News@NYU Law
12/21/2018
State attorneys general must stand up to policies and actions from the Trump administration that they view as illegal—...
12/21/2018
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) has named Ira Rubinstein, a senior fellow at the Law School’s Information Law...
12/21/2018
NYU Law students earned a range of recognitions in Fall 2018. Among their achievements were prize-winning papers,...
12/20/2018
It is not unusual for graduates of NYU Law to work in one or more clerkships—in fact, each year, more than 130 Law...
12/20/2018
Property rights, carbon capture and storage, and the resurgence of patriarchal ideals are just three of the...
12/19/2018
Julián Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development in the Obama administration and is currently...
12/19/2018
Nine years ago, Noah Waisberg ’06 was an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, working primarily on mergers and...
12/19/2018
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation has named Hugh Baran ’17, Jason Pedraza ’19, Molly Rugg ’19, Gabriela Siegel ’19, and...
12/18/2018
US democracy is a finely calibrated and fragile instrument, warned Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...
12/18/2018
“[Derrick Bell], through his work, convinced me to remain in law school,” said Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean of Boston...
12/18/2018
What is progressive lawyering supposed to look like? That was the question posed by Steven Shapiro, former National...
12/17/2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has been the source of...
12/14/2018
As a 1L at NYU Law, Andrea Nieves ’10 was one of the students who successfully petitioned to launch the annual Latinxs...
12/13/2018
Dean Trevor Morrison announced significant enhancements to NYU School of Law’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program...
12/12/2018
Delivering this year’s Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture, Ellen Rosenblum, the first woman to serve...
12/4/2018
When a major brief needs to be filed in a lawsuit, law firm partners commonly assemble a team of associates to get the...
12/3/2018
Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its partnership with NYU Law by supporting the school’s Grunin...
11/30/2018
The tumultuous state of US environmental regulation during the Trump administration was implicit in the title of the...
11/30/2018
11/30/2018
Fifty years after the Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Statute opened a new era in how US courts handle complex, multi-...
11/27/2018
Ava Lubell ’13 has been a Slate reader since long before she went to law school. As a college student with a strong...
11/27/2018
At only 38 years old, Kyungchun Kim LLM ’14, a partner at Lee & Ko in Seoul, Korea, is already an experienced hand...
11/26/2018
Over the last century, some legal commentators have criticized judicial dissent as a sign of disunity that diminishes...
11/21/2018
Law enforcement departments across the country have adopted body cameras for officers in recent years, responding to...
11/21/2018
Phylis Skloot Bamberger ’63, a former New York State Supreme Court Justice, passed away on October 28 at the age of 79...
11/19/2018
Election tampering, Facebook data harvesting, and other privacy breaches have stoked political and personal safety...
11/19/2018
Journalism Under Fire: Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting, a new book by Stephen Gillers ’68, arrives at...
11/19/2018
On Oct 1, Charles Rettig LLM ’82 was sworn in as the 49th commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)—the first...
11/9/2018
On October 17, just about a year after the New York Times published its investigative report on sexual harassment...
11/9/2018
The 2018 midterm elections saw high turnout from voters as the Democrats gained control of the US House of...
11/7/2018
For a few lawyers, the path to law school starts with prison. At the October 19 launch of NYU Law’s PREP Scholarship...
11/7/2018
As the Trump Administration continues to reshape the United States’s foreign alliances and trade commitments amidst a...
11/2/2018
Five months after the US Supreme Court struck down a federal law that had largely restricted gambling on sports events...
10/31/2018
In a recent speech at the European Parliament, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook generated headlines for sounding an...
10/26/2018
Deirdre McCloskey, distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of...
10/25/2018
Lindsay Kendrick will join NYU Law as assistant dean for diversity and inclusion, Dean Trevor Morrison announced on...
10/24/2018
If you visit the Minetta Tavern on MacDougal Street, among the vintage photographs and caricatures decorating the walls...
10/23/2018
On September 27, the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance hosted a three-panel conference that explored the...
10/23/2018
“We look to the media to dig deeper, to open our eyes and our ears, and to go places where we can’t easily go,” said...
10/17/2018
On crime procedural shows, detectives solve crimes using analysis of hair, fiber, bite marks, and bullet ballistics. In...
10/16/2018
In an October 3 discussion, amid national debate over Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault claims against then-US...
10/16/2018
Delivering the 23rd annual David R. Tillinghast Lecture on International Taxation, Edward Troup, former executive chair...
10/5/2018
At the 14th annual Emile Noël Lecture, Josep Borrell Fontelles, former president of the European Parliament and...
10/5/2018
As the #MeToo movement approaches its one-year anniversary, sexual misconduct allegations against powerful figures in...
10/4/2018
On September 26, amid controversy over the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Gibson, Dunn &...
10/3/2018
New York University’s Making a Difference Award was presented to Alina Das ’05, professor of clinical law and...
9/21/2018
When the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark ruling this month that overturned India’s 157-year-old law...
9/17/2018
As a student in Bessemer, Alabama’s segregated public schools, Solomon Oliver Jr. ’72 did not envision a future as a...
9/14/2018
NYU Law students at Early Interview Week 2018
NYU Law students at Early Interview Week 2018...
9/12/2018
NYU School of Law’s Family Defense Clinic (FDC), which seeks to protect and expand due process rights of families...
9/10/2018
On September 7, Professor Melissa Murray testified at the US Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett...
9/4/2018
The Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging’s 2017–18 Speaker Series included MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who during...
