J.D. ADMISSIONS

Furman Scholars Profiles

The following are profiles of Furman Scholars grouped by their graduation year.

2013

Subash Iyer
 Subash Iyer graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics-Mathematics. After college, he worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he served a variety of clients in the public and private sectors. He then served as Advisor to Administrator Karen Mills at the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. He spent the summer after his first year of law school working as a research assistant for Professor Kenji Yoshino. After his second year, he worked at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, Subash will clerk for Judge Jed S. Rakoff in the Southern District of New York and Judge Robert A. Katzmann on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

2012

Tommy Bennett

Tommy earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College with an interdisciplinary major in politics, philosophy, and history. Prior to law school, he spent two years in New Orleans: one as a paralegal and one teaching 11th and 12th grade United States history. Tommy is also a baseball writer whose regular columns appear in Baseball Prospectus, and whose writing has been featured on ESPN.com and in several baseball books. Tommy serves as Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review.

Oliver Board

A native of London, England, Oliver earned his M.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Amherst College. As an economist, his research focused on logic, game theory, and the economics of information. In addition to being a Furman Scholar, Oliver is also a Milbank/Lederman Law and Economics Fellow.

Representative publications:
"Product Use Information and the Limits of Voluntary Disclosure" (with Oren Bar-Gill), American Law and Economics Review, forthcoming
"Two Models of Unawareness" (with Kim-Sau Chung and Burkhard Schipper), Synthese (2011)
"Competition and Disclosure," Journal of Industrial Economics (2009)
"Noisy Talk," Theoretical Economics (2007)
"Dynamic Interactive Epistemology," Games and Economic Behavior (2004)

Kirti Datla

Kirti Datla graduated from Rice University in 2008 with majors in Environmental Engineering and Political Science. Prior to law school, she interned for the Department of State, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and White House Domestic Policy Council. As a result, her academic interests are based in administrative and public law. While in law school, she has served as a research assistant to Professors Barkow, Issacharoff, and Stewart. She is currently a Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review. She will be splitting her summer between Jenner & Block and the Department of Justice, both in Washington, D.C.

Jeremy Peterman

Jeremy graduated from the University of Chicago in 2009 with a B.A. in Political Science. He spent last summer working on home foreclosure relief fraud litigation at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and as a research assistant. He is currently completing his second year at NYU and is interested in constitutional law, procedure and election law. He is an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review.

2011

Pieter de Ganon

Pieter earned his A.B. from Columbia University, majoring in East Asian Languages and Cultures.  After college he spent two years as a Japanese Government Scholar at Tokyo University’s Historiographical Institute and two years at Kyoto University’s Institute for Research in the Humanities as a Fulbright Fellow. Pieter is currently completing a Ph.D. in Japanese history at Princeton University, where he was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities. He is an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review.

Publications:

        "Down the Rabbit Hole: A Study in the Political Economy of Modern Japan", Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies (2011)

         Note, "Noticing Crisis", NYU Law Review (2011)

        "Viacom v. YouTube: YouTube Entitled to Protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (with Peter Stern), Journal of the Japanese Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (2010) 

Genevieve Lakier

Genevieve is also a Ph.D. candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Chicago.  She received a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University.  Genevieve is the recipient of a National Science Fellowship, a Josephine de Karman Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hayes and was an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies at Harvard University before coming to NYU.

Publications:

  • After the massacre: public secrets, disbelief and the free press in Nepal, in Censorship: Public regulation in South Asia (William Mazzarella & Raminder Kaur, eds., Indiana University Press, 2009)
  • Protest, privilege and illiberal democracy in Nepal, in Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal (Mahendra Lawoti, ed., Sage Publications, 2007)
  • The myth of the state is real: notes on the study of the state in Nepal, Studies in Nepali History and Society 10(1) (June 2005)
  • Book Review, The Politics of the Governed, South Asia Newsletter Volume 29, No. 1 (2004-05)

Joanna Langille

Joanna is also an International Law and Justice Scholar. Previously, she received an M. Phil in International Relations from Balliol College, Oxford, where she studied as a Commonwealth Scholar and worked for the Global Economic Governance Program. Her research at Oxford focused on the role of the World Trade Organization in governing regional trade agreements. She has worked at the WTO and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, as well as on trade-related projects for the Commonwealth Secretariat and Munk Centre of International Studies at the University of Toronto. At Oxford, Joanna also co-founded the G8 Research Group – Oxford, a fifty-person research team dedicated to monitoring the G8’s commitments on climate change. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2006 with a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, where she studied on a Millennium Scholarship, founded Mindful (an ethics journal), and focused on legal and political philosophy. 

