Faculty News

04/29/2022
Dean Troy McKenzie
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
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
On April 14, NYU announced that Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and…
04/18/2022
Brittany Farr
Brittany Farr will join NYU Law as an assistant professor of law on June 1, Dean Trevor Morrison announced this month…
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…
04/04/2022
Vicki Been
Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law Vicki Been ’83, a faculty director of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and…
03/29/2022
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Bryan Stevenson, Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice, has been appointed as an NYU University Professor, Dean…
03/29/2022
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The advent of vaccines for COVID-19 exposed major questions about intellectual property laws as many countries clamored…
03/28/2022
Chris Inglis
On March 21, Chris Inglis, the inaugural national cyber director of the United States, joined Professor Samuel Rascoff…
03/22/2022
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Stephen Holmes In his teaching and scholarship, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law Stephen Holmes has…
03/16/2022
Abdiel Caballero
  NYU Law Dean's Scholarship What is your favorite part about being a NYU Law student? One of my…
03/14/2022
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Law Vincent Southerland recalls that as a staff attorney with the Bronx Defenders early…
03/09/2022
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In late 2019, Kevin George Aziz Riad’s car sped off a California freeway, ran a red light, and crashed into…
02/22/2022
Sonia Sotomayor
On February 9, US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined Dean Trevor Morrison in a discussion of judicial…
02/07/2022
Brant Hellwig
For Brant Hellwig LLM ’00, professor of tax law and the new faculty director of NYU Law’s Graduate Tax Program, the…
02/07/2022
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In remarks hosted by NYU Law’s Peter L. Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, Alvin Bragg, the newly…