Faculty Focus
An Inside View on History
During the primaries and the general election season, professors Samuel Issacharoff and Richard Pildes worked as part of the Obama campaign’s legal team on voting and...
A Tribute to Lowenfeld
Christopher Borgen ’95, a former student of Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus Andreas Lowenfeld, shall always remember the Alamo. In 1999, mentor...
Making a Law Class of a Fine-Feathered Story
Professor of Law Katrina Wyman picked up the New York Times Sunday Book Review in February of last year without any particular academic intentions. The cover...
Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown
A scholar of financial institutions, Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant Comfort Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions,...
Meron on International Criminal Justice
Judge Theodor Meron of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) made a case for the importance of his domain in his February lecture,...
Introducing José Alvarez
International law scholar José Alvarez is known to ruffle feathers. Giving a keynote speech that became “Torturing the Law” in the Case Western Reserve Journal of...
Introducing Barton Beebe
Nix the bookshelves; pump up the tech budget. That’s what Barton Beebe requested for his new Vanderbilt Hall office. All that Beebe really needs to feel...
Introducing Richard Epstein
A classical libertarian arguing against universal health care, Richard Epstein was clearly at a disadvantage when he took the podium in April 2008 to debate Americans’...
Introducing Ryan Goodman
His gentle voice doesn’t dominate a panel discussion, yet he’s the one to further the debate. He won three best-paper prizes at Yale Law School but...
Introducing Katherine Strandburg
She didn’t successfully crash-land a plane or seize the political spotlight, but Katherine Strandburg nonetheless got her proverbial 15 minutes of fame—via cans of mixed nuts....
China’s Legal Lion
Jerome Cohen has spent his life bridging East and West, and promoting the rule of law in China....
Thomas Franck, 1931-2009
Colleagues and his longtime assistant remember a beloved and distinguished professor on the faculty since 1960....
The Law School Features
- Grumpy Court
- One for All: The Hauser 20th Anniversary
- The Ambassadors
- New Frontiers
- Country Miles and Decades
- Area of Agreement
- A Worthy Dozen
- No Trial by Jury
- A-Paper Confessions
- Congressional Testimonies
- Corps Values
- Moral Support
- In Good Company
- Celestial Reasoning
- Foundational Knowledge
- Under Pressure
- Of Law and Order
- Art Imitating Art
- Center Stage
- The Morrison Memo
- Reader Correspondence
- Together Again
- In Appreciation
- Hooding Album, Class of 2015
- Reflections
- “I Encourage Your Discomfort”
- Fall Ball
- Boies, Scouts
- Directorial Deficit
- Police Report
- Border Disputes
- The Size of Justice
- The Prices Were Right
- Patent Offensive
- Closing Statements
- Faculty, Alumni, and Student Briefs
- What’s on the Line Online
- Three-Pillar Cure
- After the Honeymoon
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Multimedia
- Tax Repairer
- Margarite Quiñones, 33L
- On Passion and Integrity
- Best Swishes
- Going Global
- Pros in Con
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Straddling the Thin
Blue Line - Change Agent
- Hasta Law Vista, Baby
- Caring for Caregivers
- Good Reads
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Building Bridges
- Making Software for Hard Cases
- A Matter of Convictions
- How Best to Tell a Story
- North by West
- In Memoriam: Jay Furman, 1942–2015
- In Memoriam: John Slain, 1927–2014
- Shoeboxing Match
- A Legal Prescription for Health
- Case Closer
- Free to Judge
- A Judge Who Delivered
- Gideon’s Reprise
- Change for a $10
- Value Added
- Good Counsel on Conflict
- Global Tax Sense and Sensibility
- A Voice for the Poor
- Wise White House Counsel
- Jury Selections
- What Makes Us Equal?
- Not-So-Classy Actions
- Keeping Haitians Informed
- A Virtual Life Sentence
- Fund Recollections
- Capital News
- Used Bytes for Sale
- Fixing Fraud Sentencing
- Anything but Standard Procedure
- Taking a Good Look at Bad Companies
- Rules of Disclosure
- His First Century
- Inaugural Conference on the Bernstein Institute Focuses on Inequality and Discrimination
- Courting Innovations
- Hard Conversations on Race
- Punishment That Doesn’t Fit the Crime?
