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3/1/13
In the New York Times, Richard Pildes argues that we need a broader approach to voting rights

3/1/13
Distinguished judges and scholars honor Guido Calabresi at the Annual Survey dedication.

3/1/13
United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights report cites Center for Constitutional Transitions

2/28/13
In Esquire, Ryan Goodman and Sarah Knuckey discuss the House Judiciary Committee hearing on drones

2/28/13
The New York Times spotlights the Bronx Defenders, a legal aid group led by Robin Steinberg '82

2/28/13
Pacific Century Institute honors Jerome Cohen with Building Bridges Award

2/25/13
Lieutenant General (ret.) David Barno speaks about the future of civil-military relations (VIDEO)

2/21/13
19th annual Public Service Auction raises funds for public interest summer jobs

2/21/13
Immigrant Rights Clinic wins transgender asylum victory

2/21/13
Symposium explores developments in the law of international project finance

2/20/13
Tributes to Ronald Dworkin

2/20/13
Experts ponder the future of the European Union during a Jean Monnet Center program

2/20/13
Judge Pauline Newman ’58 honored by NYU Law Women as Alumna of the Year

2/19/13
Blaine Templeman '94 named OUTLaw's inaugural Alumnus of the Year

2/19/13
On CNN, Cristiane Amanpour interviews Theodor Meron about holding leaders accountable for war crimes (VIDEO)

2/19/13
Panelists at the Milbank Tweed Forum discuss the state of U.S. reproductive rights in the wake of the 2012 election (VIDEO)

2/15/13
Public Interest Legal Career Fair draws large crowds for successful 36th year

2/15/13
Robert Howse, Joanna Langille '11, and Katie Sykes argue that the WTO must defend the EU’s seal products ban

2/15/13
Chen Guangcheng speaks of change in China at 18th Hauser Annual Dinner

2/14/13
In Memoriam: Ronald Dworkin

2/13/13
NYU launches new institute led by Dean Richard Revesz

2/13/13
Robert Bauer to co-chair Presidential Commission on Election Administration

2/12/13
Joseph Weiler honored during visit to Rome

2/12/13
Alina Das '05 moderates a panel on the mass incarceration of immigrants at the Milbank Tweed Forum (VIDEO)

2/12/13
Jenny Rivera ’85 is confirmed to the New York State Court of Appeals

2/11/13
Ryan Goodman article on the power to kill or capture enemy combatants draws high-profile notice

2/8/13
Neil Barofsky '95 joins Jon Stewart on the Daily Show to discuss his book, Bailout

2/8/13
CHRGJ and Center for Economic and Social Rights panel features leading figures from human rights movement (VIDEO)

2/8/13
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Tamrat Samuel (LL.M.’98) as deputy special representative for Liberia

2/8/13
Visiting Professor Jason Schultz discusses Defensive Patent License project at Engelberg Center event

2/8/13
Alina Das '05 wins NYU's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award

2/7/13
A Bloomberg article explores the career of Judge Katherine Forrest '90, who blocked a controversial military-detention law

2/7/13
Raymond Chen '94 is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

2/7/13
Menachem Elon, former justice of Israel’s Supreme Court who taught Talmudic civil law as a visiting professor at NYU Law, dies at 89

2/6/13
Public Interest Legal Career Fair draws students from across the country

2/6/13
Theodor Meron delivers keynote at European Court of Human Rights

2/5/13
In Guarini Lecture, Meredith Fuchs ’93 discusses consumer protection in the aftermath of the financial crisis

2/3/13
Sally Katzen argues that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals got it wrong in its recent ruling on recess appointments

2/1/13
MSNBC host Chris Hayes moderates CHRGJ panel on national security and human rights

2/1/13
Hakeem Jeffries '97 talks about Congress and compromise at Annual Alumni Luncheon

2/1/13
Edward Koch '48, former New York City mayor, died at the age of 88

2/1/13
The Brennan Center for Justice hosts a debate on how to reduce mass incarceration (VIDEO)

