Constitutional

Claudia Angelos, an authority on prisoners’ rights, is a member and past president of the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where she serves as general counsel and a national board and executive committee member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Angelos was a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and Greater Boston Legal Services before joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 1980. Angelos has supervised student litigation of more than 100 civil rights cases in federal trial and appellate courts in the Civil Rights Clinic, and also teaches the New York Civil Liberties and Racial Justice clinics. She is a board and executive committee member of the Clinical Legal Education Association and serves on the board of the Society of American Law Teachers. She was elected Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe College, earning a B.A. cum laude in 1971, and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1974.

Rachel Barkow’s scholarship focuses on applying the lessons and theory of administrative and constitutional law to the administration of criminal justice. She has written more than 20 articles, recently joined the leading criminal law casebook as a co-author, and is recognized as one of the country’s leading experts on criminal law and policy. Barkow has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee; the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection; and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In 2010, the Manhattan D.A.’s Office named Barkow as a member of its Conviction Integrity Policy Advisory Panel. Barkow has also presented her work to the National Association of Sentencing Commissions Conference, the Federal Judicial Center’s National Sentencing Policy Institute, and the Judicial Conference of the Courts of Appeals for the First and Seventh circuits. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A. ’93), Barkow attended Harvard Law School (’96), where she won the Sears Prize. She served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the D.C. Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. Barkow was an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington, D.C., before joining the NYU Law faculty.

Sarah Burns combines law with learning in social science to develop effective solutions for problems that institutions and communities face. Burns, at NYU School of Law since 1990, specializes in experiential learning, developing simulation and clinical courses in civil litigation, negotiation, mediation, dispute system design, policy advocacy, organizing, and systemic change as part of the Law School’s widely recognized Clinical Program. Burns began law practice as a litigating lawyer with the Washington, D.C., commercial law firm Covington & Burling. She cites representing industry associations in federal regulatory matters as “my first introduction as a lawyer to interest-based practice that is so central to all negotiation and coalition work—whether in for-profit or not-for-profit/NGO sectors.” Burns later moved into public interest civil rights practice, doing litigation, legislative, and policy advocacy work. She has worked on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and on matters before Congress, but found discrimination law trial work among the most interesting, using social science research both to develop proof and systemic solutions. Burns graduated in 1979 from Yale Law School, where she edited the Yale Law Journal, and holds master’s degrees from Stanford University in sociology and the University of Oklahoma in human relations.

Paulette Caldwell spent the first decade of her legal career at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and the Ford Foundation concentrating on the corporate and tax representation of charitable and other not-for-profit organizations and commercial real estate transactions. Since joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 1979, Caldwell has taught courses in property, real estate transactions, and not-for-profit organizations, and she has concentrated her teaching and scholarship on issues of race, civil rights, and the intersection of race and gender. She offers a Race and Legal Scholarship Seminar, in which her specialty, critical race theory, is examined in relation to other jurisprudential movements in the law. In recent years, she has focused on the law and policy governing equity in public elementary and secondary education. Caldwell has served as a consultant to and member of the boards of directors of numerous nonprofit organizations, and she is currently a member of the boards of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts.

Sujit Choudhry, an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law, joined NYU School of Law in the Fall of 2011. He is faculty director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions (www.constitutionaltransitions.org). He has published more than 60 articles, book chapters, and reports and is the editor of Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation (2008) and The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (2007). He sits on the board of editors of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, is a member of the editorial board of the Constitutional Court Review (South Africa), and is on the board of advisers for the Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law. Choudhry is extensively involved in public policy development. He is a member of the United Nations Mediation Roster, was a consultant to the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank Institute at the World Bank, and has worked with the Forum of Federations in Sri Lanka and the Canadian Bar Association in Nepal. Choudhry holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, and served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was named a Trudeau Fellow in 2010.

Adam Cox joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 2011. Prior to coming to NYU, he was a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. He received his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Michigan Law Review and received the Daniel H. Grady Prize for graduating first in the law school class. He received his B.S.E. summa cum laude in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. After law school, Cox clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and served as the Karpatkin Civil Rights Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union. Cox’s teaching and research interests include immigration law, voting rights, and constitutional law.

