With permission from St. John’s Law School, I am sharing information regarding some remembrances the school has planned for Elayne: Join Us to Celebrate the Life of Professor Elayne Greenberg The Law School community will be gathering with Professor Elayne Greenberg’s son, Carey Alexander ‘12, and her partner, Dr. Robert Kass, for a remembrance celebration. … Continue reading Remembrance Celebration for Elayne Greenberg
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
John Lande received the Outstanding Scholarly Work at the Legal Educators Colloquium Luncheon at the ABA DR conference in San Diego. John, as readers of Indisputably know well, is very deserving of this award. He has written numerous books, articles and blog posts, as a beloved professor at Missouri and in retirement. Brian Pappas gave … Continue reading John Lande receives the ABA DR Section Scholarly Work Award!
Because scholars have academic freedom, we can write about anything we want, without direction by deans or clients. So our choice of topics and perspectives is a good indicator of what we really care about. Over the years, I was struck by the eclectic mix of subjects that Elayne Greenberg wrote about. A common thread … Continue reading Appreciating Elayne Greenberg’s Scholarship
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
I share the feelings of sadness and loss because of Elayne Greenberg’s death that people described on the DRLE and NYC-DR listservs. I don’t have a lot of words to add to the eloquent things that others have said. She was a truly decent person who cared about others and worked hard to make the … Continue reading Remembering Elayne
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
As many of you know, Pace Law School, largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Pace Prof. Eric Bergsten, founded the Vis Moot competition more than 30 years ago. Prof. Bergsten passed away last summer at the age of 92. I am passing along the below call for tributes to Prof. Bergsten from Pace’s International … Continue reading Call for Tributes to Prof. Bergsten
