How to Use the Faculty Profile System

Faculty Profiles display basic information, such as Areas of Research, Biography, Courses, Publications, Education, Honors and Activities, and a CV. They also offer several optional elements—NYU Law web articles, press highlights, videos, Twitter feeds, and a special Featured Work section. Don’t worry—most of this will happen automatically. The only additional section faculty assistants handle on their own is the Featured Work box. But more about that later.

Let’s start at the beginning:

Update a faculty profile

You’ll see a list like this:

  • Portrait
  • Profile Video 
  • Areas of Research
  • Biography (refers to the optional Full Biography)
  • Featured Work 
  • Courses 
  • Publications
  • Presentations and Lectures
  • Education
  • Appointments  (This information does not appear in the new faculty profiles. Please move this information to your CV.)
  • Honors and Activities 
  • Featured Video 
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Additional Links
  • Twitter Widget

Faculty assistants maintain information for:

  • Areas of Research
  • Selected Courses (for overview page)
  • Selected Publications (for overview page)
  • Education
  • Honors and Activities
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Full Biography (optional) 
  • Presentations and Lectures (optional)
  • Additional Links: (optional, and the Office of Communications will help)
  • Please note: Appointments no longer appear in the Faculty Profile. Please move any relevant information to the faculty member's CV.

Updates to Publications:

  • The Law Library will handle updates to Publications Listings for full-time faculty (on a roughly quarterly basis). For example, the Library posts links to newly published articles and books, but not links to working papers, forthcoming publications, most-online only material, newspaper articles and so on. Contact Denise To (denise.to@nyu.edu) in the Library for more details.

Faculty assistants update the Featured Work section:

This optional section can be used to highlight a faculty member's scholarship (books, journals or works-in-progress) or even a major event or conference they are involved in. (If highlighting a publication here, you can choose to exclude it from the Publications section of the Overview page if you like.)

How to add or edit a Featured Work:

  • URL: Enter the URL of where you would like to direct people
  • Image: You can upload an image from the Featured Images library. If you want to use a different image, please e-mail the image to Communications at law.communications@nyu.edu so that the image can be cropped to the correct size.
  • Category: Usually, you can just use the phrase Featured Work in this field, but you can also use other variations, such as a Featured Event, Upcoming Conference, or Recent Honor.
  • Headline: The headline, which can be a book or event title, should be relatively short.
  • Blurb: This description of the featured work needs to be concise (no more than 50 words).
  • Submit: When you’ve made your changes, hit submit. Then click “Review Web Profile” in the left-hand navigation to check your changes.

The Office of Communications handles:

  • Photography: The Office of Communications conducts faculty portrait photo shoots each semester. Please e-mail law.communications@nyu.edu so that we can schedule you as part of an upcoming photo session.
  • Videos
  • Twitter
  • Short Biography (with faculty member approval). Each summer, the Office of Communications contacts faculty members about updating these biographies. You can also make changes to it at any time by e-mailing law.communications@nyu.edu. 

For changes to names, titles, and contact information:

Important things to remember:

  • Keep content updated. For example, if the biography notes that a book is “forthcoming” but it has already been published, please update the bio.
  • Copyedit text to adhere to the style guide, which explains how to refer to the Law School. (We never say NYU Law School, for example.)
  • Do not use periods in academic degrees and do not italicize Latin honors like summa cum laude and magna cum laude. For example, use JD, not J.D. Use BA or BS, not B.A. or B.S. Use PhD, not Ph.D.
  • Do not use underlines. Use italics where necessary.
  • Do not use two spaces after a period. Only one space.
  • Use “curved quotes” instead of "straight quotes" whenever possible.

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