Faculty News
10/23/2020
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On October 2, the Institute for Policy Integrity and the Volatility and Risk Institute at NYU Stern School of Business…
10/21/2020
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In the 24th annual Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture on September 14—delivered virtually, a first…
10/16/2020
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On September 30, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law Melissa Murray and the other hosts of the Strict…
10/14/2020
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On July 30, Professors Deborah Archer and Anthony Thompson, the faculty co-directors of the Center on Race, Inequality…
09/23/2020
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While much of corporate America has publicly pledged support of the Black Lives Matter movement, several key strategies…
09/16/2020
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Professor Jerome A. Cohen, a leading China and East Asian law scholar, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of law,…
09/11/2020
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Dean Trevor Morrison
When I came to NYU Law seven years ago, the world did not look the same as it does…
09/11/2020
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Populism, pandemic—and internal failings—threaten to unravel a form of government recently seen as ascendant…
09/11/2020
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Bryan Stevenson and Kenneth Feinberg ’70 get the Hollywood treatment with biopics ‘Just Mercy’ and ‘Worth.’
BY…
09/11/2020
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NYU Law charts a way forward amid the complex risks of the coronavirus pandemic.
BY JADE MCCLAIN
When on March 9 Dean…
09/11/2020
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NYU Law Voices Carry
Thought leaders from within and outside the NYU Law community participate in Law School…
09/11/2020
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Talk of the Law School
Engelberg Center Hosts Legal Madness
Last November the Engelberg Center on…
09/11/2020
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The newly renovated Tishman Auditorium in Vanderbilt Hall reopened in January with a screening of the film Just…
09/10/2020
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Sally Merry
Sally Engle Merry, Julius Silver Professor of Anthropology at NYU and an affiliated faculty…
09/02/2020
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In the late 1970s, shortly after Robert Jackson Jr. was born in Bronx, New York, his father and mother—an encyclopedia…
08/25/2020
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Professor Emeritus Guy B. Maxfield passed away on Wednesday, August 19. He served on the NYU Law faculty for 43 years…
08/17/2020
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An article co-authored by Professor Robert Jackson Jr. was included recently on the Corporate Practice Commentator’s “…
08/13/2020
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In the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, protests erupted…
08/13/2020
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In a conversation lasting a little more than an hour, two longtime friends—John Sexton, president emeritus of NYU and…
08/12/2020
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When Paul Romer studied physics and mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, he meant to forge a…