2019-21
Tal Kastner
Tal was the Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business at New York University Law School from 2019-201. She was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at ÈâÂþÎÝ Law from 2016-2019.
Her research focused on contract law and the operation of legal language in social and historical context. She published articles on contract, law and society, as well as other topics in the Georgetown Law Journal, Law and Social Inquiry, and SMU Law Review, among other publications. She wrote a book entitled The Age of Boilerplate: Agreement and Agency in American Law and Literature about the role of standard contract language in shaping the idea and experience of freedom in the United States.
Tal hods a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a PhD from Princeton, and a B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. She practiced at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, advising clients on a range of transactional matters, including corporate law, regulatory compliance, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, she has taught as a Lecturer at Princeton, and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, The City University of New York (CUNY), and was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Law and Interdisciplinary Studies at Cardozo Law School.
Following law school, she served as a law clerk for President Aharon Barak and Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Publications:
, in Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities (Maksymillian Del Mar, Bernadette Meyler & Simon Stern eds., 2020).
, in Fictional Discourse Fictional Discourse And The Law (Hans Lind ed., 2020).
, 107 Geo. L.J. 1277 (2019) (with Ethan Leib).
, 71 Smu L. Rev. 1117 (2018) (reprinted in The Legal Writing Institute Monograph Series on Legal Justice (2020)).
(Simon Stern & Nan Goodman eds., 2017).
, 23 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 531 (2016). []
, 23 Law & Literature 365 (2011).
, 35 Law & Soc. Inquiry 793 (2010).
2018-19
Emily Winston
Emily served as a Jacobson Research Fellow in Law and Business at ÈâÂþÎÝ from 2016-2019. From 2014 to 2016, she was a Clinic Fellow and Supervising Attorney in ÈâÂþÎÝ Law’s Business Law Transactions Clinic.
Before joining ÈâÂþÎÝ Law, Emily practiced at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Paul Hastings LLP, where her practice focused on cross-border securities and corporate finance transactions involving Latin American businesses. She also served as a C.V. Starr Lecturer at Peking University School of Transactional Law in Shenzhen, China from 2010 – 2011 where she taught several courses on legal research and writing.
Emily holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Government and Politics, with honors, from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Her research examined the relative influence of different stakeholder groups on corporate decision-making. Her other research interests include corporate governance and regulation, law and development, and social entrepreneurship. Emily is a member of the New York State Bar.
Publications:
, 39 Cardozo L. Rev. 1783 (2018).
, 71 Hastings L.J. 699 (2020).
2017-19
Dr. Anat Alon-Beck
Anat was the 2017-2019 Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business at ÈâÂþÎÝ. Her research focus was on corporate law, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and innovation, with an interdisciplinary emphasis on the intersection of law with business, management, finance, ethics, strategy, society, sustainability, and the natural environment. She was passionate about empowering women to advance in entrepreneurship and leadership positions in the business world.
Anat holds J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees, with honors, from Cornell Law School, where she served as an Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. She received her LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, and served as an Associate Editor of Theoretical Inquiries in Law.
Previously, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor, in the Department of International Business and Management at Dickinson College. At Dickinson, she co-developed the Eco-E Path Mosaic, which incorporated the study of sustainable entrepreneurship into Dickinson’s liberal arts program, and paved the way for the newly designed Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate.
Publications and Works in Progress:
Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019, 2019 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 107 (2019)
Alternative Venture Capital: The New Unicorn Investors, 88 Tennessee Law Review 985 (2020), Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-26
, 40 Cardozo L. Rev 823 (2018), Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018
20 J. Bus. L. 520 (2018), Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018.
, 2 (17) Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev., forthcoming Spring 2018 (listed on SSRN’s top 10 download list).
Stout, L., Robé, J., Ireland, P., Deakin, S. F., Greenfield, K., Johnston, A., et al. (2016).