areas of focus
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Amy Adler
Emily Kempin Professor of Law Amy Adler’s areas of research include art law; feminist theory; free speech; gender and sexuality and law, culture and humanities. She has published articles analyzing stripping, pornography, child pornography, art and obscenity. Adler explores problems of language, interpretation and sexuality that have particular relevance for First Amendment doctrine and theory. She has lectured to a wide variety of audiences, including legal scholars, artists and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
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Philip Alston
John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Faculty Chair, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Philip Alston, whose teaching concentrates on international law and international human rights law, chairs NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. He is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, as well as special adviser to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals. |
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Anthony Amsterdam
University Professor Anthony Amsterdam, a pioneer in clinical education, 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 numerous arguments before the Supreme Court and in other jurisdictions, Amsterdam has worked on behalf of civil rights, legal aid and public defender organizations on cases involving issues such as school desegregation, the First Amendment and civil rights. |
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Claudia Angelos
Clinical Professor of Law An authority on prisoners’ rights, Claudia Angelos teaches the Civil Rights Clinic, in which students represent plaintiffs in federal civil rights cases. She previously worked as a staff attorney for Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and Greater Boston Legal Services, and is past board president and current board member of the New York Civil Liberties Union. |
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Rachel Barkow
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Lily Batchelder
Professor of Law on Leave Lily Batchelder’s areas of expertise include income taxation, wealth transfer taxation, tax incentives, income volatility and social insurance. Prior to joining the faculty she was a tax associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Batchelder is particularly concerned with the distribution of tax burdens and benefits, and the connections between tax policy and social policy. She has testified about household income volatility and potential tax policy responses before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, and about reform options for the estate tax system before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. |
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Vicki Been
Boxer Family Professor of Law Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy Vicki Been '83 studies the interplay among land use, urban policy and environmental law. The director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a joint research center of NYU Law School and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service that studies how public and private investments and regulatory interventions affect the quality of urban neighborhoods, Been wrote a pioneering article on the distributional fairness of environmental and land use policies, and has also written on the Fifth Amendment prohibition against taking property without just compensation, as well as land use and housing policy. She is the coauthor of the leading land use casebook Land Use Controls. The Environmental Protection Agency awarded her a substantial grant to study the evidence regarding the fairness of the siting of hazardous waste facilities. |
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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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Paulette Caldwell
Professor of Law Paulette Caldwell specializes in civil rights issues, particularly in the areas of employment discrimination law, the rights of women of color and critical race theory. She teaches Education Law, Employment Discrimination Law and Race and Legal Scholarship, and frequently advises civil and women’s rights organizations. Caldwell has been a member of the National Governing Board of Common Cause, an organization devoted to campaign finance reform, and of the Task Force to Review the Legal Programs of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. |
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Paul Chevigny
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus Paul Chevigny has a long-term interest in the problems of the relation between citizen and state. This focus has resulted in extensive study of the social and political problems behind police abuses and an international comparison of police violence in major cities in the Americas, which included missions on behalf of Human Rights Watch. Chevigny was the principal author of Human Rights in Jamaica (1986), Police Abuses in Brazil (1987) and Police Violence in Argentina (1991). He also wrote More Speech: Dialogue Rights and Modern Liberty (1988) and Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (1991), both concerned with free-speech issues. Chevigny has taught Criminal Law; Evidence and Professional Responsibility; the International Human Rights Clinic; and State, Law and Politics in Society, among other courses. |
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Peggy Cooper Davis
John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics Director, Lawyering Program Peggy Cooper Davis served three years as a judge of the Family Court of the State of New York before coming to the NYU School of Law, where she has taught Child Welfare Administration, Evidence, Family Law, The Family and the State, Lawyering and Lawyering Theory. Her scholarship encompasses child welfare, constitutional rights of family liberty, and interdisciplinary analysis of legal pedagogy and process. The author of Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values, a book about the importance of antislavery traditions as interpretive guides to the Fourteenth Amendment, Davis has served as board chair of the Russell Sage Foundation, a board member of the Brennan Center for Justice and a member of the New York City Mayor’s Committee on the Judiciary, among numerous other involvements with nonprofit and government entities. |