2/1/13
Gustavo Schmidt (LL.M. '08) appointed secretary chief of staff for Rio de Janeiro's mayor

1/31/13
Alfred Engelberg '65 writes an op-ed in Politico on "pay for delay" patent settlements

1/31/13
Richard Pildes argues that if Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is invalidated, its defenders should focus on a new legislative approach

1/31/13
The U.S. Senate confirms Judge Jonathan Lippman ’68 to the State Justice Institute board of directors

1/29/13
Sujit Choudhry advises Libyan experts and parliamentarians in Tripoli

1/28/13
Wilf Hall receives two IFMA awards for green design and energy efficiency

1/28/13
Rajeev Goyal ’06, author of The Springs of Namje, discusses working in a remote Nepalese village and fundraising in Washington

1/28/13
Mitchell Kane co-authors amicus brief in Supreme Court foreign tax credit case

1/27/13
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly names Joseph Nauman '87 as one of 25 leaders in law for 2013

1/25/13
Paul, Weiss makes major gift to NYU Law in support of transactional and law and business curriculum

1/25/13
Seth Harris ’90 is the acting secretary of labor

1/23/13
New faces at the Law School

1/23/13
Burt Neuborne presents ten lectures on the constitution as part of the 2012 John Jay Iselin Memorial Lecture Series at Cooper Union (AUDIO)

1/22/13
Samuel Estreicher's two-year law school proposal is focus of lively panel discussion

1/22/13
For NYU Law, a broad showing at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in New Orleans

1/22/13
Jenny Rivera ’85 is nominated to the New York State Court of Appeals

1/18/13
Susan Herman '74 wins award for book about civil liberties and counterterrorism

1/15/13
Kenji Yoshino named 2013 Distinguished Visitor by Order of the Coif

1/15/13
Dean Richard Revesz and our blogger on lunch and the law sit down for burgers, fries, and more at the Spotted Pig

1/14/13
Richard Pildes debates whether there are limits on the power of Congress to execute treaties (VIDEO)

1/11/13
Immigrant Rights Clinic secures release of longtime New Yorker held under mandatory detention

1/11/13
The National Jurist includes Philip Weiser ’94 on list of 25 most influential people in legal education

1/7/13
Nancy Hoppock is new executive director of Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

12/21/12
Eric Lane (LL.M. '79) is named dean of the Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law

12/21/12
The Green Bag honors Arthur Miller for exemplary legal writing

12/21/12
Experts debate college athletics at the LAA Fall Lecture

12/20/12
The Crime Report honors Bryan Stevenson as the 2012 Criminal Justice Person of the Year

12/17/12
Forbes names Lauren Burke '09, Andrew Kloster '10, and Alexandra Schwartz '10 to "30 Under 30: Law & Policy" list

12/14/12
Lorna Schofield '81 has been confirmed as a federal judge for the Southern District of New York

12/14/12
David Garland delivers keynote speech at Oslo symposium on the death penalty

12/13/12
Jennifer Chen '12 places first in New York State Bar Association’s environmental essay contest

12/12/12
Former Israeli Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch and Samuel Rascoff bring national security law expertise to class

12/11/12
Joseph Weiler to be next president of European University Institute

12/10/12
Four students from NYU Law named Skadden Fellows for 2013

12/10/12
Kenji Yoshino weighs in on the same-sex marriage cases facing the Supreme Court

12/7/12
Jeffrey Toobin, Kenji Yoshino, and other experts discuss the state of the Supreme Court (VIDEO)

12/7/12
Rubin International Law Symposium features former U.K. Supreme Court justice and Seventh Circuit judge

12/5/12
Norman Dorsen awarded honorary doctorate by University of Buenos Aires School of Law

12/3/12
Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld is interviewed by journalist Peter Hellman after being introduced by Burt Neuborne

