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Law School News from January 4, 2010 to January 4, 2011

1/3/11
"More Va. inmates destined for local jails"

1/1/11
"Experts: Cuomo must close budget gap"

1/1/11
"Judging the Judges: Landmark Iowa Elections Send Tremor Through the Judicial Retention System"

12/31/10
"2010 "Person" of the Year: The U.S. Supreme Court"

12/29/10
"Dodging Repatriation Tax Lets U.S. Companies Bring Home Cash"

12/23/10
"On the Death Sentence"

12/23/10
Paul Francis '80 named New York's new director of agency redesign and efficiency

12/23/10
Janet Sabel '84 named New York’s executive deputy attorney general for social justice

12/22/10
"A Pick for Sensitive Justice Post"

12/22/10
Barry Friedman's op-ed named one of Atlantic's top 10 legal reads

12/22/10
Maribel Hernández '10 wins Fried Frank/MALDEF Fellowship

12/22/10
Caroline Waldner '10 (LL.M. '11) wins 2010 Tannenwald writing competition

12/22/10
John Sexton announces NYU role for former British prime minister Gordon Brown

12/22/10
Law School welcomes Spring 2011 visitors

12/22/10
"Just What the AG Ordered: Stevens Institute of Technology Welcomes Its First GC"

12/22/10
Irving Picard (LL.M. ’67) announces record recovery for victims of Bernard Madoff’s fraud

12/21/10
"Lose the Baseball Analogy"

12/21/10
"A closer look at Title IX: The pros and the cons"

12/21/10
Elizabeth-Ann Tierney '11 receives Zubrow Fellowship from Juvenile Law Center

12/21/10
"Banning Alcohol Seemed Like a Great Idea, Too: Ann Woolner"

12/21/10
Jeremy Waldron to receive American Philosophical Society's Phillips Prize

12/20/10
"Village Voice"

12/20/10
"High-Earning Women Lose More From Motherhood"

12/20/10
Albert Diaz '88 and Raymond Lohier Jr. '91 confirmed as federal appeals court judges

12/20/10
"America and the Death Penalty"

12/18/10
"The Different Costs of Motherhood"

12/16/10
"Espada Pleads Not Guilty, Predicts 'Complete Vindication'"

12/16/10
"Health Care Rulings Reignite Judicial Bias Debate"

12/16/10
"U.S. Rethinks Strategy for the Unthinkable"

12/15/10
"Virginia v. Sebelius"

12/15/10
"That Lady With the Scales Poses for Her Portraits"

12/15/10
"2010's Top 10 Must-Reads in the Law"

12/15/10
"Tea Party Love of Constitution May Kill It"

12/15/10
"Hedge Fund Industry on Notice as Law Enforcement Tapes Phone Calls"

12/14/10
Revesz sworn in to the Administrative Conference of the United States; Sharkey presents inaugural report

12/14/10
Harry First pursues antitrust projects in India and China and elsewhere

12/14/10
Cynthia Estlund and Steven Greenhouse '82 discuss employee representation in the workplace

12/14/10
José Alvarez's speech debunks idea that the nation-state is in decline

12/14/10
"Legal Analysis Of Obama Health Care"

12/13/10
"The Best Argument Against Gay Marriage"

12/13/10
"ObamaCare Is Now On The Ropes"

12/13/10
At CLS Open Forum, discussion of possible war with Iran

12/12/10
"'Manufacturing crimes' revisited"

12/12/10
"Law Lab"

12/11/10
"Justice Stevens and the Death Penalty"

12/11/10
"Reality Check"

12/10/10
Graduate Tax Program event considers the effects of tax policy on entrepreneurship (VIDEO)

12/10/10
Jeremy Creelan, former Brennan Center deputy director, appointed to Cuomo administration

12/10/10
Sally Engle Merry's book on international human rights and gender violence wins anthropology prize

12/9/10
"The Historic Election"

12/9/10
"From Queens, Support for a Dissident"

12/9/10
"Evidence Of Misconduct: Never Having To Say You’re Sorry"

12/9/10
A globetrotting Benedict Kingsbury goes from 16th Century Europe to modern-day Asia

12/8/10
"Haiti must have fair, democratic new elections - and the ravaged nation can't wait"

12/8/10
"A dollar & a dream"

12/8/10
"Are entrepreneurs exploiting a tax loophole?"

