News@NYU Law

01/24/2012
Criminal defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman (LL.M. '79) has tackled some of the highest-profile cases in recent memory,…
01/23/2012
High levels of sexual violence against women and girls in Haiti’s tent camps correlate with their inability to find…
01/19/2012
Professor Margaret Satterthwaite '99, a Center for Human Rights and Global Justice faculty director, and Veerle…
01/17/2012
On January 14, President Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76), the leader of Taiwan’s Kuomintang party, was elected for a second…
01/17/2012
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01/13/2012
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on January 4, Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, discusses a…
01/12/2012
John D. Johnston Jr., Professor of Law Emeritus, passed away on December 18 after a battle against cancer. Johnston was…
01/09/2012
Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, has had a busy week. After an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on…
01/06/2012
Can corporations be found liable in U.S. courts for human rights violations abroad? That question is squarely before…
01/05/2012
On January 3, Judge Robert Carter, a leader in the legal battle against racial segregation, passed away at the age of…
12/23/2011
The Green Bag, a quarterly journal of legal scholarship, has recognized Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of…
12/22/2011
 A December conference on the use of cost-benefit analysis to set domestic environmental policy in developing and…
12/19/2011
Ronald Dworkin, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, gave this year's Einstein Lectures at the University of Bern,…
12/16/2011
Anthony Barkow, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law (CACL) argued before…
12/16/2011
On December 13, a delegation of Russian judges, journalists, and NGO representatives took part in a daylong Dwight D.…