Faculty News

12/19/2013
Reviewers praise Ronald Dworkin’s Religion Without God, published posthumously
Last fall, Harvard University Press published Religion Without God by Ronald Dworkin, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of…
12/19/2013
Richard Epstein publishes The Classical Liberal Constitution, the culmination of nearly a decade’s work
Written over seven years, The Classical Liberal Constitution is—says Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of…
12/19/2013
NYU Law faculty weigh in on NSA surveillance
With NSA surveillance dominating the headlines, NYU Law faculty weighed in on the issue: ·    …
12/18/2013
NYU Law hosts 2013 Takings Conference that focuses on three recent Supreme Court decisions
The 16th Annual Takings Conference on November 22 explored the regulatory takings issue as it relates to…
12/16/2013
Eleanor Fox helps create video for officials in developing countries
Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, has teamed up with Bert Foer, president of the…
12/15/2013
Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic hosts DC insiders examining political polarization
On December 12, a host of Washington insiders took part in “Exploring ‘Polarization’: A Conversation,” …
12/15/2013
Barry Adler presents on bankruptcy reform at the FDIC
On Wednesday, December 11, Barry Adler, Bernard Petrie Professor of Law and Business, presented at the Systemic…
12/13/2013
Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson advocates for greater public awareness of American South's troubled past
Three new historical markers in Montgomery, Alabama, represent the first step in a push by Professor Bryan Stevenson,…
12/12/2013
Vickie Patton '90 discusses the Clean Air Act and regulating climate change
On Wednesday, October 30, Vickie Patton ’90, general counsel of theEnvironmental Defense Fund and Jared…
12/12/2013
Forthcoming paper by Ryan Bubb and Richard Pildes is featured in Reuters
A forthcoming paper in the Harvard Law Review by NYU Law School professors Rick Pildes and Ryan Bubb claims…
12/12/2013
Christopher Sprigman weighs in on the GoldieBlox fair use suit against the Beastie Boys, and joins the board of Creative Commons
On December 12, Professor Christopher Sprigman published an article on Slate arguing that Goldieblox, the San Francisco…
12/09/2013
Sujit Choudhry on constitutional transitions at Amb. Stevens Memorial Symposium
On November 8, Sujit Choudhry, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law and faculty director of the Center for Constitutional…
12/08/2013
China's government-sponsored newspaper interviews Kevin Davis on corruption
Kevin Davis, Beller Family Professor of Business Law, an expert in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and law and…
12/05/2013
Jeremy Waldron reviews Ronald Dworkin's Religion Without God in the Guardian
Ronald Dworkin, who died this year, was one of the great legal philosophers of the modern era.
12/04/2013
Moshe Halbertal, Dorit Beinisch, and Stanley Fischer discuss the "miracle" of Israel's democracy
On Monday, December 2, Professor Samuel Rascoff, the faculty director of the Center on Law and Security, welcomed a…
12/03/2013
CHRGJ conference focuses on human rights fact-finding
“International Human Rights Fact-Finding in the Twenty-First Century,” a conference held on November 1-2 by NYU Law’s…
12/01/2013
Jerome Cohen and Margaret Lewis '03 discuss their book Challenge to China
Jerome Cohen and Margaret Lewis '03’s new book, Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education…
11/26/2013
Moshe Halbertal on Maimonides and medieval Jewish thought
Scholars of medieval Jewish tradition gathered with law professors and practitioners on a cold November 21…
11/25/2013
Center on Law and Security holds conference on law and strategy in era of evolving threats
On November 19, NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security gathered an elite group of national security practitioners,…
11/25/2013
NYU Law welcomes renowned philosopher Kwame Appiah to the faculty
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a renowned philosopher whose scholarship spans a range of academic disciplines, will join the NYU…