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	Amy Adler Emily Kempin Professor of Law Amy Adler’s work draws on an eclectic variety of fields, primarily from the arts and humanities, to explore problems of language, interpretation and sexuality that have particular relevance for First Amendment doctrine and theory. She studies the legal regulation of art, speech and sexuality, focusing on the intersection of law and cultural theory.
	Rachel Barkow Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy Rachel Barkow, an administrative and criminal law scholar, is especially interested in applying the lessons and theory of administrative law to the administration of criminal justice. In her article “Separation of Powers and the Criminal Law,” published in the Stanford Law Review in 2006, Barkow contrasted constitutional questions of separation of powers in the administration of criminal law with separation of powers issues in administrative contexts. She coleads the Public Law Colloquium.

	Sujit Choudhry Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law Sujit Choudhry is one of the world's most renowned public-law scholars of comparative constitutional law and comparative constitutional development. His areas of expertise include Canadian, South African, and Indian political and constitutional-law systems and U.S. constitutional doctrine and history. Choudry is the editor of Constitutional Design for Divided Societies (ed. Oxford University Press, 2008), The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2006), Dilemmas of Solidarity: Rethinking Redistribution in the Canadian Federation (ed. University of Toronto Press, 2006) (ed. with Jean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiens and Lorne Sossin). A former Rhodes Scholar, he has also held numerous other fellowships, most recently the Trudeau Fellowship in 2010.
	Adam Cox Professor of Law Adam Cox, a leading young academic in public law, specializes in immigration law, voting rights, election law, constitutional law, and federal jurisdiction and procedure. He has also contributed significantly to written scholarship on voting rights. Before joining the NYU School of Law Faculty in Fall 2011, Cox was a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. He has also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union as the Karpatkin Civil Rights Fellow and practiced in the New York office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. In his recent scholarship, he has been developing a more theoretical framework for the analysis of immigration law.
	Norman Dorsen Frederick I. and Grace A. Stokes Professor of Law Norman Dorsen, codirector of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, is the author, editor or coeditor of The Rights of Americans, Political and Civil Rights in the U.S., The Evolving Constitution, The Unpredictable Constitution and Comparative Constitutionalism. The founding president of the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law, he has chaired two government commissions and was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1991.
	Ronald Dworkin Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law Renowned legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin is a leader of the Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy and Seminar. Dworkin’s major works include: Taking Rights Seriously; A Matter of Principle; two collections of seminal essays, Law’s Empire, his masterwork on the nature and role of adjudication, and Life’s Dominion, on abortion, euthanasia and the questions they raise; Freedom’s Law, a collection of essays on the Constitution, and Sovereign Virtue, on equality. He is the 2007 recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize.
	Richard Epstein Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law Considered one of the most influential thinkers in legal academia, Richard Epstein is known for his research and writings on a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. He has taught courses spanning the legal landscape, including on antitrust, administrative law, communications, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, environmental law, health law, labor, jurisprudence, patents, property, Roman law, and torts.
	John Ferejohn Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Carolyn S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University John Ferejohn's primary areas of scholarly interest are positive political theory and the study of legal and political institutions and behavior. His current research focuses on Congress and policy making, courts within the separation of powers system, political campaigns and election returns and the philosophy of social science. Ferejohn is the author of Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule and The New Federalism: Can the States Be Trusted?
	Barry Friedman Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law Barry Friedman is a prominent constitutional scholar engaged in interdisciplinary research in constitutional theory and judicial behavior. He is also one of the country's leading federal courts scholars. Over the last several years he has written extensively in these fields, with his most recent work appearing in the Texas Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems and the Columbia Law Review. He is the coeditor of (and contributor to) the recent book Judicial Independence at the Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
	Clayton Gillette Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law Clayton Gillette is one of the nation’s most respected experts on state and local government law. He has written articles on topics such as regionalization and interlocal bargains; the exercise of trumps by decentralized governments; and business incentives, interstate competition and the Commerce Clause. He coauthored a cutting-edge textbook on state and local government, Local Government Law: Cases and Materials (third edition), and is currently working on a book concerning local redistribution. Gillette’s numerous articles include studies of long-term commercial contracts, initiatives, relations between localities and their neighbors, privatization of municipal services and judicial construction of contracts governing homeowners associations.