Michael Pollack

Michael will graduate from NYU School of Law in May 2011 and will spend the summer of 2011 with the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice before clerking for Judge Janice Rogers Brown on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. At NYU, he was an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review and a Tikvah Scholar at the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. He worked as a summer associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block, as a summer law intern at the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, and as an legal intern at the New York City Council.  In 2008, Michael graduated with Highest Honors from Swarthmore College with a major in political science and a minor in economics.

Publications:

Note, "Chevron’s Regrets: The Persistent Vitality of the Nondelegation Doctrine", 86 NYU L. Rev. ___ (2011)

Erin Scharff

Before law school, Erin worked in D.C. for almost four years, advocating for greater government investment in social welfare. In 2006, she helped Harry Mitchell defeat incumbent J.D. Hayworth in a close challenger election in Arizona's 5th Congressional D\district.  In 2008, she left Washington to work full time for the Obama campaign during the 2008 primary and general elections.  At NYU, Erin is a Root-Tilden Kern Scholar, a Tikvah Scholar, and an Articles Editor of the NYU Law Review. Next year, she will clerk for the Honorable William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. She is interested in tax policy and social welfare programs. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Elliott Tarloff

Elliot S. Tarloff earned his A.B. from Harvard College, majoring in American Government. After college, he earned his Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in political communication. Elliot spent two years working in Nashville in politics before joining the NYU School of Law. He was the Senior Executive Editor for the NYU Law Review.

Publications

Note, "Medical Devices and Preemption: A Defense of Parallel Claims Based on Violations of Industry-Wide FDA Regulations", NYU Law Review (Oct. 2011).

Dissertation, "Is It Getting Hot in Here? Claims of Scientific Uncertain in American Prestige Press Articles About Global Warming" (unpublished), received distinction honors.

2010

Daniel Deacon

A native of Evanston, Illinois, Dan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006 with majors in history and political science. At Wisconsin, he received the Fred Harvey Harrington Prize for best senior thesis written in the History Department and served as Executive Director of Archive, a journal dedicated to publishing student work in history. In between undergraduate and law school, Dan worked as an English teacher in the Czech Republic. Dan was an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review.  

Allison Westfahl Kong

Allison graduated summa cum laude from Claremont McKenna College in 2007 with a B.A. in both mathematics and government. While in college, she served as a Community Services Commissioner for the City of Claremont and spent two summers doing mathematics research, resulting in two co-authored mathematics publications. Allison was an active participant in her high school and college debate programs and currently volunteers for the Big Apple Debate League, a debate program for middle school students in New York City.  She  served as Senior Articles Editor of the NYU Law Review. 

Sofía Martos

Sofía served as an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review and on several boards for student groups.  Prior to law school, Sofía completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received several fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research grant. Her dissertation, titled “The Balancing Act. Ethnicity, Commerce, and Politics among Syrian and Lebanese Immigrants in Argentina, 1890-1955,” is now the basis for a book manuscript. Her dissertation explores the puzzle of how a disadvantaged and often-discriminated against group could achieve impressive upward mobility in one to two generations through economic networks and political participation. An interdisciplinary social and cultural history, this analysis continues to inform her legal scholarship in immigration as well. Sofía received a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish at Stanford University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with departmental honors and university distinction. 

Laura Miller

Laura served as the Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Journal for Legislation and Public Policy. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2007. Her dissertation examined voting behavior and survey methodology in ballot initiative elections. While in graduate school, Laura worked as a survey and statistical consultant for a variety of organizations including political campaigns, non-profits, and law firms. Laura graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs in 2002. Her research interests include the law of democracy, local government law, and federalism.

