Featured Alumni
From international human rights to voting rights to prison reform, and from policy work to litigation and then back to policy, the career of Naila Awan LLM ’12 has taken many turns, but collaboration and dedication to human rights have been constant…
Some nights (pre-pandemic), after playing a set with her rock band, New Day Dawn, Dawn Botti ’94 would be approached by a member of the audience. Often the person was a fan, but many times it was a fellow musician, asking her to look over a touring…
NYU Law Women presented Bridget McCormack ’91, Chief Justice at the Michigan Supreme Court, with the group’s 2022 Alumna of the Year award at a virtual event on February 10. A student organization whose mission is to help women succeed in law and to…
When Peter Van Valkenburgh ’14 moved to New York City after high school to try his hand at an acting career, he taught himself web design to help pay the bills. “Getting into the web design world got me really into the internet, and ultimately into…
Keker, Van Nest & Peters name partner Elliot Peters ’85 frequently works on high-stakes litigation matters, representing clients such as cyclist Lance Armstrong, the Major League Baseball Association, and financier Frank Quattrone. He has been…
On June 21, in his concurring opinion in the 9-0 decision National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston, US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh cited an amicus brief co-written by Patrick A. Bradford ’89 and other Black antitrust lawyers. The…
As an assistant professor of arts management at the State University of New York’s Purchase College, Laura Ricciardi ’08 researches the legal issues surrounding contested public monuments. Along with her teaching and research, Ricciardi is also a…
In 2014, as co-founder of a legal technology startup, PacerPro, Anna McGrane ’10 wanted to better understand the new company’s intended market, large law firms. She found an important resource in the NYU Law Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and…
Tanya Coke ’94, now director of the Ford Foundation’s gender, racial, and ethnic justice team, recalls that when she grew up as a Jamaican immigrant just outside Columbus, Ohio, she was one of only a few Black students in her school. “I felt the…
In 2015, Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson ’99 helped launch a health and life sciences section within the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). As she drafted the proposal, she thought back on her involvement with NYU Law’s Law Alumni of Color…
At age six, Song Kim ’13 moved with her family from Korea to the United States. “We lived in an immigrant community, which was like an extended family,” she says. “And I became quickly aware of the ways that being a part of the non-dominant culture…
When Tess Bridgeman ’10 began her job as an attorney advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, she was glad that she had kept her old notes from NYU Law courses such as War, the President, and the Constitution, taught by…
The first time that Cedric Merlin Powell ’87, then an undergraduate at Oberlin College, read New York University’s motto, he knew where he wanted to pursue public interest law and pedagogy. “I was so attracted to that idea, to ‘a private university…
Even before Superstorm Sandy hit New York City in 2012, Miranda Massie ’96 had a mounting sense of the importance of addressing climate change. She was already working on issues of environmental law and policy as then-interim executive director of…
After a year when the coronavirus pandemic changed much about the practice of law, Ken Frenchman ’99 joined several long-time colleagues in making a big change of their own: starting their own firm.
Ken Frenchman '99On January 5, Frenchman,…
As a student teacher during his dual bachelor-master’s degree program in education at the University of Virginia (UVA), Rafiq Kalam Id-Din II ’00 began to formulate an idea for a new model for education, one that would restructure schools to better…
On August 27, Shawna Baker LLM ‘15, was sworn in as a justice for the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation, one of only three women to have served on the court. A former law professor and the founder of Tulsa’s Family Legacy & Wealth Counsel, a…
Robert Hayes ’77 first became interested in issues affecting the homeless population as a young reporter covering social issues for the Long Island Catholic Newspaper. Then, as a student at NYU Law, Hayes struck up conversations with the men whom he…
As a 2L student in the Family Defense Clinic, Sienna Fontaine ’07 learned early on that her clients often needed more than just legal representation.
“The clinic was a piece of my understanding of how low income families, especially families of…
Valerie Radwaner ’87, deputy chair at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, attributes much of her success in private practice to the legal education she received at NYU Law. Radwaner, who in 2014 became the firm’s first deputy chair after a…