The Law School Magazine The New York University School of Law

Student Spotlight

Transforming Characters into Letters of the Law

NYU students interested in international law have flown to the farthest corners of the earth to do important work. But last spring five LL.M. ’06 students...

A Peace Corps Volunteer Stays Close to the Lives He Changed

Rajeev Goyal ’06 is living proof that one person can make a difference. As a Peace Corps volunteer assigned to teach English in eastern Nepal, he...

Christopher Black, 1974-2005

Last September, the NYU School of Law family suffered a tremendous loss when Christopher Black, a promising third-year student, died unexpectedly at the age of 30....

“The World Could Use You Now More than Ever”

Speaking frankly about the great responsibilities of leadership today, former executive director of UNICEF Carol Bellamy ’68, now president and CEO of World Learning, an organization...

Heather Childs

Students will often credit professors with inspiring in them a whole new view of their future. For Heather Childs, lightning struck after taking Professor Noah Feldman’s...

Lais Washington

A summer internship in sunny Palo Alto, California, revealed to Lais Washington that corporate law just didn’t suit her. Spending weeks in the lovely glass-walled offices...

Thomas Leith

In Paris, where he was living and working as a jazz and funk drummer, Thomas Leith found himself absorbed by old Supreme Court decisions, such as...

A Tale of Two Parties

On a typically frosty Wednesday in early March, students in Professor Samuel Issacharoff’s Law of Democracy class knew they were in for something special. On the...

The Law School Raises the Bar on Public Interest Fund Raising

Oliver Carter ’06, the Student Bar Association president and ersatz auctioneer, stood next to a grinning Dean Richard Revesz on the stage of Tishman Auditorium during...

Law & Spontaneous Order

Friedrich A. von Hayek, the Austrianborn Nobel Prize-winning economic liberal, was a proponent of voluntary exchange within a free market system, and staunchly opposed socialism and...