12/8/10
"U.S. Tax-Break Said to Cost $100 Billion a Year, N.Y. Post Says"

12/7/10
"Improve legal defense for poor with free-market solution"

12/7/10
Bernard Grofman, faculty in residence, receives honorary degree in Denmark

12/7/10
David Boies (LL.M. '67) wins a record-setting $1.3 billion copyright infringement case

12/7/10
Brian Burgess '09 to serve as special assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States

12/6/10
For David Golove and Daniel Hulsebosch, current NYU Law Review article will lead to a book

12/3/10
"Trial by Entrapment"

12/3/10
Michael Walzer participates in Tikvah Center conference on his influential book and delivers Straus Institute lecture (VIDEO)

12/2/10
"EUA são mais rigorosos para cumprir sentenças penais"

12/2/10
"WikiLeaks, Secrets, and Lies"

12/2/10
"Recount Finds 195,000 Votes Were Missed on Election Night"

12/2/10
Brennan Center will defend campaign finance law before Supreme Court

12/2/10
Gunnar Groh (LL.M. '11) co-authors international corporate law casebook

12/1/10
Brennan Center counsel Monica Youn is National Book Award poetry finalist

12/1/10
Guarini Center for Environmental and Land Use Law fellows blog from Cancun

12/1/10
Kate Griffith '04 appointed to new assistant professor chair at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

12/1/10
Peggy Twohig '83 joins the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau implementation team

12/1/10
"A Defense That Could Be Obsolete"

12/1/10
"EU Probes Google For Anti-Trust Issues"

11/30/10
"Liberalisation, Consolidation & the Struggle to Survive"

11/30/10
"Financial 411: Washington Tackles Taxes and the Deficit"

11/30/10
Institute for Policy Integrity report drawing attention to flawed state regulatory procedures

11/30/10
"Supreme Court to rule on Arizona campaign law"

11/29/10
"Derek Jeter Strikes Out"

11/29/10
"Supreme Court to hear Ariz. campaign finance case"

11/29/10
"Supreme Court to examine Arizona campaign-finance reform law"

11/29/10
"Justices to Assess Arizona Campaign Financing"

11/29/10
"Supreme Court to review Ariz. campaign finance law"

11/29/10
"In U.S. Sting Operations, Questions of Entrapment"

11/29/10
Former Justice John Paul Stevens reviews David Garland's new book

11/29/10
"Prison Ruling Stirs Up California"

11/28/10
"Our View: Pension logs a good example of bad regs"

11/28/10
"Trading Secrets at the Heart of Trial"

11/27/10
"Ex-Justice Criticizes Death Penalty"

11/27/10
"1-800-Trial-Bar"

11/27/10
"The suicide pacts"

11/26/10
"The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers"

11/26/10
"A ‘Normal’ Election Shows Taiwan’s Progress"

11/25/10
"The Prisoners' Dilemma"

11/25/10
"Study: NY's regulatory system gets a D-minus grade"

11/23/10
"Government By Waiver: The Breakdown Of Public Administration"

11/23/10
Several alumni receive pro bono advocacy honor from Sanctuary for Families

11/22/10
"Richard Epstein on Barack Obama, his former Chicago Law Colleague "

11/22/10
Alumnae discuss careers in international human rights at annual Law Alumni Association lecture (VIDEO)

11/22/10
Devon Carbado looks at three "post-racial" challenges in Bell Lecture

11/22/10
NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly (LL.M. '74) discusses urban crime

11/22/10
"City Violent Crimes Spike Even as Overall Rate Falls"

11/21/10
"Rules for government? The Legislature will be the judge of that"

11/21/10
"Bob Batterman, negotiator for NFL, says he wants a labor deal, not a lockout"

11/21/10
"Ireland Shows Supply-Side Shortcomings"

11/21/10
"Campaign to keep jailed Nobel winner in spotlight"

11/19/10
"Federal gridlock leaves climate hawks looking to state capitols for progress, but what will they find there?"

11/19/10
"Ghailani Could Still Get Life Sentence"

11/19/10
Immigrant Rights Clinic receives Advocate of the Decade Award from Domestic Workers United

11/19/10
Former Adjunct Professor John Adams will receive the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom

11/19/10
"Guilty Until Proven Guilty"

11/18/10
New York Attorney General-Elect Eric Schneiderman announces transition committee

11/18/10
"Fallout Expected After Guantanamo Detainee Acquitted"

11/18/10
"Ghailani Verdict"

11/18/10
"U.S. civilian court acquits ex-Guantanamo detainee of all major terrorism charges"

11/18/10
CLS Open Forum considers the relationship between natural resources and national security (VIDEO)

11/18/10
"Criminals or Enemy Combatants—Obama Can't Keep Dodging In Terror Debate"

11/17/10
"Strauss-Kahn, the fall"

11/17/10
"Report criticizes state's regulatory climate"

11/17/10
"Justices Are Long on Words but Short on Guidance"

11/17/10
Richard Stewart appears before the Federal Blue Ribbon commission on nuclear waste

11/17/10
"Jury Appears Deadlocked in Landmark Civilian Trial of Gitmo Prisoner"

11/16/10
"New report questions W.Va. rulemaking process"

11/16/10
"A closer look at Title IX: The pros and the cons"

11/16/10
"Is Afghanistan A Lost Cause?"

