I was delighted to join an amicus brief filed last week by Professor Imre Szalai in the Flores v NFL (and several teams) bemoaning the current state of the NFL arbitration system where Commissioner Roger Goodell has the final say. You might recall that former coach Brian Flores has sued several NFL teams for racial … Continue reading NFL Arbitration–“A Secret, Rigged, Kangaroo Court”
As I close these blog posts, I wanted to both give a table of contents to all of the posts for those that might have missed these and add my own thoughts at the end. I will say again that I was so very proud of the students that came on the trip and the … Continue reading Israel Reflections Overview and Wrap Up
Happy Passover to all! Here is the last student blog of the trip (other than I’ll post my own wrap up later this week) Our last part of the trip were two speakers that I wanted to save for the end in order to really focus on the skills and thinking that our law students … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day 4–Listening & Hope
It is with incredible sadness that I am announcing the passing of our dear DR colleague Elayne Greenberg on Friday. Here is the letter that went out to St John’s faculty yesterday: Colleagues, I am sad to share the news that our colleague Elayne Greenberg passed away last night. Elayne’s son, Carey Alexander (who graduated … Continue reading Elayne Greenberg
Another part of our day on Thursday was thinking about the law and law schools. On Monday evening, we had heard from Cochav Elykam-Levy, who is the chair of the civil commission on the war crimes committed by Hamas against women and children. (And, while we were still in Israel, she was awarded the Israel … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day Four–Law & Law Schools
On Thursday, we focused on the aftermath of October 7th in a few different ways. One was recovery—how were the institutions and people of Israel moving forward in helpful ways. Another was the law and law schools which I will cover in the next blog. And then, finally, how to equip students to come home… … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day Four–Recovery
After coming back to Tel Aviv, we had our last day of the trip—day 4 of what already felt like a 4 week trip. No visit to Tel Aviv is complete today without a stop to the courtyard of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now known as Hostages Square. We visited the art installations … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Four–Hostage Square
After a very long day at sites of destruction, we were so blessed to have time with freed hostage Liat Atzili. Liat was kidnapped by Hamas and returned after 54 days in one of the exchanges last fall. Liat had already written quite beautifully about her experience for the New York Times in February in … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Three–Meeting with Freed Hostage Liat Atzili
Lovely to see so many colleagues this past weekend at the ABA! And back to reporting from last month’s trip to Israel: We had started day three by visiting Kibbutz Urim with Julia Chaitin, which miraculously escaped harm from Hamas. We stopped in the middle of the day at Kibbutz Nirim, where we visited with … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Three–Kibbutz Be’eri/Honoring Vivian Silver
In between the visits to the kibbutzes, we also visited the Nova Festival Site. This is the only part of our visit south that is open to the public as most kibbutzes are trying to get back to normal or are uninhabited and locked for security reasons. This was an incredibly difficult experience for everyone … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Three–The Nova Music Festival Site
