The Morrison Memo
At the start of his sixth year at NYU Law, the dean takes stock of how the Law School community has grown and evolved, and looks to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Dicta
Five students from the Class of 2018 received Skadden fellowships; Philip Alston examines extreme poverty in the US; and three couples share how NYU Law brought them together.
The Reformers
The US criminal justice systems is expensive, inefficient, and riddled with inequity. NYU Law faculty, students, and alumni are working to change that.
BALSA’s Bridge
For 50 years, the Black Allied Law Students Association has been a voice and a community for students at NYU Law.
The LACA Connection
The Law Alumni of Color Association celebrates four decades in which members have supported and inspired one another to work for change.
A New Global Step
NYU Law expands its international reach and launches an innovative, digitally focused curriculum with the opening of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies.
Lighting Up the Night
At the gala launch party for the Lead the Way campaign, donors and students celebrate the Law School's impact on society, the law, and individual lives.
Tech Heavies
As general counsel at some of the biggest corporate names in the technology sector, these NYU Law alumni are doing jobs that didn't exist when they were in law school.
Closing Statements
Professor Jason Schultz, director of the Technology Law & Policy Clinic, talks about how to protect consumer data, how AI will change the legal profession, and why he stopped using Facebook.
The People
Artistic Practice
Amy Adler’s Art Law course examines questions of freedom of speech, intellectual property, the right of publicity, and how digital culture affects the law.
New Faculty: Melissa Murray
In her scholarship and in the classroom, Melissa Murray focuses on constitutional, criminal, and family law, on law and sexuality, and the ways these fields intersect.
Breaking Barriers
APALSA helps Asian-Pacific American students adjust to law school and find their feet in their first jobs as lawyers.
Learning to Manage
For Mintz Levin partner Joshua Briones LLM ’01, managing member of the firm's Los Angeles office, mentorship has been key to his career.
100 AnBryce Graduates
The AnBryce Scholarship Program celebrates dual milestones: The 20th year of the program and the graduation of the 100th AnBryce Scholar.
Justice Corrections
Through the Solitary Confinement Project, NYU Law students work to conduct interviews with prisoners who have experienced solitary confinement on Rikers Island.
Litigating Free Speech
Andrew Nellis ’16 and Daniel Nowicki ’14 take opposing sides in a ninth circuit First Amendment case, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.
Family Court Compass
Founded and led by NYU Law alumni, LIFT helps New Yorkers navigate the state’s Family Court system.
Stand-Up Lawyer
Ndidi Oriji ’03 combines her skills in law and entertainment in her work as senior vice president of advertising standards and practices at NBCUniversal.
Father-Daughter Scholars
Arthur Mahon ’58 and Nancy Mahon ’89 compare notes on their time as Scholars in what is now the Root-Tilden-Kern Program.
Spring Break Service
Students explore public defender and immigration law careers on Alternative Spring Breaks, student-organized, service-oriented trips.
Supreme Court Win
Nathan Wessler ’10 argues in Carpenter v. United States that it is unconstitutional to seize and search historical cell phone location data without a warrant.
A Legacy of Public Defense
Justine Olderman ’98 succeeds Robin Steinberg ’82 as executive director of the Bronx Defenders.
Fighting Fraud and Cybercrime
First at the US Attorney’s Office and now at Sullivan & Cromwell, Nicole Friedlander ’01 specializes in cybersecurity.
The Prolific Professor
Since September 2007, Richard Epstein has authored 123 academic journal articles and 30 book chapters and has written or edited 10 books.
New Faculty: Deborah Archer
As a litigator and scholar in racial discrimination and civil rights cases, Deborah Archer has built her career advocating for the rights of this generation and the next.
Narratives of Injustice
The Equal Justice Initiative, led by Bryan Stevenson, opens the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
A Decade of Law and Business
The Mitchell Jacobson Program in Law and Business celebrates its 10th anniversary.
New Board Leaders
David Tanner ’84 and Florence Davis ’79 take up positions as chair and vice chair of the NYU School of Law Board of Trustees.
In Memoriam
Remembering members of the NYU Law community who have passed away during the last academic year.
Arguments & Opinions
An Inconvenient (IP) Truth
Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer find that the reservoir of available trademarks is running dry.
The Law of Supply and Demand
Vicki Been '83 analyzes the connection between housing supply and affordability.
Government Lawyering and Politics
Anne Milgram '96 and Preet Bharara discuss how to balance professional duty and personal ideology.
