Criminal
The Big Picture
Criminal law is a thriving part of the Law School’s intellectual life. Top policymakers and practitioners regularly converge on Washington Square to explore critical issues in meting out justice. A world-class faculty offers courses, clinics and colloquia on everything from organized crime control to reentry programs to the death penalty.
Rachel Barkow is nominated to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission
Kathy Boudin delivers 19th Annual Rose Sheinberg Lecture on the politics of parole and reentry
Rachel Barkow wins NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award
The New York Times profiles federal judge and adjunct professor John Gleeson's "drug court" program to help addicts avoid prison time
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman '68 delivers keynote address at Annual Survey symposium (VIDEO)
Erin Murphy writes on civil liberties concerns raised by the government’s growing repository of citizen DNA
In the Press
"State of Equality and Justice in America: The Presumption of Guilt"
Washington Post
Author:
Bryan Stevenson
"Lawyer Criticizes Brooklyn Prosecutor Over TV Show"
New York Times
Expert:
Stephen Gillers '68
"Tutwiler Prison one year later"
Fox6 News
Expert:
Bryan Stevenson
"When their sentence is up, ex-offenders stay in a prison of debt"
MSNBC
Featured:
Brennan Center for Justice
"It's Not So Easy to 3D Print a Gun"
Atlantic Wire
Expert:
James Jacobs
"FBI hints at OK to question terror suspects who ask for lawyer"
Politico
Expert:
Stephen Gillers '68
Learn more about Criminal Law at NYU:
Contact Information
Professor James B. Jacobs
Codirector
Center for Research in Crime and Justice
Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South, Room 322A
New York, NY 10012-1099
Telephone: (212) 998-6203
Facsimile: (212) 995-4692
Email: jacobsj@juris.law.nyu.edu