11/16/10
"Think tank: Florida deserves a 'C' because of 'bargain basement' regulations"

11/16/10
Four Law School professors participate in World Bank discussions on international financial institutions

11/16/10
"New voting system questioned in tight NY contests"

11/16/10
"Morning Energy"

11/16/10
"Investing in Someone Else's Lawsuit"

11/15/10
"U.S. Government: Too Big To Succeed?"

11/15/10
Richard Goldstone and Radhika Coomaraswamy discuss human right fact finding efforts (VIDEO)

11/14/10
"Justices Scalia, Breyer speak at lecture series"

11/12/10
"Obama and Protectionism in the G20"

11/12/10
"A Little Less Privacy, a Bit More Security"

11/11/10
"Trouble with the law"

11/11/10
"Kahan and Rock and the problem with proxy access"

11/11/10
"Coziness between jails, ICE worries immigrants"

11/10/10
Samuel Estreicher co-authors New York Law Journal article on a key Alien Tort Statute ruling

11/10/10
"Emmer plays coy in return to spotlight"

11/9/10
CLS fall conference focuses on the tension between free speech and national security (VIDEO)

11/9/10
"Kindler, Yoga and the Art of Deal-Making"

11/9/10
"Let Cathie Black Dig Down Deep To Institute Major Education Reforms"

11/8/10
"What Happens When a State Goes Bankrupt?"

11/8/10
"The Bizarre Trade Economics Of Barack Obama"

11/8/10
Crime control and civil liberties: the NYU Law Forum examines stop-and-frisk policing (VIDEO)

11/5/10
"U.N. Human Rights Council to Take Aim at New Target: United States"

11/4/10
Cynthia Estlund and Samuel Estreicher participate in NLRB 75th anniversary conference

11/4/10
Jerome Bruner receives honorary doctorate at international psychology congress in Argentina

11/4/10
Richard Stewart and Dale Jamieson discuss new book on climate ethics (VIDEO)

11/4/10
"Elections, court ruling leave small window for repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

11/4/10
"Law Firm Of BP Claims Czar Paid $3.3M So Far"

11/3/10
"The Nationalization of Congressional Elections"

11/3/10
"Repairman Delio Nunez's citizenship bid turns into deportation rap over years-old crime"

11/3/10
"Packaging Politics With Personality"

11/3/10
Paul J. De Muniz delivers the 17th Justice William J. Brennan Lecture on State Courts and Social Justice (VIDEO)

11/2/10
"Eye of the beholder: Cute, naked photos of tots pose dilemma for parents"

11/2/10
In Arthur Miller's class, Erie case goes musical

11/1/10
Margaret Lewis '03 wins Jerome A. Cohen Prize for paper on China's exclusionary rule

11/1/10
Foreign “land grabs” and human rights are focus of a CHRGJ report

10/29/10
Panelists at NYU Law Forum take on tax cuts (VIDEO)

10/29/10
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court discusses the beginnings of global criminal justice (VIDEO)

10/29/10
"State Court to Exchange Guidance With a Foreign One"

10/28/10
"The Right to Food: Corporate, Foreign Gov’t Land Grab Causing Hunger in Poor Countries "

10/28/10
"'Robo-Calls' Spark Debate Over Justice O'Connor's Support for Ballot Initiative"

10/28/10
Newark Mayor Cory Booker speaks about combating urban crime (VIDEO)

10/28/10
CHRGJ conference explores the domestic consequences of international human rights treaty ratification (VIDEO)

10/27/10
NYU team reaches finals at 2010 Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition

10/27/10
"Prosecutors pepper jurors with 'al-Qaida' at NYC terror trial of Guantanamo detainee"

10/26/10
"China and its Ocean Disputes"

10/26/10
Rubin Symposium explores international law in the Arctic (VIDEO)

10/25/10
Bryan Stevenson wins public service award from Stanford Law School

10/25/10
Institute for Policy Integrity kicks off Conversations with Eco-Innovators