Peggy Cooper Davis joined the NYU School of Law faculty in September 1983 after having served for three years as a judge of the Family Court of the State of New York and having engaged in the practice and administration of law during the preceding 10 years. Her scholarly work has been influential in the areas of child welfare, constitutional rights of family liberty, and interdisciplinary analysis of legal pedagogy and process. Davis’s 1997 book, Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values, illuminates the importance of antislavery traditions as interpretive guides to the meaning of the 14th Amendment. Her recent book, Enacting Pleasure: Artists and Scholars Respond to Carol Gilligan’s New Map of Love, is a collection of essays exploring the social, cultural, psychological, and political implications of Carol Gilligan’s relational psychology. For more than 10 years, Davis directed the Lawyering Program at NYU Law, a widely acclaimed course of experiential learning that distinguishes the Law School’s first-year curriculum. She now directs the Experiential Learning Lab, through which she works to develop and test progressive learning strategies and to develop professional education courses that systematically address the interpretive, interactive, ethical, and social dimensions of practice. Davis has served as chair of the board of the Russell Sage Foundation and as a director of numerous not-for-profit, for-profit, and government entities.

Norman Dorsen has taught at NYU School of Law since 1961, when he became director of the Hays Civil Liberties Program, the oldest of its kind in the country. Previously he served on the legal staff of the army during the celebrated Army-McCarthy hearings, which led to the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Dorsen served as law clerk to Chief Judge Calvert Magruder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. He is the author or editor of many articles and 16 books on all aspects of constitutional law. In 1994, Dorsen was the founding director of NYU’s Hauser Global Law School Program. In 1999, he founded the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) and was its editorial director until 2007. Dorsen served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1991. Earlier, while general counsel to the ACLU, he argued many Supreme Court cases, including those that won for juveniles the right to due process, upheld constitutional rights of out-of-wedlock children, and advanced abortion rights. He also helped write the petitioner’s brief in Roe v. Wade and appeared amicus curiae in the Gideon case, the Pentagon Papers case, the Nixon tapes case, and many other cases. Dorsen was the founding president of the Society of American Law Teachers and the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law, and he was an organizer and founding board member of the International Association of Law Schools.

Cynthia Estlund is a leading scholar of labor and employment law and workplace governance. In her recent book Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (2010), she chronicles the current crisis of workplace governance and charts a potential path forward. In her first book, Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (2003), she argued that the workplace is a site of both comparatively successful integration and intense cooperation, and she explored the implications for democratic theory and for labor and employment law. Other writings focus on freedom of speech and procedural fairness at work; diversity, integration, and affirmative action; and critical perspectives on labor law. Her current research is in workplace transparency, transnational labor regulation, and Chinese labor issues. Before joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 2006, Estlund taught at the University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law School. Estlund graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1978. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School in 1983.

Samuel Estreicher has published more than a dozen books, including casebooks on labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; treatises on employment law and labor law, as well as a series on global issues in workplace law; and authored more than 150 articles in professional and academic journals. After clerking for Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, practicing with a union-side law firm, then clerking for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, Estreicher joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1978. He is the former secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and chief reporter of the Restatement (Third) of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute. He is also of counsel to Paul Hastings in its labor and employment and appellate practice groups. In recent years, Estreicher has published work in public international law, authored several briefs in the Supreme Court and U.S. courts of appeals on international issues, and has taught International Arbitration, International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and International Litigation in the Federal Courts. He also maintains an active mediation and arbitration practice. Estreicher received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.S. in industrial relations from Cornell University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review.

John Ferejohn joined the NYU School of Law faculty full-time in Fall 2009 as a professor of law and politics after teaching at the Law School as a perennial visiting professor since 1993. Ferejohn’s scholarship focuses on the development of positive political theory, and especially its application to the study of legal and political institutions and behavior. His most current research concerns Congress and policy making, courts within the separation-of-powers system, constitutional adjudication from a comparative perspective, democratic theory and law, and the philosophy of social science. Ferejohn was a professor of social science at the California Institute of Technology from 1972 to 1983. He then joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he became the Carolyn S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution where he served until 2009. Ferejohn earned his Ph.D. in political science at Stanford in 1972, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, and received an honorary doctorate at Yale University in 2007. His publications include A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution, The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (1987), both of which he co-authored, and Pork Barrel Politics: Rivers and Harbors Legislation, 1947-1968 (1974), and many scholarly articles in law, political science, economics, and philosophy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Barry Friedman is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law and the federal courts. He publishes frequently in the nation’s leading law reviews and peer-edited publications, writing on law, politics, and history. He is the author of the widely recognized The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009). Friedman also writes frequently in the popular press, including the New York Times, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and the New Republic. He serves as a litigator or litigation consultant on a variety of matters in the federal and state courts. Friedman teaches a wide range of courses including Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Criminal Procedure. He has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy; Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Justice Constitutionnelle, Sciences Po Aix, in Aix-en-Provence, France; and the University of Hong Kong. Friedman graduated from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