Publications:

  • Democracy and Electoral Processes, in Research Handbook on Law and Public Choice (Daniel A. Farber and Anne Joseph O’Connell eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming) (with Samuel Issacharoff)

Margot Pollans

In addition to being a Furman Scholar, Margot is also a Milbank/Lederman Law and Economics Fellow. She was an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review. She graduated in 2004 from Columbia University with a B.A. in History and Environmental Science. While at Columbia, she spent a semester at Biosphere 2, in Arizona. After college, she worked for three years as a high school history teacher. Margot’s primary interests are environmental, land use, and property law. 

Rebecca Talbott

Rebecca, a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, was on the board of the Prisoners’ Rights and Education Project, where she teaches legal research and writing to inmates in New York state prisons, and the Coalition for Legal Recruiting, which is devoted to promoting academic diversity on campus. She also participated in the Civil Rights Clinic. Rebecca’s first summer of law school, she worked in the international program of the Center for Reproductive Rights, promoting women’s rights worldwide through international legal and policy advocacy. Prior to coming to law school, she worked for two years as a paralegal doing plaintiff-side civil rights litigation, and served in the Peace Corps for two years, teaching math and health education in a rural village in Tanzania. Rebecca received a B.A. in Philosophy with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University in 2002.

2009

Brian Burgess

Brian grew up in Clinton, CT, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 summa cum laude with a degree in Philosophy.  He received the Story Prize for top Senior Honors Thesis in Philosophy.  Prior to attending law school, Brian worked for one year as a tutor at the MATCH School in Boston, MA—a charter high school dedicated to closing the achievement gap and preparing students for four-year college programs.  At NYU, he served as the Senior Articles Editor on the New York University Law Review.  After graduation in 2009, Brian served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New Haven.  After that one-year appointment, he did a second clerkship with Judge David S. Tatel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Patrick Garlinger

Patrick graduated from NYU Law in 2009. At NYU, Patrick served as an Articles Editor of the NYU Law Review.  Additionally, he has worked as a research professor for Professors Cristina Rodríguez and Helen Hershkoff and served as a teaching assistant for Civil Procedure. He has also assisted Professors Barry Friedman and Kenji Yoshino in teaching and research, respectively, in the area of constitutional law. In the summer of 2008, he worked as a summer associate at the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Prior to law school, he worked as an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa and Northwestern University. In 1994, Patrick graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his Ph.D. in Spanish at Emory University in 2000. After law school, Patrick clerked for Judge Jed S. Rakoff on the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Robert A. Katzmann on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Matthew Lawrence

Matt will graduate from NYU Law in May 2009 and will be going on to clerk for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (from 2009-2010).  He is Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review.  Matt graduated magna cum laude, with honors, with an A.B. in International Relations from Brown University in 2006.  In his scholarship, Matt applies the insights of behavioral law & economics to new fields, including health law and civil procedure.  He focuses not on “irrationality” and its regulation but rather on the field's lessons about when we are quite rational but not necessarily wealth-maximizing. Thus he has explored the role of norms, other-regarding behavior, and fairness in contracting between doctors and patients, the doctor-patient relationship generally, and the decision to sue. On the basis of his scholarship, Matt was awarded a Lederman/Milbank Fellowship in Law and Economics at the law school and was chosen as sole winner of the Barry Gold Memorial Health Law Writing Competition by the New York State Bar Association.

Joshua Libling

Joshua lived in Australia until he was 18, when he moved to the U.S. for college. He graduated with general honors from the University of Chicago in 2006, where he majored in philosophy, and will complete his law degree at NYU in May 2009. At NYU, Joshua was an article editor at the Annual Survey of American Law, an Allen Scholar and a fellow at the Center for the Administration of Criminal Law. In 2008, he spent a semester working at the Queen’s District Attorney’s Office in the Domestic Violence Division. After graduation, Joshua worked as a law clerk for Judge Kenneth Karas of the Southern District of New York.

