Dunnington partner Raymond J. Dowd invites you to a screening of the internationally acclaimed documentary SHELLSHOCKED – Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves and follow-up discussion of the legal controversies brewing over oysters. The event is to be held on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. at the New York County Lawyers’ Association (14 Vesey Street, New York, NY).
Formerly known as the
oyster capital of the world, New York Harbor is now bereft of oysters.
Overfishing and pollution have devastated oyster reefs worldwide, leading to
their labeling as the ‘most severely impacted marine habitat’ on the
planet. With a single oyster able to filter over fifty gallons of water
per day and reefs of oysters forming the bases of entire ecosystems and
economies, the effects of this destruction have been dire. Attempts are
underway to rebuild oyster reefs, with New York Harbor the focus of the
youth-led Billion Oyster Project. Yet such endeavors have faced
tremendous opposition, ranging from the Obama Administration’s removal in 2014
of Drakes Bay Oyster Farm in Marin County, CA and the Supreme Court’s
subsequent refusal to review the decision, to the State of Massachusetts
blocking current efforts to use oysters to clean up the polluted Mystic River,
to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation hampering individual
homeowner efforts to clean up New York’s polluted waterways through oyster
farming.
SHELLSHOCKED
– Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves, winner
in the category of Best Short Feature at the Princeton Environmental Film
Festival 2012, focuses on efforts to restore oysters to the waters where they
once thrived and the pushback such undertakings have faced, both legally and
environmentally. Following the screening, SHELLSHOCKED director
Emily Driscoll, Meredith Comi of the NY/NJ Baykeeper’s Oyster Restoration
Program and internationally renowned geotherapy-focused artist Mara Haseltine
will join Mr. Dowd in a discussion of these issues.
Tickets for Law on the
Half Shell are available on the NYCLA
website. The cost is $35 for NYCLA
members/$55 for non-members (includes 2 CLE credits) and $15 for
non-attorneys. We hope to see you there!
About
Dunnington partner Raymond J. Dowd
Mr. Dowd’s practice consists of federal and state trial and appellate
litigation, arbitration and mediation. He has served as lead trial
counsel in notable cases involving art law, copyrights, trademarks,
cybersquatting, privacy, trusts and decedents’ estates, licensing, corporate
and real estate transactions. He has litigated questions of Austrian,
Canadian, French, German, Italian, Russian and Swiss law and handled
contentious matters in Surrogate’s Court, including Matter of Flamenbaum, 2013
NY Slip Op 07510 (Nov. 14, 2013), in which he succeeded in recovering an
ancient Assyrian tablet for the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
Mr. Dowd is the author
of the acclaimed Copyright Litigation Handbook (West-Thomson Reuters)
and frequently lectures on copyright litigation, including before the
prestigious Copyright Society of the U.S.A. In 2014, Copyright Litigation
Handbook was selected by Cravath partners David Marriott and David Kappos
for a copyright dispute externship at Columbia Law School. At the 2009
Prague Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, he was selected for an expert legal
panel, and he has lectured widely at venues including the Jewish Museum in
Berlin, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the
San Francisco War Memorial, the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia, and many chapters of the Federal Bar Association. In 2007, he
co-founded the annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute at New
York County Lawyers’ Association.
Mr. Dowd is a graduate of Manhattan College (B.A.
International Studies cum laude, 1986) and Fordham Law School (1991),
where he served on the Fordham International Law Journal. He
speaks French and Italian. He is admitted to practice in the State of New
York and to the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and to the First,
Second, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
was selected as a 2014 Top Ranked Law Firm for Intellectual Property by
Corporate Counsel/ALM/The American Lawyer. Dunnington is a full-service
law firm providing corporate, litigation, intellectual property, real estate,
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Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters Westlaw 2012-2013) by Raymond J. Dowd
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