NYU School of Law

areas of focus

INTERNATIONAL

	Philip Alston John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Faculty chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Philip Alston is one of the best-known scholars in international human rights law. He was U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions from 2004 to 2010.
	José Alvarez Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law José Alvarez, whose scholarship in international institutions spans the U.N. Security Council, international criminal tribunals, and international economic governance, is currently a special adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on a pro bono basis. President of the American Society of International Law from 2006-08, he was also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
	Vicki Been Boxer Family Professor of Law Vicki Been '83 is an expert on the intersection of land use and environmental law. She analyzes the wisdom of including property rights clauses in international trade agreements. She is faculty director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
	Simon Chesterman Global Professor of Law Simon Chesterman is the director of the New York University School of Law’s Singapore Program. Beginning January 1, 2012, he becomes the new dean of the National University of Singapore (NUS) law school. Chesterman has written widely on international institutions, international criminal law, human rights, the use of force and post-conflict reconstruction.
	Paul Chevigny Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus Paul Chevigny, a human rights scholar, studies the problems of police violence in Third World cities. He participates in missions for Human Rights Watch and is the principal author of three reports for the organization.
	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. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has also held numerous other fellowships, most recently the Trudeau Fellowship in 2010.
	Jerome Cohen Professor of Law Jerome Cohen is the doyen of senior American experts on East Asian law. He teaches courses in international business contracts and economic cooperation with East Asia, Chinese law and society and comparative international law.
	Kevin Davis Beller Family Professor of Business Law Kevin Davis works on commercial and financial law aspects of law and development and related issues of governance. He has written on topics such as the rights of creditors of nonprofits, fraud in contractual settings and transnational bribery.
	Gráinne de Búrca Professor of Law A leading expert on European Union Law, Gráinne de Búrca focuses on a wide range of topics related to E.U. law and policy, including doctrine, institutional design, and broad questions about the integration of the E.U. legal order with the international legal system. She is  co-author of the most widely used and influential E.U. law casebook for English-language courses in Europe, the U.K., and other countries.
	Rochelle Dreyfuss Pauline Newman Professor of Law Rochelle Dreyfuss’s teaching interests include intellectual property, privacy and the relationship between science and law.
	Samuel Estreicher Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law The director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law, Samuel Estreicher teaches a course on international law and the Middle East conflict and is the author of several amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court on issues of public international law.
	Franco Ferrari Professor of Law After serving as a member of the Italian delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 2000, Franco Ferrari was legal officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch, from 2000 to 2002, where he was responsible for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL digest on applications of the U.N. Sales Convention.
	Harry First Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Harry First is director of the Trade Regulation Program. He focuses on all aspects of international competition policy.
	Eleanor Fox Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Eleanor Fox '61 is a globally recognized antitrust and comparative competition law scholar. Her recent work addresses markets, competition, globalization and economic development.
	Clayton Gillette Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law An expert in international commercial law, Clayton Gillette focuses on the Uniform Commercial Code and its relationship to the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
	David Golove Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law David Golove is a prominent writer on constitutional aspects of U.S. foreign relations. His recent scholarship addresses core constitutional questions arising from foreign relations law and the exercise of U.S. treaty-making power.
	Ryan Goodman Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Ryan Goodman is co-chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. He is a member of the United States Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, Goodman is an associated member of the department of sociology and an affiliated member of the department of politics at NYU.
	Moshe Halbertal Gruss Professor of Law An internationally recognized expert in Jewish and Talmudic law, Moshe Halbertal divides his time between NYU and Israel’s Hebrew University, where he is a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy. He has contributed significantly to the study of the intersection of law and philosophy in medieval Jewish law.
	Roderick Hills Jr. William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law Roderick Hills Jr. is working on a long-term project to describe how the United States, Canada and Germany have decentralized the definition of complex private rights to subnational governments in order to better manage cultural conflicts.
	Stephen Holmes Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law Stephen Holmes is a specialist on constitutional law and legal reform in Eastern Europe and Russia.
	Robert Howse Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law Robert Howse is a co-author of a major treatise on international trade law (with Michael Trebilcock), he has made major contributions to trade doctrine and WTO jurisprudence.
	Benedict Kingsbury Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Benedict Kingsbury directs the Institute for International Law and Justice, the Program in the History and Theory of International Law and the J.D./LL.M. Program in International Law, and is chair of the Law School’s Graduate Division.
	Mattias Kumm Professor of Law Mattias Kumm is a scholar of global and comparative law and examines relations between national and international courts in the context of multilevel governance.
