Because most disputes between individual investors and their brokerage firms are arbitrated through FINRA’s Dispute Resolution forum, many legal issues impacting retail investors do not make their way through the courts but instead end up being resolved in a private forum with little transparency (i.e., awards are published but usually contain no reasons or explanations). … Continue reading Pace’s securities arbitration clinic students go to the SEC →

This week’s New Yorker has a great article on Ken Feinberg’s work helping the Catholic Church manage its sexual abuse crisis. Feinberg and Camille Biros created and run the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program (IRCP), which processes claims of sexual abuse by priests. The IRCP started in New York in 2016 and other dioceses from … Continue reading DSD and the Catholic Church →

It is always such a highlight of our trip to hear from Justice Barak and this was no exception–student Lucas Baker reflected on the meeting: It was an incredible opportunity to meet with retired Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Justice Aharon Barak. Rarely do law students have the chance to learn from a … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2019–Justice Aharon Barak →

On our first full morning in Tel Aviv, we turned to some (other) hard issues facing different parts of the population in Israel.  Our first speaker was Mazal Bisawer, a PhD candidate and student leader at Tel Aviv University.  Mazal spoke to us about the Ethiopian population in Israel—a minority within a minority—most of whom … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2019–Immigration, Racism & Refugees →

Great to see so many of us at the ABA conference this past week!  We will have blogs soon about conference sessions and lessons…And, in the meantime, here’s another from Israel: Our work out for the week was held at Budo for Peace (BFP). BFP is an innovative non-profit educational organization based in Israel that … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2019–Shared Society Continued! →

Prosecutors regularly threaten to add charges if defendants do not accept plea deals. This threat can be serious and can result in substantially more prison time. It seems the rich and privileged defendants in the College Admissions Scandal cases are experiencing this first hand. On Monday, a number of defendants, including Felicity Huffman, agreed to … Continue reading College Admissions Cases and Hard Bargaining →

One key focus of our trip was all of the organizations working on shared society across groups in Israel.  Our day of shared society started at Sindyanna of Galilee with a Za’atar workshop. Sindyanna of Galilee is a non-profit organization that employs Arab and Jewish women who aim to create a peaceful coexistence between the … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2019–Shared Society →

The group had a memorable night at the kibbutz and were very sad to leave the cozy cottages we were able to stay in. Our busy day (Tuesday) of sight-seeing started with a visit to Mount Bental.  At the peak of Mt. Bental we had views of Golan and Syria. Taylor Brisco and her friends … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Golan Heights, the Galilee and the Druze →

As we said our goodbyes to Yad Vashem, we headed towards the beautiful Israeli Supreme Court to hear from former Chief Justice Asher Dan Grunis. Justice Grunis spoke to the students about the differences between the U.S. Supreme Court and the Israeli Supreme Court.  The comparison in the annual caseload (about 70 cases in the … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2019–Supreme Court & Eco Peace →