose prevailed over finalist 2Ls Meghan Ellsworth and Jessica Johnson in the Entertainment and Sports Law Negotiation Competition. Rose was named Best Advocate.
Final round judges were Professor John Wolohan, Daniel Greene L’16, Associate at Newman and Lickstein, and Erin Phillips L’15, Associate at Newman and Lickstein.
The Syracuse Law Review celebrated the annual award winners for Volume 72 in a ceremony at the Melanie Gray Ceremonial Courtroom on April 7, 2022.
As the first in-person Law Review Banquet to occur since the onset of the pandemic, it was a night to remember. Dean Craig M. Boise offered opening remarks to students, faculty, and alumni, celebrating the achievements of the Law Review staff and winners soon to be announced.
Hilda Frimpong, Syracuse Law Review Editor-in Chief, gave the welcome speech for the ceremony. Frimpong is the first Black Editor-in-Chief in the history of the Syracuse Law Review, a proud accomplishment celebrated on the same day that Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court.
2022 Award Winners
2L of the Year: Emilie R. Cullen
3L of the Year: Hilda Frimpong
Samuel J. M. Donnelly Award: Niloofar Abedzadeh
Faculty & Staff Award: Kyle Davis
Most Dedicated Award: Emilie M. Pascale
Volume 73 Student Notes Selected for Publication
Robert M. Anderson Publication Award Winners
Immediately following the awards ceremony, attendees enjoyed a reception in the David M. Levy Atrium. John Powers L’96, Partner, Hancock Estabrook LLP, delivered the keynote speech for the night as this year’s Alumni Achievement Award recipient. To wrap up the festivities, Raymond Scarlata provided a “look ahead toast” as the Editor-in-Chief-elect for Volume 73.
As you walk through the Atrium or Law Library, beautiful oil paintings may catch your eye. The Law Library is delighted to present, in a double-sided gallery facing the Levy Atrium and the Law Library’s Kossar Reading Room, a selection of paintings by Professor Christian C. Day.
Professor Day has painted since his childhood and is an impressionist realist. His recent paintings feature Central New York scenes, seascapes, flora, and still life. This collection, entitled STILL LIFE, STILL LAND, will be on display through May 6.
We encourage you to view these wonderful paintings over the next few weeks, and we thank Professor Day for the honor of sharing them with us.
In this Benzinga article, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law Shubha Ghosh discussed Elon Musk’s recent Twitter poll in advance of news of his purchase of a 9% stake in Twitter.
Ghosh says, “Proxy solicitation is where a shareholder can get other shareholders to participate in a vote so that management of a company can change its policies,” he said. “And there are rules regarding proxy solicitation. It may be a gray area, but it doesn’t strike me as a proxy solicitation. I think he’s just doing sort of an investigation as to what the policies are and not necessarily trying to get fellow shareholders to vote in a particular way or swayed them in a particular way — these tweets were done to all his followers, some of whom may be Twitter shareholders, some may not be Twitter shareholders.”
Commercial and bankruptcy law expert Professor Gregory Germain shared his advice for those looking to rebuild their credit scores at MoneyGeek.com. He advised against credit cards with fees, saying “There are so many fees, and new ones are added all the time, that it’s impossible to list them all. First, you want to find a card without an annual fee.” Other insights he shared were to pay your balance in full, see if you can have a grace period to avoid interest charges and find a low APR. Read his full answer to the question, What red flags should credit card shoppers with poor or fair credit look for in unsecured credit card offers?
Germain also answered the question, If someone has fair or poor credit, would that person be better off getting an unsecured credit card (if approved) or a secured credit card? He suggested unsecured credit cards tend to be a better choice but to compare your options. “If the balance is modest, you may be able to convince a family member to serve as a co-signer. I did this for my daughter when she went to college (and had no credit history), and now she has a good credit score.’” Read his entire answer here.
In an interview with WAER, Professor Paula Johnson noted that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would bring a perspective that the Court has never had amongst its jurists: she is the only nominee to ever have experience as a public defender.
Professor Paula Johnson said that means she had to represent clients who were often poor and people of color, and could see the disparities in their treatment and access to resources. Johnson said the court would be less one-sided with her on the bench.
“It doesn’t necessarily mean that there will be a particular outcome after hearing these voices, but it does mean there will be a full airing of all of the positions that ought to be considered when we’re talking about, in this instance, criminal justice matters,” Johnson said.
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer David Cay Johnston writes in the New York Daily News on the Manhattan District Attorney’s decision to halt the prosecution of former President Trump.
He writes, “Although such action is rare, the governor’s authority to replace any county district attorney with the state attorney general is nearly unfettered, New York state’s highest court held in 1997.”
Professor Arlene S. Kanter, Meredith Professor of Law, Director of the Disability Law and Policy Program, and Faculty Director of International Programs, and Bond, Schoeneck, and King Distinguished Professor Cora True-Frost L’01, have contributed essays to the American Journal of International Law Unbound in response to the publication, “Disability, Human Rights Violations, and Crimes Against Humanity”, published by Cambridge University Press.
Kanter’s essay is entitled, “The Potential Benefits and Limitations of the New Human Rights Indicators for the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities”.
True-Frost’s essay is entitled “Can International Criminal Law Help Express the Unrealized Value of Disabled Lives?”
This volume of the Unbound by symposium publication offers responses to the article, “Disability, Human Rights Violations, and Crimes Against Humanity” by William I. Pons (Senior Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), Janet E. Lord (Harvard Law School Project on Disability and Advisor to UN Special Rapporteur on Disability) and Michael Ashley Stein (co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.)
The team of 3Ls Morgan Steele and Jackson Somes won the 44th Annual Lionel O. Grossman Trial Competition. Somes also received the Best Advocate award.
They prevailed over finalists 2L Giovanni Antonucci and LL.M. student Dessi-Ann Yetman.
The Hon. Glenn T. Suddaby L’85, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of New York served as the presiding judge. The evaluators were the Hon. Bernadette Romano Clark L’89, Oneida County Supreme Court Judge and the Hon. Rodney Thompson L’93, Presiding Judge, Family Division, Superior Court of New Jersey.
