Yesterday, Brigadier General Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, presented remarks on the topic of "Legitimacy and Comparative Law in Reformed Military Commissions" at a meeting hosted by the City Bar’s Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law. Continue reading →

The New York City Bar Association today urged adoption of the Judiciary’s 2012-2013 Budget Request in its entirety, calling it a “reasonable, practical document, responsive to the state’s current fiscal pressures, which addresses the need to provide meaningful access to the courts and to ameliorate some of the harmful effects of last year’s budget cuts.”

On December 13, the Insurance Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association submitted a comment letter to the new Federal Insurance Office within the U.S. Dept. of Treasury concerning a potential Federal role for insurance regulation. Continue reading →