Faculty News
11/11/2014

Just eight days after the most recent federal elections, Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law…
11/11/2014

We live in a vast administrative state. Federal agencies issue and implement rules governing a wide range of areas,…
11/06/2014

As the first cases of Ebola have reached the United States, concern about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the…
11/06/2014

On October 16 and 17, Catherine Sharkey, Crystal Eastman Professor of Law, gave a series of four lectures on US…
11/05/2014

Noted climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, visiting professor at NYU School of Law and a principal author of a just-…
11/03/2014

On October 15, Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, gave a keynote address at the Nordic Trust Fund for…
10/31/2014

Harry First
On October 24, the Law School hosted a daylong conference on antitrust law in emerging and…
10/27/2014

Professor Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative who teaches NYU Law's Equal Justice and…
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…