12/3/12
Journalist Stephen Starr discusses his new book Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising (VIDEO)

11/30/12
Amelia Salzman '85 teaches her students inside strategy of environmental lawyering

11/30/12
Newsweek's Dan Klaidman discusses Kill or Capture, his new book about President Obama's role in the war on terror (VIDEO)

11/28/12
Institute for Policy Integrity announces potential lawsuit against EPA if agency doesn't cap greenhouse gas emissions

11/27/12
Bryan Stevenson is the winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in social justice

11/27/12
Robert Bauer to return to NYU Law to teach

11/26/12
Theodor Meron contemplates future of international law tribunals in lecture at NYU Law

11/26/12
In the annual Hayek Lecture, Berkeley Law Professor Robert Cooter discusses freedom, innovation, and intellectual property (VIDEO)

11/26/12
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses law, culture, and legacies of slavery at annual Derrick Bell Lecture

11/26/12
Professors Alvarez and Kingsbury will lead the American Journal of International Law

11/20/12
Richard Pildes explains the causes of the long voting lines on election day in the Atlantic

11/20/12
Peter Orszag and other experts weigh in at Comfort Global Economic Policy Forum

11/20/12
Furman Center report examines whether federally assisted households have access to high-performing schools

11/20/12
At the Milbank Tweed Forum, experts discuss foreign-policy challenges facing the second Obama Administration (VIDEO)

11/19/12
Sherrilyn Ifill ’87 to be new head of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

11/19/12
In the Atlantic, Zachary Goldman '09 contends that Israel's Gaza strategy is flawed in the long-term

11/19/12
In a Washington Post op-ed, David Kamin '09 argues that the budget crisis calls for a focus on revenue and entitlements

11/16/12
Adjunct Professor David Malone appointed rector of United Nations University

11/14/12
Yale Professor Christine Hayes discusses divine law in annual Gruss lecture (VIDEO)

11/14/12
Clayton Gillette gives keynote at annual Bond Attorneys Workshop of the National Association of Bond Lawyers

11/14/12
David Boies (LL.M. ’67) receives the 2012 Yale Law School Award of Merit

11/14/12
Randal Milch ’85 receives Equal Justice Works’ Scales of Justice Award

11/12/12
The NYU Law Review launches a new online supplement

11/12/12
Sarah Weiss Ma’udi '02 discusses the development of gas resources in the Mediterranean

11/9/12
NYU Law strives to help in Hurricane Sandy's aftermath

11/8/12
Daniel Shaviro’s blog lands him on “Global Tax 50” list

11/8/12
From seeking office to monitoring polls, NYU Law community was active in 2012 Election

11/8/12
Derrick Bell honored posthumously with the AALS Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education

11/8/12
NYU Journal of Law & Business hosts conference on law and finance of social enterprise

11/6/12
Alan Sykes delivers inaugural Robert A. Kindler Professorship of Law lecture

11/6/12
NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Symposium celebrates 100th anniversary of income tax in the U.S.

11/6/12
Historian Ramachandra Guha speaks on India’s constitutional development and future

11/4/12
Local law schools to provide library access to students and faculty from other schools

10/26/12
Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the Sixth Circuit discusses aliens and Constitution in Madison Lecture

10/26/12
Richard Pildes delivers keynote address at Seton Hall Law Review symposium on election law

10/25/12
Richard Revesz to step down as dean in May 2013

10/22/12
In the New York Review of Books, Ronald Dworkin discusses the election and the courts

10/19/12
Straus Fellow Bruce Cain lectures on corruption confusion in American politics (VIDEO)

10/18/12
NYU Law announces ambitious new study-abroad program as part of curricular enhancements emphasizing focused study in third year

10/16/12
Jeanne Fromer elected to American Law Institute

10/16/12
The Center for Law and Security presents a conversation with Jeremy Waldron and Dorit Beinisch (VIDEO)

