Faculty Directors, Fellows, and Staff

Faculty Directors

Barry Friedman 
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Politics

Barry Friedman is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law, policing, criminal procedure, and the federal courts. He is the author of the The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009), and Unwarranted: Policing without Permission (2017). Friedman is the founding director of NYU Law’s Policing Project, and the reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Law: Policing. He publishes regularly in the nation’s leading academic journals, in the fields of law, politics, and history; his work also appears frequently in the popular press, including the New York Times, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and the New Republic. Friedman has served as a litigator or litigation consultant on a variety of matters in the federal and state courts, and has had a long involvement with social change issues. In addition to his conventional courses in Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Criminal Procedure, Friedman teaches seminars in policing, and a new course entitled Judicial Decisionmaking that marries social science about judging with normative and institutional legal questions. He and a set of co-authors from law and the social sciences are writing a course book for the Judicial Decisionmaking course. Friedman is also the author of Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success, and talks frequently on the subject. Friedman graduated with honors 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 US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. 

Emma Kaufman
Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law

Emma Kaufman teaches and writes about criminal law, constitutional law, and administrative law. Her recent work focuses on criminal jurisdiction and the evolution of criminal procedure rights. Her scholarship has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals and leading law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. Her first book, Punish and Expel (Oxford University Press), drew on a year of ethnographic research in men’s prisons to explore the relationship between punishment and immigration enforcement. In 2022, she received the law school’s Podell Distinguished Teaching Award.

Kaufman graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, she clerked for Judge Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York and Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Kaufman joined NYU from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bigelow Fellow.

 

Furman Program Administrator

Tess Herzog

Tess is the Program Administrator for the Furman Scholars Program at NYU School of Law. 

 

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