NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy

11/01/2019

Read Quorum Editor Marty Ascher's argument for using ranked choice voting in the Presidential Primary.

Unless many candidates drop out by the time voting begins in the Iowa Caucuses, the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is likely to be a mess. Even though several candidates have already dropped out, the field is still too large to fit into a single televised debate. Unlike the Republican Party,...

10/23/2019

Big thank you to those of you who came out yesterday to our Fall Symposium panel on the future of federal clemency reform. Special thank you to our engaging and informative moderator, Rachel Barkow, a professor here at NYU Law and Director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law.

We were also honored to be joined by Michael Bosworth, Deputy General Counsel at MacAndrews & Forbes and former counsel to President Obama; Caitlin Glass, an attorney with the Office of the Appellate Defender and former Assistant Director of the Clemency Resource Center at NYU; Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice; and David Patton, Executive Director and Attorney-in-Chief at the Federal Defenders of New York.

10/16/2019

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Legislation Competition Info Session today! And big thank you to Leecia Eve, Judi Germano, and Marc Canellas for speaking to us about deepfakes, legislation, and Congress. Leecia Eve shared with us her top 10 pointers for lobbying lawmakers:

1. Be prepared
2. Practice, practice, practice
3. Research what's happening in the world the morning of your meeting
4. Be early
5. But be prepared to wait
6. Quickly assess your audience
7. Get to your point quickly
8. Listen well
9. Engage
10. Say thank you

As a reminder, the JLPP Legislation Competition is LIVE! Applications are due January 20, 2020. Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

[Pictured below (left to right): Judi Germano, NYU Center for Cybersecurity; Marc Canellas, Rights over Tech and NYU Law'21; Leecia Eve, Verizon; and Dani Schulkin, EIC of JLPP and NYU Law'20]