News@NYU Law
10/3/2016
Former Oklahoma attorney general Michael Turpen delivered the 20th annual Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service...
9/29/2016
Porus F. Kaka, president of the International Fiscal Association, examined source taxation in the 21st annual ...
9/28/2016
On his penultimate day in office as New York City police commissioner, William Bratton gave the keynote address at an...
9/27/2016
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor Pablo de Greiff co-authored a United Nations report on alleged human rights...
9/26/2016
NYU Law's new strategic plan lays out three ambitious goals.
9/26/2016
Prosecutors targeting corporate wrongdoing these days routinely run afoul of the rule of law. So argues Jennifer Arlen...
9/22/2016
Professor of Tax Law Joshua Blank LLM ’07, faculty director of the Graduate Tax Program, has been named NYU Law’s vice...
9/21/2016
Quigley’s start-up helps companies discover tomorrow’s trending stories.
Paul Quigley LLM ’05, CEO and co-founder...
9/20/2016
The entire NYU community is observing the formal inauguration of the University’s 16th president, Andrew D. Hamilton,...
9/19/2016
The late Jerome Bruner, a revolutionary thinker in psychology and numerous other fields who passed away on June 5 at...
9/12/2016
NYU Law’s partnership with Legal Outreach aims to increase diversity in the legal profession.
On a muggy July morning,...
9/2/2016
A Sampling of Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Books
Kwame Anthony Appiah
(co-author) A Decent Respect: Honour in...
9/2/2016
Award-Winning 2015-16 Scholarship by Faculty and Students
Kenji Yoshino
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial...
9/2/2016
Since founding NYU Law’s Policing Project last year, Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and...
9/2/2016
As one of Wall Street’s top dealmakers, Nancy Lieberman has built a reputation for never backing down. When a tragic...
9/2/2016
NYU Law Magazine recently brought together seven NYU Law faculty and alumni who are experts in environmental and...
9/2/2016
As one of its graduates becomes the first Latina partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the AnBryce Program awards its...
9/2/2016
Whether questioning the gap between rhetoric and reality in corporate governance politics or teaming up with top New...
9/2/2016
Jason Schultz reports on his work at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Professor Jason Schultz...
9/2/2016
In May, I proudly watched graduates—most of whom were just beginning their 1L years when I came to NYU Law—walk across...
9/2/2016
In January, Andrew Hamilton became the 16th president of New York University. A renowned chemist, he is former vice...
9/2/2016
In a major speech hosted by NYU Law’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) last September,...
9/2/2016
The Milbank Tweed Forum continues to draw some of the brightest minds from multiple disciplines to examine...
9/2/2016
US Senator Chuck Schumer of New York visited NYU Law in March at the invitation of the NYU Law...
9/2/2016
Emily New '16 begins her legal career at the Orleans Public Defenders.
Growing up with a mother who worked as a...
9/2/2016
In his keynote at the 16th annual NYU/KPMG Lecture on Current Issues in Taxation, Robert B. Stack,...
9/2/2016
Thane Rosenbaum, director of NYU Law's Forum on Law, Culture & Society and moderator of the January...
9/2/2016
Jeffrey Toobin and Thane Rosenbaum
Preet Bharara, Tom Wolfe, and Thane Rosenbaum
Lawrence...
9/2/2016
The new Center for Cybersecurity brings legal and technical talent together to take the lead on one of the most urgent...
9/2/2016
Edward Rock does everything with energy. A self-proclaimed “gym rat,” he swims and works out several days a week. An...
9/2/2016
Paulette Caldwell
Kenneth Thompson '92
Zachary Carter '75 (right)
This year’s Black...
9/2/2016
Jennifer Arlen ’86 was elected secretary-treasurer of the American Law and Economics Association for 2016–17; she will...
9/2/2016
The Black Allied Law Students Association won Northeast Region Chapter of the Year in 2016.
Ayelet Evrony ’17 was...
9/2/2016
At the annual Latino Law Students Association (LaLSA) dinner, Ignacia Moreno ’90, chief executive officer and...
9/2/2016
Lenore Anderson ’01, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, received a James Irvine Foundation...
9/2/2016
Scott Rosenthal with his wife, Sarah Molinoff '15
Rebecca Weinstein with her mother, Margery...
9/2/2016
Latino Institute for Human Rights Scholars Alicia Nieves and Frances Dávila were hooded by Professor Alina Das...
9/2/2016
Honorable Charles Swinger Conley Scholarship within the AnBryce Program: Ellen Conley with Scholars Evan...
9/2/2016
Juan Caballero, West Michigan Legal Fellow, ACLU of Michigan
Steve Marcus, Clerk, Judge Harry...
9/2/2016
NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy marked its 20th anniversary this year with an evening of toasts...
9/2/2016
In conjunction with the 2016 annual conference of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, the Law...
8/29/2016
During the 1990s scholars and organizations developed global “indicators”—numerical assessments of countries’...
8/26/2016
The United Nations is at the center of a controversy that makes Professor José Alvarez's forthcoming book, ...
