USA Today addresses Brennan Center ballot design study
A July 21 article in USA Today reports on a study just released by the Brennan Center for Justice showing that problems with ballot design in recent elections led thousands of voters to skip over key races or make mistakes that invalidated their votes. New voters and new voting technology could play a big role in voting mistakes this fall.

Also, Larry Norden of the Brennan Center tells the New York Times that he is concerned with the confusing design of this year's ballots, which he says may lead new voters to make mistakes.
Read the USA Today article
Read the New York Times article
Read the Brennan Center study

Brennan Center weighs in on military detention case in New York Times
In a July 16 New York Times article on a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding the president's authority to order indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the U.S., Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice deemed the decision and its implications "deeply disturbing."

An editorial in the same edition of the Times referenced a 2007 Brennan Center report on conducting post-election audits using voting-machine paper trails.
Read the New York Times article on the military detention decision
Read the New York Times editorial on post-election audits
Read the Brennan Center for Justice's report on post-election audits

Pildes discusses Bloomberg as vice presidential candidate for Obama and McCain and comments on Supreme Court's completed term
In a July 1 New York Times article, Richard Pildes, the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, discusses the legality of both Barack Obama and John McCain choosing Michael Bloomberg as a running mate. Most states forbid candidates from running under multiple parties, but these prohibitions may not apply since vice presidents aren't separately elected, Pildes says.

Pildes also comments on the Supreme Court's completed term in Time.
Read the New York Times article
Read the Time article

Barkow comments on New York Attorney General's decision not to retry murder, discusses former prosecutor allegedly pressured into defending convictions of men he believed were innocent
Citing problems with the confession and lack of physical evidence, Anthony Barkow, executive director of NYU's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, tells Newsday that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made the right decision not to retry Martin Tankleff for his parents' murder after an appellate court overturned his conviction following 17 years in prison.

In a post on the American Constitution Society Blog, Barkow writes that the supervisors who allegedly pressured a former Manhattan assistant district attorney to defend the convictions of two men he believed were innocent should be subject to disciplinary action, not the prosecutor who deliberately lost the hearing.
Read the Newsday article
Read the post on the American Constitution Society Blog

Alston reports on alleged U.S. extrajudicial executions and
Guantánamo military tribunals
In a June 30 U.N. press conference, Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, called on the U.S. to ensure that innocent people are not executed. He singled out authorities in Texas and Alabama for being "strikingly indifferent" to the risk of putting innocent people to death.

Alston also criticized President George W. Bush for the administration's "lack of transparency" at the Guantánamo detention camp, and said that military trials fail to meet basic due process standards.
Read the Agence France-Presse article
Read the Los Angeles Times article
Read the U.N. News Service story
Read the press release and Philip Alston's press statement

Furman Center's subprime research featured in Washington Post
In two articles on June 30, the Washington Post explored the relationship between subprime lending and racial segregation, and discussed the implications that concentrations of subprime lending may have for neighborhood health. Both articles featured research by NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
Read the first article in the Washington Post
Read the second article in the Washington Post

Barkow questions how Clinton primary voters could not support Obama
In a June 27 op-ed in The Huffington Post, Rachel Barkow points out that despite polls showing that Barack Obama has won over more than half of Hillary Clinton's supporters, nearly 40 percent plan to vote for John McCain or are undecided. With women's rights at stake, she writes, "a protest vote as a way of decrying sexism simply doesn't make sense."
Read the op-ed in The Huffington Post

Jacobs discusses Supreme Court's gun decision
In a June 26 op-ed in The Huffington Post, James Jacobs, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts and director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice, writes that the "gun control debate and American politics will never be the same" after the Court's 5-4 decision finding Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban unconstitutional.

