News@NYU Law
9/18/2017
When Melissa Tidwell ’03 was a student at NYU Law, one of her favorite courses was Current Constitutional Issues,...
9/7/2017
Bonnie Reiss ’69, former vice-chairperson of NYU Law's Board of Trustees, passed away on September 4, 2017. Upon...
9/5/2017
Robert Jackson Jr., a professor of law and director of the Program on Corporate Law and Policy at Columbia Law School,...
9/1/2017
A Sampling of Recent Faculty Books
Kwame Anthony Appiah
As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard ...
9/1/2017
In the annual Hayek Lecture last October, Professor Emeritus Robert Ellickson of Yale Law School articulated a complex...
9/1/2017
Porus Kaka, president of the International Fiscal Association, examined source taxation in the annual David R....
9/1/2017
During the annual NYU/KPMG Lecture on Current Issues in Taxation, Dean Emeritus David Schizer of Columbia Law School...
9/1/2017
As North Korea, China, Russia, Syria, ISIL (or ISIS), and cybersecurity dominated the headlines, NYU Law’s Center on...
9/1/2017
The beginning of a school year always brings with it fresh energy. This year, many of us at NYU Law return to campus...
9/1/2017
AnBryce Scholars: Anthony Welters ’77, Dean Trevor Morrison, Professor and Dean Emeritus Richard Revesz, and...
9/1/2017
In the James Madison Lecture, Judge Sandra Lynch of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit examined instances...
9/1/2017
Pfeifer-Gans Family Scholar Kasey Marie Hemphill was hooded by Maxwell Pfeifer ’49
Nordlicht Family...
9/1/2017
Marc Platt ’82 has been a giant in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years. He has served as president of...
9/1/2017
This year’s Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Speaker Series included Brian Welle, Google’s director of...
9/1/2017
Sonya Chung with her fiancé, Robert Lewis Briggs ’15
Jesse Wagner Klinger with his parents, NYU Law...
9/1/2017
The battle over immigration is about law and policy—and people.
BY MICHAEL OREY
GRAPHIC ADAPTATIONS BY ELEANOR DAVIS...
9/1/2017
The women of NYU Law have been making history since 1892. Facing modern challenges for women in the legal profession,...
9/1/2017
When the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution placed a camera on Martha’s Vineyard’s South Beach, it was to moni-...
9/1/2017
NYU Law embraces training to advise socially minded businesses in the emerging field of law and social...
9/1/2017
Through 56 years and seven deans, Norman Dorsen, who passed away in July, played a peerless role in the upward...
9/1/2017
Anthony “Tony” Gooch ’63, LLM ’64, a retired partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, passed away on January...
9/1/2017
George Zeitlin LLM ’61 passed away on January 19 at age 86. Zeitlin’s colleagues and students remember him as a...
9/1/2017
NYU Law Life Trustee Ciro Gamboni ’65 passed away on April 23 at age 76. Gamboni spent nearly his entire legal career...
9/1/2017
After more than two decades of service, Jeannie Forrest departs the Law School.
Several years ago, Vice...
9/1/2017
Joseph Forstadt ’64, a long-serving member of the Law Alumni Association Board and a Weinfeld Fellow, passed away on...
8/28/2017
These are, most would agree, unusual times in American politics and government. Voters are polarized on a range of...
8/28/2017
Summer is a time when many NYU Law professors fan out from Washington Square to engage with the global academic...
8/21/2017
When Ndidi Oriji ’03 graduated from NYU Law, her mother gave her an unusual gift: a piece of construction paper with...
8/17/2017
To the Law School Community:
The recent tragic events in Charlottesville—and perhaps just as much their aftermath—...
8/16/2017
NYU School of Law announced today the creation of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (State Impact...
8/9/2017
The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) held its annual conference in July at the University of Copenhagen in...
8/1/2017
The 2016–17 NYU Law Forum brought together journalists, academics, politicians, and business professionals to address a...
7/18/2017
Richard Revesz, dean emeritus and Lawrence King Professor of Law, was named one of the New York Law Journal's 2017...
7/3/2017
Norman Dorsen, Frederick I. and Grace A. Stokes Professor of Law, passed away on July 1, 2017, at home with his family...
6/22/2017
Steven Greenhouse '82
Philip Miscimarra
Victoria Lipnic
David Sherwyn, former...
6/20/2017
The launch event for the most recent edition of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy’s State of New...
6/15/2017
NYU School of Law Life Trustee Norma Z. Paige ’46 passed away on June 5. Paige, a talented attorney and...
6/15/2017
As a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar at NYU Law, Johnathan Smith ’07 knew that he wanted to use his legal career to fight for...
6/6/2017
On May 24, NYU Law launched the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship, a new research center that will work...
5/24/2017
Professor Troy McKenzie '00 has been elected to the American Law Institute Council.
5/23/2017
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5/22/2017
Chantá Parker ’06 works to improve the country’s public defense systems.
Chantá Parker ’06 defines herself as a “...
5/19/2017
The versatility of an NYU Law degree was on display recently in Greenberg Lounge, where nearly two dozen alumni...
5/18/2017
At NYU Law, the Brennan Center for Justice, founded in honor of a Supreme Court legend, uses a multipronged approach to...
5/18/2017
On April 28, 2017, a federal court in Wisconsin struck down a state law authorizing the detention, involuntary...
5/15/2017
Rick Brooks will join NYU School of Law’s permanent faculty in January 2018, and he will teach Contracts at the Law...
5/11/2017
Earlier this year Preet Bharara joined NYU School of Law as a distinguished scholar in residence to continue working on...
5/11/2017
Hissan Bajwa ’05, general counsel at Breather, recalls that when he began law school in the fall of 2002, he felt a...
