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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.


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
Illustration of a house in a moving box
Starting Over: Michael Ohlrogge tracks post-foreclosure outcomes during the Great Recession
01/06/2021
Books
Reading List: NYU Law faculty books of 2020
12/18/2020
Original 1843 illustration "Marley's Ghost" from A Christmas Carol
God Bless Us…Everyone? Daniel Shaviro’s new book takes a fresh look at A Christmas Carol’s uncompromising message on wealth and inequality.
12/17/2020
Blown out candle with smoke
‘The Light That Failed’: Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes dissect how the West’s efforts to export democracy to Eastern Europe have backfired
12/14/2020
Hammer, wrench, and gavel on wooden surface
A Toolkit for Economic Justice
11/16/2020
chainlink fence at sunset
Trapped in the Machine: Alina Das ’05 explores how the criminal legal system has been used to target and deport immigrants.
11/13/2020
Stock ticker showing RJJ
Keeping Watch on the Markets: Robert Jackson Jr. has returned to NYU Law after two years as an SEC commissioner
09/02/2020
City skyline
Urban Planning: Nobel laureate Paul Romer examines how cities drive economic growth
08/12/2020
Protest sign reading "Black Lives Matter"
A Reckoning in Racial Justice: NYU Law faculty and scholars discuss policing reform and the need to combat racial and economic inequality
06/26/2020
conceptual drawing of multiplying lines
Coronavirus and the Law: NYU Law scholars examine the legal implications of the COVID-19 pandemic
03/27/2020
Mechanical Illustration
Inner Workings: Katherine Strandburg analyzes arguments for and against more transparency in algorithmic decision-making
03/16/2020
Apartment complex
New Barriers: Deborah Archer’s research reveals how today’s crime-free housing ordinances uphold the legacy of segregation
02/19/2020