Been, Sklansky Join Aspen Legal Education Board of Editorial Advisors
(NEW YORK, N.Y., March 14, 2006) – Wolters Kluwer Law & Business announced that professors Vicki L. Been and David A. Sklansky have joined Aspen Publishers as Wolters Kluwer Law & Business members of the Aspen Board of Editorial Advisors in the Legal Education Division, which includes Aspen Law School casebooks, coursebooks and study aids, as well as Aspen’s paralegal textbook line. Aspen Publishers is a leading provider of specialty information for attorneys, business professionals and law students (www.aspenpublishers.com), and along with CCH, Loislaw and Kluwer Law International, is part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
“We have reached out to Vicki and David because they are vibrant, “connected” teachers and scholars who can help us recognize talent and tune into curricular trends as members of the Board,” said Carol McGeehan, publisher, Aspen Legal Education.
Leading scholars and professors from across the country and across the law school curriculum comprise the Board. Board members provide Aspen with insight on how to best serve the legal education community with the best materials for teaching and learning. Board members assist Aspen in identifying curricular trends and in strategizing efforts to respond to them; in addition, they help Aspen reach out to talented members of law faculties across the country to create new casebooks and teaching materials.
Vicki L. Been
Vicki L. Been is the Elihu Root Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and Faculty Director of the Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program. She teaches real estate deals, property, land use regulation and the Colloquium on the Law, Economics and Politics of Urban Affairs.
Been is a graduate of Colorado State University and earned her law degree at the New York University School of Law. She clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York and for Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States. Been came to New York University in 1990 and was appointed full professor in 1994. She has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and associate professor of law at Rutgers.
Recent publications include Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers 3rd ed., 2005) (with Robert C. Ellickson); “Impact Fees and Housing Affordability,” 8 Cityscape 139 (2005); “The Global Fifth Amendment: NAFTA’s Investment Protections and the Misguided Quest for an International Regulatory Takings Doctrine,” 78 New York University Law Review 30 (2003) (with Joel Beauvais); and “Lucas vs. The Green Machine,” in Property Stories (Foundation Press, 2003).
David A. Sklansky
David A. Sklansky joined the faculty of the Boalt School of Law at Berkely in 2005 following a decade at UCLA School of Law. He teaches courses on criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1984, Sklansky clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He practiced labor law at the Washington, D.C., firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. From 1987 to 1994, Sklansky served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he specialized in white-collar fraud prosecutions. While at UCLA, he served as special counsel to the independent review panel appointed to investigate the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart Division scandal.
Sklansky is the author of Aspen’s Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems, and has written extensively about criminal procedure and policing. Notable recent publications include “Police and Democracy” in the Michigan Law Review (2005); “Quasi-Affirmative Rights in Constitutional Criminal Procedure” in the Virginia Law Review (2002); and “The Fourth Amendment and Common Law” in the Columbia Law Review (2000). Among his current projects is a book on the changing ideal of democratic policing.
About Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
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NEIL ALLEN, +1 847-267-2179, neil.allen@wolterskluwer.com
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