	David Golove Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law David Golove, a faculty codirector of the Center on Law and Security, has secured a reputation as one of the most original and promising scholars in constitutional law. In a book-length article for the Michigan Law Review, Golove comprehensively considers a question of constitutional law that has been controversial from the moment of the nation's birth in 1776 and remains so today. Can the United States government, through its power to make treaties, effectively regulate subjects that would otherwise be beyond the reach of Congress's enumerated legislative powers? For example, a treaty prohibiting the death penalty? He answers yes, and in doing so has produced both a major work of legal historical scholarship and an important legal and constitutional defense of federal power. Other writings have addressed the process of approving international accords and the U.S. president’s authority to order military operations to implement a United Nations Security Council resolution without Congressional authorization.
	Helen Hershkoff Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties Helen Hershkoff is a nationally recognized scholar on state constitutions. Two of her articles on state constitutions appeared in the Harvard Law Review, and she was also honored to deliver the Fourteenth Annual Lecture on State Constitutional Law at Rutgers Law School. Hershkoff’s teaching focuses on civil procedure and federal courts. She also codirects the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and an important part of her scholarship focuses on public interest litigation and the role of the courts in effecting social change.
	Roderick Hills Jr. William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law Roderick Hills Jr. teaches and writes in a variety of public law areas, including constitutional law (with an emphasis on doctrines governing federalism), local government law and jurisdiction and conflicts of law. His interest in these topics springs from their common focus on the problems and promise of decentralization. He is working on a long-term project to describe the ways in which federal regimes in the United States, Canada and Germany have decentralized the definition of complex private rights to subnational governments as a way of managing cultural conflict, expanding on earlier work that treated private rights themselves as systems of decentralized governance.
	Stephen Holmes Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law Stephen Holmes’s research centers on the history of European liberalism and the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism. He has published a number of articles on democratic and constitutional theory as well as on the theoretical origins of the welfare state. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge University Press). He is a faculty codirector of the Center on Law and Security.
	Daniel Hulsebosch Charles Seligson Professor of Law Daniel Hulsebosch is a legal and constitutional historian whose scholarship ranges from early modern England to the 19th-century United States. Throughout his work he explores the relationships between migration, territorial expansion and the development of legal institutions and doctrines. His book Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 examines the intersection of constitutionalism and imperial expansion in the British Empire and early United States by focusing on New York between 1664 and 1830. Presently he is researching the development of American legal culture in the two generations after the American Revolution.
	Samuel Issacharoff Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law Samuel Issacharoff’s wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, constitutional law (particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems) and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process; his Law of Democracy casebook (coauthored with Stanford’s Pam Karlan and NYU’s Richard Pildes) and his dozens of articles have helped to create a vibrant new area of constitutional law.
	Mattias Kumm Professor of Law Mattias Kumm’s research focuses on issues of European and comparative constitutional law, international law and philosophy of law. He examines relations between national and international courts in the context of multilevel governance. Kumm directs the LL.M./J.S.D. Program in International and Comparative Law and is a member of the faculty Executive Committee of the Institute for International Law and Justice.
	Sylvia Law Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry Sylvia A. Law '68 is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the fields of health law, women’s rights, poverty and constitutional law. She has played a major role in dozens of civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower state and federal courts, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures on a range of issues.
	Daryl Levinson David Boies Professor of Law Daryl Levinson is a leading expert in constitutional law and theory. His scholarship draws on interdisciplinary sources from economics, political science, and philosophy. In several major publications, including the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, he has challenged broad swaths of the conventional wisdom in constitutional law and theory.
	Deborah Malamud AnBryce Professor of Law Deborah Malamud teaches in the fields of labor and employment law, constitutional law and class and the law. Her contributions to the study of class and the law focus on how the law reflects and helps to shape our understanding of what it means to be a member of the middle class in the United States. Malamud has also explored related issues in contemporary settings, including the issue of class-based affirmative action.
	Burt Neuborne Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties For 30 years, Burt Neuborne has been one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, serving as national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, special counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and a member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. He has argued many Supreme Court cases, and litigated literally hundreds of important constitutional cases. He challenged the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, pioneered the flag burning cases, worked on the Pentagon Papers case, worked with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she headed the ACLU Women’s Rights Project and anchored the ACLU’s legal program during the Reagan years. At the same time, Neuborne has forged a national reputation as a constitutional scholar and teacher. Among his best-known scholarly works is the two-volume Political and Civil Rights in the United States, which he coauthored with NYU colleagues Norman Dorsen and Sylvia Law and former deputy solicitor general of the United States Paul Bender.
