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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.

 


Stories From Washington Square

Jacobs talks to ABC’s Good Morning America about gun control in the wake of recent shootings

Meron examines the efficacy of international criminal justice

Noble speaks at Hoffinger Colloquium about policing terrorism

Rachel Barkow and Libling '09 address prison overcrowding in Boston Herald op-ed

Supreme Court grants cert in case in which Law School's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law filed first amicus brief

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

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