News@NYU Law
02/22/2023
Derwyn Bunton ’98 was working as a juvenile public defender in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The…
02/21/2023
When Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the justice encouraged McKenzie and…
02/21/2023
The Latinx Law Students Association at NYU Law (LaLSA) celebrated leaders in community empowerment at its annual alumni…
02/16/2023
After a multi-year effort led by NYU Law’s Family Defense Clinic, New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest…
02/14/2023
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law Kenji Yoshino has joined the Oversight Board for Facebook and…
02/14/2023
Accepting the 2023 Alumna of the Year Award from OUTLaw—the NYU Law student group that brings together self-identifying…
02/14/2023
Writing papers and studying for exams are important parts of preparing for a legal career. For some alumni, these…
02/08/2023
Under New York domestic relations law, unmarried fathers were often considered ineligible for hearings to prove their…
02/07/2023
As an eighth grader in a Long Island suburb in the 1950s, Daniel Roth didn’t want to recite a prayer with the rest of…
02/07/2023
Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar
Tell us about your experience in the Family Defense Clinic.
Kelsey…
02/07/2023
In uncomfortable exchanges on matters of diversity and inclusion, many people fear misspeaking. As a result, they often…
01/30/2023
Professor of Law Emeritus John Peschel died on December 29, 2022, at the age of 87. During his nearly six decades…
01/27/2023
Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, will receive the Robert B. McKay Law Professor…
01/25/2023
In 2009, Netflix concluded a three-year open competition by awarding $1 million to a team of researchers that had…
01/23/2023
Dara Liss ’24 says that when she was exploring a sea of law school options, NYU Law’s Jacobson Leadership Program in…
01/19/2023
After decades as a hedge fund portfolio manager for Elliott Management, Jay Newman LLM ’81, knew he had a book in him…
01/12/2023
On November 16, in a conversation hosted by NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network (BWLN), former US attorney…
01/12/2023
Six NYU Law students—Matthew Escalante ’23, David Sunshine Hamburger ’23, Zakiya Lewis ’23, Annie Lo ’23, Bex…
01/11/2023
For much of the United States’s history, the president’s powers were relatively weak, by design. The framers of the…
01/04/2023
In the Fall business plan competition sponsored by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Program at NYU Law,…