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04/08/2019
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On March 27, with the British prime minister and Parliament still deeply mired in disagreement over terms for leaving…
04/05/2019
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The American Law Institute (ALI) has published its esteemed Restatements—authoritative distillations of the law—on 28…
04/04/2019
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On April 4 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Vicki Been ’83, NYU Law’s Boxer Family Professor of Law…
04/03/2019
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Current threats to judicial independence were the subject of the Institute of Judicial Administration‘s 25th annual…
03/29/2019
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On March 26, Jeremy Brinster ’20, Katherine Stein ’19, David Moosmann ’19, and Madeleine Xu ’20 appeared before a panel…
03/29/2019
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Just how dangerous and divisive is impeachment? Does removing a president from office via impeachment precipitate a…
03/26/2019
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How big a role do merit and hard work play for applicants hoping to get in the door at elite law firms, banks, and…
03/20/2019
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Constitution Pipeline, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Sabal Trail pipeline—Robert Seber, a partner at Vinson & Elkins…
03/20/2019
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When Republican or Democratic state legislatures draw election districts, can they deliberately do so in a way that…
03/19/2019
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On February 27, the Law Alumni Association (LAA) and the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) co-hosted the Public Service…
03/18/2019
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As a politically active college student at Swarthmore in the early 1990s, Phil Weiser ’94 decided to go to law school…
03/18/2019
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Charles Kingson, who taught in NYU Law’s Graduate Tax Program from 1979 to 2014 as an adjunct professor, passed away on…
03/15/2019
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Alexis Hoag ’08, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) senior counsel, received the 2019 Woman of…
03/15/2019
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On February 26, the New York University Annual Survey of American Law held a ceremony dedicating its 76th volume to…
03/06/2019
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The topic of the January 30 Latham & Watkins Forum, “Immigration Law and Policy: The Landscape After the 2018…
03/06/2019
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On May 23, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries ’97 will address graduating JD students at NYU Law’s Convocation at Madison…
03/05/2019
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Hayden residence hall is quiet as students shuffle to and from classes with assignments in their bags and legal…
02/26/2019
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In his introductory remarks at the Law Women Annual Alumnae Reception on February 13, Dean Trevor Morrison noted that…
02/25/2019
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Philip Alston
On an ordinary Thursday in January, Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law,…
02/21/2019
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In writing Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Rachel Barkow, Segal Family…