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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.


Collective Living: In his recent book, David Garland asserts the necessity of the welfare state
03/22/2016
Housing in Order: Roderick Hills proposes comprehensive planning to fight NIMBYism and increase affordable housing
03/01/2016
Driven by Reputation: Katherine Strandburg investigates why physicians don’t patent medical procedures—and what that means for patent law
02/17/2016
The Bug Stops Here: Samuel Rascoff sparks debate with his argument for greater presidential oversight of intelligence gathering
02/03/2016
The Age of Criminality: Kim Taylor-Thompson advocates for a bright-line rule to keep juvenile offenders out of adult courts
01/12/2016
Scholars’ Row: NYU Law faculty books of 2015
12/18/2015
A Law’s Tragic Flaw: In their new book, Richard Revesz and Jack Lienke ’11 explain the dark side of the Clean Air Act
12/08/2015
hands intertwined
Love Across Barriers: In a new book, David Richards explores the connection between our abilities to love and to resist injustice
11/23/2015
Doubly Condemned: Alina Das argues that individuals with criminal convictions are treated unfairly in the immigration system
11/10/2015
Finding a Place to Sue: Linda Silberman tracks the evolving, and often confusing, Supreme Court decisions on jurisdiction
10/26/2015
Testing DNA: In her new book, Erin Murphy investigates how the criminal justice system misuses genetic identification
10/07/2015
Pros in Con: NYU's constitutional law faculty is asking rigorous questions about how to live today within a 228-year-old framework for our laws and democracy
09/08/2015
Adverse Reaction: Professors find fatal flaws in a body of work on takeovers and corporate governance
09/04/2015
A Hierarchy of Equalities: Gráinne de Búrca examines how the European Court of Justice is dealing with anti-discrimination laws
09/04/2015
Mapping Summer 2015: NYU Law faculty engage with legal issues here and abroad
08/26/2015
Rules of Asking and Telling: Adam Samaha examines “must ask, don’t tell” and other combinations
06/30/2015
Columns of courthouse
What Fledgling Democracies Need: In a new book, Samuel Issacharoff discusses how constitutional courts buttress "fragile democracies"
06/15/2015
Affective Evidence: Margaret Satterthwaite on the use of empirical data in human rights advocacy
06/01/2015
Delineating "Yes": Stephen Schulhofer and Erin Murphy are revising the Model Penal Code on sexual assault
05/26/2015
illustration of maze inside mind
Experimenting with the Law: Faculty are testing laws and human behavior in areas ranging from creativity to voting
04/29/2015