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Alani Golanski

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New York,  NY  U.S.A.
Phone212-558-5500

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Experience & Credentials
 

Practice Areas

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Federal Government Contract Disputes
  • Asbestos and Toxic Tort Litigation
 
University Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, B.A., 1983 Phi Beta Kappa; Graduate Center, City University of New York, M.A., 2004
 
Law SchoolUniversity of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 1986; Columbia University School of Law, LL.M., 2003 James Kent Scholar
 
Admitted1986, Connecticut; 1988, New York; 1990, New Jersey
 
BornHartford, Connecticut, May 29, 1954
 
Biography

Articles:

"A New Look at Duty in Tort Law: Rehabilitating Foreseeability and Related Themes," 75 Albany Law Review 227 (2011-2012)

"Paradigm Shifts in Products Liability and Negligence," 71 Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review 673 (2010)

"When Sellers of 'Safe' Products Turn Ostrich in Relation to Dangerous Post-Sale Components," 39 Southwestern Law Review 69 (2009)

(With Jerry Kristal) "A Reply to James K. Toohey and Rebecca L. Matthews' Commentary: 'Liability for the Post-Sale Installation of Asbestos-Containing Replacement Parts or Installation.'" Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos (2011)

(With Jerry Kristal) "A Reply to James K. Toohey: 'A Response to Alani Golansky and Jerry Kristal's Reply'" Mealey's Litigation Report Asbestos Volume 25 #24 (2011)

"General Causation at a Crossroads in Toxic Tort Cases," 108 Penn State (Dickinson) Law Review 479 (2003)

"Linguistics in Law," 66 Albany Law Review 61 (2002)

"A 'Time-Slice' Approach to Tort Law's Component Parts Problem," 51 DePaul Law Review 401-32 (2001)

"Why Legal Scholars Get Daubert Wrong-A Contextualist Explanation of Law's Epistemology," 22 Whittier Law Review 653-721 (2001)

"Kahn's Reign and Its Metaphors for Law-A Critique in the Philosophy of Legal Culture," 27 Southern University Law Review 89-148 (2000)

"Nascent Modernity in Sherwood v. Walker-An Intertextual Proposition," 35 Willamette Law Review 315-65 (1999)

"The Potential Products Liability of Indian Corporations Doing Business in the United States," 1995 Madras Law Journal 1

"Judicial Scrutiny of Expert Testimony in Environmental Tort Litigation," 9 Pace Environmental Law Review 399-474 (1992)

"Bank Merging and the Implicate Order: Northeast Bancorp v. Board of Governors," 17 Connecticut Law Review 861-91 (1985)

Book Reviews:

Book Review: The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (Lawrence E. Mitchell), New York Law Journal (Feb. 17, 2009).

Book Review: Business Process Outsourcing: Process, Strategies, and Contracts (John K. Halvey and Barbara Murphy Melby), New York Law Journal (Dec. 14, 2007)

Book Review: Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective (Victor Goldberg), New York Law Journal (June 13, 2007)

Book Review: The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars (George W. Liebmann), New York Law Journal (Oct. 26, 2006)

Book Review: New York Contract Law, West's New York Practice Series, Volume 28 (Glen Banks), New York Law Journal (July 26, 2006)

Book Review: David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court (Tinsley E. Yarbrough), New York Law Journal (November 17, 2005)

Book Review: Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (Alan Dershowitz), New York Law Journal (February 16, 2005)

Book Review: The Cyanide Canary (Joseph Hilldorfer & Robert Dugoni), New York Law Journal (November 12, 2004)

Book Review: The Song Sparrow and the Child: Claims of Science and Humanity (Joseph Vining), New York Law Journal (July 20, 2004)

Book Review: The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (Paul O. Carrese), New York Law Journal (August 26, 2003)

Book Review: Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor (Joshua M. Greene), New York Law Journal (July 25, 2003)

Book Review: Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (Rachel F. Moran), New York Law Journal (July 26, 2002)

Book Review: Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation (Julie Salamon), New York Law Journal (June 5, 2001)

Book Review: From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education (James Boyd White), New York Law Journal (February 22, 2000)

Book Review: The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship (Paul W. Kahn), New York Law Journal (June 25, 1999)

Book Review: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (George Lakoff & Mark Johnson), New York Law Journal (Feb. 26, 1999).

 
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Office Information

Alani Golanski
Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C.
700 Broadway
New York, NY 10003




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