areas of focus
Procedure
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Anthony Amsterdam
University Professor Anthony Amsterdam, a clinical education pioneer, came from Stanford Law School to NYU in 1981 as the director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs. He developed the widely acclaimed Lawyering course for 1Ls, and still coteaches the Lawyering Theory Colloquium and the two Capital Defender Clinics. Throughout his career, Amsterdam has done extensive pro bono work, especially on behalf of capital defendants. In Furman v. Georgia (1972), he persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the death penalty, ushering in a four-year moratorium on executions. In addition to many arguments before the Supreme Court and in other jurisdictions, Amsterdam has worked on behalf of numerous civil rights, legal aid and public defender organizations on cases involving issues such as school desegregation, the First Amendment and civil rights. He is also a deeply accomplished and prolific legal scholar; among his writings are the article that first conceptualized the First Amendment doctrine of overbreadth, and a definitive treatise on criminal defense. |
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Jerome Bruner
University Professor In 1991, Jerome Bruner came to the NYU School of Law as Meyer Visiting Professor to collaborate with Anthony Amsterdam, Peggy Cooper Davis and David Richards in founding and teaching the Colloquium on the Theory of Legal Practice—an effort to study how law is practiced and how its practice can be understood by using tools developed in anthropology, psychology, linguistics and literary theory. He has remained as a research professor, spending a major portion of his time as an adjunct professor exploring the interaction of cultural and legal practice and coteaching the Lawyering Theory Colloquium. “To my delight,” he says, “my colleagues and students at the Law School have proved to be real allies in helping us all understand how the law shapes our thinking, talking, and feeling and, in turn, is shaped by them.” |
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Sarah Burns
Professor of Clinical Law Sarah Burns teaches the Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic and the Mediation Clinic, and has taught the Civil Rights Clinic. With Professor Nancy Morawetz, she created the simulation course Civil Litigation. Burns began teaching in clinical law in 1983 at the Georgetown University Law Center. As legal director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, she managed litigation and legal policy initiatives for almost four years. |
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Oscar Chase
Russell D. Niles Professor of Law Codirector, Institute of Judicial Administration Oscar Chase is a leading advocate for increasing the interdisciplinary aspect of law teaching and scholarship. Since coming to the Law School, Chase has regularly taught courses on various aspects of civil procedure, including the basic first-year course, a specialized course on New York practice, and a seminar on comparative procedure. His books on procedure include Civil Litigation in New York, a casebook that is widely used in the field, the CPLR Manual, a two-volume encyclopedia, and a book on civil procedure in comparative context. He is currently a vice president of the International Association of Procedural Law. |
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Paul Chevigny
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus Paul Chevigny has a longstanding interest in the problems of the relationship between the citizen and the state, and has used the practice of law, especially criminal and civil rights litigation, to investigate the social and political problems behind police abuses in the United States. His books Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City and Cops and Rebels were a result of this work. Chevigny also undertook an international comparison of police violence in major cities in the Americas, and his book Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City examined the use of local regulations to control the popular arts. He has pursued projects involving the use and abuse of the criminal process, and written articles on equal protection in the administration of law and other aspects of civil liberties. Chevigny often teaches Federal Courts. |
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Peggy Cooper Davis
John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics Director, Lawyering Program Peggy Cooper Davis is the director of the Lawyering Program, a widely acclaimed course of experiential learning that distinguishes the Law School’s first-year curriculum. Davis joined the faculty in 1983, after having served for three years as a judge of the Family Court of the State of New York and having engaged, during the preceding ten years, in the practice and administration of law. Her scholarly work has been influential in the areas of child welfare, constitutional rights of family liberty and interdisciplinary analysis of legal pedagogy and process. Davis was a 2008 winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award. |
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Norman Dorsen
Frederick I. and Grace A. Stokes Professor of Law Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program Norman Dorsen has written or edited, sometimes with others, books including Political and Civil Rights in the United States, Disorder in the Court: Report of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Special Committee on Courtroom Conduct, Democracy and the Rule of Law and The Unpredictable Constitution. He is codirector of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and counselor to the president of New York University. Dorsen has been both president of and general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. He was the founding director of the Hauser Global Law School Program, the founding president of the Society of American Law Teachers, and chair of both the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s Review Panel on New Drug Regulation and the U.S. Treasury’s Citizens Review Panel. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dorsen assisted the U.S. Army during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. He is the founder and editorial director of I-CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law. |
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Rochelle Dreyfuss
Pauline Newman Professor of Law Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy Rochelle Dreyfuss’s classes include Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property and Patent Law. The director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, she is the coauthor of Elements of Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials and has written or cowritten numerous articles on jurisdiction, transnational disputes, intellectual property, medical evidence in court, specialized corporate and commercial courts and other topics. |
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Harry T. Edwards
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Richard Epstein
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Samuel Estreicher
Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law Codirector, Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law Samuel Estreicher is an expert in a broad range of areas including procedure, employment and employment discrimination law, labor law, negotiation theory, appellate advocacy, Supreme Court practice, administrative law, international law and entertainment law. He is chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Employment Law, and has been secretary of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, and chair of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Labor and Employment Law. A prolific author of more than 100 articles and several books, Estreicher has also run more than 100 legal workshops of various kinds, and testified before the Commission on the Future of U.S. Worker-Management Relations. He is of counsel at Jones Day in the labor and employment as well as the issues and appeals practice groups. |
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Barry Friedman
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law Barry Friedman teaches about the intersection between the American constitutional tradition and the criminal process. “The rights we give the accused are a product of our unique history,” says Friedman. “We cannot begin to reform criminal procedure unless we understand these constitutional constraints.” Friedman has written articles on how federal and state courts should share the responsibility for defining and protecting the rights of criminal defendants. In a recent work coauthored with Professor John Ferejohn, he discusses how the Supreme Court can force democratically elected legislatures to deliberate on the rights of the accused. Friedman is a prominent constitutional scholar engaged in interdisciplinary research in constitutional theory and judicial behavior. He is also one of the country’s leading federal courts scholars, frequently teaching Federal Courts. Over the last several years he has written extensively in these fields. He is the coeditor of (and contributor to) the recent book Judicial Independence at the Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Approach. |
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Stephen Gillers
Crystal Eastman Professor of Law Stephen Gillers '68 has written widely on legal and judicial ethics in law reviews and the legal and popular press. He has taught legal ethics as a visitor at other law schools and has spoken on lawyer regulatory issues in the U.S. and abroad, including at federal and state judicial conferences, law firms and general counsel’s offices, American Bar Association meetings, state bar meetings nationwide, before Congress and in law school lectureships. Gillers is the author of Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, a widely used law school casebook. He is currently chair of the Policy Implementation Committee of the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility, and regularly teaches on that subject. |
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David Golove
Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law Codirector, Center on Law and Security David Golove has won a reputation as one of the most original constitutional law scholars. His work encompasses such topics as foreign relations and the limits of presidential powers. His scholarship also asserts that the U.S. government can implement regulations through treaties that it could not through the ordinary powers of the legislative branch. Golove’s classes include Federal Courts and the Federal System; International Law; the Law and Security Colloquium and Presidential Powers, War and Foreign Affairs. He has written articles on subjects including foreign relations laws, military tribunals and treaty-making, and is a faculty codirector of the Center on Law and Security. |
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Martin Guggenheim
Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law Martin Guggenheim '71, one of the nation’s foremost experts on children’s rights and family law, has taught the Family Defense Clinic and the Juvenile Rights Clinic. He served as director of the Law School’s Clinical and Advocacy Programs from 1988 to 2002, and as executive director of Washington Square Legal Services, Inc. from 1987 to 2000. Guggenheim has been an active litigator in the area of children and the law and has argued leading cases on juvenile delinquency and termination of parental rights in the U.S. Supreme Court. His research has focused on adolescent abortion, First Amendment rights in schools, the role of counsel for children in court proceedings, empirical research in child welfare practice, juvenile justice and family law. After law school, Guggenheim worked at the Juvenile Rights Division of New York City’s Legal Aid Society as a staff attorney and in its special litigation unit. He also was a staff attorney for four years in the Juvenile Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. |
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Helen Hershkoff
Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program Following almost two decades of law practice where she was heralded as one of New York’s best civil rights lawyers, Helen Hershkoff currently teaches civil procedure, federal courts and advanced topics in procedure. She is a coauthor of the ninth and subsequent editions of the leading casebook Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, as well as a general editor and coauthor of Civil Litigation in Comparative Context. Hershkoff is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law and has done consultancies for the World Bank and the Ford Foundation on public interest law and the role of courts in effecting social change. She codirects the venerable Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and also is a nationally recognized expert on state constitutions and state courts. |
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Samuel Issacharoff
Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law Samuel Issacharoff’s wide-ranging research includes issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions). He is a leading figure in the field of procedure, both in the academy and outside. In addition to ongoing involvement in some of the front-burner cases in this area, Issacharoff now serves as the reporter for the Project on Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute. He is the author of Civil Procedure. |
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Sylvia Law
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program For three decades, Sylvia Law '68 has been one of the nation's leading scholars in the fields of health law, women's rights, poverty and constitutional law. She has played a major role in dozens of civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower state and federal courts, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures on a range of issues. In 1984, Law became the first lawyer in the United States selected as a MacArthur Prize Fellow. She is the codirector of the Arthur Garfield Hays Program at New York University School of Law. She has been active in the Society of American Law Teachers, served as president of the organization from 1988-1990 and was honored by the organization as Law Teacher of the Year in 2001. In 2004, Law was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Andreas Lowenfeld
Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus The topics that Andreas Lowenfeld has addressed in five decades of practice and scholarship are so diverse that it is impossible to label their author’s “field.” A random sampling of his recent writings includes transborder kidnapping, investor-state dispute settlement, economic sanctions, enforcement of foreign judgments and the International Monetary System. His books cover aviation law, public international law, international economic law, private international law and arbitration. Lowenfeld is frequently an arbitrator in international disputes, public and private. |