David Kamin

David graduated from NYU School of Law in January 2009. At NYU, David was an articles editor for NYU Law Review and also a Milbank/Lederman Law and Economics Fellow; he was also awarded the Paul D. Kaufman award for best student note of the year published by the Law Review. Before law school, David worked for three years in Washington, D.C. on budget and tax policy, first at the Committee for Economic Development and, then, at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. There, he wrote on such topics as Social Security reform, the macroeconomic effects of federal deficits, and the distributional impact of tax changes. In 2002, David graduated with highest honors from Swarthmore College with a degree in economics and political science. In December 2008, David joined the Obama presidential transition team, aiding with the development of the new administration’s budget and tax policy. He then worked as special assistant and, later adviser, to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He went on to serve as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House. David joined NYU in 2012 as an Assistant Professor of Law.

Publications:

  • "Risky Returns: Accounting for Risk in the Federal Budget," 88 Indiana Law Journal  (forthcoming)

  • "Are We There Yet?: On a Path to Closing America's Long-Run Deficit," 137 Tax Notes  53 (2012)

  • What Is a Progressive Tax Change?: Unmasking Hidden Values in Distributional Debates," 83 New York University Law Review  241 (2008)

 

Rebecca Stone

Rebecca received a J.D. in 2009 from NYU School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor on the NYU Law Review. Prior to law school, she spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the ESRC Center of Economic Learning and Social Evolution in the Department of Economics at University College London, and one year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester in the U.K. She has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford, having received a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1999, an M.Phil. in Economics in 2001, and a D.Phil. in Economics in 2004. In 2009-10, Rebecca clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In 2011-12, she clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2008

Kevin Arlyck

Kevin received his J.D. from NYU School of Law in 2008 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at NYU. His dissertation (in progress) is on the role federal courts played in U.S. foreign affairs in the Early Republic period. Kevin was a Senior Executive Editor on the NYU Law Review and has received numerous awards from the Law School and History Department at NYU. Prior to law school he spent seven years teaching French, English, and Social Studies in public schools in Louisiana and New York City. He received an M.A. in Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research in 2003 and a B.A. in Social Sciences from New College of Florida in 1995. Kevin clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for the 2009-2010 term.

Publications:

  • Note, What Commonwealth v. Alger Cannot Tell Us About Regulatory Takings, 82 NYU Law Review 1746 (2007)
  • The Code Noir: Construction of Slavery in French Colonial Louisiana, OAH Magazine of History 17:3 (April 2003)
  • By All Means Necessary: Rapping and Resisting in Urban Black America, in Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (Charles Green, ed., Albany: SUNY Press, 1997), 269-87

Alexis Blane

Biography coming soon!

Alexander Guerrero

Alex is pursuing a joint JD/PhD degree at NYU.  He received his JD from NYU School of Law in 2008 and will complete his PhD in Philosophy at NYU in 2011.  While at NYU Law, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review and received numerous academic honors.  His PhD dissertation is in political philosophy, though he also works in ethics, legal philosophy, and metaethics.  His dissertation develops an account of political legitimacy and the nature of political justification and raises a number of objections to democratic systems of government.  He has taught undergraduate classes at NYU in ethics and legal philosophy.  He received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies to fund his PhD studies.  Alex graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2001 with an A.B. in Philosophy.  He has spent many of the past 12 years volunteering part-time as a teacher in a number of different prisons and jails in and near Boston and New York City.  During 2009-10 he clerked for the Honorable Marjorie Rendell on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications:

  • Don’t Know, Don’t Kill: Moral Ignorance, Culpability, and Caution, 136 Philosophical Studies 59 (2007)

Kevin Hickey

Kevin Hickey graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2008.  During his time at NYU, Kevin served as an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review, and received a number of academic honors for his scholarship, including the Edmond Cahn Award, the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize, and the Order of the Coif.  Following graduation, Kevin clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and spent several years in private practice as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP, where he specialized in intellectual property litigation.  Kevin presently serves as a Furman Fellow at NYU School of Law and conducts research on the doctrinal and constitutional foundations of copyright law.  Kevin originally hails from Binghamton, NY, and studied mathematics during his undergraduate years at Brown University.

Publications:

  • Note, Accuracy Counts:  Illegal Votes in Contested Elections and the Case for Complete Proportionate Deduction, 83 N.Y.U. Law Review 167 (2008)
  • The Copyright/Commerce Clause Collision: A Subject Matter Approach (in progress).  This draft article considers the proper extent to which the limitations of the Constitution’s Copyright and Patent Clause apply to congressional legislation purportedly enacted pursuant to the Commerce Clause.

