Centers News

04/18/2019
Lu Shaun Thompson speaking at the Inaugural Kenneth Thompson Social Justice Fund Lecture
On March 27, the legacy of the late Kenneth P. Thompson ’92, Brooklyn’s first black district attorney, was honored with…
04/04/2019
Vicki Been
On April 4 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Vicki Been ’83, NYU Law’s Boxer Family Professor of Law…
04/03/2019
Nathan L Hecht speaking at lectern
Current threats to judicial independence were the subject of the Institute of Judicial Administration‘s 25th annual…
03/26/2019
Lauren Rivera
How big a role do merit and hard work play for applicants hoping to get in the door at elite law firms, banks, and…
03/20/2019
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Constitution Pipeline, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Sabal Trail pipeline—Robert Seber, a partner at Vinson & Elkins…
03/19/2019
Anthony Enriquez
On February 27, the Law Alumni Association (LAA) and the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) co-hosted the Public Service…
02/25/2019
Philip Alston
Philip AlstonOn an ordinary Thursday in January, Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, arrived at…
02/20/2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates
On January 31, even in the polar vortex chill, Tishman Hall auditorium was packed with audience members who came to…
02/14/2019
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Ten years ago, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law, guaranteeing the rights of workers to challenge…
01/31/2019
The rule of law in the United States is more powerful than President Donald Trump, Yale Law School Sterling Professor…
01/25/2019
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How is Big Data changing the law? When NYU Law hosted three conferences on law and technology in a single month this…
01/08/2019
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More than half of US presidents have been lawyers, as well as more than half of current US senators and more than a…
12/21/2018
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State attorneys general must stand up to policies and actions from the Trump administration that they view as illegal—…
12/19/2018
Julian Castro portrait
Julian CastroJulián Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development in the Obama administration and…
12/17/2018
Anne Milgrim speaking at the Brennan Center Politics and Prosecutors event
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has been the source of…
12/03/2018
Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Global law firm White & Case LLP  has expanded its partnership with NYU Law by supporting the school’s Grunin…
11/30/2018
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The tumultuous state of US environmental regulation during the Trump administration was implicit in the title of the…
11/30/2018
Fifty years after the Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Statute opened a new era in how US courts handle complex, multi-…
11/21/2018
Law enforcement departments across the country have adopted body cameras for officers in recent years, responding to…