U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams To Be Keynote Speaker at Cardozo’s 46th Commencement

The Hon. Ronnie Abrams, U.S. District judge for the Southern District of New York, will deliver the commencement address for the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\u27s 46th graduation ceremony at Lincoln Center in June.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozo-news-2024/1001/thumbnail.jp

The 2024 Cardozo Colloquium on Global and Constitutional Theory Presents: Linda Greenhouse on the Roberts Court

Join Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, to discuss the exceptional trajectory of the Roberts Court. Greenhouse is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2024/1004/thumbnail.jp

Cardozo Law News Brief: January 26, 2024

Featured Faculty: Michael Herz Emmanuel H. Arnaud Peter Goodrich Jacob Noti-Victor Edward Zelinsky Campus News: Cardozo Holds Two-Week January Intensive Courses Teaching Students Courtroom Litigation and Transactional Skills Justice Dianne T. Renwick ’86 Pens Piece for New York Law Journal About Diversity On NY\u27s Court System\u27s Bench Events: The 2024 Cardozo Colloquium on Global and Constitutional Theory The FAME Center Presents: An Evening with Steve Madden Michael Oher and ‘The Blind Side’ of Conservatorships The 2024 Cardozo Colloquium on Global and Constitutional Theory Presents: Linda Greenhouse on the Roberts Court Cardozo Law Review Symposium on Ethics in the Judiciary and the Legal Profession: Are We in Crisis

Brief for Professors and Legal Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of neither Party

The amici curiae consist of professors and legal scholars with a collective experience of over one hundred years in teaching and writing about constitutional law. Their primary interest lies in ensuring that the Court resolves the case in a manner consistent with federalism and separation of powers principles

Cardozo Law News Brief: February 9, 2024

Featured Faculty: Jessica Roth Alexander Reinert Edward Zelinsky Rebecca Ingber Anthony Sebok Young Ran (Christine) Kim Events: The 2024 Cardozo Colloquium on Global and Constitutional Theory Cardozo Law Review Symposium on Ethics in the Judiciary and the Legal Profession: Are We in Crisis

Brief for Amicus Curiae Professor Edward A. Zelinsky in Support of Appellants and Reversal

DOL’s tie-breaking rule violates ERISA’s duty of loyalty under ERISA § 404(a)(1)(A). ERISA’s duty of loyalty requires ERISA-regulated trustees to invest plan resources for the “exclusive purpose of . . . providing” economic benefits to plan participants and their beneficiaries, “solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries.” The tie-breaking rule violates this stringent statutory duty of loyalty because it permits plan trustees investing plan resources to consider “collateral benefits,” i.e., the welfare of third parties or social goals. But ERISA‟s plain text does not permit this result. The words ““solely” and “exclusive purpose” in § 404(a)(1)(A) do not mean “collateral benefits.”If an ERISA-regulated trustee genuinely confronts equally appropriate investment choices, ERISA § 404(a)(1)(C) tells the trustee what to do: The trustee must diversify, buying or offering some of each investment option. But instead of mandating such diversification, 29 CFR § 2550.404a-1(c)(2) authorizes the pursuit of collateral benefits, benefits which are extraneous to the retirement interests of plans and their participants.The notion of tie-breaking is an anachronism, originally deployed to defend ERISA‟s duty of loyalty. Today, however, the very notion of tie-breaking (whatever its prior jurisprudential justifications) conflicts with the statutory duty of loyalty to plans and their participants by introducing into the trustee’s deliberations concern for nonparticipants or for social goals. The tie-breaking rule jeopardizes the security of workers retirement assets. Using the euphemism of collateral benefits, the tie-breaking rule allows ideological (often highly political) considerations and the interests of nonparticipants to influence the investment decisions of ERISA-regulated fiduciaries.The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals should enforce ERISA’s plain language and reverse the District Court’s judgment below, approving DOL’s tie-breaking rule

Third-Party Litigation Finance: Law, Policy, and Practice, First Edition

Litigation finance sits at the intersection of many well-known subjects within the law school curriculum: contracts, torts, civil procedure, evidence, professional responsibility, insurance, and capital markets. There are no professionally produced materials for a professor who wants to teach an entire semester-long course on litigation finance. This casebook is an attempt to fill that gap. Its ten chapters provide a foundation for a two- or three-credit class, although many of the chapters could also be used individually as supplemental material for a free-standing unit on litigation finance in another course, such as torts, civil procedure, or the law of lawyering. Notwithstanding the fact that the law of litigation finance is rapidly developing as investment in litigation and legal services grows, the cases and other materials contained in this book will remain relevant and useful to anyone trying to teach students about this important new body of law. Benefits for instructors and students: Careful selection of the leading cases in the United States about the development and current law of assignment and litigation finance. Diverse selection of secondary source material, including major law review articles, as well as reports and advocacy materials from supporters and critics of litigation finance. Notes following the readings help the student progress through the materials in a logical and coherent manner.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-books/1125/thumbnail.jp

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