Benjamin Kingsley

Ben is a 2008 graduate of NYU School of Law.  He graduated summa cum laude and received numerous academic awards, including the University Graduation Prize (for the highest academic average after five semesters), the Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award (for outstanding scholarship and character), and the Rubin Law Review Prize (for the most outstanding NYU Law Review note in International, Commercial, or Public Law).  He was Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review and was an active member and co-coordinator of the NYU Deans’ Cup Basketball Team.  Prior to law school, Ben received an A.B. in Sociology, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, graduating in 2005.  He is currently clerking for the Honorable William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.  He began work at the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, in 2009.

Publications:

  • Note, Making it Easy to be Green:  Using Impact Fees to Encourage Green Building, 83 N.Y.U. Law Review 101 (2008)

Ian Samuel

Ian graduated summa cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2008. He received the Law Review Alumni Association Prize (for second-highest academic average after five semesters), and the Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award (for outstanding scholarship and character), among many other academic awards. While at the law school, he was an Articles Editor on the NYU Law Review, and co-founded the Information Law Society. He was an undergraduate at Truman State University, where he received a B.S. in Computer Science in 2005 and was a two-time national champion in parliamentary debate. In 2008-09, Ian is clerking for the Honorable Alex Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. In 2009-2010, he was a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Publications:

  • The Institutional Dimension of Private Consumer Protection, in New Frontiers of Consumer Protection:  Combining Private and Public Enforcement (2008) (with Samuel Issacharoff)
  • Note, Warrantless Location Tracking, 83 N.Y.U. Law Review 1324 (2008)

Catherine Sweetser

Cathy received her JD degree in 2008 and is completing an L.L.M. in International Law in 2009, both from NYU School of Law.  She received numerous academic honors while in law school, including Order of the Coif, the George Foulk Memorial Award (for outstanding sincerity and distinguished scholarship), and the Jerome Lipper Prize (for outstanding work in the field of International Law).  She was an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review and Education Co-Chair for Law Students for Human Rights.  In summer 2006, after her 1L year, Cathy worked at the Innocence Project providing post-conviction assistance.  In summer 2007, she held a CHRGJ Fellowship at the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa, working on refugee rights and sex discrimination cases and examining the consequences for constitutional rights of international investment treaties.  Cathy graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 2005 with a double major in Political Science and International Studies.  In 2009-2010 she clerked for the Honorable Judith Rogers on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Publications:

  • Note, Providing Effective Remedies to Victims of Abuse by Peacekeeping Personnel, 83 N.Y.U. Law Review 1643 (2008)

Charlotte Taylor

Charlotte graduated from NYU School of Law in 2008, earning magna cum laude honors and receiving numerous awards, including the George P. Foulk Memorial Award (for outstanding sincerity and distinguished scholarship), the Robert McKay Prize in Constitutional Law, and Order of the Coif. She was Senior Articles Editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. Prior to starting law school, Charlotte completed a PhD in English at Yale University in 2004, and in 2004-2005 she taught at Wesleyan University in the College of Letters. She attended Duke University as an undergraduate, earning an A.B. in English and French, summa cum laude, in 1996. Charlotte is currently clerking for the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff in the Southern District of New York. In 2009-10, she clerked for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
           
Publications:

  • Note, Free Expression and Expressness, N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change (forthcoming)

2007

Christopher Bradley

Chris received his J.D. magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2007 and his L.L.M. in International Law from NYU School of Law in 2008 as an Institute for International Law & Justice Scholar. While at NYU Law, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, was co-chair of NYU’s Unemployment Action Center, and received academic honors including the Jerome Lipper Prize for Outstanding Work in International Law. Prior to coming to NYU, Chris received an M.Phil. with distinction in English from Oxford University, and he completed his doctorate (D.Phil.) there in 2008. His research focused on the interaction of medieval theology, church organization, and various practices of religious resistance and dissent in medieval England. He built on this expertise in law school by working extensively on matters of law and religion from a historical and theoretical perspective. He graduated, summa cum laude, in 2001 from Princeton University with a degree in Classics. During 2008-9 Chris was a law clerk to Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Erin Delaney

