Faculty News
05/09/2019
![Jason Schultz](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/schultz_jason_portrait_003.jpg?itok=NrYBiDjT)
On April 17 and 18, legal academics, data scientists, community organizers, and other experts convened to examine how…
05/08/2019
![Bryan Stevenson](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Aronson_Stevenson_Bryan_001_0.jpg?itok=6Xp1sa2n)
“Tonight, I want to talk about memory and trauma and justice and what I believe it will take to get to a different…
05/07/2019
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05/06/2019
![Pablo Greiff](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Emilio_Mignone_2019_Greiff_Pablo_001.jpg?itok=vOJDodep)
In this year’s Emilio Mignone Lecture, Pablo de Greiff, director of the transitional justice program at the Center for…
05/06/2019
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Life Trustee, Director of Law and Business Experiential Courses, and Adjunct Professor Stephanie Abramson ’69 passed…
05/02/2019
![Drying Pyrethrum flowers in the sun in Rwanda, Africa](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/Africa_Markets_Portrait_001.jpg?itok=IwuZuOP9)
Kenya’s soil and climate make it particularly hospitable to the pyrethrum flower, an environmentally friendly pesticide…
04/29/2019
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Andrew Weissmann
Dean Trevor Morrison announced that Andrew Weissmann will return to NYU Law on May 1…
04/23/2019
![Richard Epstein](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/Reflections_Revolution_Heartland_Epstein_R_Portrait_001.jpg?itok=fTXbP752)
NYU Law’s Classical Liberal Institute (CLI) and the NYU Federalist Society co-hosted a conference, “Reflections on the…
04/22/2019
![Rachel Barkow](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/Barkow_Rachel_Portrait_002.jpg?itok=CdV-nUWq)
Rachel Barkow, vice dean and Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, has been elected as a member of the…
04/18/2019
![Lu Shaun Thompson speaking at the Inaugural Kenneth Thompson Social Justice Fund Lecture](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Ken_Thompson_Lecture_001.jpg?itok=IW8Q-HN1)
On March 27, the legacy of the late Kenneth P. Thompson ’92, Brooklyn’s first black district attorney, was honored with…
04/17/2019
![NYU Law Professor Kim Taylor-Thompson](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/2019_laca_spring_dinner_kim_taylor_thompson_portrait.jpg?itok=4r99yJmh)
With the theme of “Reclaiming Our Image: The Power of Diversity in Leadership,” the Law Alumni of Color Association (…
04/16/2019
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In Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Rachel Barkow, vice dean and Segal Family Professor…
04/10/2019
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On April 12-14, NYU Law Reunion 2019 welcomed graduates of 11 classes from 1964 to 2014 and Golden Circle alumni. The…
04/08/2019
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Kenji Yoshino (right)
On April 2 Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law,…
04/08/2019
![Bryan Stevenson](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/news/images/Stevenson_Bryan_Portrait_002.jpg?itok=6aX_yAqo)
Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson won a key ruling for a death row client when the US Supreme Court held for…
04/08/2019
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On March 27, with the British prime minister and Parliament still deeply mired in disagreement over terms for leaving…
04/05/2019
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The American Law Institute (ALI) has published its esteemed Restatements—authoritative distillations of the law—on 28…
04/04/2019
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On April 4 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Vicki Been ’83, NYU Law’s Boxer Family Professor of Law…
03/29/2019
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Just how dangerous and divisive is impeachment? Does removing a president from office via impeachment precipitate a…
03/20/2019
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When Republican or Democratic state legislatures draw election districts, can they deliberately do so in a way that…