10/15/12
W. Michael Reisman discusses humanitarian intervention in Foreign Policy Association lecture at NYU Law

10/15/12
Chen Guangcheng calls change in China "inevitable" at Milbank Tweed Forum

10/12/12
HeinOnline includes NYU Law professors in list of most cited legal authors

10/11/12
What we did last summer: Students discuss their internships abroad

10/10/12
Panelists at the Milbank Tweed Forum discuss the new term of the Supreme Court (VIDEO)

10/10/12
Justice Sotomayor, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo honor Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick at Hispanic Heritage Awards Dinner

10/9/12
View the photo gallery from our Furman Academic Scholars Reunion weekend

10/9/12
U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit unveils official portrait of Judge Douglas Ginsburg

10/9/12
In preview of Fisher v. University of Texas, top lawyers debate affirmative action at NYU Law

10/8/12
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow interviews Proposition 8 litigators David Boies (LL.M. ’67) and Theodore Olson at Law and Social Change symposium

10/5/12
Arthur Gonzalez (LL.M. '90) travels to Germany to lecture on bankruptcy and makes the cover of a Swedish magazine

10/4/12
Immigrant Rights Clinic wins a groundbreaking victory

10/3/12
Jeremy Waldron lectures on constitutionalism at McGill University

10/3/12
Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico delivers the 16th annual Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture (VIDEO)

10/3/12
Global Visiting Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit co-authors handbook for U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime

10/2/12
Recent alums join New York County District Attorney’s Office

10/2/12
The New York Times reports on the latest in a series of victories against restrictive voter ID laws, citing the Brennan Center

10/1/12
Burt Neuborne to deliver series of 10 lectures on the U.S. Constitution at Cooper Union

10/1/12
In the New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel discusses Alvin Plantinga's latest work

9/28/12
Center for Constitutional Transitions student researchers weigh in from Beirut on Egyptian shifts

9/28/12
Legal defense team for Russian band Pussy Riot appears for Q&A at Law School

9/28/12
Frank Guarini ’50 (LL.M. ’55) receives Judge Edward Weinfeld Award

9/25/12
New report co-authored by Global Justice Clinic casts spotlight on CIA drone strikes

9/25/12
James Jacobs testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights

9/25/12
Samuel Estreicher leads panelists from five major companies in a discussion about their jobs as general counsel (VIDEO)

9/25/12
José Alvarez addresses the U.N. Security Council’s working group on conflict prevention and resolution in Africa

9/21/12
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman unveils pro bono service requirement

9/19/12
Robert Couzin delivers 17th annual David R. Tillinghast lecture on international taxation

9/18/12
Ronald Dworkin wins Balzan Prize

9/17/12
At the first Milbank Tweed Forum for 2012-13, panelists discuss Wal-Mart's bribery scandal in Mexico (VIDEO)

9/14/12
NYU Federalist Society hosts health care debate with Richard Epstein and Michael Paulsen

9/14/12
NYU Law begins 2012-13 academic year with five new permanent faculty members

9/14/12
Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen discusses the law and policy of Iran sanctions (VIDEO)

9/13/12
Richard Pildes and Adam Cox weigh in on the court and the Voting Rights Act in an online symposium on SCOTUSblog

9/13/12
Richard Hasen discusses his new book, The Voting Wars, at the Brennan Center for Justice (VIDEO)

9/13/12
NYU School of Law selected as partner in Ford Foundation Fellowship Program

9/12/12
The New York Law Journal honors the Immigrant Rights Clinic and several NYU Law alumnae as "Lawyers Who Lead By Example"

9/11/12
Summer lecture circuit for Law School faculty spans the globe

9/11/12
On NPR, Oren Bar-Gill discusses his forthcoming book, Seduction by Contract (AUDIO)

9/10/12
Diplomatic Courier names Conor French ’06 as one of 99 most influential foreign policy leaders under 33