Erin graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2007. She received the Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award, among other honors, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review.  Her law review note was awarded first place in the American Constitution Society’s 2007 National Student Writing Competition.  Prior to law school, Erin earned an M. Phil. in European Studies and a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Cambridge.  During her graduate studies, she spent a year as a Wiener-Anspach visiting research fellow at the Institute of European Studies at L’Université Libre in Brussels.  Her dissertation, Promoting Federation: The Role of a Constitutional Court in Federalist States, received the Walter Bagehot Prize from the United Kingdom Political Studies Association for the best dissertation in government and political administration.  She received an A.B. in Government, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.  After graduating from law school, Erin clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She was a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter at the Supreme Court. Erin is now an Assistant Professor, at Northwestern University.

Publications:

  • Note, In the Shadow of Article I: Applying a Dormant Commerce Clause Analysis to State Laws Regulating Aliens, 82 N.Y.U. Law Review 1821 (2007)
  • Credit Card Accountability, 73 U. Chicago Law Review 157 (2006) (with Samuel Issacharoff)
  • Managing in a Federal System without an ‘Ultimate Arbiter’: Kompetenz-Kompetenz in the EU and the Ante-bellum United States, 15 Regional & Fed. Stud. 225 (2005)
  • The Promotion of ‘Symmetrical European Citizenship’: A Federal Perspective, 25 Journal of European Integration 95 (2003) (with Luca Barani)

Leslie Dubeck

Leslie graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2007, having received the Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award for most outstanding NYU Law Review note, and a number of other academic honors, including awards recognizing her achievements in Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal Ethics.  She was the Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review while at NYU.  She received a B.A., magna cum laude, in History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.  After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Leslie is currently clerking for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Publications:

  • Note, Understanding “Judicial Lockjaw”:  The Debate over Extrajudicial Activity, 82 N.Y.U. Law Review 569 (2007)

Amanda Goodin

Amanda is a 2007 graduate of NYU School of Law.  She graduated summa cum laude and received the Benjamin F. Butler Award for unusual distinction in scholarship, character, and professional activities, the Law Review Alumni Association Award for having the third highest academic average after five semesters, and the Edmond Cahn Award for outstanding contribution to the NYU Law Review, among others.  While in law school, she was an Articles Editor on the NYU Law Review, and she worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Environmental and Land Use Law at NYU School of Law. Amanda received a B.A. in Music at Yale University in 2000; prior to law school, she assisted in founding and directing a start-up contemporary arts organization and reported on legal reform projects in countries including India, Malaysia, Brazil, and Egypt. After finishing law school, she clerked for the Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Baltimore. Amanda is currently working in the Northwest office of Earthjustice as the recipient of a public interest fellowship.

Publications:

  • Note, Rejecting the Return to Blight in Post-Kelo State Legislation, 82 N.Y.U. Law Review 177 (2007)

Paul Monteleoni

Paul graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2007, having received numerous honors, including the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship and character, the Law Review Alumni Association Award for having the second highest academic average after five semesters, and the Judge Abraham Lieberman Award for outstanding scholarship in the area of criminal law. He served as the Senior Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review. Paul received an A.B. in Philosophy, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 2001. He spent two years prior to law school investigating police misconduct for the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board. Since graduating from law school, he has clerked for Judge John Gleeson on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and he is currently clerking for Judge David S. Tatel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Publications:

  • Note, DNA Databases, Universality, and the Fourth Amendment, 82 N.Y.U. Law Review 247 (2007)

2006

Elizabeth Arens

Elizabeth graduated cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2006, having received a McKay Scholar Award, the Seymour A. Levy Memorial Award, and having worked as a Development Editor for the N.Y.U Annual Survey of American Law.  Prior to law school, she worked as a writer and editor at two Washington-based political journals, Policy Review and The Public Interest. She served as Managing Editor of The Public Interest from 2001 to 2003.  Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with an A.B. in History in 1999.  Since law school, she has clerked for Judge Edward Prado on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (from 2006-07), and she currently works for Covington & Burling LLP as an associate in the firm’s litigation and antitrust and consumer law practices. 

