Furmans on the Market
The following alumni of the Furman Scholars Program are currently on the academic hiring market.
Colin Bradley '21
Colin's work explores how law structures democratic practice and civic equality. His writing focuses on the constitutional dimensions of labor and election law, general jurisprudence, and private law theory. He is especially interested in the intersection between private law concepts and public law. He recently completed a PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University. His dissertation, Claiming Independence: Essays on Law, Morality, and Equality, supervised by Philip Pettit, develops a novel account of the significance of the republican idea of independence. His work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Political Philosophy, and NYU Law Review, among other places.
Colin received a JD from New York University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, where he was a Furman Academic Scholar and recipient of the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize, the John Bruce Moore Award for Law and Philosophy, the Leonard M. Henkin Prize for Scholarship on Equal Rights, the Weinfeld Prize for Scholarship in Procedure and Courts, and the Aleta Estreicher Prize for Law Teaching. He earned a BA from the University of Chicago with general honors, as a Student Marshal, and received the Lee Family Prize for Best Essay in Theoretical Philosophy.
For 2024-2025 he clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals. During law school, Colin worked as an associate for Altshuler Berzon, LLP, as a legal intern at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and as a research assistant for Professors Cynthia Estlund, Barry Friedman, Samuel Issacharoff, and Trevor Morrison. He also worked as a legal intern on procedural litigation before the US Supreme Court.
His personal website is jcolinbradley.com
Adam Littlestone-Luria '23
Adam Littlestone-Luria received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020 and then a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2023, where he was a Furman Academic Scholar and an articles editor on the New York University Law Review. He earned his B.A. in Classics from Pomona College in 2013.
His research focuses on federal courts, civil procedure, complex and aggregate litigation, constitutional law and practice, mass torts, and the uses of history in constitutional interpretation.
During his doctorate, Adam researched the institutional traditions of ancient Rome and Greece, their legacy in the legal and political thought of early-modern Europe, and their influence on the conceptions of republicanism, democracy, adjudication, and the separation of powers that informed institutional design during the American Founding. Throughout his time at Berkeley, Adam taught as an instructor in history, sociology, and politics.
After law school, Adam was a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he worked on complex commercial and antitrust litigation, appellate litigation, and pro bono prison reform litigation, including a class action against Angola Prison in Louisiana. Adam then clerked for the Honorable Jennifer H. Rearden on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and he is currently a judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the Honorable Robert D. Sack.
Before law school, Adam taught and competed as a professional ballroom dancer. He has done extensive work in ancient languages, and he served as a Latin tutor throughout the course of his doctorate.
Hannah Walser '24
Hannah is a Furman Fellow at NYU Law whose areas of interest include the First Amendment, criminal law, interpretive methodologies, and the intersection of law and the philosophy of mind. Her recent and ongoing projects include articles arguing that courts should subject corpus linguistics data to traditional fact-finding procedures; examining the way that vagrancy, loitering, and other vague conduct offenses distribute psychological labor unequally within the population; and exploring a largely submerged doctrinal tradition that frames religion as self-binding commitment rather than sincere belief.
Hannah received her J.D. (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) from NYU Law, where she was a Furman Academic Scholar and the recipient of the Robert B. McKay Prize in Constitutional Law. She also served as a research assistant to Professors Emma Kaufman and Melissa Murray, a teaching assistant to Professor Brittany Farr, and a Senior Articles Editor for the Review of Law and Social Change. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal, Modern Criminal Law Review, and Critical Analysis of Law, as well as many peer-reviewed humanities journals.
Hannah holds a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. Before coming to NYU, she taught students ranging from middle schoolers to undergraduates and spent three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her book, Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, was published by Stanford University Press in 2022.