Faculty News
01/30/2015
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The vast majority of contracts these days are standard-form contracts: drafted by one party and offered to the other on…
01/29/2015
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NYU School of Law is pleased to announce the launch of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, a research…
01/28/2015
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Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law Cynthia Estlund’s newest book, A New Deal for China’s Workers?, focuses on…
01/23/2015
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Last May, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his intention to create a mandatory inclusionary zoning program that would…
01/23/2015
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University Professor Jeremy Waldron, who has delivered virtually all of the highest-wattage philosophy lectures across…
01/22/2015
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Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, visited Paraguay in December when he delivered a lecture at…
01/20/2015
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Sri Lanka’s voters shocked themselves and the world this month by tossing out their president, who crushed the Tamil…
01/08/2015
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The President signed an Executive Order to create the Task Force on 21st Century Policing and announce its members. The…
12/19/2014
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Wtih the US Senate Intelligence Committee's release of its report on the CIA's use of torture, the Global Justice…
12/19/2014
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Over the past year, NYU Law faculty have published a host of praiseworthy books covering a diverse range of interests.…
12/19/2014
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Reuters special report Monday pinpointed eight lawyers who made a whopping 20 percent of the oral arguments at the US…
12/18/2014
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Last month, Azhar Majeed, Director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Education Program, debated Jeremy Waldron, a New York…
12/16/2014
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We are pleased to announce the 2015 Fellows Awards honorees. The 59th Annual Fellows Awards Reception and Banquet…
12/15/2014
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The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the Museum of We the People, America’s Town Hall, and a Headquarters…
12/15/2014
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Alexander Levy '14
Alexander Levy ’14 has won first place in the 2014 Tannenwald Writing Competition for his…
12/11/2014
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NYU Law faculty members will play leading roles in two of the American Law Institute's four new projects in 2015.…
12/03/2014
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The NYU Global Justice Clinic, led by Professor of Clinical Law Margaret Satterthwaite '99, is asking the African…
12/02/2014
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In a Washington Post op-ed, Rachel Barkow declares the federal clemency process broken, and calls on Obama to act now…
11/29/2014
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Tonight, President Obama announced sweeping administrative reform of immigration law. His efforts raise important…
11/26/2014
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The results of the just-concluded midterm elections capture just how polarized our nation is politically. What are the…