David Golove specializes in the constitutional law of foreign affairs and has written extensively on the constitutional history pertaining to that field. He is best known for his book-length article “Treaty-Making and the Nation: The Historical Foundations of the Nationalist Conception of the Treaty Power,” published in the Michigan Law Review, in which he comprehensively considers a question of constitutional law that has been controversial from the moment of the nation’s birth in 1776: Can the U.S. government, through its power to make treaties, effectively regulate subjects that would otherwise be beyond the reach of Congress’s enumerated legislative powers—for example, a treaty prohibiting the death penalty? He answers yes, and in doing so he has produced both a major work of legal historical scholarship and an important legal and constitutional defense of federal power. Golove has also written about the constitutional issues raised by so-called international delegations of governmental authority and the war on terror. Golove received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 and has law degrees from Boalt Hall and Yale. He teaches in the fields of constitutional law and international law.

Helen Hershkoff’s teaching and scholarship involve civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, and constitutional law. She currently is a co-author of Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton, and Hershkoff’s Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, the leading casebook in the field, co-editor/co-author of Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007), and a member of the author team of the “Wright & Miller” treatise on federal procedure, focusing on the United States as a party. Hershkoff also writes about state constitutions, on such topics as social and economic rights, constitutional interpretation, and the relation between constitutional norms and the common law. With Stephen Loffredo she is author of The Rights of the Poor (1997). Hershkoff graduated from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. Until 1995, Hershkoff was a litigation associate at a New York–based firm, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, and an associate legal director at the ACLU. From 2006-09, Hershkoff was the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law.

Roderick Hills teaches and writes in a variety of public law areas: constitutional law, local government law, land use regulation, jurisdiction and conflicts of law, and education law. His interest in these topics springs from their common focus on the problems and promise of decentralization. Hills’s recent work has focused on the virtues and vices of decentralization in federal control of nonfederal corruption, the states’ regulation of local government, and the use of federalism to defuse controversies over culture and religion. Hills has been a cooperating counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, filing briefs in cases challenging denial of domestic-partner benefits to same-sex couples (National Pride at Work Inc. v. Granholm), exclusion of prison inmates from the protections of state antidiscrimination law (Mason v. Granholm), denial of rights to challenge prison guards’ visitation by family members for prison inmates (Bazzetta v. McGinnis), and discrimination against recently arrived indigent migrants in public assistance (Saenz v. Roe). Hills holds bachelor’s and law degrees from Yale University. He served as a law clerk for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and previously taught at the University of Michigan Law School.

Stephen Holmes’s research centers on the history of European liberalism, the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after Communism, and the difficulty of combating international Salafi terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law. In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003-05 for his work on Russian legal reform. Besides numerous articles on the history of political thought, democratic and constitutional theory, state building in post-Communist Russia, and the war on terror, Holmes has written several books, including The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, co-authored with Cass Sunstein (1998), and The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (2007). After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1976, Holmes taught briefly at Yale and Wesleyan universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1978. He later taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University before joining the faculty at NYU School of Law in 2000.

Samuel Issacharoff’s wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, American and comparative constitutional law, and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process; his Law of Democracy casebook (co-authored with Stanford Law School’s Pam Karlan and NYU School of Law’s Richard Pildes) and dozens of articles have helped create this vibrant new area of constitutional law. In addition to ongoing involvement in some of the front-burner cases involving mass harms, he served as the reporter for the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute. Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of Yale Law School. He began his teaching career in 1989 at the University of Texas, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. In 1999, Issacharoff moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor in Procedural Jurisprudence. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mattias Kumm’s research focuses on basic issues in European and comparative constitutional law, international law, and philosophy of law. Kumm joined NYU School of Law in 2000 after studies in law, philosophy, and political science in Kiel, Germany, and Paris and doctorate work at Harvard University. He holds a part-time joint appointment as a professor for globalization and the rule of law at the Social Science Research Center and Humboldt University, both in Berlin. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and has visited and lectured at other leading universities worldwide. Kumm is an editor of several journals and a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU Law.

