Proceedings and Relevant Parties
A High-Quality Discussion of Inequality
Intense curiosity imbued the fourth annual NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Symposium, held at NYU Law last October. Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, was the...
Fairness in the Global Marketplace
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s new competition commissioner, spoke at NYU Law last April just days after making headlines worldwide with the announcement that the EU was...
“Speak Simply and Listen Intently”
On the historic Beacon Theatre stage, awash in violet, NYU School of Law honored its graduating students in two ceremonies on May 21. The morning JD Convocation...
Honoring a Noble Judge with the 2014 Weinfeld Award
Former Chief Judge of New York Judith Kaye ’62, now of counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, received the Judge Edward Weinfeld Award at the...
Bonding over Books
On a Monday evening in March, a group of students sat around the dining table of Professor Daniel Shaviro’s West Village home. They ate pizza, drank...
Zeitguests
The Milbank Tweed Forum, the weekly lunchtime panel that brings heavy-hitting intellectuals to NYU Law to discuss current issues intersecting with the legal field, continued to...
Longevity in the Law
Although Judge Jack Weinstein took senior status more than two decades ago on the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, at age...
Brass Tacks on Tax Reform
Mere minutes before Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, took the lectern at NYU Law last fall, the Treasury Department unveiled...
Hard Conversations on Race
In the wake of high-profile deaths of often-unarmed black men and women in Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New York; and elsewhere, University Professor Anna Deavere Smith (pictured,...
Taking a Good Look at Bad Companies
The Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement’s Conference on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing last April featured interdisciplinary discussion among law, business, sociology, economics, and psychology...
Fixing Fraud Sentencing
Chief Judge Patti Saris of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, chair of the US Sentencing Commission, delivered the closing keynote for the...
Fund Recollections
Last fall, the Leadership Series in Law and Business featured a talk about female leadership between Xu Jin MCJ ’96, CEO of Guotai Asset Management in...
Not-So-Classy Actions
When a consumer as prominent as Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a member of a class...
Wise White House Counsel
Last March, the Frank J. Guarini Government Lecture provided a rare opportunity to hear firsthand from not just one, but two former White House counsel about...
Global Tax Sense and Sensibility
How should multinationals be taxed? Are they being taxed enough? At the 19th annual David R. Tillinghast Lecture on International Taxation last October, Manal Corwin, head...
Free to Judge
Judge Anthony Scirica of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit considered potential threats to judicial independence and the state of the judiciary’s self-governing...
Shoeboxing Match
Does a police search violate the Fourth Amendment if it’s unclear who can consent to a search of a shared living space? This question was at...
North by West
Former US ambassadors to South Korea and China, NGO representatives, a North Korean defector, and scholars gathered last November for the US-Asia Law Institute’s 20th annual...
A Matter of Convictions
When Kenneth Thompson ’92 took office as Brooklyn’s district attorney in January 2014, he inherited what he describes as a “staggering number” of wrongful conviction claims....
Caring for Caregivers
Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, made a call in the 21st annual Sheinberg Lecture for better wages and benefits for an often-ignored...
Hasta Law Vista, Baby
This year’s Law Revue, a musical spoof of the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Terminator 2: Judgment Day, included time-traveling murderous citation robots and even deadlier legal puns....
Best Swishes
NYU Law defeated Columbia Law School 85–80 in the 14th annual Deans’ Cup last March. The NYU Law faculty also prevailed in the halftime game, 13–11....
Tax Repairer
“Is the US international tax system really broken?” Mark Mazur, the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, addressed that question in the 15th annual NYU/KPMG...
Three-Pillar Cure
During his first US trip since his appointment, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven visited NYU Law to discuss the Nordic model of democracy: economic competitiveness, open-mindedness,...
What’s on the Line Online
Last year, hackers compromised 40 million Target customers’ credit card details, forcing the CEO’s resignation and making cybersecurity a C-suite corporate concern. US companies spend an...
Patent Offensive
The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy invited Google Patent Counsel Laura Sheridan to kick off a new lecture series. She decried the dramatic uptick...
The Prices Were Right
The 21st annual Public Service Auction, which raised more than $50,000 for students doing public interest summer work, featured not only an appearance by NYU Law’s...
The Size of Justice
In the 21st annual Brennan Lecture on State Courts and Social Justice, Chief Justice Chase Rogers of the Connecticut Supreme Court named technological advances, a growing...
Border Disputes
At the 2014 Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium last November, Jorge Bustamante, former UN special rapporteur on the human rights of...
Police Report
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton, facing public outcry in the wake of citizens’ deaths at the hands of local police, gave his own perspective...
Fall Ball
On October 30, on the eve of Halloween, the Law School invited students and other community members to celebrate with a night of music, fortune tellers,...
“I Encourage Your Discomfort”
The Law School was well represented at New York University’s 183rd Commencement on May 20. The occasion marked the final graduation ceremony for both Martin Lipton...
Reflections
Members of the Class of 2015 share where they are going and what they are proud to have done. Learn what other students and recent graduates say...
Hooding Album, Class of 2015
In an annual convocation photo session, proud alumni relatives and donors face the camera to celebrate with the legacy graduates and scholars of the Class of 2015. —...
In Appreciation
Joshua Espinosa ’15, William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholar within the AnBryce Program, spoke for so many of his fellow scholars when he expressed his gratitude to...
Together Again
Amidst gorgeous New York City spring weather, 12 classes from 1955 to 2010 gathered at NYU School of Law last May for Reunion 2015. The weekend...
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