Publications:

  • Note, The Elevated Railroad Cases: Private Property and Mass Transit in Gilded Age New York, 61 N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law 629 (2006)
  • The Democrats’ Divide: Left-labor v. the New Democrats, Policy Review, Aug./Sept. (2001)
  • Getting Along: A Review of John Gray’s Two Faces of Liberalism, Policy Review, Feb./Mar. (2002)

Jenny H. Hong

Jenny graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2006, receiving the Law Review Alumni Association Award and the Sommer Memorial Award, among other academic honors. While at NYU Law, she served as Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review. She received an A.B. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. Jenny clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York and currently works as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.

Publications:

  • Note, Finding Flow: The Need for a Dynamic Approach to Water Allocation, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 734 (2006)

Michael Livermore

Michael graduated from NYU School of Law in 2006, earning magna cum laude honors and receiving the Law Review Alumni Association Award, the Sommer Memorial Award, and the Law and Economics Prize for scholarship in the field of law and economics. While at NYU Law he was Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review, and after graduating he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the NYU Law Center for Environmental and Land Use Law. From 2007-08 he clerked for Judge Harry Edwards on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. For 7 years prior to law school, he worked for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) where he was a leading voice of the state’s environmental community, serving as the Environmental Campaigns Director of NYPIRG from 2000-02. He received a B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from University at Albany. Michael is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) at NYU Law, a think tank and advocacy organization that he founded with Dean Richard Revesz to promote sound regulatory and administrative decision making.

Publications:

  • Pitfalls of Empirical Studies that Attempt to Understand the Factors Affecting Appellate Decisionmaking, Duke Law Journal(forthcoming 2009) (with Hon. Harry T. Edwards)
  • Cause or Cure? Cost-Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Gridlock, 17 N.Y.U. Environmental Law Review 107 (2008)
  • Rethinking Rationality: Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Defend the Environment and Protect Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2008) (with Richard L. Revesz)
  • Reviving Environmental Protection: Preference-Directed Regulation and Regulatory Ossification, 25 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 311 (2007)
  • Book Review, Conversation, Representation, and Allocation: Justice Breyer's Active Liberty, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 1505 (2006) (with D. Theodore Rave)
  • Note, Authority and Legitimacy in Global Governance: Deliberation, Institutional Differentiation, and the Codex Alimentarius, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 766 (2006)

Jeremy Marwell

Jeremy graduated from NYU School of Law in 2006, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. He served as the Senior Articles Editor of the NYU Law Review, received the George Foulk Memorial Award (for outstanding sincerity and distinguished scholarship), and his student note was awarded the Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Law Review Prize (the most outstanding note for the Law Review in international, commercial or public law). He attended Yale as an undergraduate, earning a B.S. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 with majors in History and Chemistry, and was awarded a Mellon Fellowship to the University of Cambridge, from which he received a M.Phil. in Historical Studies in 2001. Prior to law school, he worked in science and technology policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.  After NYU, Jeremy clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and now works as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.

Publications:

  • Note, Trade and Morality: The WTO Public Morals Exception after Gambling,81 N.Y.U. Law Review 802 (2006)
  • Space Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003 (with David Braunschvig and Richard L. Garwin)
  • In Bad Days, Science Must Muzzle Itself, Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2003, at B15 (Op-Ed, reprinted in Newsday, March 6, 2003)

Joy Milligan

Joy is a 2006 graduate of NYU School of Law, graduating magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, and having served as an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review. She also was a founding member of the Critical Approaches to Law reading group. Prior to law school, Joy spent three years working for a local NGO in the Dominican Republic on a youth development and sustainable transportation project. She holds an M.P.A. in Economics & Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton, and an undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard, which was awarded magna cum laude. After graduating from law school, she clerked for Judge A. Wallace Tashima on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California. Joy currently works as an Assistant Counsel/Skadden Fellow in the Economic Justice section of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., focusing on employment discrimination, fair housing, and environmental justice cases.