Jacobs also tells The New York Sun it is unlikely that New York City's gun regulations could withstand constitutional attack in light of the Court's decision.
Read the op-ed in The Huffington Post
Read the article in The New York Sun

NYU journal cited in Supreme Court Second Amendment decision
An NYU Journal of Law & Liberty article, "The Peculiar Story of United States v. Miller" by Brian L. Frye '05, was cited in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which ruled Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns unconstitutional. The 1939 Miller case also concerned the Second Amendment.
Read the majority and dissenting opinions in District of Columbia v. Heller
Read "The Peculiar Story of United States v. Miller"

CHRGJ issues report criticizing U.S. for withholding aid to Haiti
A June 24 New York Times article discusses a new report released by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) and other human rights groups that strongly criticizes the U.S. government for withholding loans intended to establish clean drinking water in Haiti as leverage to foster political change in the country.
Read the New York Times article
Read the report

Barkow discusses Bear Stearns indictments, questions prosecutors' decision to name unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism case
In a June 19 interview on Bloomberg TV's Evening Edition, Anthony Barkow, executive director of the Law School's new Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, which focuses on prosecutorial practices, discusses the indictments against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of deceiving investors by not disclosing how badly their funds were performing. "This is really a case about lying," says Barkow.

Also, Barkow tells the Wall Street Journal that federal prosecutors acted questionably in naming unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism conspiracy case. A former federal prosecutor, Barkow says, "We're supposed to bend over backwards not to do this."
Watch Anthony Barkow on Bloomberg TV's Evening Edition
Read the article in the Wall Street Journal

First supports government action against OPEC, revitalization of antitrust
In a June 19 Los Angeles Times op-ed, Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law and director of the Trade Regulation Program, calls on the next Congress to stand up to OPEC and to revive recently defeated legislation allowing the Justice Department to sue the cartel for violating
U.S. antitrust laws. "Decades of putting up with this cartel have done nothing to reduce oil prices," he writes.

Also, in the June 2 issue of The Nation, First examines the diminished state of civil antitrust litigation and the concurrent rise in monopolistic behavior. First advocates not only a resurgence in antitrust prosecution, but also a renewed public interest in economic justice.
Read the op-ed in the Los Angeles Times
Read the op-ed in The Nation

Sixteen Root-Tilden-Kern scholars graduate without tuition debt
On May 21, the Law School graduated an expanded class of 16 Root-Tilden-Kern Scholars, the first class in more than two decades to receive three years of full tuition in exchange for committing to public interest work after graduation. The New York Law Journal reports that the Scholars have positions ranging from death penalty work in Alabama to advocating for children's rights in New York City. May 23, 2008
Read the article from the New York Law Journal

Three professors receive Podell Distinguished Teaching Awards
Cynthia Estlund, Clayton Gillette and Troy McKenzie were honored at the Law School's end-of-year dinner on May 15 with the Albert Podell Distinguished Teaching Awards. Established last year by Albert Podell '76, the awards recognize the outstanding achievements of faculty in the classroom. In addition to the Distinguished Teaching Awards, Podell has also contributed to the faculty research fund, sponsored the moot court competition and prizes in oral advocacy and brief writing, and established the Albert Podell Global Scholars-at-Risk Fund to support foreign scholars, researchers, faculty, and intellectuals who face persecution in their home countries.

Estlund is a leading scholar in labor and employment law and has written extensively on the relationship between the workplace and democracy. Gillette is a renowned expert in commercial and local government law. McKenzie, a bankruptcy scholar and 2000 graduate of the Law School, just completed his first year of teaching. May 22, 2008
Read Cynthia Estlund's faculty profile
Read Clayton Gillette's faculty profile
Read Troy McKenzie's faculty profile

Been testifies before House committee on subprime mortgage crisis
The Wall Street Journal reports that Vicki Been, Elihu Root Professor of Law and codirector of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, testified on May 21 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the dangers the subprime mortgage crisis presents to renters as well as owners. She asserted that 60 percent of foreclosures in New York City came in multifamily properties, threatening to displace 15,000 tenants. May 21, 2008
Read Vicki Been's House testimony
Read the Wall Street Journal article

CHRGJ urges Nepal to include Dalit rights in new constitution
The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) released "Recasting Justice," a report urging Nepal to include the protection of the rights of Dalits—a group discriminated against based on caste—in its new constitution. Rights include: citizenship; nondiscrimination; civil and political rights; economic, social, and cultural rights, and the right to be free from torture. Professor Smita Narula, CHRGJ faculty director, appeared extensively on HDNet's Dan Rather Reports in a half-hour segment on the extreme prejudice faced by Dalits. April 28, 2008
Read CHRGJ's report "Recasting Justice"
Watch Dan Rather's HDNet report

