News@NYU Law
7/28/2014
Danielle DeBold ’14 has won the 2014 Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition for her paper, “The...
7/23/2014
Members of the NYU Law community are mourning the death of Dan Markel, a leading criminal law scholar, Florida State...
7/23/2014
Argentinians may be mourning their soccer team’s loss in the World Cup final, but another setback suffered by the...
7/22/2014
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has named Barry Cozier ’75 as vice chair of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the...
7/21/2014
In this year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared, “[W]herever and whenever I can take steps...
7/17/2014
The Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy has released its latest report, “The Price of...
7/16/2014
Professor Franco Ferrari, director of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, has been...
7/15/2014
Richard Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus as well as director of NYU Law's Institute for Policy...
7/9/2014
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the formation of the New York State Council on Community Re-Entry and...
7/7/2014
The New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees elected three new members at its meeting–Dr. Anthony Appiah, Beth...
6/30/2014
Two NYU Law graduates are recipients of Echoing Green’s 2014 Global Fellowships. Established in 1989, the...
6/27/2014
Is independent political speech the linchpin of our democracy or its Achilles’ heel? Watch video of this Intelligence...
6/26/2014
On May 15 Eleanor Fox ’61, the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, delivered her 30th annual lecture to...
6/20/2014
With her expertise in both administrative and criminal law, Rachel Barkow has a unique perspective on the criminal...
6/18/2014
Leo Gertner ’16, a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, has been selected for a Peggy Browning Fellowship. The fellowship, which...
6/16/2014
Deirdre von Dornum has been the assistant dean for public service since September 2013. Before leading NYU’s...
6/16/2014
Joanna Langille ’11 has been awarded a 2014 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship of its...
6/11/2014
The US Senate today confirmed Cherokee Nation citizen Keith Harper ’94 as the country’s ambassador to the United...
6/11/2014
Andreas Lowenfeld, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus, passed away on June 9, at the age of...
6/10/2014
On May 27, University Professor Samuel Scheffler delivered the H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture at the University of Oxford...
6/10/2014
Students from the Policy Advocacy Clinic at NYU Law in Buenos Aires are leaving their mark on Venezuela’s conversation...
6/4/2014
Michael Waldman’s new book The Second Amendment: A Biography considers how the right to own a gun was “written” into...
6/4/2014
The James Parks Morton Interfaith Award, named in tribute of The Interfaith Center of New York’s founder and active...
5/29/2014
Christopher Sprigman spoke at TEDxCollegeofWilliam&Mary, which took place on 6 April 2014 at the Kimball Theatre in...
5/27/2014
The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation bestowed its Lifetime Achievement on Norman Dorsen, Frederick I. and Grace A....
5/23/2014
Reflecting on the significant anniversaries of major civil rights victories, Sherrilyn Ifill '87 gave a stirring speech...
5/23/2014
The Administrative Conference of the United States, together with the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice and...
5/22/2014
Lily Batchelder, professor of law and public policy on leave, has joined the White House as deputy assistant to the...
5/22/2014
When the City of Detroit filed for bankruptcy last July, it presented lawyers and policy makers with a rare...
5/22/2014
It started with a lunch conversation at a Japanese restaurant on West Third Street, and ended with a co-authored...
5/16/2014
Judge Theodor Meron, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow, has been made a Grand Officier...
5/14/2014
When University Professor Carol Gilligan published In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development...
5/13/2014
Although plenty of students are inspired by Professor Adam Cox’s course, Legislation and the Regulatory State, not...
5/8/2014
Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, was appointed Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human...
5/7/2014
For the seventh time in the last eight years, the latest of the Corporate Practice Commentator’s annual "Top 10...
5/6/2014
NYU Law Alumni reminisced and reconnected at the 2014 reunion, which took place April 25 and 26 on campus both days,...
5/6/2014
Sujit Choudhry, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law, will be the next dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School...
5/2/2014
Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, who formerly served as dean of that institution...
5/2/2014
Professor Margaret Satterthwaite ’99, faculty director of the Root-Tilden-Kern Program as well as the Center for Human...
5/2/2014
The New York Law Journal has named five NYU Law alumni to its 2014 Rising Stars list; all are lawyers under 40 who...
5/1/2014
Frederick (“Fritz”) A. O. Schwarz Jr. was awarded the 2014 Ridenhour Courage Prize at the National Press Club in...
5/1/2014
On April 3 and 4, 2014, Constitutional Transitions convened the first expert network meeting for our ongoing research...
4/30/2014
With a diversity and inclusion officer posted at most major companies, bias in the workplace would seem a thing of the...
4/30/2014
On April 28, President Barack Obama named Jenny Yang ’96 vice chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission....
4/29/2014
An article co-authored by Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, and Loyola University Chicago School of Law...
4/29/2014
In this post, we’re trying something new. Below, we present an almost line-by-line annotation of yesterday’s New York...
4/28/2014
On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court handed down a 6-2 decision in EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, upholding the...
4/28/2014
On Wednesday, April 23, the Milbank Tweed Forum welcomed Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel of...
4/28/2014
The New York University School of Law ACS Student Chapter broke new ground this year by launching its first annual...
4/25/2014
Professor Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has been elected a member of the...