ALUMNI
From the Dean
I am delighted to welcome you to the Alumni Relations page of the NYU School of Law Web site. There is perhaps no better, more immediate way to reach our 37,000 graduates to let them know what is happening down at the Square. The Law School is experiencing a time of enormous transformation and change; this site will help you to remain informed, get involved, and stay connected. Click through these pages and you will find many opportunities throughout the year to become active in the Law School.
Alumnus of the Month
Priti Radhakrishnan ’02, co-director, Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge. While working at a women’s rights organization in India in 2003, Ms. Radhakrishnan discovered pharmaceutical patents that were filed on dubious legal grounds. Such unnecessary and frivolous patents mean that the poor in developing countries like India are priced out of medicines for diseases such as HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. Along with her husband and fellow attorney, Tahir Amin, Ms. Radhakrishnan spent her spare time sifting through patent filings, looking for those that tried to game the system. “We started to intervene if we found a weak patent,” she says. “But soon we realized that we couldn’t just do this on an ad-hoc basis. We needed to do it systematically.” That realization led Ms. Radhakrishnan and Mr. Amin to launch Initiatives for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, or I-MAK, in 2006. With a small team of attorneys and scientists, the New York-based nonprofit aims to improve access to affordable medicine around the world. more
Magazine
The 2009 Law School magazine includes features on Law and Security, a young legal field developed at the NYU School of Law; Professor Jerome Cohen, who has devoted his 50-year career to the rule of law in China; and an immigration law roundtable with 10 faculty and alumni experts. Plus: NYU Law alumni working in the new Obama administration, and a profile of Seth Glickenhaus '38, who worked on Wall Street during the Great Depression.