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	Anthony Amsterdam University Professor A pioneer in clinical education, Anthony Amsterdam came to the NYU School of Law in 1981 to serve as director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs. Throughout his stellar career, Amsterdam has litigated pro bono cases on issues ranging from the death penalty to free speech.
	Jennifer Arlen Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law Jennifer Arlen '86 (Ph.D. '92) teaches corporations, torts and a seminar on business crime. An economist and lawyer by training, Arlen uses economic analysis to explore how best to use legal rules to deter corporate wrongdoing. She has examined corporate crime, malpractice liability of managed-care organizations and securities fraud.
	Rachel Barkow Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy Rachel Barkow’s scholarship focuses on administrative and criminal law, and she is especially interested in how the lessons of administrative law can be applied to the administration of criminal justice. A leading scholar of sentencing law, Barkow testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on reforming the federal sentencing guidelines in 2004.
	Paul Chevigny Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus Before joining the faculty in 1977, Paul Chevigny worked for many years with the New York Civil Liberties Union. Two of his books, Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City and Cops and Rebels, are considered classics. For more than a decade, Chevigny has studied police violence in Third World cities, participating frequently in missions for Human Rights Watch.
	Jerome Cohen Professor of Law Jerome Cohen is the director of the Law School’s China Law Program and a founder of Chinese legal studies in the United States. He specializes in criminal justice issues. For more than 45 years he has worked to promote law reform in China and to inform U.S. scholars and practitioners of legal developments there.
	Kevin Davis Beller Family Professor of Business Law Kevin Davis’s research focuses on commercial law, economic crime and law and development. He has written on topics as varied as the rights of creditors of nonprofits, fraud in contractual settings and transnational bribery.
	Harry First Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Director, Trade Regulation Program Harry First, who published the first law school casebook dealing with business crime, is an antitrust and trade regulation specialist, with teaching and research interests in both antitrust and business crime. From 1999 to 2001, while on leave from the Law School, First was the chief of the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General.
	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, and an expert in post-conviction remedies (habeas corpus), having written extensively and litigated in the area. He is also one of the country’s premier federal courts scholars.
	David Garland Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law Professor of Sociology David Garland, a recently named Guggenheim Fellow, is widely considered to be one of the world’s foremost sociologists focusing on crime and punishment. He joined the faculty in 1997. Garland is the founding editor of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal Punishment & Society, as well as the author of the groundbreaking book The Culture of Control.
	Martin Guggenheim Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law One of the nation’s foremost experts on children’s rights and family law, Martin Guggenheim '71 has taught at the Law School since 1973. He has also worked at the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York and the Juvenile Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and has litigated many cases on behalf of children and parents.
	Randy Hertz Vice Dean Professor of Clinical Law Director, Clinical and Advocacy Programs A former public defender, Randy Hertz is the director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs. He teaches the Juvenile Defender Clinic and Criminal Litigation, and also works pro bono on criminal appeals, including capital appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. Hertz is the coauthor of the most widely used text on federal habeas corpus practice and procedure as well as the leading manual for defense lawyers in juvenile court.
	James Jacobs Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts Director, Center for Research in Crime and Justice James Jacobs’s doctoral dissertation, Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society, became a classic and is still assigned in classrooms around the country. After seven years teaching at Cornell Law School, Jacobs was recruited to NYU as director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. Jacobs has written 14 books, including, most recently, Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement. His research interests include construction; dissemination and consequences of criminal records; fraud; gun control; hate crime; organized crime; political corruption, and privatization of criminal justice.
	Holly Maguigan Professor of Clinical Law An expert in the area of battered women and the law, Holly Maguigan teaches the Comparative Criminal Justice Clinic as well as Focus on Domestic Violence, Evidence and Global Public Service Lawyering: Theory and Practice. She is a member of the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s National Advisory Committee on Cultural Considerations in Domestic Violence Cases, and she serves on the boards of MADRE, the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, the Society of American Law Teachers and the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice.
	Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow Theodor Meron, one of the world’s top scholars of international humanitarian law, is also an expert in international criminal law. Meron has published important work on rape as a crime against humanity and, since 2001, has been serving as an appeals judge for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He has taught Human Rights and International Law as well as International Humanitarian Law/Law of War.
	Erin Murphy Professor of Law Erin Murphy is an expert on criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence. She focuses her research on questions related to new technologies, privacy, and the use of state power in the criminal justice system.
	Ronald Noble Professor of Law on Leave Ronald Noble is currently on leave from the Law School, serving as secretary general of Interpol, located in Lyon, France. An expert on federal criminal law as well as international law enforcement, Noble served as assistant secretary for enforcement at the U.S. Treasury Department and then as the Treasury’s undersecretary for enforcement.
	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 codirector of the Center on Law and Security. His scholarly interests are in the areas of national security law and policy and the regulatory state. A former clerk for Judge Pierre Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, Rascoff also served as a Special Assistant to the Office of Secretary of Defense and Coalition Provisional Authority in Washington and Baghdad.
	David A. J. Richards Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law While David Richards is perhaps best known as a constitutional law scholar, he has an abiding interest in criminal law jurisprudence and has been teaching the first-year criminal law course for more than 20 years.
	Stephen Schulhofer Robert B. McKay Professor of Law Previously the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and director for studies in criminal justice at the University of Chicago Law School, Stephen Schulhofer is one of the nation’s most distinguished scholars of criminal justice. He has written more than 50 articles and seven books, including the leading casebook in the field.
	Jerome Skolnick Codirector, Center for Research in Crime and Justice Claire Clements Dean’s Chair Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Jerome Skolnick began his career as Yale Law School’s first sociologist. In 1962, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he helped found the Center for the Study of Law and Society, which he later chaired. His most notable publication is Justice Without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society, an ethnographic study analyzing how the subculture of the police influences their understanding and enforcement of criminal law.
	Bryan Stevenson Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. He has represented capital defendants and death-row prisoners in the South since 1985, as well as minors who were tried as adults and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Stevenson’s work on behalf of condemned prisoners has won him national acclaim.
	Kim Taylor-Thompson Professor of Clinical Law Before coming to NYU, Kim Taylor-Thompson was the director of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. Taylor-Thompson’s teaching and scholarship have sharpened her interest in the impact of race and gender on public policy, as well as the need to better prepare lawyers to meet the demands of practice on behalf of subordinated communities.
	Anthony Thompson Professor of Clinical Law Anthony Thompson worked for nearly a decade as a public defender in California and then opened his own practice, focusing on criminal defense, sports and entertainment law and contract law. He regularly consults with communities, legislators, courts and policymakers on the implementation of criminal justice policy.

Adjuncts

John Gleeson
Adjunct Professor of Law
In 1994, John Gleeson became one of the youngest federal district court judges in the United States (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York). Before that, he worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In that role, he was the lead attorney in the prosecution of John Gotti, the former boss of the Gambino crime family. Gleeson now teaches seminars on complex federal investigations and federal sentencing law.

Ronald Goldstock
Adjunct Professor of Law
Ronald Goldstock has served as head of the Rackets Bureau in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, as inspector general of the U.S. Department of Labor, and for 13 years as director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. He is an internationally renowned expert on organized crime.

James Orenstein '87
Adjunct Professor of Law
United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein is a former partner in the litigation group at Baker & Hostetler. He is also a former deputy chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section for the Eastern District of New York.

S. Andrew Schaffer
Adjunct Professor of Law
S. Andrew Schaffer is the Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters for the New York City Police Department. A former assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Schaffer also worked for many years as senior vice president and general counsel of New York University. He now teaches a course in criminal procedure.

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