Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They established the Innocence Project in 1991 as a clinic for students at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Scheck has taught for more than 20 years. The clinic is a low-key place, hidden away on the 11th floor of an office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society...
...Supreme Court ruling in 1980, known as the Yeshiva decision, established that professors at private universities are not really employees because they often participate inadministrative decisions at the institutions wherethey teach...
...Under Yeshiva, Bernard and Weiler explain,faculty at private schools are not consideredemployees and are thus not entitled to NLRAprotections...
...resolve the problem of the Yeshiva being too narrow...
...asked me whether I wanted to be his editor, so I told him that I would and we worked together for many months. But in the second half of the year I felt that [creative aspect] missing a lot, and that's Noah Feltschreiber's problem with Yeshiva, that it doesn't recognize the spectrum of human potential and human talent that he feels like he possesses, and he doesn't want to just focus for the rest of his life on the couple of things that are appreciated in the Yeshiva, which are spiritual growth and learning...