Faculty News

05/09/2019
Jason Schultz
On April 17 and 18, legal academics, data scientists, community organizers, and other experts convened to examine how…
05/08/2019
Bryan Stevenson
“Tonight, I want to talk about memory and trauma and justice and what I believe it will take to get to a different…
05/06/2019
Pablo Greiff
In this year’s Emilio Mignone Lecture, Pablo de Greiff, director of the transitional justice program at the Center for…
05/06/2019
Stephanie Abramson
Life Trustee, Director of Law and Business Experiential Courses, and Adjunct Professor Stephanie Abramson ’69 passed…
05/02/2019
Drying Pyrethrum flowers in the sun in Rwanda, Africa
Kenya’s soil and climate make it particularly hospitable to the pyrethrum flower, an environmentally friendly pesticide…
04/29/2019
Andrew Weissmann Dean Trevor Morrison announced that Andrew Weissmann will return to NYU Law on May 1…
04/23/2019
Richard Epstein
NYU Law’s Classical Liberal Institute (CLI) and the NYU Federalist Society co-hosted a conference, “Reflections on the…
04/22/2019
Rachel Barkow
Rachel Barkow, vice dean and Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, has been elected as a member of the…
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…
04/17/2019
NYU Law Professor Kim Taylor-Thompson
With the theme of “Reclaiming Our Image: The Power of Diversity in Leadership,” the Law Alumni of Color Association (…
04/16/2019
Latham and Watkins forum logo
In Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Rachel Barkow, vice dean and Segal Family Professor…
04/10/2019
Illustration of figures standing in the Vanderbilt Hall Courtyard outside the NYU School of Law
On April 12-14, NYU Law Reunion 2019 welcomed graduates of 11 classes from 1964 to 2014 and Golden Circle alumni. The…
04/08/2019
Kenji Yoshino testifying before the House Judiciary Testimony in 2019
Kenji Yoshino (right) On April 2 Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law,…
04/08/2019
Bryan Stevenson
Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson won a key ruling for a death row client when the US Supreme Court held for…
04/08/2019
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On March 27, with the British prime minister and Parliament still deeply mired in disagreement over terms for leaving…
04/05/2019
Screens with stocks at the New York Stock Exchange
The American Law Institute (ALI) has published its esteemed Restatements—authoritative distillations of the law—on 28…
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…
03/29/2019
Clinton sitting in chair talking
Just how dangerous and divisive is impeachment? Does removing a president from office via impeachment precipitate a…
03/20/2019
Richard Pildes
When Republican or Democratic state legislatures draw election districts, can they deliberately do so in a way that…