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Welcoming Remarks
No full textStuart Rabinowitz President Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law Hofstra University
David Yellen Dean and Max Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law
Roy D. Simon Professor of Law Director of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics Hofstra University School of Law Conference Co-Director Monroe H. Freedman Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics Hofstra University School of Law Conference Co-Directo
Foreword: Conference on Legal Ethics: What Needs Fixing?
No full textThe remarkable collection of papers in this special issue of the Hofstra Law Review grew out of Hofstra University School of Law\u27s third major ethics conference, which was held at Hofstra from September 9 to September 11, 2001. The papers are linked together by the broad theme expressed in the conference\u27s title: Legal Ethics: What Needs Fixing?
n this Foreword, I want to do three simple things. First, I want to talk about how Hofstra put the ethics conference together. Second, I want to comment on the connections between some of the papers. Third, I want to say a few words about the last day of the conference, September 11, 2001
The influence of interpolation and station network density on the distributions and trends of climate variables in gridded daily data
No full textWe study the influence of station network density on the distributions and trends in indices of area-average daily precipitation and temperature in the E-OBS high resolution gridded dataset of daily climate over Europe, which was produced with the primary purpose of Regional Climate Model evaluation. Area averages can only be determined with reasonable accuracy from a sufficiently large number of stations within a grid-box. However, the station network on which E-OBS is based comprises only 2,316 stations, spread unevenly across approximately 18,000 0.22A degrees grid-boxes. Consequently, grid-box data in E-OBS are derived through interpolation of stations up to 500 km distant, with the distance of stations that contribute significantly to any grid-box value increasing in areas with lower station density. Since more dispersed stations have less shared variance, the resultant interpolated values are likely to be over-smoothed, and extreme daily values even more so. We perform an experiment over five E-OBS grid boxes for precipitation and temperature that have a sufficiently dense local station network to enable a reasonable estimate of the area-average. We then create a series of randomly selected station sub-networks ranging in size from four to all stations within the E-OBS interpolation search radii. For each sub-network realisation, we estimate the grid-box average applying the same interpolation methodology as used for E-OBS, and then evaluate the effect of network density on the distribution of daily values, as well as trends in extremes indices. The results show that when fewer stations have been used for the interpolation, both precipitation and temperature are over-smoothed, leading to a strong tendency for interpolated daily values to be reduced relative to the "true" area-average. The smoothing is greatest for higher percentiles, and therefore has a disproportionate effect on extremes and any derived extremes indices. For many regions of the E-OBS dataset, the station density is sufficiently low to expect this smoothing effect to be significant and this should be borne in mind by any users of the E-OBS dataset
A Tale of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences
No full textThe article describes the author\u27s experience of supervising students from each of the seven clinical courses offered at Hofstra University Law School on Election Day 2008 in the U.S. It discusses cognitive science research into skills learning and the legal scholarship on teaching storytelling to lawyers. The article proposes a new way of teaching storytelling skills via the creation of learning environment that provides repeated opportunities to tell stories in a short period of time
A Former Alabama Appellate Judge\u27s Perspective on the Mitigation Function in Capital Cases
No full textThis article appears in the Hofstra Law Review symposium issue on the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty cases.The article, based on the author\u27s eighteen years of service on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, explicates how the collection and presentation of mitigation evidence in accordance with the ABA\u27s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases reprinted in 31 Hofstra L. Rev. 913 (2003) and the Supplementary Guidelines that are the subject of this issue enable appellate courts to make reliable decisions in capital cases. Recounting his post-bench experiences in the defense of capital cases, the author also describes the ways in which the effective performance of the capital defense team benefits all actors in the criminal justice system: the more accurately the defendant\u27s life is presented, the more everyone involved - including prosecutors and family members as well as judges - can have confidence in the soundness with which they have discharged the heavy burdens they all bear
The Indispensable Role of the Mitigation Specialist in a Capital Case: A View from the Federal Bench
No full textThis article appears in the Hofstra Law Review symposium issue on the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty cases.Writing from the perspective of a federal trial judge, the author, who is Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, describes the crucial importance of mitigation development in the trial of a capital case in accordance with the ABA\u27s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases reprinted in 31 Hofstra L. Rev. 913 (2003) and the Supplementary Guidelines that are the subject of this issue - and the concomitant need for judges to fully fund the needed investigations from the outset. The early appointment of a mitigation specialist is a judicious, wise, and cost-effective way of assuring that defendants in capital cases will be competently represented. The numerous beneficial effects include increased accuracy and justice in charging and sentencing decisions; reductions in overall cost, both because work is performed by the team members able to do it most effectively and because the fruits of the investigation may show the defendant to be ineligible for the death penalty and/or lead to a negotiated disposition; and the avoidance of reversible error
The ABA and the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty Cases
No full textThis article appears in the Hofstra Law Review symposium issue on the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty cases.This article, whose author is the Director of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project, places the Supplementary Guidelines in the context of the ABA\u27s work in the death penalty field. The ABA does not oppose capital punishment but does favor justice. Hence the organization has long insisted that any jurisdiction desiring to retain execution as a criminal sanction provide high quality defense representation in accordance with the ABA\u27s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases reprinted in 31 Hofstra L. Rev. 913 (2003). Under those Guidelines counsel is responsible for the performance of a multidisciplinary team that includes at least one mitigation specialist. The Supplementary Guidelines spell out important features of the existing standards of practice which will facilitate the functioning of this team and will help defense counsel to supervise it. The ABA accordingly welcomes the Supplementary Guidelines as important tools for all those who seek to insure justice for the men and women on death row
“¿Una autoficción ecuatoriana?: Papá murió hoy de Telmo Herrera”
No full textInternational audience“¿Una autoficción ecuatoriana?: Papá murió hoy de Telmo Herrera”, Hofstra Hispanic Review, Hofstra University, New York, vol. 5, n° 11, 2021, p. 54-67, https://issuu.com/hofstrahispanicreview/docs/hofstra_hispanic_review_202
Transactional Clinical Support for Mutual Aid Groups: Toward A Theory of Transactional Movement Lawyering
No full textIn response to the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of grassroots, participatory, and often social movement-connected community efforts to help feed and care for one another through the crisis were launched, many of which identified their projects as \u27mutual aid\u27. This article tells the story of how the Hofstra Law School Community Economic Development ( CED ) Clinic has provided legal support and information to hundreds of these COVID-19 mutual aid groups. The article briefly reviews Professor Dean Spade\u27s 2020 book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), contrasting it with a legal guide for mutual aid groups written by the author. It concludes by describing the mutual aid work of the CED Clinic in the context of recent scholarship on \u27movement lawyering\u27, arguing that CED lawyers could deepen their impact through a meaningful engagement with movement lawyering principles
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