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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.


Finding a Place to Sue: Linda Silberman tracks the evolving, and often confusing, Supreme Court decisions on jurisdiction
10/26/2015
Testing DNA: In her new book, Erin Murphy investigates how the criminal justice system misuses genetic identification
10/07/2015
Pros in Con: NYU's constitutional law faculty is asking rigorous questions about how to live today within a 228-year-old framework for our laws and democracy
09/08/2015
Adverse Reaction: Professors find fatal flaws in a body of work on takeovers and corporate governance
09/04/2015
A Hierarchy of Equalities: Gráinne de Búrca examines how the European Court of Justice is dealing with anti-discrimination laws
09/04/2015
Mapping Summer 2015: NYU Law faculty engage with legal issues here and abroad
08/26/2015
Rules of Asking and Telling: Adam Samaha examines “must ask, don’t tell” and other combinations
06/30/2015
Columns of courthouse
What Fledgling Democracies Need: In a new book, Samuel Issacharoff discusses how constitutional courts buttress "fragile democracies"
06/15/2015
Affective Evidence: Margaret Satterthwaite on the use of empirical data in human rights advocacy
06/01/2015
Delineating "Yes": Stephen Schulhofer and Erin Murphy are revising the Model Penal Code on sexual assault
05/26/2015
illustration of maze inside mind
Experimenting with the Law: Faculty are testing laws and human behavior in areas ranging from creativity to voting
04/29/2015
Art of a donkey and elephant in uniforms playing a game
Moving the Lines: How Richard Pildes won Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama
04/28/2015
Used Bytes for Sale: Jason Schultz explores the future of reselling and lending e-books, songs, and other digital media
04/24/2015
The Truth in the Transcript: In Speak Now, Kenji Yoshino celebrates Hollingsworth v. Perry
04/21/2015
What Makes Us Equal? Jeremy Waldron explores human equality
03/05/2015
Listening Closely: Burt Neuborne examines the structure of the Bill of Rights and its implications for the First Amendment
02/18/2015
fingerprint
A Virtual Life Sentence: In the Eternal Criminal Record, James Jacobs looks at the vast information infrastructure documenting Americans' encounters with the criminal justice system
02/17/2015
Focusing on the Fine Print: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler breaks new ground in her research on consumer contracts
01/30/2015
The Chinese Labor Problem: Cynthia Estlund studies how the Communist government is responding to demands for reform from the world's largest workforce
01/28/2015
Words with Weight: NYU Law faculty books of 2014
12/19/2014