Faculty News

09/23/2020
While much of corporate America has publicly pledged support of the Black Lives Matter movement, several key strategies…
09/16/2020
Professor Jerome A. Cohen, a leading China and East Asian law scholar, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of law,…
09/11/2020
2020 Magazine Dean Trevor Morrison photograph
Dean Trevor MorrisonWhen I came to NYU Law seven years ago, the world did not look the same as it does today. On the…
09/11/2020
2020 Magazine Democracy Feature illustration
Populism, pandemic—and internal failings—threaten to unravel a form of government recently seen as ascendant around the…
09/11/2020
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Bryan Stevenson and Kenneth Feinberg ’70 get the Hollywood treatment with biopics ‘Just Mercy’ and ‘Worth.’ BY ALANA…
09/11/2020
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NYU Law charts a way forward amid the complex risks of the coronavirus pandemic. BY JADE MCCLAIN When on March 9 Dean…
09/11/2020
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NYU Law Voices Carry Thought leaders from within and outside the NYU Law community participate in Law School events…
09/11/2020
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Talk of the Law School Engelberg Center Hosts Legal Madness Last November the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law…
09/11/2020
Rita Hauser
The newly renovated Tishman Auditorium in Vanderbilt Hall reopened in January with a screening of the film Just…
09/10/2020
Sally MerrySally Engle Merry, Julius Silver Professor of Anthropology at NYU and an affiliated faculty member at NYU…
09/02/2020
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In the late 1970s, shortly after Robert Jackson Jr. was born in Bronx, New York, his father and mother—an encyclopedia…
08/25/2020
Professor Emeritus Guy B. Maxfield passed away on Wednesday, August 19. He served on the NYU Law faculty for 43 years…
08/17/2020
Robert Jackson
An article co-authored by Professor Robert Jackson Jr. was included recently on the Corporate Practice Commentator’s “…
08/13/2020
In the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, protests erupted…
08/13/2020
John Sexton
In a conversation lasting a little more than an hour, two longtime friends—John Sexton, president emeritus of NYU and…
08/12/2020
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When Paul Romer studied physics and mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, he meant to forge a…
07/23/2020
Deborah Archer portrait
In 2019, Stuyvesant High School, one of New York’s most elite public schools, admitted only seven Black students to an…
06/30/2020
Jerome Cohen
For nearly 60 years—the past 30 at NYU School of Law—Professor Jerome A. Cohen has been a towering figure in the fields…
06/26/2020
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The murder of George Floyd, an unarmed and handcuffed black man, by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has…
06/16/2020
Barry Friedman
On June 10, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the appointment of Barry Friedman, Jacob D.…