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 ...

When a high-profile criminal case emerges in Manhattan—from the prosecution of accused UnitedHealth CEO shooter Luigi Mangione to the arrests of suspects in the alleged kidnap and torture of a wealthy ...

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 ...

Richard Brooks, Brant Hellwig LLM ’00, and Daniel Hemel have been named this year’s recipients of the NYU Law Teaching Award, which recognizes faculty members who have made outstanding contributions ...

The politicization of the US Justice Department was the focus of a March 5 NYU Law Forum featuring former DOJ attorneys and co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security. Under discussion was 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 ...

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 ...

Lisa Monaco returns to NYU Law as a distinguished scholar in residence after serving as US deputy attorney general from 2021 to 2025, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 announced on February 3. Monaco first ...

Miranda Stewart LLM ’98, a professor at University of Melbourne Law School, will join NYU Law as a visiting professor of law in Fall 2025 for a three-year term, during which she will serve as the ...

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 ...