HSoftheNYCourts Podcast

HSoftheNYCourts Podcast episodes:

• 05.15.2024

  Wrecking Ball Series Episode 3: About the High Line — Podcast #22

  Manhattan’s High Line is one of the world’s great parks, with a rich history at the crossroads of historic preservation, the law, and the great City and State of New York. In this episode of Wrecking Ball, host Adrian Untermyer...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Chatting with the Authors of Judicial Notice: Recovering Justice Cardozo — Podcast #21

  Two of the articles in Judicial Notice Issue 18, the Society’s periodical publication, feature stories from the life of Benjamin N. Cardozo, once Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme...

  
• 08.07.2023

  Wrecking Ball Series Episode 2: The Courthouse as a Character: Foley Square and Gotham’s “Justice Racket” of the 1930s — Podcast #20

  Lower Manhattan's Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse and Foley Square are now preserved and continue to define the aesthetic of justice in New York and the nation. But when the complex was still new, a greedy Chief Circuit Judge named...

  
• 07.05.2023

  Wrecking Ball Series Episode 1: Fighting for a Landmarks Law — Podcast #19

  In the premiere episode of Wrecking Ball — a new series featuring tales of preservation, the law, and the places New Yorkers love — host Adrian Untermyer welcomes author-historians Christina Greer and Anthony C. Wood to tell the raucous story...

  
• 07.12.2022

  White Shoe and Rogues’ Gallery: Money, Crime, and Punishment in Old New York — Podcast #18

  In the rough-and-tumble New York of a century and a half ago, enterprising lawyers like Paul Cravath and Samuel Untermyer invented the modern practice of corporate law – all while dastardly crooks grabbed headlines and forced innovations among the police...

  
• 07.07.2022

  The Founding of the Society: Podcast #17

  This conversation with Henry M. Greenberg, Esq. and Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt chronicles the steps then-Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye and Judge Rosenblatt took to create a historical society honoring the courts of the state of New York. From the...

  
• 04.28.2022

  Remembering Hon. M. Dolores Denman: First Woman Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, 4th Dept: Podcast #16

  The late M. Dolores Denman was a true judicial trailblazer; among her feats, she was the first woman appointed as Presiding Justice of any Appellate Division Department. In this special episode of the Judicial Notice Podcast, host Hon. Helen E....

  
• 11.03.2021

  Magnificent Mr. McAneny: Shaping New York through a Life in the Law — Podcast #15

  In this episode, attorney and urbanist Adrian Untermyer discusses George McAneny’s sprawling legal legacy with historian Lucie Levine and preservationist Brad Vogel, Esq. George McAneny is sometimes called “the most influential New Yorker you never heard of.” Over decades of...

  
• 08.17.2021

  Teaching Legal History During a Pandemic — Podcast #14

  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...

  
• 07.21.2021

  Litchfield Law School’s Influence on New York State Bench & Bar and on a Young Nation – Podcast #13

  In this episode, host David L. Goodwin talks with Paul DeForest Hicks about the incredible influence of Connecticut's Litchfield Law School on the bench and bar of New York State at the founding of the nation, and how Litchfield paved...

  
• 05.18.2021

  Randall T. Eng: First Asian American Judge in New York State — Podcast #12

  Chris Kwok talks with Hon. Randall T. Eng about his remarkable life and career, marked by a series of firsts for the Asian American community. They reminisce about Judge Eng’s early days in Queens and China, how he became interested...

  
• 05.06.2021

  Pursuing Leadership Positions with Two Asian American Judges: Hon. Lillian Wan & Hon. Randall Eng — Podcast #11

  Hon. Randall T. Eng and Hon. Lillian Wan share their personal experiences as Asian American judges overcoming challenges, and provide advice to Asian American attorneys on how they too can bridge the gap. Judge Wan is a Kings County Supreme...

  
• 10.08.2020

  Doing More with Four: Exploring the History and Reasoning Behind Appellate Panel Composition in the NY Courts — Podcast #10

  In the United States Supreme Court, it's nine. In the United States Courts of Appeals, it's three. And in New York's Appellate Division, Second Department it's . . . four? Presiding Justice Alan D. Scheinkman talks about his article, adapted...

  
• 07.17.2020

  Bringing Civics and Legal Education to Students and Teachers through the Society's Grants — Podcast #9

  Director of Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking Dr. Erica Kaufman and Dean of Bard Early Colleges John Weinstein discuss the teacher and student initiatives we partner together to produce, including teacher workshops, the Harlem Law Program, and the...

  
• 07.08.2020

  Chancellor James Kent: His Impact on Judging and the Beginnings of “American Law” — Podcast #8

  Host Daniel F. Loud, a student at Columbia Law School, chats with Hon. Robert S. Smith, retired judge of the New York Court of Appeals, head of the appellate practice at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, and former professor...

  
• 06.19.2020

  The Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellowship at Bard High School Early College — Podcast #7

  William H. Hinrichs, Dean of Academic Life at Bard Early Colleges, speaks with Aaron Welt on his experience as the Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellow at Bard High School Early College in Queens and Manhattan over the past three semesters....

  
• 06.17.2020

  The Harlem Law Program with Aisha Williams and Jehan Senai Worthy — Podcast #6

  In this episode, Aisha Williams, National Director of School Culture, Great Oaks Charter Schools and a former NYC school leader of a Society partner school, chats with Jehan Senai Worthy about her experience as the Judith S. Kaye Teaching Fellow...

  
• 06.03.2020

  Doris Ling-Cohan: A Pioneering Asian American Judge — Podcast #5

  Host Jacob Y. Chen, Partner at Dai & Associates, P.C., talks with Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan, a justice of the New York State Supreme Court currently assigned to the Appellate Term, First Department, about her experience as a pioneering Asian American...

  
• 05.22.2020

  The Evolution of Slavery, Abolition in NY, and the NY Courts: The Lemmon Slave Case — Podcast #4

  Historical Society of the New York Courts Trustees Dennis E. Glazer and Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt trace New York’s relationship with slavery from the early days of the colony to the climate of the nation leading up to the Civil...

  
• 05.18.2020

  Judicial Notice: New York Lawyers and Legal Landmarks — Podcast #3

  Host David L. Goodwin chats with Robert Pigott, general counsel of Phipps Houses, about his Judicial Notice profiles of Elihu Root and William M. Evarts, both national figures and prominent New York lawyers—one mostly remembered (Root) and one largely forgotten...

  
• 04.21.2020

  John Jay: Practicing Attorney, Traveling Judge, Man of the People — Podcast #2

  Before he was a Founding Father, Framer, Justice, or international diplomat, John Jay spent seven years in the trenches as one of New York's few practicing lawyers—appearing in court, collecting on debts, and working with clients. Host David L. Goodwin...

  
• 01.31.2020

  Missing Court Records Means Missing History — Podcast #1

  David L. Goodwin, current member of the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society of the New York Courts, chats with Founder & President Emeritus of the Society — and Former Associate Judge of the New York State Court of...