Academics
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From courses to clinics, academics at NYU Law are forward-thinking and engaging, with an interdisciplinary and global approach to training the leaders of tomorrow.
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Law and Business
Within walking distance to Wall Street, NYU Law has the most extensive range of law and business offerings in legal education.
Global Programs
A leader in international law, NYU Law is home to the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies
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Whether you're a 1L, 2L, 3L, or LLM, consult these year-by-year roadmaps to be sure that you're heading in the right direction.
Areas of Study
Get a sense of our academic specialties and the faculty that teach them—as well as the centers, colloquia, lectures, and student organizations that underscore them.
- Antitrust, Intellectual Property, & Information
- Cities & Land Use
- Constitutional, Civil Rights, & Democracy
- Corporate & Commercial Law
- Criminal Justice
- Environmental
- Family, Gender, & Sexuality
- Global & International
- Human Rights
- Immigration
- Labor & Employment
- Law and Security
- Legal Theory, History, & the Social Sciences
- Litigation & Procedure
- Regulation & Public Policy
- Taxation
Student Voices
Austin Upshaw ’25
“The faculty at NYU Law is outstanding. I have grown accustomed, when scrolling through the course listings here, to finding that the instructor for a class that sounds interesting to me also just so happens to be one of the leading voices in the field they teach.”
Through an NYU Law program, I was able to join the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as a litigation intern in their Civil Division. The experience has shown me so many ways a litigator thinks strategically and moves the ball forward for their client before the matter ends up in a courtroom. While I hope I will have lots of opportunities in my career to do trial and appellate advocacy, my time in law school has shown me so much more of what a litigator does, and made me eager to get to work honing other advocacy skills too.
In Fall of 2023 I took NYU Law’s Colloquium on Constitutional Theory, and it was unlike any course I had ever taken. Each week we would read an unreleased piece by a legal scholar—either a paper they were working on or a draft of a chapter from an upcoming book. And then that scholar would join our class for a two-hour workshop, where the floor would be open for us to ask questions about their work and dive deep into their ideas.