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ALI Names Bar-Gill Top Young Scholar

Professor Oren Bar-Gill received the prestigious American Law Institute’s first-ever Young Scholars Medal. According to ALI, the award was created “to call attention to academic work...

Shaping Minds and Morals in Battle

Many philosophers have grappled with the ethics of war—Mill, Rawls, Kant, and Aristotle among them. But in 2000, Moshe Halbertal, along with lawyers, generals, and other...

Three Lectures and the British Academy

University Professor Jeremy Waldron delivered three lectures—one on each of three successive days last May—as part of the Hamlyn Lectures series, administered by the University of...

On a Shifting Balance of Power

Professor Catherine Sharkey, a leading expert on federal preemption in the realm of products liability, won a prized fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation....

An Extraordinary Dean

Norman Redlich (LL.M. ’55) was my family’s dean. He was the dean who hired me in 1985 to join the NYU Law School faculty and during...

James Eustice (1932–2011)

Not everyone can have had my good fortune to have Jim as a teacher, a mentor, a colleague, and a friend. Jim and I taught together...

Latest Book Makes Raves

Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law Ronald Dworkin published his most comprehensive book, Justice for Hedgehogs, in January. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging exploration of...

Introducing Sujit Choudhry

For a renowned comparative constitutional law scholar who has written or edited more than 60 works, Sujit Choudhry spends a lot of time with his boots...

Introducing Adam Cox

It was tough for Adam Cox to choose between practicing law and teaching it. “I knew I’d love to teach,” he recalls, “but I was a...

Introducing Alina Das ’05

As students in the Immigrant Rights Clinic, Alina Das and her friends would joke about making those years last forever, perhaps by forming a law firm...

Introducing Gráinne de Búrca

One of the foremost scholars on E.U. law and its relationship to national legal systems and the international legal order, Gráinne de Búrca has written or...

Introducing Douglas H. Ginsburg

When Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit isn’t wearing his black robe, he prefers red—a scarlet...

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