Faculty News

12/13/2022
Books
This year, NYU Law professors published books addressing significant and groundbreaking issues such as artificial…
12/09/2022
Erin Murphy
Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties Erin Murphy returned to NYU Law in August 2022 after a year-long public…
12/01/2022
Painting of Judith Kaye '62
The late Judith Kaye ’62, a pioneering woman leader in the legal profession who made her mark as chief judge of the New…
11/21/2022
Roger Meltzer
NYU Law celebrated the newly renamed Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, formerly known as the…
11/21/2022
Faculty panel
“The law is unnecessarily uncertain and complex.… Many of its rules do not work well in practice, and … its…
11/18/2022
Gráinne de Búrca Ideas Story Artwork
In 1997, the European Union (EU) signed the Amsterdam Treaty, which made explicit the values on which the EU is based,…
11/16/2022
Mitchell Engler
Mitchell Engler ’90 LLM ’91, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, passed away on November 4 at age 58…
10/26/2022
Forum artwork
On October 12, an NYU Law Forum, sponsored by Latham & Watkins, convened experts with backgrounds in law,…
10/21/2022
Daniel Shaviro Ideas Story artwork
In his new book, Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature, and Film, Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry…
10/19/2022
Margaret Satterthwaite
On October 7, the United Nations Human Rights Council named Professor of Clinical Law Margaret Satterthwaite ’99,…
09/28/2022
On September 14, during an NYU Law Forum that was sponsored by Latham & Watkins, a panel of constitutional law and…
09/28/2022
Helen Hershkoff
Helen Hershkoff, Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, has received a…
09/27/2022
Melissa Murray
In the months following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which eliminated…
09/13/2022
Deborah Archer portrait
Professor of Clinical Law Deborah Archer will become the new director of NYU Law’s renowned Clinical and Advocacy…
09/13/2022
The Wilf Family Foundations has endowed the position of Director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs at NYU Law with a…
09/08/2022
Troy McKenzie
Troy McKenzie ’00 I am delighted and honored to be writing to you as dean of the Law School. As I’ve learned…
09/08/2022
Out of focus dressing table mirror bulbs
Talk of the Law School Briefing the Vice President On June 14, Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes…
09/08/2022
Collage of graphic treatment of the Capitol, a place, and a globe.
How presenting diverse, informed perspectives on national security made Just Security a must-read in Washington, DC,…
09/08/2022
Troy McKenzie
First a brilliant student and then a beloved professor at NYU Law, Troy McKenzie ’00 now leads his alma mater as the…
09/08/2022
Illustration of landscape with wind turbine and factory with people walking
NYU Law faculty and alumni have helped map and pioneer the movement toward sustainable investing. BY ATTICUS GANNAWAY…