Faculty News
09/04/2018
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A discussion about human rights, sovereignty, and dispute resolution in East Asia coincides with a major grant to NYU…
09/04/2018
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The Latham & Watkins Forum hosts topical conversations among leading players.
Stephen Ross
NYU Law’s…
09/04/2018
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In the past year, NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law (CRIL) facilitated a series of hard-hitting…
09/03/2018
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The school year officially began as NYU Law kicked off Orientation on August 22 with a Welcome BBQ, hosted by the…
08/31/2018
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In a ceremony held on August 24, University Professor Jeremy Waldron received an honorary doctorate of law from the…
08/30/2018
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Richard Pildes
A panel of federal judges ruled this week in Common Cause v. Rucho that Republican…
08/27/2018
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Back in June 2012, Professor Eleanor Fox ’61’s ambitious summer travel plans—which included visits to Singapore, Kuala…
08/17/2018
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Latinx Rights scholar Astrid Reyes ’19 has been awarded the first ever Abby Lyn Gillette Research Assistantship through…
08/16/2018
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Following a US Supreme Court term marked by controversial First Amendment rulings and the announcement of Justice…
08/03/2018
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Bryan Stevenson at NYU Law Convocation
On August 4, Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson received the…
07/23/2018
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In June, more than 140 plaintiff and management-side attorneys, academics, and government representatives participated…
06/28/2018
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On June 8, US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat down for a conversation with her former law clerk Melissa…
06/11/2018
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Melissa Murray, who was a visiting professor at NYU Law last fall and was in residence this past spring, will join NYU…
05/30/2018
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Most research papers in the sciences are headed by a list of multiple co-authors. So are most papers in economics. But…
05/14/2018
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Jennifer Arlen ’86, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, has been elected president of the American Law and Economics…
05/09/2018
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Four professors on the NYU Law faculty have been selected as research members of the European Corporate Governance…
05/09/2018
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Linda Silberman
On April 23, Linda Silberman, Clarence D. Ashley Professor of Law and co-director of the…
05/04/2018
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Steven Dean
Steven Dean will join NYU Law on January 1, 2019, as the new faculty director of the Graduate Tax…
05/02/2018
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One glance at the diversity of topics and readings in the syllabus for Art Law, an NYU Law course that Emily Kempin…