9/7/12
Robert Kindler '80 endows new chaired professorship

9/7/12
David Garland to be honored twice by American Society of Criminology

9/6/12
In the New York Times, Eric Dinallo ’90 suggests fulltime employment as a way to combat corruption among NY State legislators

9/5/12
Candice Jones '07 and Jason Washington '07 selected as White House Fellows

9/5/12
Mayor Anthony Foxx '96 of Charlotte, North Carolina speaks at the Democratic National Convention

8/30/12
DOJ Trial Attorney Lori Rifkin ‘04 named one of "Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40"

8/29/12
NYU’s Journal of International Law and Politics to relaunch as a peer reviewed journal

8/29/12
Jeanne Fromer joins permanent NYU Law faculty this semester

8/24/12
Iván Espinoza-Madrigal ’05 named one of "Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40" by National LGBT Bar Association

8/20/12
In the New York Times, Rachel Barkow discusses the problem with mandatory minimums

8/20/12
On SCOTUSblog, Richard Epstein and Barry Friedman revisit Alexander Bickel's The Least Dangerous Branch

8/16/12
Jeremy Waldron reviews Michael Sandel's latest work in the New York Review of Books

8/16/12
Brennan Center for Justice files amicus brief in upcoming Supreme Court case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

8/15/12
Mount Holyoke College awards Mallika Dutt ’89 with honorary doctorate in humane letters

8/13/12
Samuel Issacharoff discusses his forthcoming article, "Class Actions and State Authority" (VIDEO)

8/13/12
Benedict Kingsbury and Kevin Davis explain how the Olympic medal count is a proxy for economic and military power

8/9/12
American Law Institute names Oren Bar-Gill a reporter on Restatement Third of Consumer Contracts

8/8/12
Fannie Mae CEO Timothy Mayopoulos '84 tells CNBC it's too early to declare a housing recovery (VIDEO)

8/7/12
IJA's New Appellate Judges Seminar opens with address by solicitor general

8/6/12
Sujit Choudhry delivers the Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka

8/6/12
Obama’s former OMB director Peter Orszag joins NYU Law as Distinguished Scholar

8/3/12
At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Richard Pildes discusses the disappearance of the center from American politics (VIDEO)

8/3/12
Argentine think tank names Samuel Issacharoff to its international advisory board

8/2/12
In his annual letter to alumni, Dean Revesz sums up the past academic year and addresses concerns about the value proposition of a legal education

7/31/12
Immigrant Rights Clinic and Center for the Administration of Criminal Law weigh in with amicus briefs in upcoming Supreme Court case

7/27/12
At the European University Institute in Florence, Gráinne de Búrca delivers a lecture on the law of the E.U. (VIDEO)

7/25/12
Global Justice Clinic joins report alleging rights violations in police response to Occupy Wall Street

7/25/12
April Newbauer '83 is appointed to the New York State Court of Claims

7/23/12
Neil Barofsky's new book makes headlines

7/23/12
Rochelle Dreyfuss and Katherine Strandburg join group of law professors filing brief in support of plaintiffs in OSGATA et al v. Monsanto

7/20/12
Ronald Dworkin considers why Chief Justice Roberts may have changed his mind on the Affordable Care Act

7/20/12
Brennan Center study finds 500,000 Americans could face significant challenges obtaining voter IDs

7/18/12
New IILJ Book Examines Global Indicators

7/16/12
In Foreign Affairs, Barry Friedman analyzes the political ramifications of Chief Justice Roberts’ health care ruling

7/13/12
Neil Barofsky ’95 argues on Bloomberg TV that the government lacks leverage over the banks (VIDEO)

7/12/12
Paul Schiff Berman ’95 honored with Legal Times Champion Award

7/11/12
Dean Richard Revesz and Michael Livermore '06 argue that coordinating data could improve government programs

7/11/12
Paul Wilson ’81 is appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court

7/10/12
In podcast, H. David Rosenbloom discusses controversial tax act, subject of NYU Law conference (VIDEO/AUDIO)