Three NYU professors share NSF grant to study counterterrorism effects
Stephen Schulhofer, Robert B. McKay Professor of Law, University Professor Tom Tyler, and Aziz Huq, adjunct professor of law and deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, were jointly awarded a two-year, $387,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine post-9/11 policing policies and practices deployed within Muslim immigrant communities in the United States and England. Their empirical study will collect and analyze data on attitudes toward law enforcement authorities in Muslim minority communities in Brooklyn, New York and Tower Hamlets, East London, both of which have been the focus of counterterrorism investigations since September 2001.
View Stephen Schulhofer's faculty profile
View Tom Tyler's faculty profile

Shaviro testifies before U.S. Senate on tax reform
Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on April 15 on income tax reform. He argued for broadening the base, lowering rates, taxing business income more effectively, and easing compliance burdens on the low- and middle-income households.
Read Daniel Shaviro''s Senate testimony

Furman Center study reveals surprising NYC foreclosure numbers
An analysis by NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy of New York City foreclosure filings in 2007 reveals that 15,000 households containing as many as 38,000 renters may face eviction due to foreclosure on the building in which they live, while another 15,000 households that are owned rather than rented also filed for foreclosure. Vicki Been, Furman Center director, points out that discussion of the mortgage crisis has focused on owners, but renters, too, are at risk. Been was also quoted in the New York Times on the topic.
Read the report from the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
Read the New York Times article
Listen to an interview with Vicki Been on Bloomberg Radio

Sharkey article cited in Third Circuit opinion
In his dissent in Colacicco v. Apotex, in which the majority held that a state tort failure-to-warn claim was preempted where the FDA had approved the drug at issue and based on the FDA's position on preemption, Judge Thomas Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit cited Samuel Issacharoff's and Sharkey's article "Backdoor Federalization." The title of that article refers to a trend in the federal courts toward finding state law preempted. The article was referenced to show that centralized federal control can facilitate uniform regulation of a national market and prevent states from intefering with the affairs of other states. A separate article by Sharkey, "Preemption by Preamble: Federal Agencies and the Federalization of Tort Law," was cited for the proposition that the trend toward federalization is leading to agencies getting expansive discretion to interpret or declare the preemptive scope of the regulations they promulgate but not having latitude to infer private rights of action under those same regulations.
Read "Backdoor Federalization" by Samuel Issacharoff' and Catherine Sharkey
Read "Preemption by Preamble" by Catherine Sharkey

NYU to host inaugural Conference on Law, Commerce and Development
On April 11-12, NYU will host its inaugural Conference on Law, Commerce and
Development. At this interdisciplinary gathering, leading scholars in law,
economics, political science and anthropology will explore the relationships
among legal institutions, commercial practices and economic development.
Read more about the Conference on Law, Commerce and Development

Dworkin to be honored in symposium
On April 10, six distinguished legal theorists and philosophers will
participate in a symposium dedicated to Ronald Dworkin, winner of Norway's
2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize, which recognizes outstanding
scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and
theology. Each speaker will present a paper relating to an aspect of
Professor Dworkin's wide-ranging scholarship, and he will comment throughout
the day.
Read more about the Holberg symposium

Sharkey article cited in Supreme Court opinion
In her dissent in Riegel v. Medtronic, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited
Catherine Sharkey's article "Federalism in Action: FDA Regulatory Preemption
in Pharmaceutical Cases in State Versus Federal Courts" to support the proposition that
even though most states do not regard regulatory compliance as dispositive,
it is a factor that may be taken into account by the jury, and a
manufacturer in those states could present the FDA's approval of its medical
device as evidence that it used due care in the design and labeling of the
product. However, Justice Ginsburg wrote that the Court's broad reading of
the statute at issue saves the manufacturer from any need to urge such a
defense.
Read the Supreme Court opinion for Riegel v. Medtronic
Read Catherine Sharkey's article
Watch video of an AEI panel at which Sharkey discussed federal preemption of state law
Read the Washington Post article on upcoming preemption cases
Read the Washington Post's coverage of the Riegel ruling

NYU hosts conference on antitrust modernization
On April 11, scholars and practitioners will meet to discuss the Antitrust Modernization Commission. The conference, organized by Harry First and Eleanor Fox, will take place on the one-year anniversary of the issuance of the AMC's report and will examine the potential effect of the recommendations on the next administration.
Read more about the conference

