On April 30, the NYU Law chapter of the Order of the Coif—a national honor society for law students whose GPA rankings are in the top ten percent of their graduating classes—welcomed 25 provisional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Applications may be submitted by email until February 13, 2025 at noon. The Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program welcomes applications from current second-year law students to be Fellows ...

David Hemel The notion of a basic income has long been of interest to Professor of Law Daniel Hemel, whose scholarship has examined issues of wealth redistribution in a wide range of areas, including ...

Miranda Stewart LLM '98 “Miranda is a leading global voice in tax law and policy, bringing more than 25 years of experience in research, practice, and academic leadership,” Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 said ...

Scan the list of books published by NYU Law faculty members during the past year, and you’ll see the range of audiences they write for: casebooks for law students on topics from intellectual property ...

In August, Erin Murphy, Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties, was appointed to the New York State Commission on Forensic Science, where she will serve through September 2025. Created in 1994 by ...

Ending 51 Years of Imprisonment In his five decades in prison, Paul Williams Jr. was denied parole 11 times. Following the 12th hearing, with help from the Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sophia Moreau Sophia Moreau, who joins NYU Law as Samuel Tilden Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy this fall, works both on philosophical problems about moral obligations under conditions of ...