	Richard Pildes Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law Richard Pildes, a faculty codirector of the Center on Law and Security, is one of the nation’s leading scholars of public law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy. Coauthor of the acclaimed casebook, The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, Pildes has helped to create a new field of study in law schools. He is widely considered one of the nation’s leading scholars on such topics as the Voting Rights Act, alternative voting systems (such as cumulative voting), the history of disfranchisement in the United States and the general relationship between constitutional law and democratic politics in the design of democratic institutions themselves.
	David A. J. Richards Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law A teacher of both criminal law and constitutional law, David Richards has helped lead seminars on comparative civil liberties, the law of war and public international law. Richards has developed influential arguments (drawing on history, political philosophy, law and, most recently, literature and psychology) interpreting gay rights as human and constitutional rights in a number of his books.
	Cristina Rodríguez Professor of Law (on leave) Cristina Rodríguez recently completed a series of pieces concerning language rights and language policy in the United States and around the world. In her writing, she tackles the question of whether growing multilingualism in the United States imperils the future of American democracy, offering a theory of multilingualism that emphasizes its relationship to participation in democratic and social institutions, and studies the phenomenon of English-only rules imposed by employers on employees while considering their effects on the social dynamics of the workplace and on freedom of association more generally. Currently, she is working on a series of papers grappling with how the constitutional and statutory law governing immigration contributes to the management of the processes of integration and social change implicated by large-scale immigration. She is coleader of the Public Law Colloquium.
	Adam Samaha Professor of Law Adam Samaha's research and teaching interests focus on constitutional law and theory, along with the role of courts in society. Samaha joined the NYU Law Faculty in Fall 2012 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar from 2007 until 2010. Recent articles explore the future of gun control with judicial review, the true stakes of debates over constitutional interpretation, the dead hand problem in constitutional law, the strength of originalism over time, the phenomenon of tiebreaking in legal institutions, and the use of randomization in adjudication.
	Stephen Schulhofer Robert B. McKay Professor of Law Stephen Schulhofer is one of the nation’s most distinguished scholars of criminal justice and the author of The Enemy Within: Intelligence Gathering, Law Enforcement and Civil Liberties in the Wake of September 11. Schulhofer’s other work has been distinguished by his simultaneous engagement with doctrinal analysis of law, examination of criminal justice policy and his own original empirical work. He has written on police interrogation, the self-incrimination clause, administrative searches, drug enforcement, indigent defense, sentencing reform, plea bargaining, capital punishment, battered spouse syndrome and many other criminal justice matters. His current projects include an investigation of the growing practice of trying juveniles in adult court and an analysis of recent developments in the Supreme Court's interpretation of core Fifth Amendment principles.
	Jeremy Waldron University Professor Jeremy Waldron teaches legal and political philosophy. Waldron has written and published extensively in jurisprudence and political theory. His books and articles on theories of rights, constitutionalism, democracy, property, torture and homelessness are well known, as is his work in historical political theory (on Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and Hannah Arendt).
	Kenji Yoshino Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law Kenji Yoshino, a leading scholar of constitutional law, antidiscrimination law and law and literature, joined the Law School in the Fall of 2008. In his book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, he developed a theory of civil rights law concerned with both preventing discrimination and promoting freedom from coerced conformity. Formerly a professor and deputy dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School, Yoshino will teach courses in constitutional law.
	Diane Zimmerman Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Emeritus Issues of civil liberties—particularly women’s rights, and freedom of speech and conscience—propelled Diane Zimmerman from journalism into law. A specialist in First Amendment law and copyright law, she teaches courses in these areas, as well as the Colloquium on Innovation Policy, and courses on press and tort law. Zimmerman is the author of highly influential writings on the right of publicity and privacy. Her most recent scholarship probes the relationship between the First Amendment and the public domain, the originality requirement in copyright and conflict between copyright and the preservation of cultural artifacts. She has chaired the First Amendment Rights Committee of the American Bar Association, as well as the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

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