Faculty News

09/10/2024
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Gerald Aksen (1930–2024) A leader in international arbitration, Gerald Aksen ’58 was general counsel and assistant to…
09/06/2024
Lily Batchelder
After taking a leave from the Law School in 2021 to serve assistant secretary for tax policy at the US Department of…
08/27/2024
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Global engagement is a two-way street. During the academic year, scholars from around the world come to Washington…
08/26/2024
Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch, former US attorney general in the Obama administration, was among some 200 professionals in academia,…
08/23/2024
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The implications of the US Supreme Court’s ruling on president immunity in Trump v. United States are broad…
08/19/2024
Anthony Appiah
On August 11, the Library of Congress announced that Kwame Anthony Appiah, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Law, is…
08/14/2024
Vanita Gupta and Dana Remus
Vanita Gupta ’01, former US associate attorney general, and Dana Remus, former White House counsel to President Joe…
08/01/2024
Bob Bauer
Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, received one of the American Bar Association’s…
07/25/2024
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Former Assistant Professor of Clinical Law Vanessa Merton ’73 passed away on July 16, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 has…
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
George Conway at microphone
On April 17, eight days before the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding whether former President Donald…
05/01/2024
The Japanese government will award the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon to Frank Upham, Wilf Family…
04/17/2024
Devon Carbado
Devon Carbado, currently Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, will join NYU Law as a…
04/16/2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta at lectern
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 implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, it outpaced the United…
04/04/2024
Just Security
In a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the influential online forum Just Security, Avril Haines, director of…
03/28/2024
Jerome Skolnick
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
Christopher Jon Sprigman (left) and Gaith Mahmood
Addressing an audience primarily composed of law students, panelists at a NYU Law Forum, sponsored by Latham &…