Digital Summer Session: Substantial Writing Topic Selection
This session is part of a series of digital summer seminars, open to rising 2Ls and 3Ls, in an effort to provide the law school community with additional opportunities for academic enrichment and community this summer.
This week's session takes place on 6/10 from 12:30PM EST-1:45PM EST. Registration is below.
Substantial Writing Topic Selection
Panelists:
Professor David Kamin, NYU Law
David Kamin joined NYU School of Law in 2012. His scholarship focuses on tax and budget policy, and he has published on issues ranging from the tax code’s effect on inequality and poverty to the role of budget baselines in the legislative process. He is current acting chair of the Furman Scholars Program. Before joining NYU Law, Kamin worked in President Obama’s administration. Kamin earned a BA in economics and political science with highest honors from Swarthmore College in 2002. He earned a JD magna cum laude from NYU Law in 2009.
Professor Troy McKenzie, NYU Law
Troy McKenzie ’00 joined the faculty of NYU School of Law in 2007. His scholarly interests include bankruptcy, civil procedure, complex litigation, and the federal courts. His work explores litigation and the institutions that shape it—particularly complex litigation that is resolved through the class action, bankruptcy, and other forms of aggregation. McKenzie returned to NYU Law in 2017 after serving for two years as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and his law degree from NYU Law. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court.
Mala Chatterjee, Furman Fellow
Mala Chatterjee is the Furman Fellow at NYU Law and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at NYU, and received her JD summa cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2018. She is currently clerking for the Honorable Judge Robert D. Sack at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mala is also a fellow at the NYU School of Law's Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. She works in Law & Philosophy with a particular focus on Intellectual Property, and her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis at Harvard Law School, the Columbia Law Review, and the NYU Law Review. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Philosophy in 2014.