ALUMNI
From the Dean
I am delighted to welcome you to the Alumni Relations page of the NYU School of Law Web site. There is perhaps no better, more immediate way to reach our 37,000 graduates to let them know what is happening down at the Square. The Law School is experiencing a time of enormous transformation and change; this site will help you to remain informed, get involved, and stay connected. Click through these pages and you will find many opportunities throughout the year to become active in the Law School.
Alumnus of the Month
Gwen Marcus ’81, executive vice president, general counsel, Showtime Networks Inc. After graduating from NYU Law, Ms. Marcus took a full-time entertainment law position at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison where she focused on theater law. But in 1984, she was offered an assistant counsel position at Showtime. The network was eight years old at the time, and she joined her new department as the number two, in what was then a department of two. Despite the potential risk of hitching her wagon to a relative start-up, Ms. Marcus reveled in the experience and has worn several different hats–often at the same time–in the past 25 years at the network. more
Magazine
The 2008 Law School magazine includes features on the Law of Democracy, a growing legal field cofounded by Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Richard Pildes; Empirical Legal Studies, an emerging discipline that engages numerous NYU Law faculty who use hard data to address real-world problems; and Thomas Buergenthal '60, a judge on the International Court of Justice who, as a boy, survived the horrors of Auschwitz.