Rodríguez addresses immigration issues in op-ed and lecture
In "States Take the Immigration Initiative," an op-ed piece written for Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Professor Cristina Rodríguez says states can play a productive and necessary role in immigration regulation given the importance of federal leadership on the issue. On March 10, Rodríguez delivered the Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School. Her lecture entitled “Burden Sharing in an Age of Migration" explored how political, legal and cultural burdens should be distributed in order to better manage changes brought on by immigration.
Watch Rodríguez deliver the Thomas Lecture
Read "States Take the Immigration Initiative"
Professor Rodríguez's faculty profile

Economic leaders to discuss policy at NYU School of Law
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, will deliver the international keynote lecture at the 2008 Global Economic Policy Forum on April 14 at the NYU School of Law. Dr. Donald B. Marron, senior economic adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers; Tevi D. Troy, deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Kevin M. Warsh, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will participate in a domestic policy discussion.
Read more about the 2008 Global Economic Policy Forum

Batchelder testifies before Senate committee on estate taxes
Lily Batchelder testified on March 12 before the Senate Committee on Finance regarding estate tax system reform. She asserted that estate and gift tax burdens generally fall on heirs, rather than donors, and rise sharply but imprecisely with the heir's financial circumstances. She proposed two options that would better target the tax on inherited income.
Read Lily Batchelder's Senate testimony

Choi, Kahan and Miller have written three of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2007
Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law Stephen Choi's “Securities Litigation and its Lawyers: Changes During the First Decade After PSLRA” (cowritten by Robert Thompson), George T. Lowy Professor of Law Marcel Kahan's “Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control” (cowritten by Edward Rock), and Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law Geoffrey Miller’s “Ex Ante Choice of Law and Forum: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Merger Agreements” (cowritten by Theodore Eisenberg) were voted three of the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of 2007 according to the Corporate Practice Commentator. Corporate and securities law professors from across the country responded to the publication’s request to choose the best out of a pool of hundreds of articles written last year. Choi’s, Kahan’s and Miller’s work, and the complete list of winning articles, will be published in the Corporate Practice Commentator.
Professor Choi's Faculty Profile
Professor Kahan's Faculty Profile
Professor Miller’s Faculty Profile
Read "Securities Litigation and its Lawyers" by Professor Choi
Read "Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control" by Professor Kahan
Read "Ex Ante Choice of Law and Forum" by Professor Miller

NYU conference celebrates 50th anniversary of Hart-Fuller debate
The NYU Law Review celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic debate in the pages of the Harvard Law Review between H.L.A. Hart and Lon Fuller, following Hart's 1957 Holmes Lecture at Harvard Law School. Eight leading jurists from the United States, Canada and England discussed the significance and enduring influence of the debate. February 1-2, 2008
Read the story

13th Annual Gelatt Dialogue puts the spotlight on legal education in China
At the 13th annual Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on Law and Development in Asia, keynote speaker Chenguang Wang, dean of Tsinghua Law School in Beijing, stressed the significance of legal education in China's reform process. A panel of Chinese legal experts discussed the problems facing Chinese law schools, almost all of which are no more than 30 years old. January 31, 2008
Read the story

Immigrant Rights Clinic wins important victory
The Immigrant Rights Clinic scored an en banc victory before the Board of Immigration Appeals on December 13. The Board ruled that legal immigrants with two state drug possession misdemeanors should not be treated as through they had been convicted of a federal drug trafficking felony. IRC students Caroline Cincotta ’07, Carlin Yuen ’07, and Mandy Hu '08—supervised by clinic director Nancy Morawetz '81—and Hays Fellow Kristen Conner '08 worked with the Immigrant Defense Project on the case. The IDP team itself consisted of NYU Law alumni Manny Vargas '84 and Alina Das '05. Das argued the case before the Board of Immigration Appeals. December 13, 2007
Read the decision

Students win Tannenwald Writing honors
David Kamin '08 and Michelle Christenson '08 won second place and honorable mention, respectively, in the 2007 Tannenwald Writing Competition, cosponsored by the Tannenwald Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and the American College of Tax Counsel. Kamin's paper, "What’s a Progressive Tax Change? Unmasking Hidden Value of Distributional Debates," earned him a $2,500 cash prize. Christenson's paper was titled "Optimal Property Taxation: An Endowment Tax on Land Value."
Read the detailed announcement of all the winners