- Brass Tacks on Tax Reform
- Longevity in the Law
- What Fledgling Democracies Need
- Introducing C. Scott Hemphill
- Zeitguests
- Introducing Deborah Burand
- A Duo for Decades
- Listening Closely
- Bonding over Books
- Lives in Parallel
- Honoring a Noble Judge with the 2014 Weinfeld Award
- Professor of Tax Returns
- Focusing on the Fine Print
- “Speak Simply and Listen Intently”
- Fairness in the Global Marketplace
- The Truth in the Transcript
- A High-Quality Discussion of Inequality
- Redrawing the Outlines
- A Head with Heart
- Good Reads
- The Morrison Memo
- Introducing Christopher Sprigman
- Introducing Sir Mervyn King
- Temples & Traditions
- Introducing Emiliano Marambio Catan LLM ’10
- Introducing Kwame Anthony Appiah
- A Bittersweet Convocation
- Honoring Her Honor
- Honored for Their Service
- Reader Correspondence
- In Their Words
- Career Highlights
- Progress Report
- Bridge Builder
- They Got the Beat
- For Your (Health) Information
- Who’s Your Kale Daddy?
- The Long Lens on the Law
- From Passion to Action
- Appointed
- Fear of Detection
- Chevron Two-Step
- Pro Bono Star
- Change of Venue
- Righting Voting Wrongs
- Bold Financial Statements
- Sticks and Stones
- Words of Wisdom
- An Ingenious Way to Own the News?
- Across Borders, Whose Law Applies?
- What’s the (Fair) Use?
- Presidential Practice
- Correcting Corrections
- Judging the Nudge
- Legal Shelter from the Storm
- The Consigliere of Mafia Prosecutions
- Workplace IDs
- Tending the Roots
- The Second Amendment is One Sentence:
- Measuring Law’s Long Arm
- Seeking Justice for Ordinary Americans
- Taking the Inside Track
- Out Front
- Boots on the Ground
- Back to School
- The Negotiator
- Consumer Guardian
- The New Legal Trinity
- A Founding Father of IP Law
- Reader Survey
- Closing Statements
- The Keys to Success
- Reproductive Justice
- An Incident Report
- A Witness for Brazil’s Haitians
- Glenn Greenwald’s Headline-Making Year
- Turning Detroit Around
- Keeping Close
- Minding Other People’s Business
- Brown v. State
- A Champion for Immigrant Rights
- “Engage in the Work of Perfecting This Democracy”
- Creative License
- Leading Questions
- The Good Work Continues
- Defining Richard Epstein
- In Memoriam: Andreas Lowenfeld, 1930-2014
- A Shirt Story
- Planting Seeds
- Trending Now @Twitter
- A Strong Voice for Syria
- The Importance of the Afterlife. Seriously.
- Notorious R.B.G.
- Fostering Justice
- A Higher Higher Ed
- The Morrison Memo
- A Field of Dreams
- The Most Influential Person in the Tax World
- Closing Statements
- Full Speed Ahead
- Portrait of a Dean
- Great Divide
- A Tax Haven
- Partner for Life
- Ahead of the Curve
- Introducing Jeanne Fromer
- Introducing Jason Schultz
- The First Time’s a Charm
- Seeking a Few Good Veterans
- Waldron Takes Questions
- Capital News
- Emotional Decisions
- Thanking the People Who Make a Difference
- Medicinal Purpose
- A President, Knighted
- Brothers in Law
- Graduates with a Global Edge
- Forcing the Issue
- Built on Sandy
- A Dedicated Server
- In Praise of Platitudes
- Two Years Out of Three Ain’t Bad
- Well-Appointed
- A Man of the House
- A Big Bang
- Experience Is Political
- A Scout’s Honor
- A Bold Lawyer, a Visionary CEO
- Embracing the Value of Doubt
- Stepping on the Gas
- A Teachable Moment
- Leading by Example
- Expanding Students’ Horizons
- From Blackboard to Bench
- Rosie the Riveter, with a Bunsen Burner
- Ronald Dworkin, 1931-2013
- Reader Correspondence
- Welcome to New York!
- Toying with Innovation
- Message from the Dean
- Ready to Hit the Ground Running
- Ambassadors to the World
- All (Electronic) Eyes Are Watching You
- Knowing How to Sweeten the Deal
- Convocation 2012
- Small Acts of Resistance
- From 1L Lawyering, Learning How to Write
- Puppy Love
- Talks of the Campus
- Daring to Be Green
- Striking a Balance
- Crime and Punishment
- Solicitor General Proves No Match for the IRC
- In the Eye of the Media Tsunami
- Supreme Court Cite-Seeing
- How People Who Don’t Yet Exist Matter More to Us Than People Who Do
- Green on Top
- Advocating for the Weak
- The Mind of Richard Epstein
- Victory for Ma
- 9/11 Fund Special Master Faces New Challenge
- A Blue-Chip Change Agent
- A Chat with Chen Guangcheng
- The Ayes of March
- Our Man Behind the Journey from China
- Cops and Robbers: The Corporate Edition
- Good Facts Make Good Neighborhoods
- Signature Issues in Commercial Law and Bankruptcy
- Dean of the Decade
- Face Forward
- Arguments That Inspired a Justice
- Introducing Intisar Rabb
- Introducing Alan Sykes
- Introducing Adam Samaha
- Introducing David Kamin ’09
- A Streak of Top 10s Times Two
- Giving Constitutional Designers a Foundation
- When Is a Pig Like a Mad Cow?
