News@NYU Law

05/04/2018
Head on portrait of Steven Dean
Steven Dean Steven Dean will join NYU Law on January 1, 2019, as the new faculty director of the Graduate Tax…
05/03/2018
Nicole Zayas Fortier, Judith Greene, Robin Steinberg
Nicole Zayas Fortier, Judith Greene, Robin Steinberg '82 Close to 11 million people cycle through the jail…
05/02/2018
Amy Adler
One glance at the diversity of topics and readings in the syllabus for Art Law, an NYU Law course that Emily Kempin…
04/25/2018
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On March 30, the NYU Law Sports Law Association presented its seventh annual Sports Law Colloquium, which this year…
04/25/2018
Bryan Stevenson
The American South is dotted with the iconography of the Confederacy, says Professor Bryan Stevenson, founder and…
04/24/2018
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Copyright law once mostly focused on works such as books, photographs, paintings, music, and films. Today, copyright is…
04/23/2018
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On April 27-29, NYU Law graduates of 10 classes from 1968 to 2013 gathered at the Law School to celebrate…
04/19/2018
Boeung Kak lake in Cambodia
It has been a truth universally acknowledged—at least, by the World Bank and many economic and legal theorists—that…
04/17/2018
Justine Olderman
The first thing that Justine Olderman ’98 noticed about The Bronx Defenders, she says, was its open interior…
04/17/2018
Betty Staton
The Law Alumni of Color Association began “out of a sense of urgency, out of an idea that community could trump sexism…
04/16/2018
Illustration of Richard Epstein with a large stack of books.
Richard Epstein Google “Richard A. Epstein” and “prolific” and you’ll get plenty of hits. Other searches will…
04/16/2018
Michael Mukasey
There has never been a US president quite like Donald Trump. Will the precedents he sets now ultimately strengthen the…
04/12/2018
Students on Alternative Spring Break
Over spring break, Anna Occhipinti ’19 watched a murder trial, tried to track down witnesses, and met with clients in…
04/12/2018
Preet Bharara
On March 19, at the Law Alumni Association (LAA) Spring Conference, the power of the US presidency was the subject of…
04/11/2018
Linda Kalmanowitz-Grunin
Linda Grunin ’67 Linda Kalmanowitz Grunin ’67, co-founder and co-chairman of the Jay and Linda Grunin…
04/06/2018
As part of the Leadership Series of NYU Law’s Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business, a conversation…
04/04/2018
Kim Taylor-Thompson
Sainath Iyer ’18 says he’s not surprised that Professor of Clinical Law Kim Taylor-Thompson is one of the six faculty…