8/26/2016
Summer is an opportune time for cross-pollination in academia, as professors journey to other institutions to give...
8/23/2016
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016, Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and...
8/19/2016
When President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal prisoners in early August, eight of the inmates were...
8/18/2016
Clayton Gillette, Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law, has been named as the new director of NYU’s Marron...
8/15/2016
Joy Gallup ’90 is known for her creativity and calm as she steers record-breaking deals.
Joy Gallup '90 was recently...
8/12/2016
NYU’s Information Law Institute teamed up with the White House to present “AI Now: The Social and Economic Implications...
8/9/2016
Professor Bryan Stevenson has been named a recipient of both the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award and the...
8/3/2016
Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, was honored with a Blaise Pascal Chair, given to internationally...
8/3/2016
It's not often that law students have a chance to code (and hack passwords) alongside computer science engineers, but...
7/22/2016
In April, the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a joint center of the Law School and...
7/21/2016
Four NYU School of Law alumni were honored by the New York Law Journal (NYLJ) as “Lawyers Who Lead by Example,”...
7/18/2016
Gráinne de Búrca, Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the...
7/18/2016
The Policing Project has received a generous grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation for a two-year initiative...
7/12/2016
On July 7, Center on Law and Security Executive Director Zachary Goldman '09 testified before a House subcommittee...
7/12/2016
Trevor Morrison and Kenji Yoshino joined legal journalists Adam Liptak, Dahlia Lithwick, and Nina Totenberg to discuss...
7/8/2016
Stephanie Toti '03 takes the fight against Texas's restrictive abortion laws to the Supreme Court.
Whole Woman’s Health...
7/1/2016
The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) held its annual conference June 17-19 at the Humboldt University of...
6/30/2016
On June 30, the White House announced the launch of its Data-Driven Justice Initiative, an effort that has garnered the...
6/28/2016
Dean Trevor Morrison, Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law, has been appointed by President Barack Obama as...
6/23/2016
Leading competition law scholars from around the world convened at the Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels on June 8 for a...
6/22/2016
On June 8, Adam Cox, Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law, joined an Intelligence Squared debate about presidential...
6/21/2016
The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law has joined a coalition urging President Barack Obama to act on all...
6/16/2016
The new book Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America, co-edited by Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law...
6/16/2016
The Center for Labor and Employment law held the 69th annual NYU Conference on Labor, focused on arbitration of...
6/15/2016
The Global Tax Conference Project, a collaborative effort among NYU School of Law and three other academic institutions...
6/14/2016
UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and CHRGJ Faculty Director Philip Alston presented his...
6/13/2016
On June 9, both Professor Lily Batchelder and Richard Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, visited...
6/6/2016
University Professor Jerome Bruner—a trailblazing figure in psychology and a towering mind in a multitude of other...
6/3/2016
As part of the Department of Commerce’s work convening the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, the...
6/1/2016
Mervyn King served as governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013 and played a key role in shaping global...
5/27/2016
Jennifer Arlen ’86, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the American Law and...
5/26/2016
The Brennan Center held the first ever national conference on automatic voter registration. Keynote speakers include...
5/23/2016
Dean Trevor Morrison
Vanita Gupta '01
Isabela Garcez '16 presents the Class of 2016 Gift...
5/19/2016
This year’s “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles” list from the Corporate Practice Commentator includes an article...
5/18/2016
NYU's 184th Commencement Exercises and NYU Law's Convocation ceremonies this year both featured prominent speakers to...
5/18/2016
(L to R) John Berger, senior editor at Cambridge University Press; Jonathan Lippman '68; Samuel Estreicher;...
5/17/2016
US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson explored modern counterterrorism strategy in his keynote for “Terrorism...
5/16/2016
Beatrice Silverstein Frank, former clinical associate professor of law, passed away on April 21, 2016, at the age of 87...
5/16/2016
In April, the New York Law Journal honored five NYU Law alumni on its 2016 Rising Stars list. A 24-judge panel chose 42...
5/13/2016
What if you were arrested for not carrying papers—that were impossible to get? What if you won your deportation case...
5/13/2016
In the post-Snowden era, traditional actors like Congress and the courts, as well as new players such as global...
5/12/2016
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law Kenji...
5/12/2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, today said that Mauritania’s...
5/11/2016
David D. Pustilnik ’58, LLM ’59 has had a long and distinguished career as a tax lawyer. After serving as a...
5/10/2016
In the public at large, property and contract law are commonly thought to reflect moral proprietary and promissory...
5/10/2016
Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the...
5/6/2016
It’s sometimes difficult to be philosophical about the down-and-dirty milieu of political institutions—but University...
5/6/2016
The eighth annual conference of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, held at NYU Law on April 8, examined...
5/5/2016
The Korematsu Lecture, given annually at NYU Law in honor of Japanese internment challenger Fred Korematsu, serves as a...
5/4/2016
Speaking ahead of President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Flint on May 4, three United Nations experts have...