7/9/12
Brennan Center event brings author Tim Weiner to discuss his new book, Enemies: A History of the FBI (VIDEO)

7/9/12
Joshua Blank presents at conference on tax law secrecy in Austria

7/6/12
Ronald Dworkin and Jeremy Waldron debate free speech and hate speech regulation (VIDEO)

7/5/12
Arthur Gonzalez named examiner to investigate ResCap bankruptcy

7/5/12
Mark Geistfeld writes in the Atlantic that judges could do more to screen out frivolous lawsuits

7/3/12
Dean Richard Revesz discusses the evolution of cost-benefit analysis (VIDEO)

7/2/12
CHRGJ conference gathers experts to discuss smart sanctions and the rule of law

7/2/12
Samuel Rascoff becomes life member of Council on Foreign Relations

7/1/12
Jeffrey Stein '12 discusses his essay on water rights in Israel (AUDIO)

6/29/12
Article by Stephen Schulhofer draws attention from Texas Indigent Defense Commission

6/29/12
Richard Epstein discusses the Chief Justice's healthcare opinion in a New York Times op-ed

6/28/12
NYU Law professors react to Supreme Court health care ruling

6/27/12
Guarini Government Summer Series panel convenes alumni in federal government to discuss D.C. careers

6/27/12
Hakeem Jeffries '97 and Scott Peters '84 both win Democratic Congressional primaries

6/25/12
Supreme Court strikes down most of Arizona immigration law

6/25/12
Bryan Stevenson achieves latest victory before Supreme Court

6/25/12
Burt Neuborne weighs in on Supreme Court decision to strike down Montana law

6/22/12
NYU Law hosts roundtable on implementation of the JOBS Act

6/20/12
In the Atlantic, Anne Milgram ’96 argues that the use of smart statistical analysis could change the criminal justice system

6/19/12
Ira Rubinstein’s paper wins award at Privacy Law Scholars Conference

6/18/12
John Ferejohn wins William H. Riker Prize in Political Science for his interdisciplinary scholarship

6/18/12
David Katz '88 is named Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year for fourth time in a row

6/15/12
Martin Garbus '59 wins Fulbright Award for global human rights efforts

6/15/12
Zachary Goldman '09 becomes executive director of Center on Law and Security

6/15/12
Annual labor conference addresses challenges to collective bargaining

6/12/12
Eleanor Fox goes on global tour

6/8/12
Three professors and two administrators are recipients of 2012 Podell Awards

6/8/12
This year's Class Gift committee sets record for number of new Weinfeld Fellows

6/6/12
Steven Banks ’81 honored with New York City Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award

6/6/12
Article by Lewis Kornhauser one of 20 most-cited law review articles of all time

6/5/12
Timothy Mayopoulos '84 becomes mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae's new chief executive

5/31/12
In a victory for the Brennan Center, a federal judge blocks key provisions of a restrictive Florida voting law

5/31/12
Roy McLeese III ’85 confirmed as a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals

5/31/12
Chen Guangcheng Calls for Rule of Law in China, Says Country in a “Historic Transition”

5/29/12
Ronald Noble delivers University of New Hampshire commencement address

5/29/12
In the New York Times, Chen Guangcheng calls lawlessness the greatest challenge facing China's new leaders

5/29/12
Lisa Kerr (LL.M. '09, J.S.D. '13) wins esteemed Trudeau Foundation Scholarship

5/29/12
TARP former inspector general Neil Barofsky '95 pens book

5/29/12
In Sunday Times magazine piece, Theodor Meron discusses work at international criminal tribunal

5/22/12
Graduating students hear from a mayor, a prime minister, and a UN under-secretary-general

5/22/12
Daniel Chung (LL.M. '93) offers advice to fellow passenger Chen Guangcheng in a New York Times op-ed

5/21/12
Justice John Paul Stevens reviews Jeremy Waldron's book on hate speech

5/19/12
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York

5/18/12
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses NYU Commencement

