On August 23, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
Episode #14: Teaching Legal History During a Pandemic
This episode was recorded on July 1, 2021 and features a discussion on the Society’s Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellowship at Bard High School Early College.
Host William H. Hinrichs chats with the Historical Society of the New York Courts’ most recent Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellow Lauren DesRosiers on her experience teaching the course American Immigration and New York State to high schoolers in the Queens and Lower East Side BHSEC campuses. Bill and Lauren discuss the unique aspect of this partnership of teaching legal history and civics through the Society’s grant at BHSEC, the challenges of online teaching, how history can help us understand the current anti-Asian hate and violence around the country, and most important of all, the students that participated in this elective course. Bill H. Hinrichs is the Dean of Academic Life at Bard Early Colleges, and Lauren DesRosiers is a practicing immigration attorney, focusing on helping queer and trans immigrants seeking humanitarian relief.
This podcast is a part of our series Distance Teaching During the Pandemic. For more episodes, please visit the series page.
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August 9, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On August 9, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
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July 26, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On July 26, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
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Episode #13: Litchfield Law School’s Influence on NY State Bench & Bar and a Young Nation
This episode was recorded on June 22, 2021 and features a discussion on the Litchfield Law School and its influence on the bench and bar of New York State, with host David L. Goodwin, Society Trustee.
In this episode, host David L. Goodwin talks with Paul DeForest Hicks about the incredible influence the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut had on the bench and bar of New York State at the founding of the nation, and how it paved the way for Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other leading law schools of today. Paul DeForest Hicks is the author of The Litchfield Law School: Guiding the New Nation, and contributed a piece on Litchfield to Issue 16 of the Historical Society’s journal Judicial Notice, out now to Society members.
This podcast is a part of our series Chatting with the Authors of Judicial Notice. For more episodes, please visit the series page.
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July 12, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On July 12, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
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June 28, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On June 28, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
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June 21, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On June 21, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
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June 14, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On June 14, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.
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June 7, 2021: Message from Chief Judge DiFiore
On June 7, 2021, NYS Chief Judge Janet DiFiore provided this video update to report on the latest COVID developments affecting our courts and the justice system.