Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in United States v. Jones which held that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and then using the device to monitor the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. In November, after the Court heard arguments, we interviewed several faculty members about the case. Care to see how their predictions turned out? See the video embedded below.
Back in April, Dean Michael Schill was presented with the Impact Award for Excellence in Housing from New York City's Citizens Housing and Planning Council. Dean Schill was recognized for his work as the founding director of NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. His acceptance speech is embedded below, and you can find out more about the ceremony here.
The University News Office recently produced a short video interview with Professor of Law Lee Fennell, in which she talks about the ideas in her recent book, The Unbounded Home. According to the book's publisher, it
grapples with a core modern reality -- that the value and meaning of a home extend beyond its property lines to schools, shops, parks, services, neighbors, neighborhood aesthetics, and market conditions. The resulting tension between the homeowner’s desire for personal autonomy at home and the impulse to control everything that could affect the home’s value fuels continual conflict among neighbors and communities.
The home’s unbounded nature implicates nearly every facet of residential life, from the financial vulnerability of homeowners to the persistence of segregation by race and class. This book shows how innovations that increase the flexibility of property law can address critical issues of neighborhood control and community composition that have been simmering unresolved for decades -- and how homeownership itself can be reinvented to better deliver on its promises.
The video interview is embedded after the jump.
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Continuing with today's Epstein/Fed Soc theme, the Federalist Society has posted a recording of Prof. Epstein discussing Bilski v. Kappos. The SCOTUS heard oral argument in the case on November 9. According to the Fed Soc site,
The issue in this case is whether a "process" must be tied to a particular machine or apparatus or transform a particular article into a different state or thing in order to be eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
You can download the podcast here.
Over on the Federalist Society's YouTube Channel, they've posted an 11-part series entitled "Redistribution of Wealth," recorded at the 2009 National Lawyers Convention on Thursday, November 12, 2009. Our own Richard Epstein was one of the discussants.
Other participants included Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO of Forbes Inc. and Editor of Forbes Magazine; Prof. Jed Rubenfeld of Yale Law School; Andrew L. Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union; and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit as the moderator.
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