Faculty News
09/19/2016
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The late Jerome Bruner, a revolutionary thinker in psychology and numerous other fields who passed away on June 5 at…
09/02/2016
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Jason Schultz reports on his work at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Professor Jason Schultz…
09/02/2016
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The Milbank Tweed Forum continues to draw some of the brightest minds from multiple disciplines to examine…
09/02/2016
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NYU Law’s Leadership Mindset brings members of the vanguard to campus to illustrate powerful leadership concepts for…
09/02/2016
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Edward Rock does everything with energy. A self-proclaimed “gym rat,” he swims and works out several days a week. An…
09/02/2016
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Jennifer Arlen ’86 was elected secretary-treasurer of the American Law and Economics Association for…
08/29/2016
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During the 1990s scholars and organizations developed global “indicators”—numerical assessments of countries’…
08/26/2016
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The United Nations is at the center of a controversy that makes Professor José Alvarez's forthcoming book, …
08/26/2016
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Summer is an opportune time for cross-pollination in academia, as professors journey to other institutions to give…
08/23/2016
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On Tuesday, August 23, 2016, Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and…
08/19/2016
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When President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal prisoners in early August, eight of the inmates were…
08/18/2016
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Clayton Gillette, Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law, has been named as the new director of NYU’s Marron…
08/09/2016
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Professor Bryan Stevenson has been named a recipient of both the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award and the…
08/03/2016
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Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, was honored with a Blaise Pascal Chair, given to internationally…
07/22/2016
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In April, the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a joint center of the Law School and…
07/18/2016
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Gráinne de Búrca, Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the…
07/12/2016
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Trevor Morrison and Kenji Yoshino joined legal journalists Adam Liptak, Dahlia Lithwick, and Nina Totenberg to discuss…
07/01/2016
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Mattias Kumm
Gráinne de Búrca
The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) held its annual…
06/28/2016
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Dean Trevor Morrison, Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law, has been appointed by President Barack Obama as…
06/23/2016
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Leading competition law scholars from around the world convened at the Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels on June 8…