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09/24/2014
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The Furman Center is pleased to announce that Mark Willis has agreed to serve as our Executive Director. Mark has…
09/22/2014
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Omar Jadwat '01, Sam Brooke '06, Nancy Morawetz '81, Julie Mao '11 and Jordan Wells '13
Capping its 15th year…
09/19/2014
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On Wednesday, US Attorney General Eric Holder addressed a packed Tishman Auditorium on the subject of corporate crime,…
09/17/2014
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Renewable energy has come to a financial crossroads: The renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC), which has…
09/16/2014
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In the wake of recent incidents in Ferguson,…
09/10/2014
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For many NYU Law professors, summer is the season to take their research and scholarship on the road, often to far-…
09/09/2014
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In a unanimous and controversial 2012 ruling, the US Supreme Court held that Prometheus Laboratories could not patent a…
09/09/2014
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The Center on Law and Security, in cooperation with the Law School and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in…
09/08/2014
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One of the hottest domestic policy topics is immigration, and Professor Adam Cox and University of Chicago Law School…
09/04/2014
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NYU Law Dean Trevor Morrison accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from NYU President John Sexton, Eileen Sullivan-Marx…
09/04/2014
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On September 2, President Barack Obama named Jenny Yang ’96 chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (…
09/02/2014
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The NYU School of Professional Studies has named Arthur R. Miller—one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars…
09/02/2014
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Do people have a right to some minimum level of economic welfare? Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law,…
08/29/2014
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The Forum on Law, Culture & Society (FOLCS) has moved to NYU Law. Founded in 2005 at Fordham University…
08/28/2014
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Columbia and Georgetown, NYU’s in solidarity,
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08/26/2014
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The newly-published Classics in Comparative Law, which traces major developments in the field and delves into…
08/25/2014
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Solomon Oliver Jr. ’72, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio,…
08/20/2014
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The UN Secretary-General has appointed CHRGJ Co-chair and Faculty Director Professor Philip Alston to serve on the…
08/19/2014
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To the uninitiated, Early Interview Week (EIW) sounds as hectic as Black Friday: NYU Law students racing from interview…
08/14/2014
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Dian Yu ’16 has been awarded the 2014 Dennis R. Washington Achievement Graduate Scholarship from the Horatio Alger…