Faculty News
10/22/2014
On October 21, the American Law Institute (ALI) announced the election of 50 new members. Among the exceptional group…
10/22/2014
This September, the Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) movement began a campaign of civil disobedience for true…
10/14/2014
What’s even dicier than planning months in advance to teach an entire course about a young, wildly fluctuating digital…
10/13/2014
Spurred by the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri after the police shooting of an unarmed, young black man, New York Times…
10/08/2014
Thomas Piketty
Intense curiosity and a bit of professional envy imbued the fourth annual NYU/UCLA Tax Policy…
10/07/2014
On Wednesday, October 1, the Milbank Tweed Forum presented the annual Supreme Court (P)Review. Led by Burt Neuborne,…
10/06/2014
“While people come and people go, philosophical questions are forever, and their fascination and importance…
09/30/2014
Professor of Law Emeritus John “Jack” Slain ’55 passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, September 27.
A…
09/29/2014
How ought countries enforce anti-corruption laws? This question lay at the heart of new research co-authored by…
09/26/2014
Catherine Sharkey, Crystal Eastman Professor of Law, has been appointed to the independent federal agency…
09/26/2014
Cully Stimson, Rachel Kleinfeld, Steve Vladeck, David Ellis, Jerry Seib, Tim Starks
On Monday, September 22…
09/26/2014
On September 25, the US Department of Justice submitted a “statement of interest” in Hurrell-Harring v. State of New…
09/22/2014
Omar Jadwat '01, Sam Brooke '06, Nancy Morawetz '81, Julie Mao '11 and Jordan Wells '13
Capping its 15th year…
09/16/2014
Anna Deavere Smith (L), Deirdre von Dornum, and Pedro Noguera
In the wake of recent incidents in Ferguson,…
09/10/2014
For many NYU Law professors, summer is the season to take their research and scholarship on the road, often to far-…
09/09/2014
In a unanimous and controversial 2012 ruling, the US Supreme Court held that Prometheus Laboratories could not patent a…
09/08/2014
One of the hottest domestic policy topics is immigration, and Professor Adam Cox and University of Chicago Law School…
09/02/2014
The NYU School of Professional Studies has named Arthur R. Miller—one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars…
09/02/2014
Do people have a right to some minimum level of economic welfare? Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law,…
08/26/2014
The newly-published Classics in Comparative Law, which traces major developments in the field and delves into…