The Columbia Law School Mindfulness Program invites you to a meditation for faculty, staff, and students, held via live-stream on Wednesday, January 20th from 11:15am - 12pm. These sessions are oriented to beginners and also open to those more experienced with mindfulness practices, and they include guided meditation as well as discussion of mindfulness meditation. Participants are also invited to bring lunch to these sessions and enjoy their meal in community. On Inauguration Day (at the special time of 11:15 am), Yael Shy, author of the groundbreaking book What Now?: Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond, will lead us in a meditation and discussion of resilience for the work of facing the world -- for facing its changes and changing its faces. She will be joined by this week's host, Professor Elizabeth Emens (bios below).
To access the live-stream of this session, please follow this link.
Yael Shy is the Senior Director of the NYU Global Spiritual Life Center and the NYU 'Of Many' Institute for Multifaith and Spiritual Leadership, as well as the Founder and Director of MindfulNYU, the largest campus-wide mindfulness initiative in the country. She teaches regularly at MNDFL in NYC and is a sought after speaker, teacher, and writer on meditation, higher education and mindfulness. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017) #whatnowbook.
Elizabeth Emens writes and teaches on disability law, family law, anti-discrimination law, contracts law, and law and sexuality.
A Columbia Law faculty member since 2005, Emens’s scholarly work has appeared in publications including Hastings Center Report, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Nomos, Narrative, The Disability Studies Reader, and Keywords for Disability Studies. Emens is the author of The Art of Life Admin: How to Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More (2019), which explores how unseen and unpaid work is a universal problem but a particular burden for disadvantaged and disabled people. She is also co-editor, with Professor Michael Ashley Stein, of Disability and Equality Law (2013). In 2019, Emens delivered the Clifford Chance Thought Leadership Lecture on Diversity.
In addition to her scholarly work, Emens teaches a practicum on lawyer leadership as part of the Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative. She also directs the Columbia Law School Mindfulness Program, which offers weekly secular meditation sessions for the Law School community.
Emens was the Bigelow Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School from 2003 to 2005. She clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, from 2002 to 2003.
