Assistant Professor of Law Daniel Francis JSD ’20 has been named the overall winner of the 23rd Annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to ...

Much of civil rights law has been aimed at giving Black Americans access to spaces and institutions from which they were historically excluded. It has been less successful at addressing harms in the ...

Sarah Seo, a legal historian of 20th century US criminal justice, will join the NYU Law faculty this summer, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 announced on May 1. She is currently the Michael I. Sovern Professor ...

This month, New York University Law Review launches its 100th volume, just over a century after the first issue debuted in April 1924. A look back at that original number finds topics that remain ...

Jeanne Fromer In a Q&A, Jeanne Fromer, vice dean of intellectual life and Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law, discusses why the phenomenon of song catalog auctioneering is ...

Renowned legal advocacy organization the Innocence Project has entered into a new partnership with NYU School of Law that will provide NYU Law students with invaluable hands-on exposure to ...

Six NYU Law faculty members are among the top 100 legal scholars of 2024 in a ranking compiled by researchers at George Mason University. Institutionally, NYU Law ranked second among all law schools ...

Philip Alston ed., The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification (Bloomsbury Publishing) “This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law ...

Expanded geographic impact, new course offerings, and innovative advocacy strategies keep NYU Law’s clinical program at the leading edge of hands-on legal education. BY ALANA GRAMBUSH ILLUSTRATION BY ...

Amal Clooney LLM ’01 has built an unparalleled human rights law practice that reaches around the globe. NYU Law is where she found her passion for international law. BY ATTICUS GANNAWAY P hilippa Webb ...

During the 2022–23 academic year, just two events on the NYU Law calendar mentioned artificial intelligence (AI) in their titles. In 2023–24, 21 events did. These events tackled a wide gamut of topics ...

Gregg Polsky champions fairer approaches to taxing the compensation taken by private equity firms. In 2014, the Wall Street Journal dubbed Gregg Polsky “a thorn in the side of the private equity ...