Faculty News
05/31/2024
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Since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020, municipalities around the country have been reexamining…
05/30/2024
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On April 17, eight days before the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding whether former President Donald…
05/21/2024
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After the city of Seattle, Washington, passed a law in 2015 giving rideshare drivers the right to unionize, the US…
05/01/2024
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The Japanese government will award the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon to Frank Upham, Wilf Family…
04/17/2024
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Devon Carbado, currently Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, will join NYU Law as a…
04/16/2024
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The Hauser Global Law School Program’s annual dinner on March 14 convened past and present members of the program’s…
04/05/2024
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When the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, it outpaced the United States…
04/04/2024
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In a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the influential online forum Just Security, Avril Haines, director of…
03/28/2024
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Jerome Skolnick, an expert in criminal justice and sociology who co-directed NYU Law’s Center for Research in Crime and…
03/25/2024
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In 2021, while Professor of Clinical Law Daniel Harawa was teaching an appellate clinic at Washington University in St…
03/20/2024
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Addressing an audience primarily composed of law students, panelists at a NYU Law Forum, sponsored by Latham &…
03/13/2024
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Although AnBryce Professor of Law Emerita Deborah Malamud retired from the tenured faculty in December 2020, her plan…
03/12/2024
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Yoram Dinstein LLM ’61, a former visiting professor at NYU Law and a prominent scholar in the areas of international…
03/12/2024
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During a four-day conference, NYU Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice convened a multinational…
02/27/2024
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Bankruptcy inflicts pain on a corporation, including wiping out shareholders’ equity and damaging the business’s…
02/15/2024
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Addressing the annual alumni reception hosted by OUTLaw, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 recalled the time when a joke among 1L…
02/15/2024
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“Reconstructing the Reconstruction Amendments,” a daylong symposium on February 2, served as both an occasion to honor…
02/14/2024
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Academic scholarship can shape law and policy, but tracing a direct line between the two is often difficult. Not so…
02/14/2024
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In December 2023, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. US, a high-profile tax case that has inspired…
02/02/2024
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The Immigrant Rights Clinic at NYU Law has secured an important victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Second…