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Norman Dorsen
Frederick I. and Grace A. Stokes Professor of Law Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program Counselor to the President of the University Norman Dorsen, a specialist in civil liberties, comparative constitutional law and constitutional law, has been director or codirector of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program since 1961, and was founding director of the Hauser Global Law School Program. Working in the office of the general counsel to the Secretary of the Army, he assisted throughout the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings. Dorsen has served as both president of and general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, 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 Drug Regulation and the U.S. Treasury’s Citizens Review Panel. In addition to editing the ACLU’s series of 50 books on individual and group rights, he has written or edited, sometimes with others, 13 additional books. Dorsen received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Clinton, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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Cynthia Estlund
Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law Cynthia Estlund, whose research focuses on employment law, labor law, labor standards and the regulation of work, teaches Advanced Topics in the Law of the Workplace, Employment Law, Labor Law and Property. One function of her scholarship has been to integrate First Amendment theory into the law and politics of the workplace. Estlund is the author of Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy, and she is working on a book about rebuilding the law of the workplace in an era of self-regulation. |
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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. Estreicher teaches the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. 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, 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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Paula Galowitz
Clinical Professor of Law Paula Galowitz has secured a reputation as a clinical teacher and an expert on civil legal services for indigent clients. She teaches the Civil Legal Services Clinic and the Medical-Legal Advocacy Clinic, as well as Civil Litigation, Doctor-Patient, Lawyer-Client: The Nature of Professional Relationships, and Professional Responsibility in the Public Interest. Galowitz worked for the civil division of the New York Legal Aid Society, and serves on the board of the Clinical Legal Education Association and as cochair of the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Task Force on Housing Court. She has also chaired the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee of the Housing Court as well as the Committee on Legal Services, an organization of law professors working to improve the delivery of civil legal services. |
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David Golove
Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law Faculty 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. |
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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. 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. |
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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 Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and also is a nationally recognized expert on state constitutions and state courts. |
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Randy Hertz
Vice Dean Professor of Clinical Law Director, Clinical and Advocacy Programs An expert on habeas corpus and lawyering theory, Randy Hertz is the director of the Clinical and Advocacy Programs. He teaches Criminal Litigation and the Juvenile Defender Clinic, and has also taught the Capital Defender Clinic. He is the editor-in-chief of the Clinical Law Review, the first scholarly journal devoted to clinical legal education and one of the country’s few peer-edited law reviews, as well as the coauthor of a much-used two-volume work on habeas corpus and of the leading trial manual on juvenile court defense. Hertz works pro bono on criminal appeals, including capital appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. |
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Roderick Hills Jr. William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law Roderick Hills’s scholarship covers a variety of public law areas, including constitutional law, education law, jurisdiction and conflicts of law, land-use regulation and local government law. The common thread, for Hills, involves the problems and promise of decentralization, and the complex legal questions that arise when different kinds and levels of government interact. His recent work has examined the virtues and vices of decentralization in the federal control of non-federal corruption, state regulation of local government and the use of federalism to defuse controversies over culture and religion. Hills has long been a cooperating counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union. |
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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 penology classic Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (1977), his doctoral dissertation, is still taught in classrooms around the country. His classes have included Criminal Law, Federal Criminal Law, Juvenile Justice and Negative C.V.: Jurisprudence Policy re: Criminal Records. Jacobs convenes the monthly Hoffinger Criminal Justice Colloquium, which gathers academics, researchers, professionals from the criminal justice world and journalists to discuss key criminal justice issues. He has published 14 books and more than 100 articles on such topics as prisons and imprisonment, drunk driving, corruption and its control, hate crime, drug testing, regulation of weaponry and organized crime. His latest book is Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement (2006). |
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Benedict Kingsbury
Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Chair, Graduate Division Director, Institute for International Law and Justice Benedict Kingsbury’s scholarship reflects a strong commitment to a broad, theoretically grounded approach to international law, closely integrating work in legal theory, political theory (including international relations theory) and history. Kingsbury teaches Advanced International Law, the Hauser Globalization Colloquium: Global Governance and Legal Theory, the Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium, and International Law. He codirects NYU Law School's Program in the History and Theory of International Law. His writings cover a range of contemporary international law topics, from trade-environment disputes and the United Nations to interstate arbitration and the proliferation of international tribunals. Kingsbury has had extensive academic and practical involvement with issues relating to indigenous peoples. |
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Sylvia Law
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program Sylvia Law '68 has long been a leading scholar in 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, including the landmark 1970 case Goldberg v. Kelly, which established that the government cannot terminate welfare benefits without giving citizens procedural due process. Law has testified before Congress and state legislatures on a range of issues. In 1984, she became the first lawyer in the United States selected as a MacArthur Prize Fellow. Her publications have touched on topics including affirmative action, the American healthcare system, commercial sex, homosexuality and physician-assisted death. Law’s classes have included Constitutional Law, Cuban Law and Society, Family Law and the Health Law Colloquium. |
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Holly Maguigan
Professor of Clinical Law Holly Maguigan, an expert on the criminal trials of battered women, teaches Evidence and Global Public Service Lawyering: Theory and Practice in addition to the Comparative Criminal Justice Clinic. She is particularly concerned with the 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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Deborah Malamud
An-Bryce Professor of Law Deborah Malamud focuses on issues of class and public policy, as well as labor and employment law. Her study of class and the law centers on how the law reflects and helps to shape our understanding of what it means to be a member of the U.S. middle class. Malamud’s work on the New Deal illuminates the interaction between class and the law through close examination of the development and public defense of labor and welfare policies that drew boundaries between different types of workers. She has also examined contemporary issues such as class-based affirmative action. Her classes include The Administrative and Regulatory State, Class and the Law, and Labor Law. |
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Nancy Morawetz
Professor of Clinical Law Nancy Morawetz '81 came to the Law School after working in the Legal Aid Society of New York’s civil appeals unit, where she litigated numerous major class actions, including one to require the Social Security Administration to follow federal circuit court decisions. She has taught the Civil Legal Services Clinic, the Immigrant Rights Clinic and the Public Policy Clinic, as well as classes on civil litigation, government benefits and lawyering theory. Her current interests include the rules regarding the detention and deportation of longtime U.S. residents, and access to judicial review of detention and deportation decisions. Morawetz works with Immigrant Rights Clinic students on cases challenging policies on the detention and deportation of immigrants. |
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Smita Narula
Associate Professor of Clinical Law Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Smita Narula advocates against religious and caste-based discrimination, most recently against the Indian and Nepalese governments’ denial of caste discrimination as a human rights issue. Narula, a faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, presented Hidden Apartheid: Caste Discrimination Against India’s “Untouchables” to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2007, and after her congressional testimony that year, the House passed its first resolution on caste discrimination in India. |
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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. 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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Richard Revesz
Dean Lawrence King Professor of Law Richard Revesz’s work focuses on five distinct areas: federalism and environmental regulation, design of liability regimes for environmental protection, positive political economy analysis of environmental regulation, analytical foundations of environmental law and the use of cost-benefit analysis in administrative regulation. His most recent book is Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (2008). Revesz has taught Administrative Law, the Advanced Environmental Law Seminar and Environmental Law, and is the faculty director of the Program on Environmental Regulation. He has been a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, and a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States; the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government; and the United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation for Development, as well as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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Cristina Rodríguez
Professor of Law Cristina Rodríguez’s recent scholarship has focused on language rights and language policy in the U.S. and abroad, in addition to her other research on American and comparative constitutional law and theory, immigration law and policy and citizenship and assimilation theory. Her theory of multilingualism emphasizes its relationship to participation in democratic and social institutions. Rodríguez teaches Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Language, Culture and the Law and the Public Law Colloquium. She is faculty director of the Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights. |
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Laura Sager