Property and Development
Frank Upham questions whether developing countries require stable legal property rights for economic growth and social change.
Automation and the American Worker
Cynthia Estlund asks what we should do as more and more jobs are taken over by robots.
Calamity and Identity
Samuel Issacharoff and Clayton Gillette consider the fiscal and identity crises of Puerto Rico.
Net Neutrality Explained
Christopher Jon Sprigman articulates what's at stake in the legal and legislative battle over net neutrality.
Researching Resilience
Margaret Satterthwaite '99 examines the effects of human rights work on the mental health of advocates.
Encyclopedia Ferrarica
Franco Ferrari has co-edited a first-of-its-kind compendium of private international law.
Proceedings
Notorious Justice
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses Roe v. Wade, her legal career, and women on the Supreme Court.
Gift of Dialogue
A discussion about human rights, sovereignty, and dispute resolution in East Asia coincides with a major grant to NYU Law from the government of Japan.
Kudos for Katzmann
Justice Sonia Sotomayor and other legal luminaries pay tribute to Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The Business of Philanthropy
Gerald Rosenfeld, co-director of the Jacobson Program in Law and Business, discusses the intersection of leadership, philanthropy, and the law.
Europe’s Identity Crisis
In the annual Emile Noël Lecture, Marta Cartabia, vice president and judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy, considers the European Union's challenges.
Probing the Roots of Racism
NYU Law's Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law shines an academic spotlight on hot-button issues facing the country.
Brennan Center Live
The Brennan Center for Justice brings John Dean, Katy Tur, David Frum, and others to campus to discuss the state of the nation.
The SEC and DOJ at NYU
NYU Law's Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement host Rod Rosenstein and others.
Business Meets #MeToo
As the #MeToo movement spotlights sexual harrassment in the workplace, the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law holds a forum on "Avoiding the Next Harvey Weinstein."
Labor Laws Duel
Wilma Liebman, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board, and other experts examine the increasing conflict between federal labor law and state and local labor law.
Rules of Engagement
At an Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance event, large asset managers, hedge funds, and other shareholders discuss different models of shareholder engagement.
Unprecedented Presidency
NYU Law's Classical Liberal Institute and the student chapter of the Federalist Society co-host a conference analyzing Donald Trump's impact on the presidency.
A Forum for Every Legal Interest
The Latham & Watkins Forum creates topical, relevant conversations on everything from criminal prosecution reform to the 2017 federal tax legislation.
State of Unions
Kent Hirozawa '82, former member of the National Labor Relations Board, explores the politicization of the NLRB.
WWDBD?
In the annual Derrick Bell Lecture, Theodore Shaw looks at current racial conflicts and asks, "What would Derrick Bell do?"
A Breakdown of Brexit
David O'Sullivan, European Union ambassador to the US, discusses the dilemmas facing the EU, including those posed by Brexit.
Examining the Executive Branch
The annual Sidley Austin Forum assembles more than 20 experts in government and law to consider modern executive power.
Grunin Center’s First Prize
The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship awards the inaugural Grunin Prize for social entrepreneurship to an innovative law firm.
Lonely at the Top
Justice Goodwin Liu of the Supreme Court of California examines the struggle of Asian Americans to reach the top ranks of the legal field.
Relevant Parties
2018 Graduation
Parents, professors, and graduating students hear from Bryan Stevenson, Strive Masiyiwa, and Justin Trudeau.
Cyber Talk
At the Law Alumni Association luncheon, Barbara Becker ’88, Randal Milch ’85, Edward Rock, and John Suydam ’85 offer perspectives on cybersecurity.
Reunion 2018
NYU Law graduates of 10 classes from 1968 to 2014 and Golden Circle alumni gather at the Law School to reconnect and reminisce.
Scholars and Donors
Scholarship recipients in the class of 2018 pose for hooding photos with the donors of their scholarships.
Outlaw Honoree
Leslie Cooper ’95, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT & HIV project, receives OUTLaw’s Alumna of the Year Award.
Family Tradition
Members of the class of 2018 pose for hooding photos with family members who are fellow graduates of the Law School.
Leading Women
The Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, named for Sheila Birnbaum ’65, celebrates more than 125 years of women graduates from the Law School.
Celebrating Scholarships
This year’s annual Scholarship Reception took place at the Weinfeld Gala, held at the American Museum of Natural History.
WoCC Distinction
The Women of Color Collective honors Lisa Marie Boykin ’95, senior vice president for business and legal affairs at Annapurna Pictures.