News@NYU Law
11/20/2015
On November 13, Andrew Tobias, journalist and author of the now classic coming-out memoir The Best Little Boy in the...
11/20/2015
Several NYU Law faculty have weighed in on Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case concerns the...
11/19/2015
Three NYU School of Law faculty members have teamed up with political scientists from around the country to participate...
11/18/2015
In August 1956, the New Yorker published a “Talk of the Town” item about a social gathering attended by a couple of...
11/11/2015
Derrick Bell celebrates his 80th birthday.
2014 Bell Lecture: Stephen Bright, president...
11/11/2015
When Adjunct Professor David Pashman ’97 graduated from the Law School, Google was non-existent and Yahoo! was just...
11/11/2015
Andrea Ritchie is a civil rights attorney who has led groundbreaking research, litigation, and advocacy efforts to...
11/11/2015
Experts explored reproductive health care laws and their impact on women at a Fall 2015 symposium.
11/11/2015
Just Security, New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative, and leading experts discuss cyber-risk and the viability of...
11/11/2015
At the November 3 panel “Uber Alles? Implications of the ‘Share Economy,’ ” academics and practitioners addressed a...
11/10/2015
Guiding Immigrant Rights Clinic students in dozens of cases since she became clinic co-director in 2011, Alina Das ’05...
11/10/2015
At the November 4 Milbank Tweed Forum, Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America think tank and author...
11/10/2015
Professor of Clinical Law on Leave Jason Schultz has joined the White House Office of Science and Technology...
11/4/2015
At the October 22 Madison Lecture, Judge Rosemary Barkett of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal at the Hague argued...
11/3/2015
Eleanor “Ellie” Fallon joined NYU School of Law in September as the director of Alumni Relations, returning to the Law...
11/2/2015
When Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, he eliminated a decades-old injustice: a 100-to-one disparity...
11/2/2015
FOLCS welcomed one of the great actors of his generation, Jesse Eisenberg, who received an Academy-Award nomination for...
11/1/2015
In a new book, Mehrsa Baradaran '05 examines class discrepancies in the ability to obtain credit.
In the late 19th...
10/27/2015
In partnership with the 92Y, FOLCS featured a screening of this 1990 widely discussed and much anticipated film...
10/27/2015
The NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business, in partnership with Cornerstone Research, has announced the launch of...
10/26/2015
It took the Supreme Court 100 years to officially bury Pennoyer v. Neff, its landmark ruling on jurisdiction that...
10/23/2015
At the 11th annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture, Douglas Ginsburg, senior judge of the US Court of Appeals for the...
10/23/2015
The refugee crisis in Europe has been in the headlines for much of this year. In a 24-hour period last spring, the...
10/22/2015
The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on October 22 examining the...
10/19/2015
Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy...
10/13/2015
This 1973 classic, gritty Sidney Lumet film starring Al Pacino is based on the true story of police officer Frank...
10/9/2015
At the October 7 Milbank Tweed Forum, Preet Bharara, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, sat down for a...
10/7/2015
This documentary by award-winning film director Kirby Dick examines the national crisis of sexual assault on...
10/7/2015
The plot twist is familiar to viewers of procedural television: at the last minute, investigators find a trace of DNA...
10/6/2015
At the 2015 Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture on September 21, US Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North...
10/6/2015
Beniah Alton Dandridge, who spent 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, joined his lawyers today at a news...
10/5/2015
NYU Law’s Forum on Law, Culture & Society (FOLCS) celebrated its 10th anniversary on September 24 with an event...
10/5/2015
As the Supreme Court gets ready to begin its new term, it already has a number of major cases on its docket.
10/1/2015
Eileen Decker '90 brings her counterterrorism experience to her role as United States attorney for the Central District...
9/30/2015
For small island states that face the daunting challenges of high energy costs and climate change, abandoning fossil...
9/29/2015
This 2014 German film tells the story of a prosecutor in 1960′s West Germany who is determined to bring to justice the...
9/28/2015
On September 22, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) and the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights...
9/25/2015
At the United Nations, a bit over two miles from the Law School’s campus, world leaders and diplomats from nearly 200...
9/22/2015
CHR&GJ Faculty Director and John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, Philip Alston, has published a new report on the...
9/21/2015
On September 17—Constitution Day—the National Constitution Center (NCC) launched the Interactive Constitution, an...
9/16/2015
On September 11, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island capped off the inaugural conference of the Civil Jury...
9/10/2015
In a major speech at NYU Law on September 10, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates outlined the reasoning...
9/8/2015
Constitutional law grapples with some of our most difficult—and consequential—legal, political, and social questions....
9/8/2015
NYU School of Law announced that it is receiving an unrestricted $20 million gift from Stephen M. Ross LLM ’66,...
9/4/2015
In a recent article in the Stanford Law Review, Professors Emiliano Marambio Catan LLM ’10 and Marcel Kahan shine a...
9/4/2015
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) traditionally has been viewed as an institution in the vanguard of the development...
9/1/2015
Boris Segalis '03 discusses his cybersecurity career.
Boris Segalis ’03 once worked as a project engineer on the Space...
8/31/2015
The international community is currently negotiating a deal with Iran on its nuclear program. Under a potential deal,...
8/26/2015
When classes end each May, NYU School of Law faculty disperse from campus to give lectures, attend workshops, pursue...
8/20/2015
NYU Law's Center for Labor and Employment Law hosted the 68th Annual Conference on Labor in recognition of the 80th...