Sachs gives keynote address on international law's role in helping African children
At the Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium, Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, argued that the plight of children in sub-Saharan Africa, who face disease, poverty, lack of education, orphanhood, and other hardships, is one that can be remedied through international law. "This is about choice, it's about rights, it's about law. Go at it," he said. October 29, 2007
Read the full story

Silverstein discusses rebuilding the World Trade Center
Larry Silverstein, the developer of the World Trade Center site, gave a candid lunchtime talk describing his legal battles, and crediting NYU Law alumni Herb Wachtell '54 and Martin Lipton '55, who helped him win the insurance settlement that has made rebuilding possible. Silverstein was a guest of the Pollack Center for Law & Business. October 24, 2007
Read the full story

Furman analysis shows danger in NYC's subprime lending
Just-released Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy data reveals that though subprime lending declined nationally between 2005 and 2006, New York City’s subprime lending last year was higher than the rest of the country’s. The analysis also indicated that black borrowers were four times more likely, and Hispanics three times more likely, than white borrowers to receive subprime loans making minorities' risk of foreclosure higher since subprime borrowers are more vulnerable than prime mortgage borrowers. The New York Times first reported on the center's findings on October 15, and commented on the study's racial implications in an October 17 editorial.
Read the New York Times editorial (10/17)
Read the New York Times coverage (10/15)
Read the Furman Center's analysis
Visit the Furman Center's Web site

Professors Been and Ellen answer questions about New York's housing market
During a live online question-and-answer session hosted by the Gotham Gazette, Vicki Been ’83, Elihu Root Professor of Law and the director of Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, and Wagner Professor Ingrid Gould Ellen, codirector of the Furman Center, discussed problems unique to New York City’s real estate market. They took questions from Gazette staff members and readers on issues such as New York’s housing shortage, the increase in foreclosures and how the sub-prime lending “meltdown” will affect the city’s various neighborhoods. October 3, 2007
Read the online Q&A

Argentine Presidential Candidate Kirchner on Transitional Justice
The Emilio Mignone Lecture on Transitional Justice on September 24 featured Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, presidential candidate for the October 2007 Argentine elections and Judge Baltasar Garzón of the Spanish "Audiencia Nacional" (High Criminal Court) discussing their personal experiences attempting to bring to justice those who ordered the kidnappings of thousands of men and women during Argentina's "Dirty War," which took place between 1976 and 1983. Kirchner said that the debt to the families of the missing is still unpaid, and that justice must ultimately be meted out by the Argentine judiciary. The conversation was moderated by Juan E. Méndez, president of the International Center for Transitional Justice, which cosponsored the event with the New York University School of Law and its Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. September 24, 2007
Read the coverage in the New York Times

Milgram is October's Alumna of the Month
Anne Milgram '96 became New Jersey's attorney general in June 2007, having served previously as first assistant attorney general. Milgram began her career in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office of Robert Morgenthau. She went on to become the nation's leading federal prosecutor of human trafficking at the Justice Department and, later, counsel to then-Senator Jon Corzine.
Read her ALMO profile

Revesz, Bagley win ABA writing award
"Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State" coauthored by Dean Richard Revesz and Nicholas Bagley '05 was selected by the American Bar Association's section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice as the best article in the field published during 2006. Bagley will present the article at the section's fall meeting in Washington D.C.

Lisa Kung '97 on Southern justice
Lisa Kung ’97, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, discussed “Twenty Years After McCleskey: Race and Racism in the Criminal Justice System in the Deep South.” She was the 2007 Melvyn and Barbara Weiss Public Interest Forum speaker, part of the Leaders in Public Interest Series. September 24, 2007
Read the story

CLS Fellows Bergen and Cruickshank on Larry King Live
Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, both fellows at NYU’s Center on Law and Security, were featured guests on CNN’s Larry King Live on September 7, 2007. The two took part in analyzing the release of the first new Osama bin Laden videotaped message to the United States in almost three years.
Read the CNN transcript of the show

Bloomberg touts findings of Furman's BID study
During his July 29 weekly radio address, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cited the Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy’s recent study showing the positive impact that Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have on commercial property values. The study showed that BIDs increase the value of commercial real estate within their boundaries by over 15 percent. Bloomberg said that BIDs are a crucial part of the city’s overall economic development strategy.
Read the Furman Center's report on BIDs
Read a transcript of the Mayor's July 29, 2007 radio address
Listen to the Mayor's July 29, 2007 address

