Faculty News

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
Kenji Yoshino testifying before the House Judiciary Testimony in 2019
Kenji Yoshino (right) On April 2 Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law,…
04/08/2019
Bryan Stevenson
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
Vicki Been
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
Richard Pildes
When Republican or Democratic state legislatures draw election districts, can they deliberately do so in a way that…
03/18/2019
Charles Kingson
Charles Kingson, who taught in NYU Law’s Graduate Tax Program from 1979 to 2014 as an adjunct professor, passed away on…
03/15/2019
Marian Wright Edelman
On February 26, the New York University Annual Survey of American Law held a ceremony dedicating its 76th volume to…
03/06/2019
Layers of Concertina are added to existing barrier infrastructure along the U.S. - Mexico border near Nogales, AZ, February 4, 2019. Photo: Robert Bushell
The topic of the January 30 Latham & Watkins Forum, “Immigration Law and Policy: The Landscape After the 2018…
02/25/2019
Philip Alston
Philip Alston On an ordinary Thursday in January, Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law,…
02/21/2019
Rachel Barkow
In writing Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Rachel Barkow, Segal Family…
02/20/2019
On January 24, leading experts on race, public interest, and family law issued a harsh critique of the current child…
02/20/2019
Kim Taylor-Thompson
NYU Black Allied Law Students Association celebrated its 51st anniversary with a gala dinner on February 1 that honored…
02/14/2019
United Nations Diplomacy Clinic students and faculty: (left to right) Breanna Small '19, Charlotte Westbrook…
01/31/2019
Steven Dean
Steven Dean, NYU Law’s most recently hired professor of tax law and the new faculty director of the Graduate Tax…