For four decades, Sylvia Law ’68 has been one of the nation’s leading scholars in the fields of health law, women’s rights, poverty, and constitutional law. She has played a major role in dozens of civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower state and federal courts, and she has testified before Congress and state legislatures on a range of issues. In 1983, Law became the first lawyer in the United States selected as a MacArthur Fellow. She has been active in the Society of American Law Teachers, served as its president from 1988 to 1990, and was honored by the organization with the 2001 Great Teacher Award. In 2004, Law was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Daryl Levinson rejoined the NYU School of Law faculty in Fall 2010 after five years at Harvard Law School. A leading expert in constitutional law and theory, Levinson has published a broad range of scholarship and draws on interdisciplinary sources from economics, political science, and philosophy. He was an NYU Law faculty member from 2002 to 2005 and returned in 2009-10 as a fellow at the Law School’s Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, where his research focused on the relationship between international and constitutional law. Levinson received his B.A. from Harvard University, and earned his J.D. and M.A. in English and modern studies from the University of Virginia. In 2008, while he was the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard, Levinson won the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award.

Deborah Malamud is a leader among legal academics who study issues of class and public policy, as well as an expert on labor and employment law. Her contributions to the study of class and the law focus on how the law reflects and helps shape our understanding of what it means to be a member of the middle class in the United States. Malamud is also known for her doctrinal and historical scholarship on key issues in labor law and employment discrimination doctrine, including affirmative action. Malamud served as the faculty director of the AnBryce Scholarship Program at NYU School of Law from 2004 to 2011. She viewed her involvement with this unique community of scholars as both an honor and a distinctive opportunity. Malamud was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School from 1992 to 2003. Before embarking on her academic career, she was a law clerk to Judge Louis Pollak, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Malamud received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Smita Narula’s scholarship and clinical work focus on key human rights issues, including the impact of economic globalization and counterterrorism policies on human rights, and the accountability of corporations and international financial institutions for human rights abuses. She has authored numerous articles and human rights studies on these subjects. In 2008, Narula was appointed legal adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Her current research on the subject critically assesses market- and rights-based responses to the global phenomenon of agricultural “land grabbing.” Narula is a world-renowned expert on caste discrimination, and author of the award-winning book Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s “Untouchables” (1999). She was the recipient of the 2007 South Asian Bar Association of New York Access to Justice Award and the 2008 North American South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Achievement Award, both given in recognition of her work on human rights in the United States and abroad. Before joining NYU School of Law in 2003, Narula spent six years at Human Rights Watch as the organization’s lead India researcher and senior researcher for South Asia. Narula graduated from Harvard Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and she received a master’s in international development from Brown University.

Burt Neuborne is one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, teachers, and scholars. He is the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Neuborne has served as national legal director of the ACLU, special counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. He challenged the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, worked on the Pentagon Papers case, worked with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she headed the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, and anchored the ACLU’s legal program during the Reagan years. At the Brennan Center, he has concentrated on campaign finance reform and efforts to reform the democratic process. In recent years, Neuborne has served as principal counsel in cases that have resulted in the payment of $7.5 billion to Holocaust victims. He has received the University-wide Dis-tinguished Teaching Award and been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his best-known scholarly works is the two-volume Political and Civil Rights in the United States, which he co-authored with NYU colleagues Norman Dorsen and Sylvia Law, and Paul Bender. In 1996, Neuborne appeared as Jerry Falwell’s lawyer in the Milos Forman movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Richard Pildes is one of the nation’s leading scholars of public law and a specialist in legal issues concerning democracy. His scholarship ranges across issues such as separation of powers, national security, the design of democratic institutions in the United States and internationally, constitutional theory, and the Voting Rights Act. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Carnegie Scholar. Pildes is co-author of The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process (third edition, 2007) and an editor of The Future of the Voting Rights Act (2006). He has argued numerous cases in the federal courts and was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story, as part of an NBC team covering the 2000 presidential election litigation. He received his B.A. in physical chemistry summa cum laude from Princeton, and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard. Pildes clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, after which he practiced law in Boston. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan Law School and joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 2001.