5/11/2017
New York University professors from a range of disciplines met at NYU Law to honor Professor Anna Deavere Smith, who...
5/8/2017
Early one afternoon, William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law Roderick Hills Jr. is walking his Constitutional Law...
5/8/2017
Roughly 100 days after Donald Trump took office as president, top national security experts gathered at NYU Law in an...
5/2/2017
When the law is used properly, it has the power to create facts, asserted Sherrilyn Ifill ’87, president and director-...
4/26/2017
NYU Law students spearhead patent law workshop for scientists, engineers, physicians, and entrepreneurs.
The semester...
4/26/2017
It is traditional to take stock of a new president’s accomplishments and approach to governance as he reaches 100 days...
4/25/2017
The 2017 Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights symposium, “Defending Dissent: Civil Society and Human Rights...
4/25/2017
The NYU Law Revue, a...
4/25/2017
Two NYU Law alumni—Jared Kushner ’07, senior White House adviser to the president, and Bob Ferguson ’95, Washington...
4/21/2017
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4/21/2017
2017 Weinfeld Award Recipient Sheila Birnbaum '65
NYU Law Board of Trustees Chairman Anthony Welters...
4/19/2017
The ninth annual conference of NYU Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law (CACL), “Disrupting the Cycle:...
4/18/2017
Jeramie Scott ’12 discusses his career in privacy and national security law.
Five years after graduating from law...
4/17/2017
John Walker ’93 had spent the majority of his career as a partner at Dentons—a multinational law firm that employs more...
4/17/2017
The NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement’s (PCCE) daylong conference, “The Expanding Scope of Individual...
4/14/2017
Eleanor Sharpston, the UK advocate general of the European Union's Court of Justice, delivered the 12th annual ...
4/13/2017
From left: Tyler Domino '17, Dan Peck '17, Judge Bernice Donald, Judge Robert Sack, Caleb Seeley '17, and...
4/12/2017
Law Alumni of Color Association President Rafiq Kalam Id-Din II ’00
Dean Trevor Morrison...
4/10/2017
One Friday afternoon, ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Pevar, adjunct professor at NYU Law, faced a dilemma: His...
4/7/2017
At a recent event, “‘Regarded As’ Muslim: Islamophobia and its Ripple Effects,” panelists considered the difficulties...
4/6/2017
The Forum on Law, Culture & Society held a screening on March 8 of a new television series about two racially...
4/6/2017
The January 1977 issue of the Harvard Law Review included an article, “State Constitutions and the Protection of...
4/4/2017
In 1993, Strive Masiyiwa had an idea for a mobile telephony company in Zimbabwe. The founder of a successful electrical...
4/4/2017
Last spring, Mark Geistfeld sat in a Tesla Model S, his hands hovering inches from the wheel as the car, in self-drive...
3/31/2017
HSLI judges, from left: Bill Escobar, Grainne de Búrca, and Ron Stubblefield '17
HSLI judges, from...
3/30/2017
Vijaya Gadde ’00, Twitter’s general counsel, had scarcely settled into her chair at the March 22 NYU School of Law...
3/28/2017
Former president Barack Obama delivered a statement from the Pentagon on December 14, 2015, describing the latest...
3/24/2017
The Women of Color Collective (WoCC) was one of the primary reasons Samah McGona ’18 chose to attend NYU Law. “I was a...
3/23/2017
This year’s Hauser Global Law School Program Annual Dinner occurred exactly one week before a fateful national election...
3/23/2017
As a new governor of Puerto Rico took office this year, the commonwealth continued to grapple with an economic crisis...
3/21/2017
NYU School of Law has announced that Preet Bharara will join the Law School as a distinguished scholar in residence on...
3/17/2017
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Sharon Bowen and former Securities and Exchange Commission (...
3/17/2017
At the launch of the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, a panel of leaders representing institutional...
3/17/2017
With the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in...
3/16/2017
At this year’s Thomas M. Jorde Symposium, hosted by the NYU Law Brennan Center for Justice, honored lecturer Heather...
3/16/2017
In a March 15 indictment, the US Department of Justice alleged that two Russian spies working with two criminal...
3/15/2017
The March 2 installment of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Speaker Series featured Iris Bohnet,...
3/15/2017
The NYU School of Law Forum focused on "Trump’s Economic Agenda: The Path from Rhetoric to Reality" on March 1, with...
3/13/2017
At the 10th annual alumnae reception of NYU Law’s Women of Color Collective (WoCC), the student organization honored...
3/13/2017
Meeropol advocates for prisoners’ rights and the constitutional rights of Muslims
In the final hearing of the Obama...
3/10/2017
In his second trip to the United States since stepping down as president of Taiwan in May 2016, Ma Ying-jeou LLM ’76...
3/9/2017
On March 3, NYU Law's Center on Law and Security and the Just Security blog welcomed Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-...
3/8/2017
The launch of NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law on February 27 drew a crowd that filled Tishman...
3/8/2017
One way to understand the 2016 US election and Brexit decision, says Professor of Law Edward Rock, is that many voters...
3/7/2017
When President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Pauline Newman ’58 to the bench of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal...
3/6/2017
In its ruling today in Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado, the US Supreme Court said jury secrecy doesn’t apply if there is...
3/6/2017
What if questions of policing are not best addressed by policing agencies or the courts, but by the public? In...
3/3/2017
Law Women honored Carol Bellamy ’68 with the Alumna of the Year Award at the organization’s annual Alumnae Reception....
3/1/2017
"Medical Innovation and the Law," a symposium sponsored by the Classical Liberal Institute and the NYU Journal of...
3/1/2017
The February 22 NYU School of Law Forum, "Business, Law, and Government in China: Reflections from Experience,"...
2/28/2017
Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks during a press conference at Sea-Tac Airport.
Ferguson speaks...