Sharkey joins the Law School faculty
Catherine Sharkey will join the faculty at the NYU School of Law in Fall 2007. She specializes in torts, punitive damages and class actions, and is an expert in the areas of product liability and empirical legal studies. Sharkey was a professor at Columbia University’s law school, as well as a visiting professor at NYU during the 2006-07 academic year.
Read the announcement
Read an Associated Press article featuring Catherine Sharkey’s view on a district court ruling that FDA approval does not clear drug makers of claims that their warning labels are inadequate

CHRGJ, the International Human Rights Clinic and partners name CIA "disappeared" and file lawsuit
On June 7, 2007, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and five leading human rights organizations published "'Off the Record': U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the 'War on Terror'," a new report detailing 39 people believed to have been in secret U.S. custody and who remain missing.  Under Professor Margaret Satterthwaite's '99 direction, the International Human Rights Clinic, and two othergroups, also filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking information about the "disappeared," and rendition.
Read the full report, listen to podcasts and get news updates on the CHRGJ Web site

NYU School of Law holds 2007 convocation
The Law School's convocation, "A Celebration in Honor of the Class of 2007," took place on May 11 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The ceremony featured remarks by Diane C. Yu, chief of staff and deputy to the president of NYU; speehces by selected students from the Class of 2007; and an address by Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
Read more about the 2007 convocation and see video footage

NYU and NUS launch joint degree program in Singapore
The NYU School of Law and the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS) officially launched the NYU@NUS dual-degree program on May 16 at the home of Patricia Herbold, the U.S. ambassador to Singapore. Dean Richard Revesz and Professor Simon Chesterman, the program's resident faculty director, attended the launch event. The inaugural class, comprised of 42 students from 23 countries and six continents, began classes on May 7 and will earn LL.M. degrees in either business and trade law, or justice and human rights.
Read a news article about the program and the launch event

Counterterrorism Experts Call for More Transparency at Center on Law and Security’s Annual Conference at La Pietra
Counterterrorism officials from around the world-among them investigative magistrates Baltasar Garzon of Spain and Armando Spataro of Italy-called upon the United States government to share more information and evidence in the global fight against Islamist extremism. The officials, joined by law enforcement experts and journalists, gathered for the fourth annual conference on "Prosecuting Terrorism: The Global Challenge." In his keynote speech, Peter Clarke, the head of counterterrorism at Scotland Yard, said that more openness in terrorism trials is needed in order to boost the British public's trust in intelligence agencies as well as encourage support of policing and subsequent prosecutions. Click to read coverage of the conference.
The New York Times 5-25-07
The Los Angeles Times 5-26-07
NPR Morning Edition 5-31-07

Stevenson finds support in challenge to Alabama's laws on legal representation for condemned prisoners
Alabama death row prisoners represented by Bryan Stevenson are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the issue of whether condemned inmates have a right to counsel for postconviction appeals. Alabama is the only state that denies postconviction legal aid to prisoners facing execution. Alabama newspapers, the New York Times and a coaliton of state and federal judges and bar leaders have all written in support of the petition filed in Barbour v. Haley.
Read media reports and op-eds about the case

CHRGJ releases report on discriminatory profiling in U.S. citizenship process
"Americans on Hold: Profiling, Citizenship, and the 'War on Terror'," a new report released by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, analyzes under international law the impact of prolonged security checks against immigrants who are perceived to be Muslim, and offers policy recommendations to end discriminatory profiling in the citizenship process. The report has been featured in print stories, radio interviews and on local and international TV news programs.
Read the full report, listen to podcasts and get news updates on the CHRGJ Web site

Fed Chairman Bernanke speaks at NYU Law
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, spoke to an invitation-only audience at the NYU School of Law. Bernanke's speech addressed the balance between government intervention and free-market discipline. Aprill 11, 2007
Read more about the event, and watch the archived Webcast of Bernanke's speech