An emerging leader in the field of national security law, Samuel Rascoff teaches and writes in the area, and serves as faculty director of the Center on Law and Security. Named a Carnegie Scholar in 2009, Rascoff came to the Law School from the New York City Police Department, where, as director of intelligence analysis, he created and led a team responsible for assessing the terrorist threat to the city. A graduate of Harvard summa cum laude, Oxford with first class honors, and Yale Law School, Rascoff previously served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also a special assistant with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Rascoff’s recent publications include “Establishing Official Islam? The Law and Strategy of Counter-Radicalization” (Stanford Law Review), “Domesticating Intelligence” (Southern California Law Review), and “The Law of Homegrown (Counter)Terrorism” (Texas Law Review).

A teacher of both criminal law and constitutional law at NYU School of Law, David Richards is the author of 17 books and numerous articles, and has developed influential arguments on gay rights and on the distorting impact of patriarchy on interpretation in law and religion. For the past 10 years, Richards has taught an interdisciplinary seminar on resisting injustice with developmental psychologist and NYU University Professor Carol Gilligan, which led to the publication of their book The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future (2008), as well as Richards’s The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas (2009) and his most recent book, Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama’s Challenge to Patriarchy’s Threat to Democracy (2010). A graduate of Harvard College (1966) and Harvard Law School (1971), Richards secured his D.Phil. in moral philosophy from Oxford University (studying with H. L. A. Hart and G. J. Warnock) in 1970. His doctoral dissertation, A Theory of Reasons for Action, was published by Oxford University Press in 1971.

Laura Sager focuses on employment and housing discrimination law and on training law students in litigation skills. As a clinical professor at NYU School of Law, she has been lead counsel, assisted by clinic students, in significant class actions challenging discrimination in the workplace, including a landmark case that invalidated New York City’s entry-level test for firefighters and enabled women to serve as firefighters for the first time in the city’s history. In recent years, students in her clinic have honed their litigation skills in cases challenging discrimination in housing opportunities as well as sexual and racial harassment, age discrimination, and disability discrimination in the workplace. After graduating from Wellesley College, Sager received an M.A. in history from Harvard University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. She clerked for Judge Irving Hill in the Central District of California and then spent several years as a litigator in New York before joining the Law School faculty. Sager’s latest research interest has focused on the taxation of damage awards and attorneys’ fees in civil rights actions.

Adam Samaha’s work focuses on constitutional law and theory. Cutting across many fields of law, much of his scholarship explores decision making under conditions of uncertainty and fundamental disagreement, along with the role of courts in society. Topics of his recent articles include government regulation for the sake of appearance, the phenomenon of tiebreaking in law, and the true stakes of debates over constitutional interpretation. Samaha is committed to innovation and technology in teaching. He received the teaching award at the University of Chicago Law School in 2007, and he is known for producing electronic texts and visual aids for his courses. Before joining the NYU Law faculty in 2012, Samaha was a tenured professor at Chicago and visited at Harvard and Stanford. He clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a member of the tobacco litigation team at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in Minnesota. Samaha is a 1996 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the law review and was awarded the Fay Diploma.

Jeremy Waldron teaches legal and political philosophy at NYU School of Law. As of October 2010, he is also Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He teaches at NYU in the Fall and at Oxford (All Souls College) in the Spring. A prolific scholar, Waldron has written extensively on jurisprudence and political theory, including numerous books and articles on jurisprudence, theories of rights, constitutionalism, the rule of law, democracy, property, torture, security, and homelessness. His books include Partly Laws Common to All Mankind: Foreign Law in American Courts (2012), The Harm of Hate Speech (2012), Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), Law and Disagreement (1999), and The Dignity of Legislation (1999). He is also well known for his work in historical political theory, on Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Hannah Arendt. Waldron was born and educated in New Zealand, where he studied for degrees in philosophy and law at the University of Otago, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1978. He studied at Oxford University for his doctorate in legal philosophy and taught there as a fellow of Lincoln College from 1980 to 1982. He has since taught at the University of Edinburgh; the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Princeton University; and Columbia Law School. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and a fellow of the British Academy since 2011, Waldron has given many prestigious academic lectures, such as the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in 2009, the Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School in 2009, and the Hamlyn Law Lectures in England in 2011.