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The Inside Story
Ken Kleinrock, NYU Law's Assistant Dean for Admissions and other top law school admissions deans respond to frequent questions about the admissions process.

Want to get a sense of what NYU Law is all about? Sample our introductory brochure.


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The NYU Experience
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Students talk about Law School life, from can't-miss courses to favorite coffee spots. Take a look...

 

Two students talking in the courtyard of Vanderbilt Hall at NYU Law

Please note: The J.D. Office of Admissions has a new address:

New York University School of Law
Office of Admissions
139 MacDougal Street, Suite C-20
New York, New York 10012

 

New York University School of Law, founded in 1835, is located on the University's main campus in Greenwich Village in New York City.

NYU School of Law is committed to enrolling a student body from a broad spectrum of society, with the strongest combination of qualifications and the greatest potential to contribute to the diversity and dynamism of the Law School community. The Law School strives to provide access to the finest legal education to members of groups under-represented in the legal profession.

The Law School community is enormously enhanced by our students' diverse backgrounds and experiences. Twenty-five percent of the Law School's J.D. students are students of color. More than 170 colleges and universities are represented in the Law School's student body. Seventy percent of the J.D. entering class enroll at the Law School after engaging in a variety of professional pursuits.

NYU Law has a range of signature scholarship programs that provide not only full tuition, but also intensive mentoring to develop tomorrow’s leaders. Furman Academic Scholars focus on future legal teaching careers; the Furman Academic Fellowship program allows recent NYU Law graduates to continue that focus even after earning a J.D. Prospective students who want to pursue public interest can apply to the Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program. AnBryce Scholars come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and are among the first in their immediate families to seek a graduate degree.

Other flagship programs include the Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business, which gives scholarships in amounts up to full tuition to students on non-traditional career paths bridging the legal and commercial worlds, and the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, which awards a stipend as part of a fellowship for 3Ls wanting a leg up on a public service career focused on civil liberties.

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Check out recent posts from our student blog:

Lawyers Can Hack It
The Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy (“BLIP”) Clinic’s first-ever Legal Hackathon made waking up before 9:00 on a Sunday morning worth it. Going to law school at NYU puts on tap a legal community and resources that you really cannot fully contemplate until you actually arrive here.
Posted: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:01:16

NYU Law LL.M. Scholarships
Special receptions provide the perfect venue for many of the LL.M. scholars from different cultural and professional backgrounds to mingle and interact among themselves and with the rest of the NYU Law community in a more casual, non-classroom atmosphere.
Posted: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:41:53

International Food Festival
Last Thursday, NYU Law’s International Law Society, SBA, and Asia Law Society came together to sponsor the annual International Food Festival in an attempt to break me out of my second-semester funk.
Posted: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:47:29

Hoping for the Best, Preparing for Anything: Symposium Planning for My Journal
Behind any event is countless hours of preparation and hard work—but being able to create a great event from the ground up made it worth all the effort.
Posted: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:23:02

Sports Law
Over the past year two of the four major sports leagues, the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), experienced lockouts that threatened to cancel their respective seasons (which in retrospect, as a New York Giants fan, would have been absolutely devastating). While the leagues nearly sacrificed billions and fans looked on in [...]
Posted: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:13:02

NYU Law in Alabama
So how did I wind up in a situation where I was living in the Deep South and immersing myself in work that I hadn't had much exposure to before law school? I got lucky.
Posted: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:12:15

I am the 5%
Although law schools have attempted to diversify their student bodies over the years, a recent study casts strong doubt as to the effectiveness of these initiatives with respect to socioeconomic diversity. I offer my perspective on the issue based on my realization that I am among the 5%.
Posted: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:09:40

I Survived! (And So Will You)
Through studying more hours than I knew I was capable of and fighting down ever-increasing waves of panic, I somehow managed to survive the first semester of my 1L year. These are the three most important lessons I gleaned from the experience.
Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:24:22



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