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What’s inside the 2011 issue: A cover profile of Sheila Birnbaum ’65, products liability defense specialist and the new special master of the September 11th fund; torts: "the system everyone loves to hate”; a faculty and alumni panel debate WikiLeaks; look who's teaching at NYU Law; a eulogy for Dean Emeritus Norman Redlich (LL.M. '55); and more.
5/18/12
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses NYU Commencement
5/15/12
Recently retired president of Israel’s Supreme Court to join NYU Law faculty as visitor in fall
5/11/12
NYU Law hosts Conference on Contractual Innovation
5/11/12
Turkish reforms are the focus of Center for Constitutional Transitions symposium
5/10/12
Two NYU Law students win Peggy Browning Fellowships
5/7/12
Sharon Rabin-Margalioth (LL.M. ’96) named dean of Israel's Radzyner School of Law
5/7/12
In new book, Moshe Halbertal looks at sacrifice
5/7/12
Cass Sunstein, head of OIRA, explains gains achieved through cost-benefit analysis of regulation
5/3/12
Jerome Cohen advises activist Chen Guangcheng in negotiations with China
5/2/12
Second annual Law & Banking/Finance Conference examines risk in global financial system
4/30/12
Four from NYU Law get Equal Justice Works Fellowships
4/30/12
Alumni gather for 2012 NYU Law reunion
4/27/12
Jeremy Waldron delivers keynote at Oxford conference
4/26/12
NYU Law honors Marvin Miller on 40th anniversary of the first strike in sports history
4/25/12
Immigrant Rights Clinic court victory spurs major changes in policy toward those wrongfully deported
4/24/12
ACLU Staff Attorney Andre Segura ’06 assesses Supreme Court hearing on Arizona v. United States
4/24/12
Norman Dorsen moderates debate in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District
4/23/12
BALSA symposium addresses race, poverty, and the criminal justice system (VIDEO)
4/23/12
New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander gives keynote speech at CACL conference
4/20/12
Students secure highly competitive entry-level federal agency positions
4/19/12
Judge Diane Wood delivers Jorde Symposium Lecture
4/19/12
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls for equal pay for women at event co-sponsored by NYU Law Women
4/18/12
Marcel Kahan and Stephen Choi retain primacy in Corporate Practice Commentator poll
4/18/12
12th Annual NYU/KPMG lectures address the taxation of intangibles in a global economy (VIDEO)
4/18/12
NYU Law’s Order of the Coif inducts honorary member Charles Stillman ’62 (AUDIO)
4/16/12
BLAPA celebrates the Courage to Act at its spring dinner
4/16/12
Arthur Gonzalez (LL.M. '90) honored by Hispanic National Bar Association
4/16/12
Sujit Choudhry delivers Trudeau Foundation lecture
4/16/12
James Jacobs wins Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
4/13/12
Alan Sykes to join permanent faculty in Fall 2012
4/12/12
Arthur R. Miller honored with daylong symposium at University of Oregon
4/12/12
Joshua Blank moderates discussion on offshore accounts, tax amnesties, and tax compliance (VIDEO)
4/9/12
New Center for Constitutional Transitions marks launch with symposium on Turkey and Middle East
4/9/12
NYU Law wins fourth consecutive Deans' Cup
4/9/12
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights is featured speaker at Milbank Tweed Forum
4/9/12
Louis Michael Seidman discusses hyper-incarceration at the Hoffinger Criminal Justice Forum (VIDEO)
4/9/12
NYU Law students perform in the 2012 Law Revue
4/3/12
Kenji Yoshino and Dale Carpenter discuss acclaimed new book on Lawrence v. Texas
4/3/12
Kathryn Keneally (LL.M. ’93) confirmed as assistant attorney general for the DOJ Tax Division
4/2/12
Ronald Dworkin argues that the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act is wrong
4/2/12
In the Nation, Carol Gilligan argues that the GOP cannot win without the support of women
3/30/12
Supreme Court cites brief prepared by Immigrant Rights Clinic students
3/28/12
Samuel Scheffler delivers renowned Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley
3/27/12
Panelists at Milbank Tweed Forum offer perspectives on the Euro crisis
3/26/12
Student's eye-view: An all-nighter for seat at Supreme Court arguments
3/22/12
Katherine Strandburg's amicus brief cited in unanimous Supreme Court opinion
3/22/12
A major Supreme Court ruling takes guidance from Center on Administration of Criminal Law
3/20/12
In inaugural University Professorship Lecture, Arthur R. Miller sounds alarm on access to courts
3/19/12
Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal delivers Korematsu Lecture
3/16/12
MALDEF’s David Hinojosa discusses litigating civil rights impact cases in the 21st century
3/16/12
Ana Irene Delgado (LL.M. ’06) named Panama Ambassador to the U.K.