10/25/10
IILJ hosts discussion of Beebe/Kaldor book (VIDEO)

10/22/10
Breaking news makes "don't ask, don't tell" a hot topic for Forum (VIDEO)

10/22/10
Kevin Davis speech in Korea addresses global anti-corruption regime

10/21/10
2010 grad takes first in environmental law essay contest

10/19/10
Robert Henry, former 10th Circuit chief judge, discusses originalism in Madison Lecture (VIDEO)

10/19/10
Randy Barnett examines the constitutionality of the health care reform act in Hayek Lecture (VIDEO)

10/19/10
Richard Ketchum '75 appointed to President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability

10/18/10
Samuel Issacharoff takes Citizens United discussion abroad

10/15/10
CHRGJ previews new web-based portal resource on business and human rights

10/15/10
Nathalie Laureano (LL.M. '10) working with president of Brazil

10/15/10
NYU’s Stern School of Business and NCAER co-host workshop at NYU Law

10/15/10
Samuel Estreicher's article prompts reforms by National Labor Relations Board general counsel

10/13/10
Senator Chris Dodd is keynote speaker at the 2010 Global Economic Policy Forum (VIDEO)

10/13/10
The NYU Law Forum takes on immigration politics and policy (VIDEO)

10/13/10
CHRGJ hosts regional workshops exploring gender, national security, and counter-terrorism

10/13/10
Geoffrey Miller discusses two new books

10/11/10
Dolores Huerta, leading workers' rights advocate, delivers Sheinberg Lecture (VIDEO)

10/8/10
Forum takes on war crimes and peace efforts in Sudan

10/5/10
Richard Revesz named member of Administrative Conference of the United States

9/29/10
Richard Stewart testifies before national commission on BP oil spill

9/29/10
Richard Epstein delivers inaugural lecture for the Laurence A. Tisch Professorship of Law

9/28/10
Michael Nadler '11 wins first prize in Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition

9/28/10
David Deng '10 spearheads project to involve communities in land-investment consultation in Southern Sudan

9/28/10
Colin Reardon '10 wins LexisNexis competition for paper on Twombly and Iqbal

9/28/10
Law School co-hosts 36th annual bankruptcy workshop

9/24/10
Daniel Shaviro explores the tax-electivity of U.S. corporate residence at 15th Tillinghast lecture (VIDEO)

9/24/10
NYU Law’s Global Climate Finance Project hosts Connie Hedegaard, European commissioner for climate action

9/24/10
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley delivers Abrams lecture (VIDEO)

9/22/10
IILJ's conference on indicators and global governance taps unexplored area (VIDEO)

9/20/10
Oren Bar-Gill joins Behavioral Science & Policy as associate editor

9/16/10
First 2010-11 Forum tackles BP oil spill

9/13/10
Gelatt Dialogue's host of experts focuses on complexities of Chinese legal system

9/10/10
Center on Law and Security kicks off fall season

9/2/10
CHRGJ co-hosts event exploring gender, national security, and counter-terrorism in Africa

9/2/10
Immigrant Rights Clinic puts spotlight on U.S. Border Patrol

9/1/10
2009-10 Faculty News round up

8/30/10
Richard Pildes talks about his controversial proposal for elections

8/27/10
NYU Law-founded group wins major pro bono service award

8/27/10
Micah Berul '00 leads NLRB to important win

8/26/10
Franco Ferrari article cited by Third Circuit

8/19/10
James Jacobs appointed to National Institute of Corrections advisory board

8/17/10
Kenji Yoshino examines Proposition 8 case in NYU Law podcast interview

8/12/10
Law School welcomes Fall 2010 visitors

8/10/10
Kenji Yoshino discusses California same-sex marriage ruling on Charlie Rose

8/9/10
Shawn Pelsinger '09 (LL.M. '10) presents papers to multiple international conferences

8/6/10
Law School welcomes six new fulltime faculty members

8/6/10
David Boies (LL.M. '67) wins major same-sex marriage case

8/6/10
Nicholas Bagley '05 testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts

8/3/10
For a second year, NYU Law sponsors legal education summer programs for underprivileged students

8/3/10
Antitrust law and economics seminar book dedicated to Eleanor Fox

8/3/10
U.K. Supreme Court cites articles by Andreas Lowenfeld

8/3/10
Herbert Kelleher '56 named chair of Dallas Federal Reserve Bank

7/28/10
Eloise Gore '79 chosen as advisor to FCC commissioner

7/28/10
Ira Rubinstein testifies before House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection

7/23/10
Article by Stephen Choi and Linda Silberman cited in Supreme Court

7/23/10
International Human Rights Funders Group annual conference held at Law School

7/20/10
Franco Ferrari's paper cited by German high court in opinion

7/20/10
Eminent tax scholar and professor Paul McDaniel dies at age 74

7/19/10
IJA's 51st annual New Appellate Judges Seminar brings 30 adjudicators to NYU Law

7/16/10
Article by Rochelle Dreyfuss cited in Supreme Court decision

7/16/10
Law School hosts international doctoral candidates at annual ATLAS Agora

7/14/10
Joseph Weiler argues high-profile classroom crucifix case before European Court of Human Rights

7/12/10
Alyssa Bell '10 wins human rights writing competition

7/3/10
Many NYU Law alumni answer call to serve in the Obama administration

7/1/10
IRC victory in a mandatory-detention case likely to have broad impact

6/30/10
Justice Breyer cites work by Richard Pildes in major Supreme Court ruling

6/30/10
ACLU of New Jersey honors Law School alums

6/29/10
Barry Friedman participates in panel on Roberts Court and judicial activism (VIDEO)

6/29/10
Guarini Government Summer Series gives NYU Law students access to Washington insiders

6/28/10
Margaret Satterthwaite '99 awarded funds for human-rights research study in Haiti

6/25/10
Lauren Burke '09, a Skadden fellow, searches for love in New York City one lock at a time

6/25/10
Steven C. Krane '81, former president of the New York State Bar Association, dies suddenly at age 53

6/23/10
Bankruptcy and bank regulation scholar Sarah Woo to join NYU Law faculty

6/22/10
Richard Epstein op-ed proposes removing liability caps for oil drillers

6/21/10
Senator Tom Harkin delivers third annual Living Constitution Lecture

6/21/10
Article co-authored by Samuel Estreicher and Daniel Weick '09 explores exclusionary rule alternative

6/18/10
Stephen Schulhofer testifies on mandatory minimum sentences

6/17/10
Erin Murphy, an expert on law, procedure, and evidence in criminal justice, to join faculty in the fall

6/16/10
Kenneth Feinberg '70 to administer BP claim fund

6/16/10
New faces and new positions at the Law School

6/16/10
Law School clinic and center make winning arguments in key Supreme Court immigration case

6/15/10
Immigrant Rights Clinic wins habeas petition for client

6/11/10
Center for Labor and Employment Law's annual conference examines dispute resolution

6/11/10
Steven Banks '81 and Michael Rothenberg '91 named to legal services task force

6/11/10
Geoffrey Miller, Gerald Rosenfeld, and Richard Epstein discuss the recent economic crisis in Harvard journal

6/9/10
Levinson will be David Boies Professor of Law

6/8/10
Study spearheaded by Stevenson finds racial discrimination in jury selection

6/7/10
Samuel Issacharoff op-ed looks at how to deal with captured enemy combatants in unconventional wars

6/7/10
Philip Alston files final reports as special rapporteur to the United Nations

6/3/10
Thomas Nagel is awarded honorary doctorate of laws from Harvard

6/2/10
Paul Francis '80 joins Andrew Cuomo’s gubernatorial campaign

6/2/10
Richard Epstein to be the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law

5/28/10
Richard Pildes testifies before presidential task force on Puerto Rico's political status

5/28/10
University of London holds symposium in tribute to Thomas Franck

5/27/10
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law hosts panel on federal sentencing

5/26/10
Goodman joins Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law

5/25/10
Nancy Duff Campbell '68 named Woman Lawyer of the Year

5/24/10
Article co-authored by Strandburg is centerpiece of Cornell Law Review issue

5/21/10
Estreicher co-organizes conference at Northwestern on international law and Israel

5/21/10
Nelson honored at two-day legal history conference

5/20/10
Oren Bar-Gill elected to board of the American Law and Economics Association

5/19/10
Jesse Wegman '05 is named a 2010 Soros Justice Fellow

5/19/10
Three NYU Law alumnae named 2010 Equal Justice Works Fellows

5/19/10
Neuborne reviews first biography of Justice Stevens on Just Books

5/18/10
Pollack Center event, with keynote by John Thain, focuses on new challenges for corporate governance

5/18/10
Batchelder named Senate Finance Committee's chief tax counsel

5/18/10
Linda Silberman's article cited by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy in Abbott v. Abbott

5/18/10
Seth Diamond '88 becomes New York City’s new homeless services commissioner