- A Scholar with Big Pages to Fill
- A Packed Calendar to Mark 50 Years of Teaching
- In One Short Year, Remembering a Life
- A Professor Worthy of the Name
- Saving the Children
- Going the Extra Mile for Death Penalty Defendants
- On Leave for a Noble Cause
- Introducing Cristina Rodríguez
- Singapore 2011
- Convocation 2011
- Pursuing Happiness in an Interdependent World
- A Tribute to the Lion of the Senate
- A Chat with Robert Kindler ’80
- Making Law School Possible for All
- Washington at Washington Square
- The End of Secrets
- A Tale of (Two Trials in) Two Cities
- Joakim Dungel (1978–2011)
- Acts of Courage, Revisited
- The System Everyone Loves to Hate
- The Closer
- Honored for Daring to Help
- Charity Begins at Home
- A Bloom in the Arab Spring
- Charles Conley (1921–2010)
- Recognition for the Ruler of Rules
- Man and Music in Harmony
- But Don’t Call Him Sir
- Seizing the Moment
- Just Icing on the Case
- An Interpreter of Maladies
- It’s Not Easy Being Green: Litigating Environmental Disasters
- Opening Ceremony
- Introducing Douglas H. Ginsburg
- Introducing Gráinne de Búrca
- Introducing Alina Das ’05
- Introducing Adam Cox
- Introducing Sujit Choudhry
- Latest Book Makes Raves
- James Eustice (1932–2011)
- An Extraordinary Dean
- On a Shifting Balance of Power
- Three Lectures and the British Academy
- Shaping Minds and Morals in Battle
- A Man with Many Plans
- Following Words with Action
- For Bringing “Clarity to the Law”
- Tangoing with Terrorism
- Introducing Kenji Yoshino
- Introducing Samuel Rascoff
- Introducing Mitchell Kane
- Introducing Robert Howse
- Introducing John Ferejohn
- Introducing Samuel Scheffler
- Introducing Arthur R. Miller
- Introducing Troy McKenzie
- Introducing Jeremy Waldron
- Introducing Margaret Satterthwaite
- Introducing Smita Narula
- Introducing Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
- Introducing Roderick M. Hills Jr.
- Introducing Cynthia Estlund
- Introducing Kevin Davis
- Introducing Catherine Sharkey
- Introducing Deborah Malamud
- Clinics in the Spotlight
- Dean’s Initiatives in Public Interest
- Public Interest Yesterday and Today
- Annual Survey Honors Sexton
- Research on Environmental and Land Use Law
- Allen and Franck Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Holmes Named 2003 Carnegie Scholar
- John Sexton Takes Reins as NYU President
- NYU Law Interactive
- Days to Remember
- Environmental and Land Use Law Curriculum
- Six New Professorships Established
- BLAPA Honored by its Honorees
- Reactions to Can Gun Control Work?
