Faculty News
08/19/2022
![Maggie Blackhawk](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/Blackhawk_Maggie_Portrait_001.jpg?itok=sbm6vsci)
Professor of Law Maggie Blackhawk has been named a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States…
08/10/2022
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Amy Adler
Andy Warhol popularized the notion that everyone would eventually experience 15 minutes of fame.…
07/06/2022
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The Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health marked the end of a woman’s…
07/01/2022
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Deborah Archer
In 2013, the city of Tampa, Florida, enacted the Crime Free Multi-Housing Program, which…
06/23/2022
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Intellectual property experts Amy Adler, Emily Kempin Professor of Law, and Christopher Jon Sprigman, Murray and…
05/31/2022
![Robert Jackson](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Jackson_Robert_002.jpg?itok=6gjjCvMj)
Robert Jackson Jr., Pierrepont Family Professor of Law, will become director of the Jacobson Leadership Program in Law…
05/20/2022
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On May 19, 2022, NYU Law’s class of 2022—more than 900 JD, LLM, JSD, and MS graduates—gathered with friends and family…
05/16/2022
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NYU Law’s Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (CDIB) will have a new name that honors Roger Meltzer ’77, an…
05/12/2022
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Daniel Hemel
Daniel Hemel will join the Law School as a tenured professor of law on June 1, Dean Trevor…
05/10/2022
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The NYU Law Venture Fund has named Gabriel Delabra ’22 and Sam Klotz ’23 as grand prize winners in its spring…
05/04/2022
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Avani Mehta Sood will join the NYU Law faculty as a professor of law on July 1, Dean Trevor Morrison announced in April…
04/29/2022
![Dean Troy McKenzie](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/Dean%20Troy%20McKenzie_Portrait_001.jpg?itok=J1mgval3)
Troy McKenzie ’00, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at NYU Law and a scholar whose research focuses on bankruptcy, civil…
04/28/2022
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On March 23, NYU Law honored the legacy of the late Kenneth P. Thompson ’92 with the fourth annual Lecture on Race and…
04/25/2022
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On the evening of April 12, more than 700 members of the NYU Law community streamed into the violet-lit colonnaded…
04/25/2022
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has repeatedly retaliated against immigrant rights activists for…
04/22/2022
![Daniel Francis](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Francis_Daniel_001.jpg?itok=VfXhGzH3)
Daniel Francis
On June 1, Daniel Francis JSD ’20 will return to NYU Law as an assistant professor of law,…
04/21/2022
![Kenji Yoshino](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Yoshino_Kenji_001.jpg?itok=2UNC_z-y)
On April 14, NYU announced that Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and…
04/18/2022
![Brittany Farr](/sites/default/files/styles/80_wide/public/NW_Farr_Brittany_001.jpg?itok=nz4BKhaL)
Brittany Farr will join NYU Law as an assistant professor of law on June 1, Dean Trevor Morrison announced this month…
04/18/2022
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In 2010, Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law David A.J. Richards, a constitutional and criminal law expert, and NYU…
04/08/2022
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A longstanding orthodoxy of contract law is that it has no role to play in addressing the ever-increasing global…