Publications:

  • Note, Pluralism in America: Why Judicial Diversity Improves Legal Decisions About Political Morality, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 1206 (2006)

Kathleen O’Neill

Kathleen received a J.D. degree, cum laude, from NYU School of Law in 2006 and received the Jerome Lipper Prize for outstanding work in the field of International Law.  She also served as Senior Articles Editor on the Journal of International Law.  Prior to attending NYU, Kathleen earned a Ph.D. in Political Economy & Government from Harvard in 2000, and an undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College in 1993. From 2000 to 2003, she was an assistant professor of Government at Cornell University.  After finishing law school, Kathleen served as law clerk to the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She is currently an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Publications:

  • Delegating Punitive Power: the Political Economy of Sentencing Commission and Guideline Formation, 84 Texas Law Review 1973 (2006) (with Rachel Barkow)
  • Book Review, Democracy and the Rule of Law, 37 Journal of International Law and Politics 639 (2005)
  • Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

D. Theodore Rave

Teddy graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2006, where he received numerous honors and served as a Senior Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. Prior to law school, he attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a B.A. in History in 2001. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2007 and for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2007 to 2008. Teddy currently works as an associate in the Issues & Appeals group at Jones Day in New York.

Publications:

  • Note, Questioning the Efficiency of Summary Judgment, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 875 (2006)
  • Book Review, Conversation, Representation, and Allocation: Justice Breyer’s Active Liberty, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 1505 (2006) (with Michael A. Livermore)

2005

Nicholas Bagley

Nick graduated summa cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2005 and received the University Graduation Prize (for the student with the highest academic average) and the Robert B. McKay Prize for excellence in Constitutional Law. While in law school, he served on the NYU Law Review as a Notes Editor. Nick received his B.A. in English from Yale University and worked for several years as an eighth-grade English teacher in the Bronx prior to beginning law school. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge David S. Tatel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005-06 and for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006-07. Currently an attorney on the appellate staff in the Civil Division at the United States Department of Justice, Nick has argued nine cases in the federal courts of appeals and has served as lead counsel in more than two dozen civil appeals.  Nick joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in the fall of 2010.

Publications:

  • Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State, 106 Columbia Law Review 1260 (2006) (with Richard L. Revesz)
  • Benchmarking, Critical Infrastructure Security, and the Regulatory War on Terror, 43 Harvard Journal on Legislation 47 (2006)
  • Note, The Unwarranted Regulatory Preemption of Predatory Lending Laws, 79 N.Y.U. Law Review 2274 (2004)

Emily Berman

Emily graduated from NYU School of Law in 2005 and completed an LL.M. in International Law at NYU in 2007. While at NYU Law, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review, graduated magna cum laude, and received numerous awards, including Order of the Coif, and awards for excellence in International Law and Evidence Law. While a law student, she worked with the State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor, the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), and the International Center for Transitional Justice. She received an A.B. in Political Science from Duke University and worked as a producer for ESPN prior to entering law school. After graduating from law school, she clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals from 2005-06. Since 2007, Emily has worked as counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice as part of the Liberty and National Security Project, having been the recipient of the Katz Fellowship. Her specific area of focus at the Brennan Center has been excessive executive secrecy, including the doctrines of executive privilege and state secrets, as well as surveillance and detention policy.

Publications:

  • Democratizing the Media, 35 Florida State Law Review 818 (2008)
  • Note, In Pursuit of Accountability: The Red Cross, War Correspondents, and Evidentiary Privileges in International Criminal Tribunals, 80 N.Y.U. Law Review 241 (2005)

Kristina Daugirdas

Kristina graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2005, receiving numerous honors including the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize (for outstanding scholarship and character) and the Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award (for the most outstanding note published in the Law Review). Her note has been cited in three D.C. Circuit opinions.  While at NYU, Kristina served as the Senior Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review. She was an undergraduate at Brown University, where she received an A.B., with Honors, in Public Policy. After finishing law school, she clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from 2005-06. She is currently an Attorney-Adviser in the State Department Office of the Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs. Her article in the Maryland Law Review was awarded third place in the American Constitution Society’s 2008 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. Kristina joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 2010.

Publications:

  • International Delegations and Administrative Law, 66 Maryland Law Review 707 (2007)
  • Note, Evaluating Remand Without Vacatur: A New Judicial Remedy for Defective Agency Rulemakings, 80 N.Y.U. Law Review 278 (2005)

 



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