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Three years after graduating from NYU with a joint degree in law and business, Jonathan Wolfson '00, CEO of Solazyme, bought a $600 car and drove from New York to Palo Alto, where, in the quasi-mythical tradition of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, he and a college friend hoped to launch a company from their garage that would change the world. But unlike Jobs and Wozniak, Wolfson had earned graduate degrees and his financial bona fides by founding a financial software firm. He now planned to funnel all those specialized skills into launching a hugely capital-intensive gamble to transform algae into biofuel. Read more
In his annual letter to NYU Law's alumni and friends, Dean Richard Revesz sums up the 2010-2011 school year, and offers a glimpse of what's to come. "As I wind down my ninth academic year as dean of NYU School of Law," Revesz writes, "I am more convinced than ever that I am so privileged to lead this law school—the best place, in my view, to engage in the teaching and study of law."
Read the letter
2/8/12
David Boies (LL.M. '67) and Theodore Olson prevail again in federal court in same-sex marriage case
2/5/12
James Silkenat (LL.M. '78) nominated as 137th president of the American Bar Association
2/2/12
Five NYU Law students join Justice Department through Attorney General's Honors Program
2/2/12
Judge Jonathan Lippman ’68 accepts the William Brennan Award for Outstanding Jurist from the NYSACDL
1/31/12
The NYSBA honors Bennett Liebman ’74 with 2012 Award for Excellence in Public Service
"Will Prop. 8 Ruling Lead Supreme Court to Consider Same-Sex Marriage?"
PBS NewsHour
Expert:
David Boies (LL.M. '67)
"Drawing Fire, Deal Gives Agency Staff Power to See State Workers’ Tax Files"
New York Times
Expert:
Joshua Blank (LL.M. '07)
"First the Quake -- Now Haitian Women Fear Rape"
Huffington Post
Authors:
Margaret Satterthwaite '99, Nikki Reisch '12, Global Justice Clinic
"By Revealing Man’s Past, Lawyer Tests Court Secrecy"
New York Times
Expert:
Stephen Gillers '68
"Nominating Committee Selects New York Lawyer James Silkenat to Become ABA President"
ABA Journal
Featured:
James Silkenat (LL.M. '78)