Volume XIX | 2009
COVER STORY
A Measured Response
Most of the world reacted with shock and grief after 9/11. The NYU School of Law also responded by applying the intellectual powers of its faculty and students to untangle the complicated legal and policy questions emerging in a changed world. What are the limits of executive authority? What are the obligations of the U.S. under international human rights conventions? How, if at all, should precious liberties be limited in times of crisis? In seeking answers, the Law School is helping shape a new field known as Law and Security.
FEATURES
The Hard Line on Immigration
Tough anti-immigration laws and policies have been in effect in the U.S. since 1986, long enough to gauge their efficacy. Ten alumni and faculty experts debate the costs and benefits of enforcing laws that affect our social fabric and national security.
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China's Legal Lion
NYU Law professor Jerome Cohen has spent five decades studying and visiting China, eventually becoming one of the world's best-connected and most influential experts on China law. He has opened doors for multinational corporations, freed political prisoners, and worked steadfastly to help China create a rule of law.
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Time & Space to Think (PDF)
University Professor Joseph Weiler launches the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice and the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization to invite and support 22 eminent scholars to research, engage, and interact. Great minds don't all think alike!
DEPARTMENTS
A Message from Dean Revesz (PDF)
Notes & Renderings (PDF)
→Debo Adegbile ’94 argues for the Voting Rights Amendment in the Supreme Court's most-watched case.
→Samuel Rascoff wins a Carnegie grant, the fifth won by a scholar affiliated with NYU Law.
→NYU Law Review editors take a lead in putting legal scholarship online
and more.
Faculty Focus
News
(PDF)
→An illustrious tribute to Andreas Lowenfeld
→An innovative Crash of 2008 course by Geoffrey Miller
and more
Profiles
→Profiles of NYU Law's five newest faculty members: José Alvarez, Barton Beebe, Richard Epstein, Ryan Goodman, and Katherine Strandburg (PDF)
→Mini-profiles of 32 faculty and fellows visiting in 2009-10 (PDF)
Scholarship
→"Corporate Self-Regulation and the Low-Wage Workplace" by Cynthia Estlund (PDF)
→"The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation" by Cristina Rodríguez (PDF)
→"The Concept and the Rule of Law" by Jeremy Waldron (PDF)
→Good Reads: A list of all the work published in 2008 by full-time faculty. Plus, excerpts from recent books by professors Lily Batchelder, Barry Friedman, and Margaret Satterthwaite '99. (PDF)
Student Spotlight
News
(PDF)
→A 1L's African internship culminates in a coronation
→Jacob Karabell '09 at the Supreme Court
→2009 Annual Survey is dedicated to the Honorable Patricia Wald
→Justice Samuel Alito presides over the Marden Moot
→Thomas Fritzsche '09 wins the Pro Bono Publico and a Skadden Fellowship
and more.
Scholarship
→"The Neglected Right of Assembly" by Tabatha Abu El-Haj (J.D./Ph.D. '08) (PDF)
→"Federal Preemption in Environmental Law" by Brian Burgess '09 (PDF)
Around the Law School
(PDF)
→HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan makes his first policy speech, while at Furman Center conference
→Madeleine Albright, Paul Volcker and Gordon Brown promote multilateralism
→Richard Holbrooke blasts U.S. action in Afghanistan
and more
Alumni Almanac
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→Priti Radhakrishnan '02 fights unfair patents
→Wall Streeter Seth Glickenhaus '38 keeps calm
→Neil Barofsky '95 becomes TARP czar
→Robin Steinberg '82 is Alumna of the Year
→David Boies (LL.M. '67) remembers Bush v. Gore
and more
Making the Grade
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→Convocation 2009: U.S. envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad extols the rule of law
→Commencement 2009: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes to the (Yankee) field
and more
A Chat with Max Kampelman '45 (PDF)
Reagan's arms negotiator explains why, at 88, he is campaigning for the abolition of nuclear arms.
Masthead
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