Q&A: Gerald Rosenfeld
One of Wall Street’s top mergers-and-acquisitions advisers for more than three decades, Gerald Rosenfeld is faculty director of NYU Law’s Institute for Executive Education, slated to launch this fall. Read More
Creative License
While their expertise ranges across patents, copyrights, and trademarks, NYU Law's formidable IP faculty explore a common question: What best drives innovation? Read More
The 2013-14 Leadership Series in Law and Business kicked off with Larry Thompson, executive vice president of government affairs, general counsel, and corporate secretary of PepsiCo, and NYU Law Trustee Sara Moss ’74, executive vice president and general counsel of the Estée Lauder Companies. Read More
Global Governance
The NYU Global Governance Roundtable focused on building ethical and sustainable global companies, and featured a keynote address from Benjamin Heineman, former senior vice president and general counsel of General Electric. Read More
Globalization and the Internet are two factors making commerce and bankruptcy—and the laws that apply to them—exponentially more complicated than two people, face to face, exchanging cash for, say, a fresh catch. Read More
Corporate Compliance and Enforcement
The NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, directed by Jennifer Arlen '86 and Geoffrey Miller, promotes research on the effective enforcement of legal rules and on methods and strategies for enhancing compliance with applicable standards. Read More
Pollack Center for Law & Business
Stephen Choi and David Yermack are the directors of the Pollack Center for Law & Business, a joint venture of the Stern School of Business and NYU Law. Read More
Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business
NYU has the most comprehensive range of law and business offerings in legal education. Students can choose from a continually evolving number of courses at the Law School and at NYU’s Stern School of Business, many of which are global in scope and focused on today’s issues in corporate law, compliance and enforcement, intellectual property, social impact and entrepreneurship, labor and employment law, and land use, among others. Several combined degrees and certificate programs are offered, including a JD/MBA, JD/MA or PhD in Economics, business-oriented LLM degrees, and an Advanced Professional Certificate in Law and Business.
At the core of the Law School's diverse law and business initiatives is the Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business. This innovative program, which prepares exceptional students to pursue high-level careers at the intersection of law and business, includes competitive scholarships and a dedicated mentor network that connects students to leaders in their field of interest. It also features a business law clinic and uniquely designed interdisciplinary law and business courses that bring together faculty and students from the Law School and Stern to focus on current real-world case studies.
Transactional Courses
The Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Transactional and Law & Business courses, named in recognition of the firm's generous grant, comprise a ground-breaking curriculum. Additionally, students gain practical experience in the Business Law Transactions Clinic.
Student Organizations
The Law and Business community includes the Law and Business Association, the Law and Social Entrepreneurship Association, the NYU Journal of Law & Business, and the JD/MBA Association.
Leadership Events
The Amy and Brian Schorr Family Leadership Luncheon Speaker Series for students and NYU Law's Leadership Series featuring innovators at the intersection of law and business are among the many community-wide events held each semester.
Law and Business News in Brief
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Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, visited Paraguay in December when he delivered a lecture at the Central Bank and met privately with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes.... -
On December 3, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments in Authors Guild v. Google, in which the Authors Guild argued that Google had violated copyright laws by digitizing... -
Over the past year, NYU Law faculty have published a host of praiseworthy books covering a diverse range of interests. We’ve rounded up good reads below. You’ll find books whose subjects range from... -
Reuters special report Monday pinpointed eight lawyers who made a whopping 20 percent of the oral arguments at the US Supreme Court in the last decade. Then called out Samuel Issacharoff for his work...
Law & Business Centers
- Pollack Center for Law & Business
- Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement
- Center for Financial Institutions
- Center for Law, Economics and Organization
- Center for Labor and Employment Law
- Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law
- Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy
- Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
- Information Law Institute
- National Center on Philanthropy and the Law
- U.S.-Asia Law Institute
In their own words
Meet two of our Jacobson program participants:
Learn more about the NYU Law experience in our new multimedia feature, "The View from Washington Square."
IN THE PRESS
- Author: Richard Epstein
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"McDonald's sued over claims of racism" CNN MoneyExpert: Samuel Estreicher
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"A Lawyer’s Error Could Cost $1.5 Billion: Business of Law" Bloomberg NewsExpert: Stephen Gillers '68
- Expert: Jeanne Fromer