3/16/12
Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards honored with A. Leon Higginbotham award at NBLSA convention
3/14/12
Lies, damned lies, and (law school) statistics
3/13/12
NYU Law students achieve honors at moot court competitions
3/13/12
NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business co-sponsors conference on law and finance
3/9/12
IILJ and CHRGJ host International Law and Human Rights Scholarship Conference
3/9/12
NYU launches impact investing series at Law School
3/8/12
Mayor Bloomberg swears in three NYU Law graduates to serve in NYC family and criminal courts
3/7/12
Annual Survey of American Law dedicated posthumously to Derrick Bell
3/5/12
Annual Survey of American Law symposium tackles health care reform (VIDEO)
3/2/12
Theodor Meron appointed president of U.N.-created judicial body
3/1/12
New Jersey's chief justice sees problems with eyewitness identifications in Brennan Lecture (VIDEO)
3/1/12
CHRGJ releases briefing paper on role of women in preventing violent extremism
3/1/12
Women of Color Collective honors Maria McFarland ’01 at annual dinner
3/1/12
Three NYU Law alumni to clerk at Supreme Court in upcoming term
2/28/12
E. Thomas Sullivan is named as 26th president of the University of Vermont
2/28/12
José Alvarez speaks about U.N.'s "soft power" at international conference
2/28/12
Michael Rothenberg ’91, executive director of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, dies at 47
2/27/12
Symposium explores municipal dynamism in environmental policy
2/23/12
Journal of Legislation and Public Policy appears in New York Times
2/23/12
NYU Law holds 18th Annual Public Service Auction
2/22/12
NYU Law alumni announce congressional runs for 2012
2/22/12
Gerald Rosenfeld joins Council on Foreign Relations
2/21/12
Sara Moss ’74 is honored as Law Women’s 2012 alumna of the year
2/17/12
White House's Jonathan Greenblatt gives keynote at symposium co-sponsored by NYU Law students
2/17/12
Kim Taylor-Thompson wins NYU-wide Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award
2/17/12
Guarini Center and IILJ welcome President of Palau and Prime Minister of Grenada
2/15/12
An NYU Law debate on women’s issues in 2012 focuses on healthcare and reproductive rights (VIDEO)
2/15/12
Wilf Hall receives LEED Platinum Standard certification from the U.S. Green Building Council
2/15/12
Oren Bar-Gill organizes American Law Institute conference on consumer protection at NYU Law
2/14/12
Additional postgraduate employment data now available on NYU Law website
2/14/12
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., delivers “Conversation on Urban Crime” address
2/14/12
Immigrant Rights Clinic scores big win in battle over government deportation policy
2/9/12
35th annual Public Interest Legal Career Fair draws record numbers
2/8/12
David Boies (LL.M. '67) and Theodore Olson prevail again in federal court in same-sex marriage case
2/7/12
Samuel Estreicher is co-counsel for amicus brief in major Supreme Court human rights case
2/7/12
Corporate Crime Reporter features Jennifer Arlen’s analysis of Organizational Sentencing Guidelines
2/6/12
Annual gospel music celebration honors the late Derrick Bell (VIDEO)
2/5/12
James Silkenat (LL.M. '78) nominated as 137th president of the American Bar Association
2/3/12
Leaders in Public Interest Series panel compares roles of public defender and prosecutor
2/2/12
Milbank Tweed Forum panelists consider implications and lessons of Arab Spring (VIDEO)
2/2/12
Eleanor Fox discusses the European Competition Model at the European Competition Forum in Brussels
2/2/12
Five NYU Law students join Justice Department through Attorney General's Honors Program
2/2/12
Judge Jonathan Lippman ’68 accepts the William Brennan Award for Outstanding Jurist from the NYSACDL
1/31/12
The NYSBA honors Bennett Liebman ’74 with 2012 Award for Excellence in Public Service
1/31/12
Barry Friedman discusses United States v. Jones in a New York Times op-ed
1/30/12
Jenny Rivera ’85 receives the 2012 Diversity Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award from the NYSBA
1/27/12
Symposium explores corporate governance in the global marketplace
1/27/12
Winston Ma (M.C.J. ’98) focuses on Chinese modernization in Hauser Annual Dinner speech
1/26/12
Conference brings rising antitrust scholars to NYU Law to present cutting-edge research
1/17/12
President Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76) wins re-election in Taiwan
1/17/12
NYU Law releases employment data for recent graduates
1/12/12
NYU Law mourns Professor of Law Emeritus John D. Johnston Jr.
