Faculty News
09/29/2014
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How ought countries enforce anti-corruption laws? This question lay at the heart of new research co-authored by…
09/26/2014
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Catherine Sharkey, Crystal Eastman Professor of Law, has been appointed to the independent federal agency…
09/26/2014
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Cully Stimson, Rachel Kleinfeld, Steve Vladeck, David Ellis, Jerry Seib, Tim Starks
On Monday, September 22…
09/26/2014
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On September 25, the US Department of Justice submitted a “statement of interest” in Hurrell-Harring v. State of New…
09/22/2014
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Omar Jadwat '01, Sam Brooke '06, Nancy Morawetz '81, Julie Mao '11 and Jordan Wells '13
Capping its 15th year…
09/16/2014
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Anna Deavere Smith (L), Deirdre von Dornum, and Pedro Noguera
In the wake of recent incidents in Ferguson,…
09/10/2014
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For many NYU Law professors, summer is the season to take their research and scholarship on the road, often to far-…
09/09/2014
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In a unanimous and controversial 2012 ruling, the US Supreme Court held that Prometheus Laboratories could not patent a…
09/08/2014
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One of the hottest domestic policy topics is immigration, and Professor Adam Cox and University of Chicago Law School…
09/02/2014
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The NYU School of Professional Studies has named Arthur R. Miller—one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars…
09/02/2014
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Do people have a right to some minimum level of economic welfare? Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law,…
08/26/2014
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The newly-published Classics in Comparative Law, which traces major developments in the field and delves into…
08/20/2014
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The UN Secretary-General has appointed CHRGJ Co-chair and Faculty Director Professor Philip Alston to serve on the…
07/23/2014
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Argentinians may be mourning their soccer team’s loss in the World Cup final, but another setback suffered by the…
07/21/2014
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In this year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared, “[W]herever and whenever I can take steps…
07/16/2014
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Professor Franco Ferrari, director of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, has been…
07/15/2014
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Richard Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus as well as director of NYU Law's Institute for Policy…
07/09/2014
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the formation of the New York State Council on Community Re-Entry and…
07/07/2014
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The New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees elected three new members at its meeting–Dr. Anthony Appiah, Beth…
06/27/2014
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Is independent political speech the linchpin of our democracy or its Achilles’ heel? Watch video of this Intelligence…