9/4/2018
The 2018–19 academic year is my sixth as dean. I am excited to reflect on what we have accomplished over the past five...
9/4/2018
NYU Law alumni lead the legal departments at some of the biggest corporate names in the technology sector.
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9/4/2018
For 50 years, the Black Allied Law Students Association has been a voice and a community for students at NYU Law.
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9/4/2018
NYU Law faculty, alumni, and students are helping drive changes across the criminal justice system—often with an eye on...
9/4/2018
The Law Alumni of Color Association celebrates four decades in which members have supported and inspired one another to...
9/4/2018
Revelations that Cambridge Analytica mined Facebook data in the 2016 election sparked new concerns about data privacy...
9/4/2018
NYU Law opens more doors to the world with the launch of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies
Frank...
9/4/2018
Deborah Archer recalls that when she was eight years old, someone spray-painted “KKK” on the garage of her family’s...
9/4/2018
Professor Melissa Murray’s 2012 article “Marriage as Punishment,” published in the Columbia Law Review, earned two...
9/4/2018
A Sampling of Recent Faculty Books
José E. Alvarez
(editor) American Classics in International Law: International...
9/4/2018
NYU Law's Board of Trustees has new faces in top roles this fall as David Tanner '84 and Florence Davis '79 take up...
9/4/2018
This year, the AnBryce Scholarship Program celebrated dual milestones: Not only was this the 20th year of...
9/4/2018
Award-Winning 2017–18 Scholarship by Faculty
Rachel Barkow
(co-author) “Designed to Fail: The President's Deference to...
9/4/2018
Members of the Class of 2018 pose for hooding photos with family members who are fellow NYU Law graduates....
9/4/2018
In 2017-18, NYU Law's Brennan Center for Justice hosted a steady stream of high-profile visitors for hard-hitting...
9/4/2018
Scholarship recipients in the Class of 2018 pose for hooding photos with the donors of their scholarships....
9/4/2018
This year’s annual Scholarship Reception took place at the Weinfeld Gala, held at the American Museum of Natural...
9/4/2018
Three months after 67 countries signed onto a multilateral convention implementing tax treaty-related measures to...
9/4/2018
A discussion about human rights, sovereignty, and dispute resolution in East Asia coincides with a major grant to NYU...
9/4/2018
Events sponsored by NYU Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and the Program on Corporate Compliance...
9/4/2018
The Latham & Watkins Forum hosts topical conversations among leading players.
NYU Law’s ongoing discussion series...
9/4/2018
NYU Law kicked off its $450 million Lead the Way campaign with a gala evening at the American Museum of Natural History...
9/4/2018
In the past year, NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law (CRIL) facilitated a series of hard-hitting...
9/4/2018
Louis I. Bell ’54 (1930–2018)
Louis I. Bell ’54, civil trial lawyer and philanthropist, passed away on February...
9/4/2018
The school year officially began as NYU Law kicked off Orientation on August 22 with a Welcome BBQ, hosted by the...
8/31/2018
In a ceremony held on August 24, University Professor Jeremy Waldron received an honorary doctorate of law from the...
8/30/2018
A panel of federal judges ruled this week in Common Cause v. Rucho that Republican legislators in North...
8/27/2018
Back in June 2012, Professor Eleanor Fox ’61’s ambitious summer travel plans—which included visits to Singapore, Kuala...
8/23/2018
David R. Tillinghast, in whose honor the annual Tillinghast Lecture on International Taxation was created, passed away...
8/20/2018
Katie Watson ’92 wears multiple hats. In addition to her legal education at NYU Law, she has also trained as a...
8/17/2018
Latinx Rights scholar Astrid Reyes ’19 has been awarded the first ever Abby Lyn Gillette Research Assistantship through...
8/16/2018
Following a US Supreme Court term marked by controversial First Amendment rulings and the announcement of Justice...
8/15/2018
This July, rising eighth and ninth graders spent a week at NYU Law, getting a taste of law school and legal careers...
8/14/2018
Once again, lawyers are on the front lines of the battles over US immigration policy. This summer, when a new Trump...
8/3/2018
On August 4, Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson received the American Bar Association’s highest honor, the ABA...
7/24/2018
The University College London Faculty of Laws (UCL Law) has awarded an honorary doctorate of laws to Judith Resnik ’75...
7/23/2018
In June, more than 140 plaintiff and management-side attorneys, academics, and government representatives participated...
7/12/2018
At the 14th annual Nicholas J. Healy Lecture on Admiralty Law, a panel that included Judge Denny Chin of the US Court...
6/28/2018
On June 8, US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat down for a conversation with her former law clerk Melissa...
6/25/2018
The Constitution requires the government to count each person in the United States every 10 years, and the count...
6/25/2018
US mass incarceration was created by Republicans and Democrats, said political commentator and activist Van Jones in...
6/22/2018
When Jeffry Aronsson LLM ’79 was an NYU Law applicant in 1978, he received a call from the Law School’s admissions...
6/20/2018
The Center on Race, Inequality and the Law (CRIL) celebrated its one-year anniversary at NYU Law with a discussion of “...
6/19/2018
On June 5, the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship awarded the first ever Grunin Prize for social...
6/11/2018
Melissa Murray, who was a visiting professor at NYU Law last fall and was in residence this past spring, will join NYU...
6/6/2018
On June 26, voters in the Democratic congressional primary in the First District of Colorado will have the chance to...
6/4/2018
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, New York topped national lists for incarceration rates among US cities of comparable...