Clinical Professor of Law An expert in employment discrimination law, Laura Sager has taught the Civil Rights Clinic, the Employment and Housing Discrimination Clinic and the Women’s Rights Clinic. In the latter clinic, she successfully litigated the class-action sex discrimination case against the New York City Fire Department that enabled women to serve as firefighters for the first time in the city’s history. |
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Margaret Satterthwaite
Associate Professor of Clinical Law Faculty Director, Root-Tilden-Kern Program Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Before becoming a lawyer, Margaret Satterthwaite '99 had a career in human rights, including six years as director of Amnesty International USA’s program on the human rights of those persecuted for their sexual orientation, which she cofounded, and a stint as a human rights investigator for the Haitian National Truth and Justice Commission. Satterthwaite has also been a human rights consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. A faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, she teaches the International Human Rights Clinic. Satterthwaite’s research and writing interests include human rights in the “war on terror,” economic and social rights, and the human rights of migrants. |
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Stephen Schulhofer
Robert B. McKay Professor of Law One of the nation’s most distinguished scholars of criminal justice, Stephen Schulhofer has written the leading casebook in the field, as well as five other books and dozens of articles. Schulhofer’s most recent books include Rethinking the Patriot Act: Keeping America Safe and Free (2005) and The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism (2003). Focused on contemporary concerns about crime and due process, Schulhofer has examined issues such as police interrogation, drug enforcement, the trying of juveniles in adult courts, plea bargaining and laws against rape and sexual harassment. He has taught classes on criminal law, criminal procedure, indigent legal defense, and post-9/11 intelligence gathering and law enforcement. |
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Bryan Stevenson
Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. Stevenson, who has worked on behalf of capital defendants and death-row prisoners since 1985, has won numerous awards for his advocacy. In addition to publishing several widely disseminated manuals on capital litigation, he has written extensively on criminal justice, capital punishment, and civil rights issues. Stevenson heads the Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic, and has taught Capital Punishment Law and Litigation as well as Race, Poverty and Criminal Justice. |
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Richard Stewart
University Professor John Edward Sexton Professor of Law Chair and Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program Director, Center on Environmental and Land Use Law A leading scholar in environmental and administrative law, Richard Stewart has taught courses including The Administrative and Regulatory State, the Environmental Governance Seminar, the Hauser Globalization Colloquium: Global Governance and Legal Theory, and the International Environmental Law Clinic. Stewart is the faculty director of the Hauser Global Law School Program and the director of the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, which helps to implement innovative legal and policy solutions to environmental protection. He is a former assistant attorney general in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and former chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. |
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Kim Taylor-Thompson
Professor of Clinical Law Kim Taylor-Thompson spent a decade working at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. She cofounded the Lawyering for Social Change Program at Stanford Law School, and at NYU has taught Criminal Litigation; Evidence: Litigation Planning; the Criminal and Community Defense Clinic, and the Juvenile Defender Clinic. Taylor-Thompson is interested in the impact of race and gender on public policy, as well as the need to better prepare lawyers for meeting the demands of practice in subordinated communities. |
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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 is an expert in search and seizure practices, community prosecution programs and treatment of ex-offenders. Thompson created the first-of-its-kind Offender Reentry Clinic, focusing on the problems faced by individuals returning to the community from prison. He also teaches the Criminal and Community Defense Clinic, and regularly consults with policymakers on the implementation of criminal justice policy. |
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Frank Upham
Wilf Family Professor of Property Law Frank Upham’s research focuses on law and development, and issues in comparative law and society. His book Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan is a standard reference for discussions of Japanese law and its social and political role in contemporary Japan. Upham’s research and writing also encompass Chinese law and society, and the more general role of law in social and political development. |
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Katrina Wyman
Associate Professor of Law Katrina Wyman, whose research focuses on environmental and natural resources law and policy, the regulatory process, and the implications of international law for domestic environmental regulation, has published articles examining why the U.S. was the first country to implement large-scale markets in air pollution, and why it has been slow to introduce private property-like instruments known as individual transferable quotas to manage marine fisheries. She teaches Natural Resources Law, Property, Property Theory, the Public Interest Environmental Law Practice Seminar and Torts. |
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Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law Kenji Yoshino, a leading scholar of constitutional law, antidiscrimination law and law and literature, joined the Law School in the Fall of 2008. In his book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, he developed a theory of civil rights law concerned with both preventing discrimination and promoting freedom from coerced conformity. Formerly a professor and deputy dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School, Yoshino will teach courses in constitutional law. |