5/17/10
Supreme Court issues opinion bearing on case argued by Stevenson

5/14/10
Scott Hechinger '10 named 2010 Sinsheimer Children's Rights Fellow

5/14/10
Joe Russo '11 takes top prize in Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

5/13/10
Law School convocation features White House advisor Valerie Jarrett as keynote speaker

5/13/10
Anne Milgram '96 and Rachel Barkow weigh in on financial regulatory reform

5/13/10
Suspension Representation Project wins pro bono award

5/10/10
David Katz '88 and Martin Lipton '55 named among the top mergers and acquisitions lawyers

5/7/10
Ryan Bubb to join NYU Law faculty in Fall 2010

5/5/10
Mary Haviland '94 confirmed as a commissioner of the New York State Crime Victims Board

5/5/10
Jonathan Lippman '68 announces proposal to ensure rights for the poor

5/3/10
Choi and Kahan pieces named among best corporate and securities articles of 2009

5/3/10
Richard Epstein discusses freedom of expression at the Federalist Society

5/3/10
CHRGJ releases documentary on post-9/11 racial profiling

5/3/10
NYU Law alumni named among 2010 Dealmakers of the Year by the American Lawyer

4/30/10
Thompson wins NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award

4/30/10
Marisa Demeo '93 confirmed as associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

4/30/10
German lawmakers discuss a proposal by Daniel Moeritz (LL.M. ’09) on ownership disclosure reform

4/29/10
An Immigrant Rights Clinic report shines a light on serious shortcomings at detention facilities

4/29/10
Shaviro appears in new tax documentary and publishes new book

4/29/10
José Alvarez named special advisor on international law to prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

4/28/10
Top law enforcers take center stage at conference on allocating prosecutorial power (VIDEO)

4/27/10
Institute for Policy Integrity releases report on U.S. flood insurance program

4/26/10
Offender Reentry clinic students are awarded citations from New York Department of State

4/26/10
Tikvah Center fellow James Kugel gives eighth annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss lecture (VIDEO)

4/26/10
Forum examines value of a federal challenge to California ban on same-sex marriage

4/23/10
NYU Law chapter of Order of the Coif inducts honorary member Ronald Moelis '82

4/23/10
Barry Adler critiques Chrysler and GM bankruptcies in inaugural Petrie Lecture (VIDEO)

4/21/10
Cell-phone contract research by Bar-Gill and Rebecca Stone '09 attracts FCC attention

4/21/10
Marden Moot finalists take on challenging case

4/21/10
NYU Law beats Columbia in ninth annual Deans' Cup

4/21/10
New book on philosophy of international law features articles by NYU Law faculty

4/21/10
Brief filed by the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law cited by Justice Alito

4/21/10
Forum panelists discuss how judges' personalities and life experiences affect their time on the bench (VIDEO)

4/20/10
Van Jones presents his proposals for a greener economy at 16th annual Sheinberg Lecture (VIDEO)

4/18/10
Panelists discuss how high the bar is for pleading a complaint after Iqbal and Twombly rulings

4/16/10
Friedman's op-ed in the New Republic focuses on the Court, past and present

4/16/10
Annual Survey of American Law pays tribute to Arthur Miller (VIDEO)

4/15/10
Jennifer Hainsfurther '08 wins American Society of International Law's Helton Fellowship

4/15/10
Journal of Legislation and Public Policy hosts symposium on election administration

4/15/10
Daryl Levinson to return to Law School faculty after five years at Harvard

4/14/10
Pildes gives Thomas M. Jorde lecture at Princeton University

4/13/10
Charles D. Klein '63 to receive Vanderbilt Medal

4/13/10
NYU Law Forum asks "Should You Go Into Politics? (And How?)"

4/8/10
Life at NYU Law blogger Andrea Ravich '12 offers counsel to new admits

4/8/10
Estlund's new book proposes employee participation in workplace governance

4/8/10
William Perry '12 wins Robert Half Legal Scholarship

4/8/10
The NYU Law back story to an exhibit of woodblock prints at the Japan Society in New York

4/7/10
Lauren Burke ’09 to appear in upcoming documentary on child trafficking and human smuggling

4/6/10
BLAPA Spring Dinner honors distinguished alumni and public service scholar

4/5/10
Bryan Stevenson appears on Bill Moyers Journal to discuss racial and economic injustice

4/2/10
Immigrant Rights Clinic halts deportation of longtime U.S. resident

4/2/10
Constructive advice and cautionary tales for lawyers starting their careers (VIDEO)

