The People
A Head with Heart
Vanita Gupta ’01 was appointed acting head of the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division just two months after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown...
Professor of Tax Returns
In his 2015 State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama addressed the need for “a tax code that truly helps working Americans trying to get a...
Lives in Parallel
As elementary students in Detroit, identical twins Raymond (pictured above, left) and Richard Diggs (right) were reminded annually that half their classmates would never graduate from high...
A Duo for Decades
More than any others, Martin Lipton ’55 and John Sexton have guided the ascent of NYU School of Law as a top-tier law school and led NYU’s...
Introducing Deborah Burand
Paris beckoned. There was a quaint atelier on the Île de la Cité where she could write her Great American Novel, like Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein,...
Introducing C. Scott Hemphill
Had Scott Hemphill set up a Google Alert for his name, his devices would have been buzzing on May 7, 2015. The New York Times had...
Courting Innovations
Having won a conviction against Gambino family boss John Gotti in 1992, Judge John Gleeson brought a wealth of raw-knuckle legal experience to the bench. Appointed...
His First Century
In Jerome Bruner’s 100th year, he whispers the lines of T.S. Eliot, revisits the loss of his father in childhood, and talks about the sources of...
Anything but Standard Procedure
New York University gave Helen Hershkoff, Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, its 2014–15 Distinguished Teaching Award for “exceptional teaching...
Capital News
The Law School’s already robust presence in Washington, DC, grows even stronger this year as two Law School professors are taking leaves to serve in national...
Keeping Haitians Informed
The Global Justice Clinic (GJC) joined two Haitian civil society coalitions to testify on the right of access to information in Haiti before the Inter-American Commission...
Jury Selections
When Norman Goodman ’50 took the position of New York County clerk in 1969, he had “not the faintest idea” that running this office would become...
Good Counsel on Conflict
Law Women honored Trustee Virginia Molino ’76, general counsel of McKinsey & Company, as its 2015 Alumna of the Year. In accepting her award last March,...
Case Closer
An employment litigator with a long list of successful trial wins on behalf of employers, Victor Schachter ’67, a partner and co-chair of employment practices at...
A Legal Prescription for Health
Although the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides health care and other aid to veterans, it does not provide legal assistance. Margaret Middleton ’07 finds...
In Memoriam: John Slain, 1927–2014
John “Jack” Slain ’55, professor of law emeritus, passed away on September 27, 2014, at age 87. Slain played a foundational role in building NYU Law’s...
In Memoriam: Jay Furman, 1942–2015
NYU Law Trustee Jay Furman ’71 passed away on January 4 at the age of 72. An unflagging supporter of the Law School, Furman left a...
Making Software for Hard Cases
Alma Asay ’05, founder and CEO of Allegory Law, says that her entry into the field of legal technology entrepreneurship came entirely by accident. As a...
Building Bridges
At this year’s annual spring dinner, the Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association honored Ramsey Homsany ’00, general counsel of Dropbox, and Linda Gadsby...
Change Agent
When Leslie Spencer ’98, a patent litigation partner at Ropes & Gray, received the Women of Color Collective’s annual Woman of Distinction Award last March, her...
On Passion and Integrity
At their annual gala, the Black Allied Law Students Association honored Debo Adegbile ’94 and Suzette Malveaux ’94. Adegbile, an NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund...
Margarite Quiñones, 33L
Whether at Admitted Students Days, Orientation, or Feast for Finals, where she would break out in dance while serving scrambled eggs to stressed-out students, it was...
After the Honeymoon
At the annual OUTLaw reception, OUTLaw Alumnus of the Year Jeffrey Trachtman ’84 spoke about addressing current and future issues involving the LGBT community beyond the...
Faculty, Alumni, and Student Briefs
FACULTY BRIEFS Alberto Alemanno, who teaches at NYU Law Abroad in Paris, was selected as a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Philip...
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