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Dworkin Wins the Holberg Prize

New York University Law Professor Ronald M. Dworkin, who is widely considered among the most influential theorists on ethics and morality in law, won the 2007...

A Path to the Supreme Court

Leila Thompson ’05 has racked up one impressive achievement after another: She was a winner of the Daniel G. Collins 1L Negotiation Competition, served on the...

Alston Gives U.N. Mission Report

After returning from a human rights mission for the United Nations, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Philip Alston sharply criticized the U.S. judicial system for...

“Roots” Flourish

When 16 law school students graduated this past May, not only did these new lawyers mark a milestone, but so did the Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program. For...

An Award-Winning Season

Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, won a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon GuggenheimMemorial Foundation. The fellowship will support his work on...

Schock and Awe

University Professor Thomas Nagel has received the 2008 Rolf Schock Prize for logic and philosophy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The triennial award includes...

High Honors for Noble

Professor of Law on Leave Ronald Noble has been admitted as a knight to the Légion d’Honneur in recognition of his service as the secretary general...

Supreme Citing

The NYU Journal of Law & Liberty is barely three years old, but already it—and one of its cofounders—has shot into the spotlight. A 2008 article...