- Holsinger Named Best Oralist
- The Real World
- Weiler Delivers First Straus Lecture
- Democratic Decline
- The New Generation of Constitutional Scholars
- Administrative and Regulatory State
- Clean Air Litigation
- Stewart on Administrative Fatigue and Revivification
- Fellow Manages Hungary/Slovenia Project
- Helping Students Pursue Their Dreams
- Five Students Awarded Skadden Fellowships
- International Environmental Law Clinic
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Environmental and Land Use Topics Featured in Other Law School Colloquia
- Colloquium on the Law, Economics, and Politics of Urban Affairs
- Globalization and Its Discontents Colloquium
- Training Environmental and Land Use Lawyers for the New Millennium
- In Memoriam: Dorothy Nelkin (1933-2003)
- Justice for the (Actually) Innocent
- Praise for The Culture of Control
- Uphill Both Ways
- Meron Elected President of International Criminal Tribunal
- Hertz Awarded 2003 Distinguished Teaching Medal
- Creative Counsel
- The Architecture of a Law School’s Vision
- Turning the Tables in Tulia
- The Curriculum Is Criminal
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Center for Research in Crime and Justice
- The Art of the Deal
- The Impact of Grutter and Gratz
- The Good Fight
- Lipton, Jones, and Cosby Honored by Brennan Center
- Mohamed ElBaradei: Man of Peace
- Golden Moment for Root-Tilden
- Law School Convocation
- A Clinical Victory
- A Clash of Conscience and Responsibility
- Making a Federal Case
- A View from the Aisle
- Applying Classroom Concepts to Crime-Fighting
- Former NYC Corrections Chief Argues That Prison Does Not Work
- Preparing NYU Law for the next 10 Years
- And the Marden Moot Winner Is…
- Neuborne Goes Hollywood
- On-Campus Cameo
- Constitutional Scholars Debate Guantánamo Bay Detentions
- J.S.D. Candidates Present Their Work at ‘Turn to Scholarship’ Conference
- Krupa Desai: Woman on a Mission with Help from PILC Grant
- Captivating Conundrums
- Harlan Cohen Honored with Justice Jackson Award
- Message from Dean Revesz
- Six Inaugural Lectures Celebrate New Professorships, Javits Program
- Joining Forces to Ease Suffering
- NYU Grad Tops Texas Bar
- Gillers Steps Down as Vice Dean After Five Years
- Caliphs and the Constitution
- Rave Reviews for Law Revue
- Chronicling Drought
- Ending Executions
- Nelson v. Campbell: Life and Death Litigation
- A Supreme Achievement
- Two Professors Hit the Road for Dual Deanships
- Law & Spontaneous Order
- Law Professors Testify on Voting Rights Act
- The Law School Raises the Bar on Public Interest Fund Raising
- How Much Executive Power Is Too Much? It All Depends…
- A Tale of Two Parties
- Meron Medals
- Alumni Inaugurate Ambitious New Capital Campaign
- Chinese Judges Take U.S. Courts Under Consideration
- Thomas Leith
- BLAPA Honors Dutt, Lopez, and Welters
- Annual Survey Honors Dworkin
- Two Degrees of Collaboration
- Lais Washington
- A Chat with Simon Chesterman
- Legal Paper Makes Waves—Even Before Publication
- Heather Childs
- It’s All Academic
- Heads of the Class
- Another First for Fox
- Cassese Named a Judge, Noble Reelected
- Answering the Call from Sudan
- “The World Could Use You Now More than Ever”
- The Rules of the Game
- Christopher Black, 1974-2005
- Nagel Gets Sweet Slice of Melon
- A Firefighter and Trailblazer
- Remembering Chester Mirsky
- Accolades for Amsterdam
- A Peace Corps Volunteer Stays Close to the Lives He Changed
- Bryan Stevenson Wins Martin Luther King Award
- Center for Law & Business Dedicated to Lester Pollack ’57
- Garland Gets a Guggenheim
- Transforming Characters into Letters of the Law
- …And New Rights Created
- Landmark Rights Protected…
- ALI Names Bar-Gill Top Young Scholar
- Message from the Dean
- Craig Winters
- Katrina James
- Ben Gauntlett
- A Justice for All
- Life Lessons of the Chief Judge
- A Chat with Rita Hauser
- Asylum: Views from Both Sides of the Fence
- Dean’s Discourse
- Taking Stock of the Law
- A Theory of Government Reenvisioned
- Achieving Balance Through the Practice of Meditation
- Caught by Good Intentions
- Saving Democracy from Itself
- It’s “Officier”
- A Web-Mistress of Laws
- Bryan Stevenson’s Death-Defying Acts
- An Entrepreneur of the Law
- Minding the Other 2Ls: LL.M.s
- A Fourth Defense
- All the Presidente’s Men
- Bringing the Law to Life
- Better Co-Ed Than Dead
- Forging Ahead
- Moot Is the Point: NYU Talks Its Way to the Top
- New York City Gives Parents a Break
- Come in and Get Out
- Respecting the Family Order
- Clinics Across Borders
- Where it All Begins
- Beyond Law & Order
- A Man Against the Machine
- The Iceman Cometh
- Widening the Circle of the Global Community
- The Hart Specialist
- Students Get Funds to Spring Into Action During Break
- Carnegie Gives NYU Law an “A”
- New Jersey’s Top Legal Eagle
- Supreme Citing
- Neuborne Takes Campaign Financing Reform to the Supreme Court
- Singapore Graduates First Global LL.M. Class
- Welters Named New Chair of Trustees
- European Central Bank President Discusses Downturn at Policy Forum
- High Honors for Noble
- Class of 2008: “The Sky is the Limit”
- Spring Break Across the Hudson River
- Witness for Justice
- Many Happy Returns
- Sylvester J. Petro: In Memoriam, 1917-2007
- A Chat with Ma Ying-jeou
- Follow the Numbers
- Schock and Awe
- An Award-Winning Season
- Regulating Self-Regulation
- Late to the Academy, But Sharing a Lifetime of Learning
- Davis Recognized for Teaching
- Dworkin Tributes Held
- To the Teacher, Legal Legend and Man
- The Collector
- Breakdown on the Bayou
- A Guardian of Providence
- Debating New York’s Judicial Elections
- Lester Pollack: An Illustrious Record of Leadership
- How to Prevent the Next WorldCom or Enron
- “Roots” Flourish
- Alston Gives U.N. Mission Report
- A Path to the Supreme Court
- From Darkness
- Leveling the Political Field
- Dworkin Wins the Holberg Prize
- Partners in Crime
- Message from Dean Revesz
- Message from Dean Revesz
- A Message from Dean Revesz
- A Message from Dean Revesz
- Hornets’ Nest: Foreign Law and the U.S. Constitution
- What Price, Peace?