1/9/12
Richard Stewart moderates panel in Abu Dhabi on reduction of greenhouse gases
1/6/12
Burt Neuborne and Brennan Center file amicus brief in major human rights case before Supreme Court
1/5/12
Judge Robert Carter, leader in the legal battle against racial segregation, dies at 94
12/29/11
The New York Times calls Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez "A Judge Who Reshaped the Corporate Landscape"
12/23/11
The Green Bag honors Richard Pildes for exemplary legal writing
12/22/11
NYU School of Law and University of Chile School of Law to become global partners
12/16/11
Invited by the court, CACL executive director Anthony Barkow argues before the Second Circuit
12/16/11
Institute of Judicial Administration event brings Russian delegation to NYU Law
12/13/11
Governor Cuomo appoints Mitra Hormozi ’95 to the new Joint Commission on Public Ethics
12/13/11
Alexa Rosenbloom ’10 and Peter Barker-Huelster ’12 selected as 2012 Skadden Fellows
12/9/11
Theodor Meron's new book celebrated at Law School event
12/8/11
German Supreme Court cites paper by Franco Ferrari in conflict of laws ruling
12/8/11
John P. Steines Jr. (LL.M. ’78) named new author of renowned corporate tax treatise
12/6/11
A law school gathering celebrates Richard Epstein's latest book
11/23/11
At 2011 Gelatt Dialogue, law scholars examine 100 years of justice in China
11/22/11
Philip Alston discusses the Convention on the Rights of the Child in UNICEF podcast series (AUDIO)
11/22/11
Ronald Dworkin receives honorary law doctorate from University of Buenos Aires
11/21/11
Lawrence Kaplan gives 2011 Tikvah Public Lecture on Jewish laws of mourning
11/21/11
Milbank Tweed Forum panelists consider "post-racial" America (VIDEO)
11/21/11
The Emilio Mignone Lecture explores justice and development in the Arab Spring (VIDEO)
11/17/11
South Asian Bar Association of Toronto names Sujit Choudhry Practitioner of the Year (VIDEO)
11/17/11
David Kamin '09 to join NYU Law faculty in 2012
11/16/11
Bickel & Brewer Institute holds inaugural national symposium
11/16/11
James Jacobs receives the 2011 IASOC Distinguished Scholar Award
11/15/11
Menachem Mautner speaks on Israeli law and politics at the 2011 Gruss Lecture
11/14/11
Two cases handled by Bryan Stevenson’s public interest law firm now on Supreme Court docket
11/11/11
Symposium on legal needs of transgender community explores multiple aspects of trans experience
11/10/11
In Hayek Lecture, Judge Robert Smith defines the "Hayekian" judge (VIDEO)
11/9/11
Derrick Bell, 1930-2011, Remembered
11/8/11
Lauren Burke ’09 hired as first in-house attorney at the NYAWC
11/7/11
Simon Chesterman appointed the new dean of National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
11/4/11
AnBryce scholars organize NYU Law participation in New York Cares Day
11/4/11
Epstein, Hills, Sharkey, and Judge Robert Smith weigh in on National Meat v. Harris (VIDEO)
11/4/11
Health and environmental consequences of “factory farms”
11/2/11
Jerome Cohen and Sharon Hom '80 testify before Congress on the plight of Chen Guangcheng
11/2/11
Two events celebrate the life and lasting influence of Derrick Bell
10/31/11
Anthony Thompson wins EL Award for tri-state area's most outstanding Latinos
10/28/11
National politics and sovereignty are topics of two International Law events
10/27/11
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman '68 calls for major civil legal services effort (VIDEO)
10/26/11
Richard Epstein squares off with economists on Obama’s Jobs Plan
10/26/11
The NYU Journal of Law & Business presents a discussion on challenges faced by in-house counsel
10/25/11
Panelists discuss the challenges of offender reentry at the Milbank Tweed Forum (VIDEO)
10/24/11
Theodor Meron is elected president of the International Criminal Tribune for the former Yugoslavia
10/24/11
Ira Belkin ’82 is named executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute
10/21/11
Judge Robert Katzmann of the Second Circuit discusses statutory interpretation in Madison Lecture
10/20/11
Beth Simmons and Eric Posner discuss human rights treaties at Rubin Symposium (VIDEO)
10/18/11
CCR attorney Sunita Patel discusses racial profiling and stops-and-frisks
10/18/11
Tort reform is the focus at the October 12 Milbank Tweed Forum
10/17/11
A celebration and discussion mark the demise of “don’t ask, don’t’ tell”
10/17/11
Katherine B. Forrest '90 and Former Alexander Fellow Alison Nathan confirmed to federal bench
10/14/11
Richard and Jane Stewart's new book diagnoses U.S. nuclear waste policy failures
10/13/11
Deborah Ellis '82 and three others from NYU Law community honored at White House
10/13/11
Theodor Meron discusses accomplishments and future of international tribunals
10/12/11
Warren Sinsheimer (LL.M. ’57) honored with Judge Edward Weinfeld Award
10/10/11
Influential gay rights expert Paula Ettelbrick, an adjunct professor at NYU Law, dies at 56
10/10/11
Samuel Rascoff moderates Forum with CLS Scholar-in-Residence Michael Leiter and ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer
10/10/11
Louis Menendez (LL.M. ’76) is sworn in as an Alaska Superior Court Judge
10/6/11
In Memoriam: Derrick Bell, 1930 - 2011
10/4/11
Director of Tax Policy at the OECD gives Tillinghast Lecture; a tribute to James Eustice
10/3/11
NYU, French climate ambassador hold climate policy roundtable
9/30/11
Institute for Justice honors Richard Epstein with inaugural "Champion of the Constitution Award"
9/29/11
President of European Council appears at Law School for "transatlantic dialogue."