4/2/10
On Nightline, Amy Adler discusses legal consequences of sexting

4/1/10
Todd Edelman '94 nominated as an associate judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

4/1/10
Michael Spearman '81 named to Washington State Court of Appeals

4/1/10
Law students reach finals in the 2010 Jean-Pictet Competition on International Humanitarian Law

4/1/10
Warren Sinsheimer (LL.M. '57) wins 2010 Diane Lipton Award

3/31/10
Sabrina Ursaner '10 wins Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest

3/30/10
Franco Ferrari appointed as an editor of U.N. digest of law governing international sale of goods

3/30/10
Meron elected honorary president of the American Society of International Law

3/29/10
Forum focuses on government agency regulations

3/26/10
Lisa Heinzerling presents the state of the EPA at environmental law symposium

3/26/10
Center on Law and Security hosts panel discussion on terrorist trial locations (VIDEO)

3/25/10
Neuborne testifies before House in support of restoring ex-convicts' voting rights

3/22/10
Richard Stewart and Richard Macrory discuss Carbon Capture & Storage Global Legal Symposium

3/22/10
Furman Center report examines results of New York City's widespread rezonings

3/22/10
Dr. Margot Salomon discusses affluence and international human rights law

3/19/10
Cohen highlights Chinese lawyer's disappearance in op-ed in International Herald Tribune

3/19/10
Samuel Issacharoff leads ALI effort on aggregate litigation

3/19/10
Revesz joins other law school deans in urging repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

3/19/10
Michael Posner discusses new Country Reports On Human Rights Practices (VIDEO)

3/19/10
Justice Roderick Ireland delivers sixteenth annual Brennan Lecture (VIDEO)

3/17/10
Judge Kiyo Matsumoto delivers 11th annual Korematsu Lecture

3/17/10
New Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law co-sponsors conference in Verona

3/16/10
Forum asks whether U.S. incarcerates excessively (VIDEO)

3/15/10
Graduate Tax Program checks up on health care reform

3/15/10
Sexton talks with Bill Moyers

3/12/10
Obama nominates Raymond Lohier Jr. ’91 for Second Circuit

3/12/10
Brennan Center releases "Jim Crow in New York," a report on disenfranchisement

3/12/10
Judith Kaye '62 to lead investigation of New York governor's office

3/12/10
First official student blog launched

3/12/10
Alvarez moderates panel on the use of foreign law in American cases

3/11/10
Camilo Romero '12 receives Soros Fellowship

3/10/10
Friedman co-authors New York Times op-ed on problem with Senate filibusters

3/9/10
Jennifer Dalven '95 to direct ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project

3/9/10
Paul Verkuil (LL.M. '69, J.S.D. '72) confirmed as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States

3/9/10
Natalia Sorgente ’96 joins Justice Department's Environmental and Natural Resources Division

3/9/10
CLS experts discuss the strategies and goals of al Qaeda

3/8/10
Kevin Huffman ’98 is named Tennessee’s education commissioner

3/8/10
Julie Brill '85 confirmed as Federal Trade Commissioner

3/8/10
Christopher Meade '96 joins Department of Treasury as principal deputy general counsel

3/8/10
Human rights veteran William O'Neill reports on the state of Haiti

3/5/10
Experts at NYU Law Forum discuss whether there are too many lawyers and too much litigation (VIDEO)

3/5/10
NYU Law professors join colleagues in plea to President Obama to speed judicial nominations

3/5/10
NYU@NUS holds third annual convocation

3/5/10
U.K. first secretary of state speaks at NYU Law about economic crisis and globalization (AUDIO)

3/5/10
Rachel Barkow appointed to Manhattan D.A.'s advisory panel

3/4/10
Summer fellowship honoring Helaine Barnett '64 will prepare NYU Law students for civil legal aid career

3/3/10
Annual Survey symposium examines antitrust developments (VIDEO)

3/2/10
NYU Law exceeds expectations for $400 million capital campaign

3/2/10
Annette Gordon-Reed honored with 2009 National Humanities Medal and Frederick Douglass Book Prize

3/1/10
Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. '71, J.S.D. '74, LL.D. '04) calls for change in Egypt

3/1/10
NYU Law Forum considers legal activism skills (VIDEO)

2/23/10
Lady Barbara Judge '69 joins United Arab Emirates' International Advisory Board on nuclear energy

2/23/10
Maria Vullo '87 named New York's executive deputy attorney general for economic justice

2/23/10
Giuliano Amato, former Italian prime minister, gives talk on European Union (AUDIO)