- Message from the Dean
- Message from the Dean
- Furman Center Goes Inside the Housing Crisis
- A Force in Taiwan
- Feats in Two Koreas
- Beyond the Academy: The fellows of the Center on Law and Security
- A Plan to Make the World Safer: Ronald Noble
- The “Doyenne of Counterterrorism”
- Policy Incubator: Student work in Law and Security
- Stephen Schulhofer on Law Enforcement
- Margaret Satterthwaite on Extraordinary Rendition
- Samuel Rascoff on Regulating Terrorism
- Richard Pildes on Rights in Times of Crisis
- Stephen Holmes on the Rule of Law
- David Golove on the Law of War
- A Growing Problem: Hungry Farmworkers
- Green Team
- Plugging Into a Powerful Partnership
- Félicitations to Bellamy
- Committed to Diversity
- Farewell to the Chief
- Ensuring the right to rest one’s weary head
- Two Alumni Clear a Painful Docket
- Thomas Franck, 1931-2009
- A Prized Fighter for Equal Justice
- A Chat with Max Kampelman
- The State of Matrimony
- Time & Space to Think
- Voting Rights Endure—for Now
- China’s Legal Lion
- The Hard Line on Immigration
- A Measured Response
- The Libertarian Among Us
- Building on the Foundation
- Introducing Katherine Strandburg
- Introducing Ryan Goodman
- Introducing Richard Epstein
- Introducing Barton Beebe
- Introducing José Alvarez
- Introducing Samuel Issacharoff
- Introducing Daniel Hulsebosch
- Introducing Stephen Choi
- Introducing Oren Bar-Gill
- Introducing Moshe Halbertal
- Introducing Lily Batchelder
- Introducing Rachel Barkow
- Introducing Jennifer Arlen
- Introducing Katrina Wyman
- Commencement 2010
- Singapore Convocation
- Another Bronx Tale
- Putting Down Roots
- A Top Gun Shoots from the Hip
- A Life on the Street
- Medicine’s Robin Hood
- Kick-Starting Student Life
- Watching from the Wings
- A Moot Court of the Highest Order
- The Fruits of His Labors
- Cameroon or Bust
- Meron on International Criminal Justice
- Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown
- Making a Law Class of a Fine-Feathered Story
- A Tribute to Lowenfeld
- An Inside View on History
- Lauding an Illustrious Career from the Factory to the Bench
- Introducing Sarah Woo
- Introducing Erin Murphy
- Introducing Franco Ferrari
- Introducing Ryan Bubb
- Introducing Joshua Blank
- Stars Shine on Miller
- Standing On Top—and Savoring Success
- Café Society
- A Tribute to a Legal Historian’s Lasting Influence and Legacy
- Kudos to a Dynamic Teacher
- Introducing Daryl Levinson
- An Illustrated Guide to Wilf Hall
- The Peculiar Persistence of Capital Punishment
- Taking Nations to Task
- The Tools to Stay in School
- A Chat with Kenneth Feinberg ’70
- In Memoriam
- The Shape of Global Governance
- Ditching the Law
- Business for Good
- Building Good Government
- The Man Following the Money
- Sticking with the Facts
- Social Enterprise Helps Rwandan Women Craft a Better Future
- Convocation 2010
- The Passionate Activist
- Law on a Wild Frontier
- Born to Run, Raised to Lead
- Meetings of the Minds
- A Labor Force of One
- Striking Samurai
- A Civil Action: Ensuring Legal Representation for the Poor
- An Enduring Claim
- Honorary Doctorates
- Advocating for Chinese Dissidents—and a Dad
- Defending the Cross
- ElBaradei for President?
- Clement Stands and Delivers
- A Challenge to Peremptories
- Counsel on Tax Dollars and Sense