5/15/12
Recently retired president of Israel’s Supreme Court to join NYU Law faculty as visitor in fall

5/12/12
In the New York Times, Kenji Yoshino discusses President Obama’s announcement of support for same-sex marriage

5/11/12
NYU Law hosts Conference on Contractual Innovation

5/11/12
Turkish reforms are the focus of Center for Constitutional Transitions symposium

5/10/12
Two NYU Law students win Peggy Browning Fellowships

5/7/12
Sharon Rabin-Margalioth (LL.M. ’96) named dean of Israel's Radzyner School of Law

5/7/12
In new book, Moshe Halbertal looks at sacrifice

5/7/12
Cass Sunstein, head of OIRA, explains gains achieved through cost-benefit analysis of regulation

5/3/12
Jerome Cohen advises activist Chen Guangcheng in negotiations with China

5/2/12
Charlotte’s mayor, Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, and U.N. under-secretary-general to speak at 2012 convocations

5/2/12
Furman Center's 10th annual report on New York City housing and neighborhoods highlights property tax inequity, racial integration

5/2/12
Second annual Law & Banking/Finance Conference examines risk in global financial system

5/1/12
Catherine Sharkey analyzes Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc in the Yale Law Journal

4/30/12
Four from NYU Law get Equal Justice Works Fellowships

4/30/12
Alumni gather for 2012 NYU Law reunion

4/27/12
Jeremy Waldron delivers keynote at Oxford conference

4/26/12
NYU Law honors Marvin Miller on 40th anniversary of the first strike in sports history

4/25/12
Immigrant Rights Clinic court victory spurs major changes in policy toward those wrongfully deported

4/24/12
ACLU Staff Attorney Andre Segura ’06 assesses Supreme Court hearing on Arizona v. United States

4/24/12
NYU/Princeton Conference on Mobile and Location Privacy gathers experts to discuss cutting-edge issues (VIDEO)

4/24/12
Norman Dorsen moderates debate in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District

4/23/12
BALSA symposium addresses race, poverty, and the criminal justice system (VIDEO)

4/23/12
In the Harvard Law Review, Richard Pildes considers issues related to the expansion of presidential power

4/23/12
New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander gives keynote speech at CACL conference

4/20/12
Students secure highly competitive entry-level federal agency positions

4/19/12
Judge Diane Wood delivers Jorde Symposium Lecture

4/19/12
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls for equal pay for women at event co-sponsored by NYU Law Women

4/18/12
Marcel Kahan and Stephen Choi retain primacy in Corporate Practice Commentator poll

4/18/12
12th Annual NYU/KPMG lectures address the taxation of intangibles in a global economy (VIDEO)

4/18/12
NYU Law’s Order of the Coif inducts honorary member Charles Stillman ’62 (AUDIO)

4/17/12
Daryl Levinson, Rita Hauser, and Anthony Welters '77 elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

4/16/12
BLAPA celebrates the Courage to Act at its spring dinner

4/16/12
Arthur Gonzalez (LL.M. '90) honored by Hispanic National Bar Association

4/16/12
Sujit Choudhry delivers Trudeau Foundation lecture

4/16/12
James Jacobs wins Guggenheim Foundation fellowship

4/13/12
Alan Sykes to join permanent faculty in Fall 2012

4/12/12
Arthur R. Miller honored with daylong symposium at University of Oregon

4/12/12
At the Brennan Center, Carl Colby and Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. discuss the challenges inherent to intelligence oversight (VIDEO)

4/12/12
Joshua Blank moderates discussion on offshore accounts, tax amnesties, and tax compliance (VIDEO)

4/11/12
Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Court of Appeals judges Jeffrey Sutton and Raymond Lohier '91 preside over Marden Moot Court final

4/10/12
A study in the NYU Law Review by Joshua Blank and Nancy Staudt finds that odds favor the government in Supreme Court tax cases