Choi and Kahan pen three of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2006
George T. Lowy Professor of Law Marcel Kahan's two articles, "The Demand for Corporate Law: Statutory Flexibility, Judicial Quality, or Takeover Protection?" and "Symbiotic Federalism and the Structure of Corporate Law" (cowritten by Edward Rock) and Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law Stephen Choi's "Do Institutions Matter?" (cowritten by Jill Fisch and A.C. Pritchard), were voted three of the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of 2006 according to the Corporate Practice Commentator. Corporate and securities law professors from across the country responded to the publication’s request to choose the best out of a pool of 450 articles written last year. Choi’s and Kahan’s work, and the complete list of winning articles, will be published in the next issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator.
Read "Do Institutions Matter?" by Professor Choi
Read "The Demand for Corporate Law: Statutory Flexibility, Judicial Quality, or Takeover Protection?" by Professor Kahan
Professor Choi's Faculty Profile
Professor Kahan's Faculty Profile

Estlund testifies before Senate labor committee
On March 27, Cynthia Estlund testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, which includes increased penalties for employer anti-organizing tactics and lets employees choose a union through majority sign-up instead of through secret ballots. Estlund said laws addressing union organizing and employer responses have been unchanged since 1947.
Read her full testimony

Pildes testifies on Puerto Rico's political future before House subcommittee
On March 21, Professor Richard Pildes will testify before the House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs about the constitutionality of bills that let Puerto Rico vote for its future political status and relationship with the U.S. The options include statehood, independence or an enhanced form of autonomous self-government that expands upon Puerto Rico's current commonwealth status.
Read his full testimony

NYU hosts 2007 immigration moot court
NYU's Moot Court Board second annual Immigration Law Competition ended with Harvard and Brooklyn Law besting 10 schools before appeals judges Kermit Lipez and Stanley Marcus, and Juan Osuna, acting chairman, Board of Immigration Appeals. Third-years Heather Keegan and Vilas Dhar ran the competition, while Julia Fuma and Andrew Hodgetts created the problem. February 25, 2007.
See the complete results

NYU wins UCLA sexual orientation moot competition
The Law School's moot court team of Jonathan Davis '08 and Jonathan Herczeg '08 took top honors at the third national UCLA Sexual Orientation Competition. Sam Castic '07 coached the two, who argued before Justices Barbara Madsen and Susan Owens of the Washington State Supreme Court, and Judge Raymond Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. February 24, 2007.
Read about the competition

CHRGJ Releases Key India Report
The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch released a report to the UN on India's failure to end caste discrimination. "Hidden Apartheid" was co-authored by Smita Narula, Jayne Huckerby and International Human Rights Clinic students Stephanie Barbour, Tiasha Palikovic and Jeena Shah, who will present the report's findings in Geneva today. February 23, 2007.
Read "Hidden Apartheid"
Read a story on the report from the New York Law Journal (registration required)
Listen to an interview with Narula that originally aired on radio station WBAI
Listen to an interview with Narula that originally aired on radio station WNYC

Opperman Institute supports increased pay for judges
The Opperman Institute hosted 50 leaders of the bar, major corporations, and public interest groups in a meeting on judicial compensation. The institute joins Chief Justice John Roberts and 130 law school deans in urging Congress and the President to increase the salaries of federal judges in order to preserve the quality and independence of the judiciary. February 16, 2007.
Read about the Opperman Institute

Human rights advocates discuss capital punishment in China at Gelatt Dialogue
The fact that China doesn’t release statistics on convictions and executions topped the list of human rights advocates’ frustrations. But there were some signs of progress, and reason for optimism at the 12th Annual Timothy Gelatt Memorial Dialogue on Law and Democracy in Asia, sponsored by the Law School and the Council on Foreign Relations. February 6, 2007.
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Kaye shares six life lessons to alumni admirers
The Chief Justice of New York, Judith Kaye, was the keynote speaker at the Law Alumni Association's annual Alumni Luncheon at the Pierre Hotel. She received two standing ovations from a crowd estimated to be the largest in the history of this event. In her candid speech, the justice shared six life lessons that mixed pride with humor and gratitude. January 26, 2007.
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North Carolina Governor Mike Easley on risk-taking in politics
The 10th annual Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture featured North Carolina’s Governor Mike Easley, an avid Nascar fan and former state attorney general who campaigned on a promise of no new taxes, but then had to eat his words. That he managed both to survive, and then thrive, made for a compelling lesson in politics. January 22, 2007.
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Cuomo picks Rivera for civil rights post
Attorney General-elect Andrew Cuomo announced that Jenny Rivera '85 will become the state's first Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights. At the time of the announcement, Rivera was a professor at City University of New York School of Law, where her legal studies focused on women's rights, education, employment discrimination, language rights discrimination and equity and testing issues. Cuomo also chose two recent adjunct professors among his senior staff. Robin L. Baker, deputy chief of appeals of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, will become the Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice. Mylan L. Denerstein, deputy fire commissioner for legal affairs at the New York City Fire Department, will become the Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice. December 19, 2006.
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Five students win 2007 Skadden Fellowships
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation has awarded five NYU law students and recent graduates with its prestigious fellowships to pursue public interest work next year. Each of the 30 fellows will receive a year's salary and benefits and may reapply for a second year. The fellows from NYU, and their sponsoring organizations are:

