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A panel discussion of Green Card Stories, the recent book telling the stories of 50 immigrants to the United States, is now featured in the Book Talks playlist of Cornell Law Library’s YouTube Channel.  Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, the book’s co-editor and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, moderates the discussion held at Ithaca’s Hangar Theatre in April 2012.

Green Card Stories features essays by Saundra Amrhein, photographs by Ariana Lindquist, and an introduction by Professor Yale-Loehr and Laura J. Danielson.  The book has been honored with several awards, including

• the 1st place award from NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2012 in the Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing category for photographer Lindquist;
• the Silver Medal for the 2012 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award in the Multicultural category;
• the  2012 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal in the Conscious Media/Journalism/Investigative Reporting category,
• the Bronze Medal for the 2012 Independent Publisher IPPY Award in the Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult category;
• an honorable mention for the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the Culture category; and
• the shortlist of the 2011 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards  for essayist Amrhein.

Yesterday, November 19, Lynn Stout, Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law at Cornell University Law School, gave a talk about her new book, The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations and the Public.  William W. Bratton (Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School), James Cox (Duke Law School), and Todd Henderson (Univ. of Chicago Law School) spoke with Professor Stout.

We have posted a video of this event on our YouTube channel.  Read more about The Shareholder Value Myth in Cornell Law School’s Spotlights.