News@NYU Law
1/14/2009
Jon Leibowitz '84, currently a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and formerly the Democratic...
1/14/2009
Matthew Lawrence '09 has won the Barry Gold Memorial Health Law Student Writing Competition for his...
1/14/2009
Governor David Paterson has nominated Justice Jonathan Lippman ’68 to be the next chief judge of the New York...
1/14/2009
As a scholar of financial institutions, Geoffrey Miller, the Stuyvesant Comfort Professor of Law and director of the...
1/13/2009
In a Q&A with Time, Anthony Barkow, executive director of the Law School’s Center on the Administration of Criminal...
1/13/2009
Lev Dassin '90, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, profiled in the New York TimesSince...
1/13/2009
The New York Times calls U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis '75 "calm judicial eye in storm over bail"In a...
1/7/2009
Chesler '75, presiding partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, calls for the demise of the billable hour in Forbes op-...
1/6/2009
In an article in the New York Times, Professor Amy Adler discussed a decade-old law now being challenged that makes it...
1/5/2009
Matt Lopez '96 and Tim Herlihy '92 are the cowriters of the screenplay for Bedtime Stories, released by Walt...
1/5/2009
Anthony Barkow commends proposal to release some nonviolent prisoners early in Washington Post op-edIn a...
12/23/2008
In the December 22 edition of the New York Times, Professor Samuel Issacharoff offered insights into the...
12/19/2008
Judge James Peck ’71 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, already busy presiding...
12/19/2008
The Law School's Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) released a report on December 18 with recommendations for...
12/18/2008
Barry Adler writes in BusinessWeek op-ed that Chapter 11 is not the answer for troubled U.S. automakersIn an op-ed in...
12/16/2008
Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law and co-director of the Law School’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, personally urged Taiwan...
12/12/2008
Neil Barofsky ’95, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, was confirmed by the Senate...
12/11/2008
Dean Richard Revesz gave a keynote address on December 10 in Boston at the annual meeting of the Society for...
12/11/2008
Ellison Ward '09 has won a Sinsheimer Children's Rights Fellowship from the Partnership for Children's Rights, a...
12/10/2008
Jacobs talks to WNYC about the corruption case against Illinois governor involving Obama Senate seatIn an interview...
12/9/2008
Rachel Barkow and Libling '09 address overcrowded prison conditions in Boston Herald op-edIn an op-ed in the Boston...
12/8/2008
On December 5, Sarah Ludwig ’92 was awarded the Felix Fishman Award by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest in...
12/8/2008
Lauren Burke '09, Ryan Downer '08, Thomas Fritzsche '09 and Sarah Parady '07 have each won a coveted 2009...
12/5/2008
During the Center on Law and Security’s lively December 4 panel, “After Torture: Discussing Justice in the...
12/5/2008
Professor Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago,...
12/4/2008
Revesz and Livermore urge cost-benefit analysis in op-ed for Forbes.comIn an op-ed in Forbes.com, Richard Revesz, the...
12/3/2008
Smita Narula, associate professor of clinical law and faculty director of the Law School’s Center for Human...
12/2/2008
On November 21, six labor experts gathered at the NYU School of Law to discuss how labor and employment law are likely...
12/2/2008
Anthony Barkow, executive director of the Law School’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, spoke to the...
11/26/2008
On November 24, Gilles Kepel, the head of the post-graduate program on the Arab and Muslim worlds at France’s...
11/26/2008
Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, presented...
11/26/2008
As an attorney-adviser for the law of armed conflict in the Department of State's Office of the Legal Adviser,...
11/26/2008
On November 21 Aminatou Haidar, a leading human rights defender in Western Sahara advocating a referendum to settle the...
11/24/2008
A new study by New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and the Institute for Education and...
11/20/2008
On November 20, the New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) released The Price...
11/19/2008
As the crisis on Wall Street continues to affect the global economy and events unfold at a breakneck pace,...
11/18/2008
The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in a case in which the Law School's Center on the...
11/18/2008
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Michael Levine, Distinguished Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer, writes that...
11/17/2008
Cynthia Estlund, the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law, is leading the transition team that is reviewing the National...
11/14/2008
In the wake of President-elect Barack Obama’s decisive victory, four School of Law professors gathered for a...
11/13/2008
Chief Judge Judith Kaye '62 of the New York Court of Appeals delivered her final address on the state of the judiciary...
11/10/2008
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor participated in a panel discussion on the topic of judicial...
11/7/2008
On November 5, Dr. Ariela Gross spoke at the Law School in the latest installment of the Brown Bags...
11/7/2008
Now that the election is over, we are free to talk about our experience. Since the start of the primary season,...
11/6/2008
NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy released the first large-scale study of the property value impacts...
11/5/2008
New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly (LL.M. '74) was the subject of a profile in the October...
11/4/2008
Heather Howard ’97, the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, was selected as...
11/4/2008
On October 18, Susan Herman '74 was elected president of the American Civil Liberties Union by the organization's Board...
11/4/2008
Barry Friedman, the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, led a discussion of the topic "Is the Supreme Court...