8/17/2015
The Immigrant Rights Clinic, now in its 16th year, has earned a reputation as a training ground for top lawyers who...
8/17/2015
On July 6-7, 2015, the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) at New York University School of Law convened...
8/14/2015
The Connecticut Supreme Court’s August 13 ruling that banned the executions of the 11 men on the state’s death row...
8/12/2015
From August 10-12, the Office of Career Services will hold its annual Early Interview Week, hosting 8,487 scheduled...
8/5/2015
NYU School of Law announced that Vice Dean Jeannie Forrest will serve as the next head of development and alumni...
7/31/2015
NYU School of Law announced Jason Belk as the new dean of students, to begin on September 8. He comes to the...
7/27/2015
NYU School of Law has established the Civil Jury Project (CJP) to conduct research on civil juries, a long-...
7/22/2015
NYU School of Law has named Lisa Hoyes ’99 the new assistant dean for public service.
Hoyes will join the Law School on...
7/21/2015
Governor Andrew Cuomo has appointed Paul Francis ’80 deputy secretary for health and human services for New York State...
7/16/2015
The International Society of Public Law's 2015 Conference on “Public Law in an Uncertain World” was held in New York,...
7/15/2015
The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law (CACL) has launched the Clemency Resource Center (CRC), a...
7/15/2015
On July 12, Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, was honored with the ...
7/7/2015
Ryan Goodman, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law, has been appointed special counsel to the general counsel of...
7/7/2015
Merging both ends of the criminal justice system by pairing indigent defense with offender reentry, the Criminal...
7/1/2015
Social entrepreneurship—the application of business techniques to social problems—has become increasingly tied to legal...
7/1/2015
In the final ruling of an historic Supreme Court term, the Obama administration was handed a loss on Monday, but the...
6/30/2015
In 2000, voters in Arizona adopted a state constitutional amendment that created an independent commission to draw...
6/30/2015
“Did you take my keys?” Professor Adam Samaha recently asked some visiting family members. His inquiry was an...
6/30/2015
How is the interpretation of the UN Charter affected by the practice of its major organs or the work of the UN...
6/29/2015
On June 27, Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction...
6/23/2015
NYU Law faculty are extensively involved in the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in...
6/15/2015
On a Monday evening in March, a group of students sat around the dining room table of Professor Daniel Shaviro’s West...
6/15/2015
The past 25 years have witnessed the attempted flowering of democracy in Russia, South Africa, Columbia, Egypt, and...
6/15/2015
Pablo de Greiff, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence...
6/11/2015
Two years ago, Fox News sued a company called TVEyes, which creates a text-searchable database of broadcast content...
6/9/2015
In the 2014-15 academic year, NYU Law hosted events with two Supreme Court Justices, the attorney general of the United...
6/2/2015
Since the summer of 2013, Shana Knizhnik ’15 has juggled the demands of law school with the responsibilities of...
6/2/2015
Hosted by the Information Law Institute and the Center on Law and Security, the "Symposium on Government Access to Data...
6/1/2015
Professor of Clinical Law Margaret Satterthwaite '99 is part of a trio of New York University faculty members that has...
6/1/2015
As policymakers, news media, and research communities increasingly rely on big data, the ability to create good visual...
5/28/2015
The Jerry S. Cohen award from the American Antitrust Institute is for Harry First's book, The Microsoft...
5/27/2015
Global Associate Professor of Law Mariana Pargendler, who teaches in the NYU Law Abroad in Buenos Aires program, has...
5/26/2015
With the Supreme Court about to rule on whether gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry in the...
5/26/2015
In the past few years, controversies about how sexual assault is handled in the United States have dominated the...
5/22/2015
On the historic Beacon Theatre stage, awash in purple lights, NYU School of Law honored its graduating students in two...
5/20/2015
The Law School was well represented at New York University’s 183rd Commencement on May 20. The occasion marked the...
5/18/2015
On May 11, New York Law Journal named 12 NYU School of Law alumni among its 50 Rising Stars of 2015. Twenty-four judges...
5/18/2015
On Wednesday, May 20, the 183rd All University Commencement will be held at Yankee Stadium, where family, friends, and...
5/14/2015
Anthony Appiah, Amy Bloom, and Kenji Yoshino consider readers’ ethical quandaries.
5/14/2015
Antonia House ’15 and Annie Mathews ’14 have been named 2015 fellows by the Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC)....
5/6/2015
Amidst gorgeous New York City spring weather, twelve classes from 1955 to 2010 gathered at NYU School of Law last...
5/5/2015
On May 6, Clinical Professor of Law Claudia Angelos will be honored by the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA)...
5/5/2015
After nearly five years in government service, Lily Batchelder has returned to NYU School of Law. Batchelder...
5/5/2015
On Tuesday, May 5th, the NYU Furman Center released the State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods in 2014...
5/5/2015
Many law school clinics work at the boots-on-the-ground level, assisting with individual cases, filing petitions and...
4/30/2015
Strive Masiyiwa, Robert Bernstein, Margaret Satterthwaite '99
Jerome Cohen, Ira Belkin '82, Zhou Dan...
4/30/2015
NYU President John Sexton and Board of Trustees Chairman Martin Lipton today announced the names of those to be honored...
4/30/2015
On Tuesday, April 28, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges. Less...
4/29/2015
While conducting experiments is a central undertaking for scientists and social scientists, it’s uncommon for legal...