Faculty Directors
Barry Friedman
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Politics
Barry Friedman is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law, policing, criminal procedure, and the federal courts. He is the author of the The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009), and Unwarranted: Policing without Permission (2017). Friedman is the founding director of NYU Law’s Policing Project, and the reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Law: Policing. He publishes regularly in the nation’s leading academic journals, in the fields of law, politics, and history; his work also appears frequently in the popular press, including the New York Times, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and the New Republic. Friedman has served as a litigator or litigation consultant on a variety of matters in the federal and state courts, and has had a long involvement with social change issues. In addition to his conventional courses in Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Criminal Procedure, Friedman teaches seminars in policing, and a new course entitled Judicial Decisionmaking that marries social science about judging with normative and institutional legal questions. He and a set of co-authors from law and the social sciences are writing a course book for the Judicial Decisionmaking course. Friedman is also the author of Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success, and talks frequently on the subject. Friedman graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Emma Kaufman
Associate Professor of Law
Emma Kaufman teaches and writes about criminal law, constitutional law, and the administrative state. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed academic journals and leading law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. Her book, Punish and Expel: Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of the Prison (Oxford University Press), drew on a year of ethnographic research inside men’s prisons to offer a new account of the relationship between punishment and immigration enforcement. In 2022, she received the law school’s Podell Distinguished Teaching Award.
Kaufman graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College. She then received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, she clerked for Judge Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York and Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Kaufman joined NYU from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bigelow Fellow.
Current Fellows
Natalie Jacewicz '19
Natalie is a Furman Fellow at NYU School of Law, where she spends her time worrying about the environment and thinking up ways administrative law could help. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Natalie received her B.A. in evolutionary biology from Harvard, magna cum laude with highest honors in her department. After working at the Boston Consulting Group, she received a graduate degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her J.D., magna cum laude from NYU, where she was a Furman Academic Scholar, a Lederman Law and Economics Fellow, and an articles editor for NYU Law Review. She graduated Order of the Coif with convocation prizes for excellence in environmental law, administrative law, and law and economics.
After graduation, Natalie worked on environmental policy and appellate litigation as a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity and then clerked for the Honorable Judge Randolph D. Moss of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable Judge David S. Tatel of the D.C. Circuit. Her work has appeared in Harvard Environmental Law Review, NYU Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law, as well as journalistic outlets like NPR, The Washington Post, and Scientific American. When not working, Natalie and her dog enjoy watching squirrels in Washington Square Park, albeit with differing senses of urgency.
Colin Bradley '21
Colin is a Furman Fellow at NYU Law where he works on the intersection of the law of democracy, labor law, private law theory, and political philosophy. He asks what goals our democracy--and hence our law of democracy--should pursue, and wonders what role solidaristic organizations like political parties, labor unions, and social movements do and should play. He is completing a PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University under the supervision of Philip Pettit, with a dissertation on the republican idea of independence.
He received a JD from New York University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, where he was a Furman Academic Scholar and recipient of the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize, the John Bruce Moore Award for Law and Philosophy, the Leonard M. Henkin Prize for Scholarship on Equal Rights, the Weinfeld Prize for Scholarship in Procedure and Courts, and the Aleta Estreicher Prize for Law Teaching. He earned a BA from the University of Chicago with general honors, as a Student Marshal, and received the Lee Family Prize for Best Essay in Theoretical Philosophy.
During law school, Colin worked as an associate for Altshuler Berzon, LLP, and as a legal intern at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He also worked as a legal intern on procedural litigation before the US Supreme Court. Beginning in June 2024 he will clerk for the Hon. Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals. His work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, and NYU Law Review, among other places.
Adam Kern '19
Adam Kern is a Furman Fellow at NYU Law, where he studies tax law, tax policy, and law and philosophy. His scholarship focuses on practical problems that raise hard questions about how resources should be distributed.
Adam's dissertation develops a novel approach to international tax policy, proposing that taxing rights should be allocated not so as to fit pre-existing political allegiances, but so as to bring about fair distributions for individuals. Other work examines how to tax personal injury awards, how to allocate COVID-19 vaccines, and how to measure social welfare when people move in and out of societies.
Adam's work has been published or is forthcoming in Tax Law Review; Tax Notes; NYU Law Review; Philosophy & Public Affairs; Science; Politics, Philosophy & Economics; and Analysis.
From October 2023, Adam will serve as a Policy Advisor in the Office of Tax Policy of the U.S. Department of Treasury. Before joining NYU, Adam clerked for Judge Jed S. Rakoff in the Southern District of New York and practiced as a tax associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.
Adam received a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton; a J.D. from NYU, where he was a Furman Scholar; a B.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford; and an A.B. in philosophy (summa cum laude) from Harvard.
Furman Program Administrator
Jocelyn Ye is the Program Administrator for the Furman Scholars Program and the Academic Careers Program at NYU School of Law. Previously, she worked as an office assistant in the Office of Career Services. Jocelyn graduated summa cum laude from New York University in the Class of 2023 with a BA in Psychology.
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