2/23/10
Michael Bloomberg delivers speech on affordable housing at inaugural event of Furman Center's new institute

2/23/10
Panelists discuss where Roberts Court has been, and where it may be heading (VIDEO)

2/22/10
Panelists discuss the targeting and criminalization of LGBT individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa

2/22/10
NYU Law Forum analyzes effects of Citizens United case on campaign finance reform (VIDEO)

2/19/10
Cohen discusses Chinese human rights lawyer's disappearance in NYU Law podcast interview (AUDIO)

2/18/10
White House counterterrorism official reaches out to U.S. Muslims on national security and civil liberties issues

2/18/10
NYU Review of Law & Social Change holds symposium on sexual and reproductive rights

2/18/10
16th annual Public Service Auction raises money for public interest summer funding grants

2/17/10
NYU Law’s Moot Court Board places in regional round of world’s largest moot court competition

2/16/10
Pulitzer Prize-winner Barton Gellman joins Center on Law and Security

2/16/10
Shaviro cohosts conference on rethinking taxation of financial sector in light of recent crisis

2/12/10
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice releases report on Nepal’s proposed new constitution

2/11/10
Robert Pozen considers post-financial crisis regulation in keynote at joint NYU Law-Stern conference (AUDIO)

2/11/10
Bar-Gill wins consumer services law writing award for subprime mortgage article

2/9/10
Israeli Supreme Court cites work of Franco Ferrari in resolving import-export dispute

2/9/10
NYU Law students take top honors in national asylum and refugee law moot competition

2/9/10
Public Interest Legal Career Fair sets a new attendance record

2/8/10
NYU Law hosts Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference (VIDEO)

2/8/10
M. Patricia Smith '77 is honored as Law Women's alumna of the year and confirmed as solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor

2/5/10
NYU Law Forum panelists examine alternatives to outlawing drugs

2/5/10
NYU Journal of Law and Business hosts symposium on legal aftershocks of the global financial crisis

2/5/10
David Fein '85 nominated to be Connecticut’s U.S. attorney

2/4/10
David O'Keefe '95 wins inaugural Robert M. Morgenthau Award

2/3/10
Representative Jerrold Nadler speaks at Annual Alumni Luncheon

2/2/10
Wilf Hall topping-off ceremony brings new NYU Law building closer to completion

2/1/10
Experts at NYU Law Forum discuss how to regulate financial institutions in wake of economic crisis (VIDEO)

1/27/10
Barofsky '95 turns up the heat in Washington

1/27/10
Albie Sachs presents The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

1/25/10
Center on Law and Security's newest Terrorist Trial Report Card analyzes eight years of terrorism prosecutions

1/22/10
Thompson wins Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award

1/22/10
Michael Waldman '87 analyzes Supreme Court campaign finance ruling in Washington Post

1/21/10
Avni Bhatia '10 selected as a 2010 Skadden Fellow

1/20/10
NYU Law students raise funds for humanitarian relief in Haiti

1/20/10
Samantha Rayburn-Moore (LL.M. ’10) wins tax scholarship

1/20/10
Immigrant Rights Clinic wins victory for immigrants who hold Temporary Protected Status

1/19/10
Amsterdam receives National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's Lifetime Achievement Award

1/19/10
Geistfeld delivers inaugural Sheila Lubetsky Birnbaum Professor of Civil Litigation lecture

1/15/10
Friedman op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times

1/15/10
Immigrant Rights Clinic wins relief from deportation for longtime lawful permanent resident

1/14/10
Kenneth Feinberg ’70 to lead effort to improve evaluation of public school teachers

1/14/10
Miriam Sapiro '86 becomes deputy U.S. trade representative

1/13/10
Alston concludes that Sri Lankan execution video is authentic, calls for an independent war crimes investigation

1/13/10
Ira Rubinstein elected to board of directors for the Center for Democracy & Technology

1/13/10
Shaviro wins Outstanding Academic Title award

1/11/10
Daniel Alonso '90 becomes the new chief assistant district attorney for Manhattan

1/8/10
Bar-Gill and other NYU Law professors speak at Federal Reserve Bank conference

1/6/10
Halbertal's article selected as one of 2009's best by New York Times columnist David Brooks

1/5/10
Benjamin Stone '04 takes innovative approach to social enterprise in Rwanda

1/5/10
Lourdes Rosado '95 named 2009 Citizen of the Year by Philadelphia Inquirer for exposing judicial corruption

1/5/10
Alumna Rita Hauser appointed to President’s Intelligence Advisory Board


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