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Ideas from NYU Law

Our professors' innovative research contributes both to the advancement of their fields and to the intellectual community of the Law School. Ideas from NYU Law is a resource for concise descriptions of recent works and interviews with faculty about their scholarship.


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Dangerous Currents: Samuel Issacharoff’s new book charts how populist movements threaten democracies around the world
05/22/2023
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Minding the Law: Jennifer Arlen ’86 and Lewis Kornhauser argue for using psychological insights to deter corporate crime
04/13/2023
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Emptying the Prisons: Rachel Barkow weighs whether arguments for prison abolition will bring needed change to the criminal justice system—or backfire
03/30/2023
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Write Makes Right: Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow’s ‘Say the Right Thing’ is a no-nonsense guide to having constructive diversity and inclusion conversations
02/07/2023
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Surprise Parties: A huge data set gives Ryan Bubb and Emiliano Catan LLM ’10 new insight into how mutual funds vote their shares
01/25/2023
Noah Rosenbaum Ideas Story Art
Checks and Balances: Noah Rosenblum considers the antifascist origins of US presidential administration
01/11/2023
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NYU Law bookshelf: Faculty books of 2022 covered pressing topics such as human rights, climate change, and artificial intelligence
12/13/2022
Gráinne de Búrca Ideas Story Artwork
Out of Line: A new paper by Gráinne de Búrca argues that the EU should confront illiberal governments in Hungary and Poland
11/18/2022
Daniel Shaviro Ideas Story artwork
Troubled American Dreams: Daniel Shaviro traces changing attitudes towards wealth and inequality in popular culture
10/21/2022
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Deportation and Dissent: Alina Das and clinic students allege government retaliation against immigrant rights activists
04/25/2022
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Shame, Guilt, Violence, and Shakespeare: In a new book, David A.J. Richards and James Gilligan reveal what Shakespeare’s plays teach about the motivations for and perpetuation of violence in the criminal legal system and beyond
04/18/2022
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New Balance: Can contract law address inequality? Kevin Davis and Mariana Pargendler find examples in three developing countries.
04/08/2022
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Escaping the ‘Novelty Trap’: Existing intellectual property law can make it more challenging for developing countries to innovate, Rochelle Dreyfuss writes.
03/29/2022
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Broken Tools: Vincent Southerland illuminates the problem of bias in the criminal legal system's use of algorithmic tools
03/14/2022
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The Law of Memes: Amy Adler and Jeanne Fromer argue that memes, which raise questions about conventional notions of copyright law, have considerable legal and cultural significance
01/19/2022
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Eating to Win: Scott Hemphill spotlights an antitrust problem for highly innovative industries: anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent competitors
12/20/2021
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Authors’ Circle: NYU Law faculty books of 2021
12/07/2021
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Measuring Consumer Uncertainty: NYU researchers suggest more nuanced tools to gauge the marketplace confusion caused by similar trademarks
12/01/2021
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Retooled Economies: Cynthia Estlund’s most recent book proposes strategies for a world in which automation could dramatically reduce employment
11/12/2021
Maggie Blackhawk
Rethinking Paradigms: Maggie Blackhawk challenges common wisdom in her interdisciplinary scholarship
09/09/2021