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Troy McKenzie
Assistant Professor of Law Troy McKenzie '00 came to the Law School from a bankruptcy, general litigation, and appellate practice at Debevoise & Plimpton. As a student at the Law School, he won an award for most outstanding NYU Law Review note for a paper about sovereign immunity in bankruptcy. A former Furman Fellow, he now teaches civil procedure. McKenzie is currently writing a paper, “Judicial Independence, Autonomy, and the Bankruptcy Courts,” about the unusual position in the federal court system of bankruptcy judges, who do not receive lifetime appointments and certain other protections granted to other federal judges by Article III of the Constitution. |
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Holly Maguigan
Professor of Clinical Law Holly Maguigan, an expert on the criminal trials of battered women, teaches Evidence and the Comparative Criminal Justice Clinic. She is particularly concerned with the obstacles to fair trials experienced by people outside the dominant culture who are accused of crimes. Maguigan serves on the boards of directors of the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women and the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice. |
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Arthur Miller
University Professor Arthur Miller, an expert in civil procedure, copyright law, privacy rights and complex litigation, has also been a ubiquitous legal commentator on television. Among practitioners and judges, however, he is best known for his multivolume Federal Practice and Procedure treatise, which he coauthored with the late Charles Alan Wright. He has argued in all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court. Among the responsible positions he has held are those of Commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (by appointment of Gerald Ford), reporter for and member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States (by appointment of Chief Justices Burger and Rehnquist) and Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Complex Litigation. Miller became the first law professor to appear regularly on television, hosting Miller’s Court—the TV show that pioneered making real-life lawyering and legal issues accessible to a lay audience—from 1979 through 1987. The show led to a 20-year stint as Good Morning America’s legal editor. He has also hosted a weekly show on Court TV, won an Emmy in 1984 for one of three Fred Friendly seminars he moderated for PBS’s 13-part series The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, and garnered three American Bar Association Gavel Awards for promoting public understanding of the law. Miller also conducted programs in the British Hypothetical series for many years. |
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Geoffrey Miller
Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law Director, Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions Geoffrey Miller has written or edited five books and more than 100 articles in such fields as ancient law, constitutional law, corporate and securities law, financial institutions, jurisprudence and legal history, including 25 articles on civil procedure. He has taught a wide range of subjects: federal regulation of banking, financial institutions, land development, the legal profession, legal theory, property and securities. Miller is director of the Law School’s Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions; codirector of the Center for Law, Economics and Organization, and cofounder of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. |
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Burt Neuborne
Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice In the course of his career Burt Neuborne, one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, has argued the legality of the Vietnam War, flag desecration, election law and ballot access, campaign finance reform and the use of slave labor by German industry during World War II. His biggest undertaking to date was a successful $1.25 billion class action suit on behalf of Holocaust survivors against Swiss banks. Neuborne, whose classes include Civil Procedure, Evidence and Federal Courts, is the legal director of the Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice and former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He has published numerous books and articles on topics such as litigation strategy, the role of judges in American society, civil rights, the settlement of constitutional cases and procedural parity in constitutional litigation. |
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Catherine Sharkey
Professor of Law Catherine Sharkey’s scholarship is concerned particularly with the manner in which torts and product liability illuminate the connections between private and public law, including such issues as the relationship between federal regulation and tort law, which operates at the state level. She also works in the areas of remedies, punitive damages, class actions and empirical legal studies, and has given numerous presentations and lectures on those subjects. |
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Linda Silberman
Martin Lipton Professor of Law Linda Silberman’s approach to all the subjects she teaches is a blend of the practical and the academic. Her numerous articles on judicial jurisdiction and choice of law are cited extensively, and she gained a place in procedure lore with her article that begins with a story about a “bum” in Washington Square Park who correctly recites the facts of Pennoyer v. Neff. The second edition of her Civil Procedure casebook (coauthored with Professors Allan Stein and Tobias Wolff) was published in 2006. Silberman’s most recent efforts have been in more traditional commercial areas. Silberman has participated in various State Department Study Groups, including the Hague Convention on Choice of Law Applicable to International Sales, the proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments and the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. She is coreporter (with Professor Andreas Lowenfeld) of the American Law Institute’s project Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute, a comprehensive proposal for federal legislation to govern recognition and enforcement of foreign country judgments and related issues. She is also the coauthor of Civil Litigation in Comparative Context. |
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Bryan Stevenson
Professor of Clinical Law The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, Bryan Stevenson has represented capital defendants and death row prisoners since 1985. The winner of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Olaf Palme Prize for International Human Rights and the Reebok Human Rights Award, he has written extensively on criminal justice, capital punishment and civil rights issues. |
Kenneth Feinberg '70
Managing Partner and Founder, The Feinberg Group
Judge John Gleeson
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
Judge Robert Katzmann
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge Reena Raggi
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge Kathleen A. Roberts (Retired)
JAMS
Judge Albert Rosenblatt (Retired) (Judicial Fellow)
Judge Leonard B. Sand
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
John Siffert
Partner, Lankler Siffert & Wohl