	Andreas Lowenfeld Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus Andreas Lowenfeld’s body of work spans public and private international law, from transborder kidnapping to North American Free Trade Agreement disputes.
	Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow Theodor Meron, an authority on human rights and humanitarian law, is currently president of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
	Sally Engle Merry Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society, NYU Sally Engle Merry studies the tensions between legal pluralism and claims to the universality of human rights.
	Geoffrey Miller Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law Director of the Center for the Study of Financial Institutions (formerly the Center for the Study of Central Banks), Geoffrey Miller is an expert in global banking regulation.
	Liam Murphy Herbert Peterfreund Professor of Law and Philosophy Liam Murphy, long a leading scholar in legal philosophy, is working on problems in the philosophy of international law.
	Smita Narula Associate Professor of Clinical Law Smita Narula, faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, is a well-known expert on caste discrimination and the rise of religious nationalism in South Asia.
	Burt Neuborne Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties Burt Neuborne, the legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice, is one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers.
	Samuel Rascoff Assistant Professor of Law Samuel Rascoff, former director of the Intelligence Division of the New York City Police Department, joined the faculty in June 2008. He is a faculty director of the Center on Law and Security. His scholarly interests are in the areas of national security law and policy and the regulatory state. Rascoff served as a Special Assistant to the Office of Secretary of Defense and Coalition Provisional Authority in Washington and Baghdad.
	Cristina Rodríguez Professor of Law (on leave) Cristina Rodríguez’s research focuses on language rights in the United States and other countries.
	Margaret Satterthwaite Associate Professor of Clinical Law Faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and of the Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program, Margaret Satterthwaite '99 is an impassioned advocate and scholar, focusing on human rights and national security, migrants' rights, and gender and sexuality.
	Linda Silberman Martin Lipton Professor of Law Linda Silberman is an expert on international child abduction law and on jurisdiction and judgments issues. She has represented the United States in the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
	Bryan Stevenson Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson integrates national and international work on death penalty issues. He has assisted on death penalty cases in the Caribbean, and works with European human rights groups to apply international law to the U.S. death penalty.
	Richard Stewart  University Professor John Edward Sexton Professor of Law A leading scholar in environmental and administrative law, Richard Stewart directs the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law and the Hauser Global Law School Program. He is the author of works on using tradable permits to increase climate change control efficiency.
	Alan O. Sykes Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law A leading expert on the application of economics to legal problems, Sykes has focused his research on international economic relations. His writing and teaching have encompassed international trade, torts, contracts, insurance, antitrust, and economic analysis of law. He currently serves as reporter for the American Law Institute Project on Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization.
	Frank Upham Wilf Family Professor of Property Law Frank Upham oversees, with Jerome Cohen, a growing program in East Asian law. The author of an acclaimed book on law and social change in Japan, Upham works on global law and development issues.
	Jeremy Waldron University Professor Jeremy Waldron is a prominent contemporary political philosopher who has lectured on the rights of indigenous peoples, cosmopolitanism and settlement. His article on torture was referred to by the House of Lords in a landmark case.
	Joseph Weiler University Professor Joseph Straus Professor of Law; European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor Joseph Weiler, a preeminent scholar of the European Union and the World Trade Organization, heads the NYU School of Law’s Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice.
	Katrina Wyman Professor of Law Katrina Wyman’s research centers on the use of innovative tools, such as markets and private property rights, for managing natural resources. Her articles examine why the United States was first to implement large-scale markets in air pollution, and why it has been slow to introduce instruments such as individual transferable quotas to manage marine fisheries.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Lee C. Buchheit is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Mr. Buchheit’s practice focuses on international and corporate transactions, including Eurocurrency financial transactions, sovereign debt management, privatization and project finance.

Donald Donovan is a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City, where he concentrates his practice in international disputes before courts in the United States, international arbitration tribunals, and international courts.

Richard W. Hulbert is senior counsel at Cleary Gottlieb, based in the New York office.
Hulbert's practice has focused on domestic and international litigation and arbitration.

Santiago Villalpando is a legal officer in the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in New York, with a special focus on the work of the UN Sixth (Legal) Committee and the UN International Law Commission (ILC). 

Jake Werksman, a prominent international environmental law practitioner and scholar responsible for programs in these areas at the Rockefeller Foundation, is an Adjunct Professor of International Environmental Law at the Law School.

Paul van Zyl is the director of Country Programs for the International Center for Transitional Justice. He has acted as an adviser and consultant to human rights organizations, governments, international organizations, and foundations on transitional justice issues in many countries, including Colombia, Indonesia, East Timor, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

 

 

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