Faculty News

05/18/2017
On April 28, 2017, a federal court in Wisconsin struck down a state law authorizing the detention, involuntary…
05/15/2017
Rick Brooks will join NYU School of Law’s permanent faculty in January 2018, and he will teach Contracts at the…
05/11/2017
New York University professors from a range of disciplines met at NYU Law to honor Professor Anna Deavere Smith, who…
05/08/2017
Early one afternoon, William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law Roderick Hills Jr. is walking his Constitutional Law…
04/26/2017
It is traditional to take stock of a new president’s accomplishments and approach to governance as he reaches 100 days…
04/19/2017
The ninth annual conference of NYU Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law (CACL), “Disrupting the Cycle:…
04/07/2017
At a recent event, “‘Regarded As’ Muslim: Islamophobia and its Ripple Effects,” panelists considered the difficulties…
04/04/2017
Last spring, Mark Geistfeld sat in a Tesla Model S, his hands hovering inches from the wheel as the car, in self-drive…
03/30/2017
Vijaya Gadde '00
Vijaya Gadde ’00, Twitter’s general counsel, had scarcely settled into her chair at the March 22 NYU School of Law…
03/28/2017
Former president Barack Obama delivered a statement from the Pentagon on December 14, 2015, describing the latest…
03/23/2017
This year’s Hauser Global Law School Program Annual Dinner occurred exactly one week before a fateful national election…
03/23/2017
Melissa Mark-Viverito As a new governor of Puerto Rico took office this year, the commonwealth continued to…
03/17/2017
Robert Schumer, Jean-Pierre Rosso, Matthew Mallow, Leo Strine Jr., and Martin Lipton At the launch of the…
03/17/2017
With the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in…
03/15/2017
The NYU School of Law Forum focused on "Trump’s Economic Agenda: The Path from Rhetoric to Reality" on March 1, with…
03/10/2017
In his second trip to the United States since stepping down as president of Taiwan in May 2016, Ma Ying-jeou LLM ’76…
03/08/2017
The launch of NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law on February 27 drew a crowd that filled Tishman…
03/08/2017
One way to understand the 2016 US election and Brexit decision, says Professor of Law Edward Rock, is that many voters…
03/06/2017
What if questions of policing are not best addressed by policing agencies or the courts, but by the public? In…