Dicta
A Higher Higher Ed
In recent years, the Law School has revamped its curriculum by increasing offerings that emphasize practice skills and business training for law students. Now it is preparing...
Notorious R.B.G.
“The name is obviously a reference to Notorious B.I.G., who is this large, imposing rapper, a really powerful figure; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is this 90-pound Jewish...
A Shirt Story
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers sported an NYU Law Deans’ Cup T-shirt while visiting girlfriend Olivia Munn on the set of her HBO show, The Newsroom....
Brown v. State
In 1991, an elderly Oneonta, NY, woman reported an attempted rape. she never saw her attacker, but believed he was black and may have cut his hand....
A Witness for Brazil’s Haitians
As an inaugural Ford Foundation Law School Fellow, Gabrielle Apollon ’15 worked at Conectas Human Rights in São Paulo during the summer of 2013. Just two...
Sticks and Stones
After hazing on his team came to light last fall, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross LLM ’66 approached Dean Trevor Morrison, Professor Troy McKenzie ’00, and...
Change of Venue
For nine years, the Forum on Law, Culture & Society (folcs.org) has enriched the cultural life of New York City through its lively, public conversations with...
Pro Bono Star
Last fall Marshall Camp ’02, a partner at Irell & Manella, argued the first case under California’s Fair Sentencing for Youth Act—and won. As a result,...
Chevron Two-Step
Some people study using note cards and outlines. Lewie Briggs ’15 uses song and dance. While a 1L in Professor Adam Cox’s course on Legislation and...
Fear of Detection
Question: Why are Americans the most compliant taxpayers in the world? Answer: They are afraid of getting caught. A Bloomberg writer/artist duo used a 2010 Virginia...
Appointed
The White House has tapped Lily Batchelder, professor of law and public policy on leave, as deputy assistant to the president and deputy director at the...
From Passion to Action
Asia Society named Rajeev Goyal ’06 and Winston Wenyan Ma MCJ ’98 two of its 2013-14 Asia 21 Young Leaders, tasked with focusing on solutions to...
The Long Lens on the Law
New Yorkers Lawrence Lederman ’66, of counsel at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and former chairman of its global corporate practice (left), and Len Speier ’52,...
Who’s Your Kale Daddy?
Studying for the bar can be stressful. Sophie Milrom ’13 sweetened her experience by concocting the perfect study snack: homemade juice-based popsicles. Now an associate at...
