Faculty Focus
A Professor Worthy of the Name
Kim Taylor-Thompson was one of five professors to receive the 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in February. The student-nominated honor recognizes professors across...
In One Short Year, Remembering a Life
When constitutional law scholar and critical race theory pioneer Derrick Bell passed away last October at age 80, NYU School of Law, which welcomed him as...
A Packed Calendar to Mark 50 Years of Teaching
If his golden anniversary year as a law professor is any indication, University Professor Arthur Miller has no plans to rest quietly on his laurels. In...
A Scholar with Big Pages to Fill
Professor John P. Steines Jr. (LL.M. ’78) has been named the new author of Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, the preeminent work on corporate...
When Is a Pig Like a Mad Cow?
The NYU Student Animal Legal Defense Fund’s October moot court of a then-pending Supreme Court case featured a cast of legal powerhouses. William T. Comfort, III...
Giving Constitutional Designers a Foundation
When Sujit Choudhry, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law, headed to Sri Lanka in 2003, he knew his task was to advise on constitutional design for a...
A Streak of Top 10s Times Two
For the sixth year in a row, articles authored or co-authored by both Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law, and Stephen Choi, Murray and...
Introducing David Kamin ’09
In early 2012, when President Obama’s economic team was putting together the 2013 federal budget, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Jack Lew, then-director of the Office...
Introducing Adam Samaha
Adam Samaha’s idea of a wild spring break as a teenager was a weekend at the Iowa caucuses. His bachelor party was a trip to the...
Introducing Alan Sykes
International law and economics scholar Alan Sykes is a low-key, no-nonsense kind of guy. His résumé presents the facts without embellishment. He drives a decade-old Toyota...
Introducing Intisar Rabb
Growing up in the nation’s capital led to an interest in law, says Intisar Rabb, who holds a joint appointment with the Department of Middle Eastern...
Our Man Behind the Journey from China
When Chen Guangcheng landed at Newark-Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after his dramatic exit from Beijing, he took a short drive to Greenwich Village. A...
The Ayes of March
For Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson, March 2012 came in like a lion and went out with a roar. He began the month giving a...
