News@NYU Law

04/28/2022
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On March 23, NYU Law honored the legacy of the late Kenneth P. Thompson ’92 with the fourth annual Lecture on Race and…
04/25/2022
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On the evening of April 12, more than 700 members of the NYU Law community streamed into the violet-lit colonnaded…
04/25/2022
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has repeatedly retaliated against immigrant rights activists for…
04/22/2022
Daniel Francis
Daniel FrancisOn June 1, Daniel Francis JSD ’20 will return to NYU Law as an assistant professor of law, Dean Trevor…
04/21/2022
Kenji Yoshino
On April 14, NYU announced that Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and faculty…
04/21/2022
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One student was matched with a mentor who serves as an assistant director at the American Civil Liberties Union;…
04/21/2022
Naila Awan
From international human rights to voting rights to prison reform, and from policy work to litigation and then back to…
04/18/2022
Brittany Farr
Brittany Farr will join NYU Law as an assistant professor of law on June 1, Dean Trevor Morrison announced this month…
04/14/2022
Tsion Gurmu ’15, legal director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and founder of the Queer Black…
04/13/2022
On March 3, days after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court was announced, a panel of…
04/08/2022
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A longstanding orthodoxy of contract law is that it has no role to play in addressing the ever-increasing global…
04/04/2022
Vicki Been
Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law Vicki Been ’83, a faculty director of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and…
03/29/2022
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Bryan Stevenson, Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice, has been appointed as an NYU University Professor, Dean…
03/29/2022
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The advent of vaccines for COVID-19 exposed major questions about intellectual property laws as many countries clamored…
03/29/2022
Funmilayo Fenwa
NYU Law Dean's Graduate Scholar What is your favorite part about being a NYU Law student? Being a law student at…
03/28/2022
Chris Inglis
On March 21, Chris Inglis, the inaugural national cyber director of the United States, joined Professor Samuel Rascoff…
03/28/2022
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At the beginning of the March 3 NYU Law Forum, sponsored by Latham & Watkins, moderator Ray Madoff ’84, LLM ’86, a…
03/24/2022
Dawn Botti
Some nights (pre-pandemic), after playing a set with her rock band, New Day Dawn, Dawn Botti ’94 would be approached by…
03/22/2022
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Stephen HolmesIn his teaching and scholarship, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law Stephen Holmes has long focused on…