4/9/12
New Center for Constitutional Transitions marks launch with symposium on Turkey and Middle East

4/9/12
NYU Law wins fourth consecutive Deans' Cup

4/9/12
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights is featured speaker at Milbank Tweed Forum

4/9/12
Louis Michael Seidman discusses hyper-incarceration at the Hoffinger Criminal Justice Forum (VIDEO)

4/9/12
NYU Law students perform in the 2012 Law Revue

4/5/12
Governor Andrew Cuomo names Karen Peters '72 as first female presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department

4/4/12
At an NYU Law Roundtable, experts discuss whether corporate cops are fighting a losing battle (VIDEO)

4/3/12
Kenji Yoshino and Dale Carpenter discuss acclaimed new book on Lawrence v. Texas

4/3/12
Kathryn Keneally (LL.M. ’93) confirmed as assistant attorney general for the DOJ Tax Division

4/2/12
Timothy Corbett ’97, David Katz ’88, and Lisa Schweitzer ’96 named 2012 Dealmakers of the Year in American Lawyer

4/2/12
Ronald Dworkin argues that the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act is wrong

4/2/12
In the Nation, Carol Gilligan argues that the GOP cannot win without the support of women

3/30/12
Supreme Court cites brief prepared by Immigrant Rights Clinic students

3/29/12
In the New York Times, Richard Revesz cautions that a new EPA proposal may extend the life of heavily polluting power plants

3/28/12
Samuel Scheffler delivers renowned Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley

3/28/12
Daniel Nsereko (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’75) sworn in as appeals judge for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

3/27/12
Panelists at Milbank Tweed Forum offer perspectives on the Euro crisis

3/27/12
Richard Epstein argues on Charlie Rose that the Supreme Court should strike down the individual mandate provision of the health care reform legislation

3/26/12
Student's eye-view: An all-nighter for seat at Supreme Court arguments

3/23/12
Catherine Sharkey joins Richard Epstein as co-author of the tenth edition of Case and Materials on Torts

3/22/12
Katherine Strandburg's amicus brief cited in unanimous Supreme Court opinion

3/22/12
Brennan Center panel discusses legal and ethical concerns confronting national security whistleblowers (VIDEO)

3/22/12
A major Supreme Court ruling takes guidance from Center on Administration of Criminal Law

3/21/12
Bryan Stevenson challenges constitutionality of life without parole for juvenile homicide before Supreme Court

3/20/12
In inaugural University Professorship Lecture, Arthur R. Miller sounds alarm on access to courts

3/19/12
Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal delivers Korematsu Lecture

3/16/12
Recently launched Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law takes less traditional approach

3/16/12
MALDEF’s David Hinojosa discusses litigating civil rights impact cases in the 21st century

3/16/12
Ana Irene Delgado (LL.M. ’06) named Panama Ambassador to the U.K.

3/16/12
Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards honored with A. Leon Higginbotham award at NBLSA convention

3/15/12
UCLA law professor discusses theory behind U.S. penal system in Hoffinger Criminal Justice Forum (VIDEO)

3/14/12
Lies, damned lies, and (law school) statistics

3/13/12
NYU Law students achieve honors at moot court competitions

3/13/12
NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business co-sponsors conference on law and finance

3/9/12
IILJ and CHRGJ host International Law and Human Rights Scholarship Conference

3/9/12
NYU launches impact investing series at Law School

3/8/12
Mayor Bloomberg swears in three NYU Law graduates to serve in NYC family and criminal courts

3/8/12
Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and Journal of Law & Liberty host Internet governance symposium (VIDEO)

3/7/12
Annual Survey of American Law dedicated posthumously to Derrick Bell

3/5/12
Jonathan Lippman '68 announces commercial litigation task force chaired by Judith Kaye '62 and Martin Lipton '55

3/5/12
Annual Survey of American Law symposium tackles health care reform (VIDEO)

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