Faculty News

04/24/2025
Rachel Barkow
The sobering statistics are familiar by now. While the United States contains less than 5 percent of the global…
04/23/2025
Two figures embracing under arch in sunlit Guarini Courtyard
During the weekend of April 25–27, NYU Law welcomed alumni from around the world back to campus for Reunion 2025,…
04/11/2025
Christopher Morten
Christopher Morten ’15 will return to NYU Law and join the faculty, beginning July 1, 2025. Currently associate…
03/28/2025
Astronaut in space
While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the…
03/27/2025
Ravi Ragbir_1
Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, a Trinidadian-American immigrant rights activist, fought against deportation for almost 20…
03/13/2025
Nathan Hecht
Nathan Hecht, retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, will join NYU School of Law as a Distinguished…
03/13/2025
Adam Cox Ideas story artwork
“The Invention of Immigration Exceptionalism,” published in November by Adam Cox in the Yale Law Journal, runs 117…
03/10/2025
Amrit Singh
Amrit Singh, a human rights lawyer and expert on democracy and the rule of law, will join the NYU Law faculty in August…
02/28/2025
Emma Kaufmann Ideas Artwork
It’s usually taken as a given in the United States that the power to prosecute criminal cases belongs exclusively to…
02/28/2025
Richard Revesz
Richard Revesz practically turned out the lights for the Biden administration. At 11:30 a.m. on January 20, 2025—a half…
02/21/2025
Six NYU Law faculty members are among the top 100 legal scholars of 2024 in a ranking compiled by researchers at George…
02/20/2025
Shalanda Young
Shalanda Young, former director of the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has joined NYU Law as a distinguished…
02/13/2025
Christine Gottlieb
A new appellate ruling in state court in New York curtails the state’s surveillance of families, in a victory for a…
02/05/2025
Forum artwork
The topic of the January 29 NYU Law Forum, held just nine days into the Trump administration, couldn’t have been…
02/03/2025
Lisa Monaco
Lisa Monaco returns to NYU Law as a distinguished scholar in residence after serving as US deputy attorney general from…
01/31/2025
Daniel Hemel
Could a no-strings-attached cash transfer program—which provides financially struggling adults with a guaranteed basic…
01/21/2025
Richard Revesz
Dean Emeritus and AnBryce Professor of Law Richard Revesz returns to his faculty position at NYU School of Law after…
01/17/2025
Christopher Jon Sprigman
A Q&A with Christopher Jon Sprigman, Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law, on First Amendment concerns…
01/13/2025
Stephen Choi
In a recent article, Professor Stephen Choi and his co-author note that Donald Trump “has said that he considered one…
01/07/2025
Daniel Harawa
Professor of Clinical Law Daniel Harawa has been selected by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) as the 2025…