News@NYU Law
11/02/2015
When Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, he eliminated a decades-old injustice: a 100-to-one disparity…
11/02/2015
FOLCS welcomed one of the great actors of his generation, Jesse Eisenberg, who received an Academy-Award nomination for…
11/01/2015
In a new book, Mehrsa Baradaran '05 examines class discrepancies in the ability to obtain credit.
In the late 19th…
10/27/2015
In partnership with the 92Y, FOLCS featured a screening of this 1990 widely discussed and much anticipated film…
10/27/2015
The NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business, in partnership with Cornerstone Research, has announced the launch of…
10/26/2015
It took the Supreme Court 100 years to officially bury Pennoyer v. Neff, its landmark ruling on jurisdiction that…
10/23/2015
At the 11th annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture, Douglas Ginsburg, senior judge of the US Court of Appeals for the…
10/23/2015
The refugee crisis in Europe has been in the headlines for much of this year. In a 24-hour period last spring, the…
10/22/2015
The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on October 22 examining the…
10/19/2015
Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy…
10/13/2015
This 1973 classic, gritty Sidney Lumet film starring Al Pacino is based on the true story of police officer Frank…
10/09/2015
At the October 7 Milbank Tweed Forum, Preet Bharara, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, sat down for a…
10/07/2015
This documentary by award-winning film director Kirby Dick examines the national crisis of sexual assault on…
10/07/2015
The plot twist is familiar to viewers of procedural television: at the last minute, investigators find a trace of DNA…
10/06/2015
At the 2015 Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture on September 21, US Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North…
10/06/2015
Beniah Alton Dandridge, who spent 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, joined his lawyers today at a news…
10/05/2015
Jeffrey Toobin, left, with Thane Rosenbaum
NYU Law’s Forum on Law, Culture & Society (FOLCS) celebrated…
10/05/2015
As the Supreme Court gets ready to begin its new term, it already has a number of major cases on its docket.
10/01/2015
Eileen Decker '90 brings her counterterrorism experience to her role as United States attorney for the Central District…
09/30/2015
For small island states that face the daunting challenges of high energy costs and climate change, abandoning…