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Ideas from NYU Law

Our professors' innovative research contributes both to the advancement of their fields and to the intellectual community of the Law School. Ideas from NYU Law is a resource for concise descriptions of recent works and interviews with faculty about their scholarship.


Gráinne de Búrca Ideas Story Artwork
Out of Line: Gráinne de Búrca argues that the EU should confront illiberal governments in Hungary and Poland
11/18/2022
Daniel Shaviro Ideas Story artwork
Troubled American Dreams: Daniel Shaviro traces changing attitudes towards wealth and inequality in popular culture
10/21/2022
Candlelight vigil
Deportation and Dissent: Alina Das and clinic students allege government retaliation against immigrant rights activists
04/25/2022
Portrait of William Shakespeare
Shame, Guilt, Violence, and Shakespeare: In a new book, David A.J. Richards and James Gilligan reveal what Shakespeare’s plays teach about the motivations for and perpetuation of violence in the criminal legal system and beyond
04/18/2022
Seesaw balancing larger ball and smaller ball
New Balance: Can contract law address inequality? Kevin Davis and Mariana Pargendler find examples in three developing countries.
04/08/2022
Image of hole with ladder extending from it
Escaping the ‘Novelty Trap’: Existing intellectual property law can make it more challenging for developing countries to innovate, Rochelle Dreyfuss writes.
03/29/2022
Schematic human figures on computer screen
Broken Tools: Vincent Southerland illuminates the problem of bias in the criminal legal system's use of algorithmic tools
03/14/2022
I can has copyright reform story artwork
The Law of Memes: Amy Adler and Jeanne Fromer argue that memes, which raise questions about conventional notions of copyright law, have considerable legal and cultural significance
01/19/2022
Illustration of large fish eating small fish
Eating to Win: Scott Hemphill spotlights an antitrust problem for highly innovative industries: anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent competitors
12/20/2021
Stacked books
Authors’ Circle: NYU Law faculty books of 2021
12/07/2021
Trademark Confusion Artwork
Measuring Consumer Uncertainty: NYU researchers suggest more nuanced tools to gauge the marketplace confusion caused by similar trademarks
12/01/2021
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Retooled Economies: Cynthia Estlund’s most recent book proposes strategies for a world in which automation could dramatically reduce employment
11/12/2021
Maggie Blackhawk
Rethinking Paradigms: Maggie Blackhawk challenges common wisdom in her interdisciplinary scholarship
09/09/2021
Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito
A Voice for Global Justice: César Rodríguez-Garavito addresses climate change as a human rights issue.
09/09/2021
Noah Rosenblum
Digging into the Past: Noah Rosenblum brings his legal history expertise to the NYU Law faculty.
09/09/2021
Vincent Southerland
Change Agent: Skilled litigator Vincent Southerland prepares clinic students to combat injustice
09/09/2021
Protest Signs
Adaptive and Resilient Movements: In a new book, Gráinne de Búrca offers reasons to be optimistic about the future of human rights efforts
05/04/2021
ladder in a maze
Rationality, the sequel: Richard Revesz takes a new look at cost-benefit analysis in federal agency regulation and decision-making
03/29/2021
Barbed wire at Corrections facility
The Prisoner Trade: Emma Kaufman offers a comprehensive picture of an interstate system of trading and transferring prisoners
03/25/2021
COVID-19 cells and the World Health Organization logo
The WHO and COVID-19: José E. Alvarez looks at why the global health regime’s pandemic response has been an “abject failure”
01/25/2021