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Students Get Funds to Spring Into Action During Break

Mimi Franke ’08 calls her first semester of law school a “total daze,” but nonetheless mustered the energy by the end of the year to focus...

Moot Is the Point: NYU Talks Its Way to the Top

Partisan politics was on the docket at the 21st annual Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition. The case, written by Colin George ’08 and Matthew Lippert...

All the Presidente’s Men

In his pre-law days as a reporter for The Miami Herald, Richard Brand ’07 set out to write a positive “hometown hero” piece about the meteoric...

A Web-Mistress of Laws

Although Anna MacCormack ’08 calls herself “feminist-minded,” she says feminism wasn’t a big issue in how she thought about her life. “Then I went to law...

Achieving Balance Through the Practice of Meditation

Once a week, about a dozen students slip away from their daily grind to meditate in a darkened classroom in Furman Hall. They close their eyes...

A Justice for All

When he was a first-year student, Annual Survey editor Eric Feder ’07 read Breyer’s dissent in U.S. v. Morrison— that Congress, not the judiciary, determines the...

Ben Gauntlett

Hauser scholar Ben Gauntlett rarely cracked open a textbook in high school. The six-foot-tall Aussie was a jock all the way, playing cricket, rugby and athletics—the...

Katrina James

Katrina James has worn many hats—even a baker’s cap. James, who learned pastry-making as an undergrad at Cornell, is bi-racial, black and white; and bi-national, born...

Craig Winters

The discovery of an incriminating email changed the course of Craig Winters’s legal career. Probing potential abuses in the insurance industry for then-New York State Attorney...