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...Before a courtroom packed with anxious Knicks fans, a federal judge refused to reverse the suspensions of four New York Knicks involved in Wednesday's melee with the Miami Heat. After a 90 minute hearing between the NBA and the National Basketball Players' Association, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that league commissioner David Stern had complete authority to hand down the suspensions. The players claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union. The ruling, which upholds the harshest suspension...
...masterwork--the best book in his field, and, in my opinion, the best single book on the topic, even though it was written more than 30 years ago," said Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Todd Rakoff...
Such evaluations are available because the vast majority of candidates have previously taught there, according to Todd Rakoff, associate dean of the Law School...
...have a strong tradition that we won't appoint anyone to the faculty who hasn't taught here, because we want to see how they teach with our students," Rakoff says. "We're pretty serious about that...
...group responsible for implementing these changes include Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, Professor of Law Todd D. Rakoff, Professor of Law William W. Fisher, Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus Abram Chayes, Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, Walmsley University Professor Frank I. Michelman and Horwitz...