Faculty News
01/25/2024
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In March 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 prompted office workers everywhere to switch abruptly to remote work, Clayton…
01/23/2024
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NYU Law professor Mark Geistfeld and alumni Steven Barth ’99, Josh Bowers ’01, Natasha Merle ’08, and Cedric Merlin…
01/22/2024
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South Carolina wants to build a road through a historic Black neighborhood over residents’ objections. NYU Law’s Civil…
01/19/2024
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Lily Batchelder will return to NYU Law in Spring 2024 after serving as assistant secretary for tax policy at the US…
01/11/2024
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On December 18, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) announced that two NYU Law professors are among the 2024…
01/09/2024
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A wooden wheel on a 1909 Buick collapses; a bottle of Coca-Cola explodes in a waitress’s hand; an advertisement…
01/09/2024
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Gregg Polsky, the Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law at the University of Georgia School of…
12/21/2023
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Christine Gottlieb ’97, the current director of NYU Law’s Family Defense Clinic, will join the Law School faculty as an…
12/18/2023
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With a ban on affirmative action in college admissions, a finding of fraud against former President Trump in a civil…
12/14/2023
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The role of cities in environmental regulation; Edmund Burke’s and James Madison’s views on violent revolution; and to…
12/14/2023
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Paul G. Chevigny, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus, died on December 11, Dean Troy McKenzie has…
12/08/2023
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The sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) signed by President Biden on October 30, 2023, emphasizes…
12/06/2023
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On November 10, Professor of Clinical Law Jason Schultz, director of NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic, and…
12/04/2023
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The American Society of International Law (ASIL) announced that José Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of…
12/04/2023
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Welcoming the audience to “Artificial Intelligence: Crime, Security and International Regulation,” an all-day…
11/28/2023
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Members of the NYU Law community gathered on November 13 to celebrate the AnBryce Scholarship Program’s silver…
11/27/2023
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In November, sixty students from NYU Law and other New York University graduate schools spent two days in Montgomery,…
11/27/2023
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In fall 2021, Adam Cox, Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law, and Professor of Law Emma Kaufman were discussing the US…
11/17/2023
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Professor of Clinical Law Emerita Holly Maguigan, a faculty member at NYU Law for more than 30 years, died on November…
11/15/2023
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On October 24, in the 2023 Distinguished Jurist Lecture, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of…