Arielle Cohen '06
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, Newark, NJ
Sienna Fontaine '07
Legal Services for New York-Bronx, Bronx, NY
Ani Mason '07
Urban Justice Center - Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project, New York, NY
Joy Milligan '06
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc, New York, NY
Kathryn Stewart '05
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, Philadelphia, PA
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Revesz, NYU alumni, Brennan Center leaders on Cuomo transition team
New York State's Attorney General-Elect Andrew Cuomo has tapped more than a dozen members of the NYU community to help him transition to office, including Dean Richard Revesz, Brennan Center Senior Counsel Frederick Schwarz, former Attorney General Robert Abrams '63 and Brennan Center Trustee and former U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter.
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NYU team advances in National Moot Court Competition
NYU's Moot Court Board National Team won second place in the regional round of the National Moot Court Competition sponsored by the Association of the Bar of The City of New York. The team of Brian Crow '07, Shaneeda Jaffer '07 and Kartik Venguswamy '07 also won Second Best Brief and Venguswamy won Best Oralist. The three will advance to the national round in January.
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Ginsburg helps celebrate Brennan Center's 10th anniversary
To celebrate 10 years of service, the Brennan Center for Justice, with the Law School, cohosted  "The Living Constitution: A Symposium on The Legacy of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave closing remarks at the symposium, which also featured panel discussions on freedom of religion with Professors Marcella David of the University of Iowa College of Law and Robert Post of Yale Law School and Judge Michael McConnell of the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and on liberty and national security with the Honorable Abraham Sofaer from the Hoover Institution, NYU Visiting Professor Geoffrey Stone and James Johnson, a partner at Debevoise and Plimpton. October 26, 2006
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O'Connor defends the judiciary
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Oscar G. Chase, Russell D. Niles Professor of Law and Dwight D. Opperman Institute for Judicial Administration Executive co-director, engaged in a conversation on “The Importance of Judicial Independence." O'Connor was visiting the Law School to celebrate the IJA's formal renaming and dedication to Dwight D. Opperman. October 11, 2006 
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Gore presents major climate control and national security policy speech
Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a major policy speech at the NYU School of Law. Cosponsored by the Set America Free Coalition and the World Resources Institute, Gore presented a bipartisan approach to solve the climate crisis, stabilize our energy markets and enhance national security. September 18, 2006 
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The Law School Announces Five New Furman Scholars
One 3L, two 2Ls and two 1Ls have been named Furman Scholars for the 2006-07 year. They include Patrick Garlinger '09, Ben Kingsley '08, Paul Monteleoni '07, Rebecca Stone '09 and Cathy Sweetser '08
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Demystifying and demythologizing Osama bin Laden
The Center on Law and Security hosted a conversation between its Distinguished Fellow Lawrence Wright and Steven Simon, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. Lawrence Wright discussed his most recent book: "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." September 12, 2006
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The Leaders in Public Interest Series Begins
The Public Interest Law Center began its 2006-07 Leaders in Public Interest Series with the Melvyn and Barbara Weiss Public Interest Forum. Joseph Margulies of the MacArthur Justice Center in Washington, D.C. discussed "Five Years after 9/11: Divided Government and the Commander in Chief." September 11, 2006
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An Inquiry on the U.N. Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme
The NYU School of Law's Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) convened a discussion of the controversial United Nations Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme with leading participants in the Oil-for-Food Inquiry. Speakers included Paul Volcker and Justice Richard Goldstone. September 6, 2006
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