Please join Dean Anthony W. Crowell and New York Law School student leaders for a series of conversations with individual Mayoral candidates. The group will focus on candidates’ leadership and management philosophy including influences, style, mentors and lessons learned. These dialogues are part of NYLS’s new Law and Leadership Institute programming.
Date & Time: Wednesday April 14 and April 28, 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Featuring: Mayoral candidates Eric Adams, Art Chang, Kathryn Garcia and Andrew Yang.
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Image from the second mayoral debate featuring several of the mayoral candidates. Image Credit: WABC-TV
The Mayoral Election will help shape the City’s land use and housing policymaking decisions. Between now and June 20th, early voting is available for the NYC Primary, in which New Yorkers will help decide who will be the next Mayor of New York City. Over the course of their campaigns, mayoral candidates have developed and shared their positions on a variety of land use and housing issues including developing affordable housing, handling the eviction and homelessness crisis, revising land use review processes, how to develop underutilized space, NYCHA, and building inspections. (more…)
NYLS students and alumni ask Mayoral Candidate Art Chang questions about technology and policy in one of NYLS’s several mayoral candidate forums. Image Credit: CityLand
Links to watch previous events are provided below. On June 22, 2021, New York City will hold its next primary election to help determine who will be the City’s next Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate, City Council and Borough Presidents. Early voting begins on Saturday June 12th and lasts through Sunday June 20th. (more…)
Illustration by Jeff Hopkins.
New York State’s voter turnout in the 2012 presidential election was 47th best in the country. It is difficult to discern the cause of low turnout, but there is no question that changes in election procedures could make voting less difficult and encourage turnout.
The manner in which a state conducts and regulates its elections determines whether voting will be easy or hard. Each state determines its election rules, even when electing a President. The United States constitution permits Congress to override the state-driven process by enacting federal laws governing elections, but Congress has done so sparingly, as, for example, in the Voting Rights Act. So how is New York doing in encouraging voting, and what should the State do to improve?
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Voters will receive the campaign contribution information in the CFB’s Voter Guides. On April 9, 2019, Council Member Ben Kallos introduced Introduction 1504 of 2019, a proposed bill that would reveal where politicians get their campaign contributions from and make this information more accessible to voters. To track the source of contributions, the bill would require campaign contributors to indicate their industry.
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