9/29/11
Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom delivers keynote at conference on cultural commons
9/28/11
President of Cyprus discusses his divided nation
9/26/11
Gordon Brown discusses worldwide economic troubles
9/26/11
Colleague lauds the late Sarah Woo's scholarship
9/22/11
Public Interest Lecture Series features Marieke Wierda (LL.M. ’97) of the ICTJ (VIDEO)
9/22/11
Margaret Lemos '01 joins Duke Law faculty
9/16/11
Catherine Sharkey briefs Congressional staff on federalism and preemption
9/14/11
Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill '85 delivers Abrams Lecture (VIDEO)
9/14/11
Eyal Benvenisti and Jürgen Basedow join Institute of International Law
9/14/11
Sebastian Omlor (LL.M. '12) wins international notary law prize
9/14/11
James Jacobs's latest book, Breaking the Devil's Pact, is honored at a Law School reception
9/8/11
Furman Center launches major subsidized housing online database
9/8/11
Chelsea Rosenthal '12 explores legal profession's role in Holocaust
9/7/11
New translation of Oscar Chase's book appears in Spanish
9/6/11
Adam Samaha to join ranks of NYU Law faculty in fall of 2012
9/6/11
In memoriam: Harry Subin, Professor of Law Emeritus
8/29/11
Renovated 22 Washington Square North installs green wall and receives LEED certification
8/25/11
David Garland's provocative book has garnered more plaudits
8/24/11
For newly arrived LL.M. students from abroad, an unvarnished view of the U.S. civil justice system
8/19/11
NYU Law among top three partner-generating schools nationwide, according to study
8/11/11
Jeremy Waldron is elected a Fellow of the British Academy
7/27/11
Amedeo Arena (LL.M. '10) wins award for article on E.U. law
7/22/11
CHRGJ releases pioneering report about counterterrorism's impact on women and sexual minorities
7/21/11
NYU Law mourns the untimely death of Sarah Woo
7/12/11
Work of Philip Alston provides major basis for landmark ruling by Europe’s top human rights court
7/11/11
Sara Zier '10 wins Soros Justice Fellowship
7/8/11
CHRGJ helps launch new website devoted to human rights impact of business activities
7/8/11
In memoriam: Howard L. Greenberger '54, professor emeritus
7/6/11
Sujit Choudhry to join NYU Law faculty
6/28/11
Rush Atkinson '10 publishes article on Fourth Amendment in Georgetown Law Journal
6/28/11
Brennan Center publishes new book on government regulation of campaign finance
6/23/11
Clayton Gillette publishes new book
6/21/11
Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris '90 gives keynote at NYU Law's 64th annual Conference on Labor
6/17/11
Richard Pildes considers 60-Day Clock provision of the War Powers Resolution
6/14/11
Remembering Dean Emeritus Norman Redlich (LL.M. '55)
6/13/11
AILA Presents Professor Nancy Morawetz with the 2011 Elmer Fried Excellence Award
6/10/11
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano discusses counterterrorism challenges (VIDEO)
6/10/11
International Tax Program forms Practice Council
6/8/11
Robert Bauer to become Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor
6/8/11
Eric Schwartz '85 named dean of the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs
6/7/11
Oren Bar-Gill receives American Law Institute's Young Scholars Medal (VIDEO)
6/6/11
Adam Cox to join NYU Law faculty
6/2/11
Immigrant Rights Clinic secures permanent residency for Bangladeshi man after seven-year battle
5/31/11
Philip Weiser '94 named dean of the University of Colorado Law School
5/26/11
Kenji Yoshino elected to Harvard University's Board of Overseers
5/24/11
NYU Law Convocation speakers include top corporate lawyer and world leader
5/23/11
Three days, three lectures: Jeremy Waldron delivers Hamlyn Lectures in England