As we leave these idyllic surroundings, we inherit a world that is divided: a world of hatred and imperfect leaders where representation by the legal profession is required more than ever. We need to go out there and ensure we do justice to what we have learned here.
The 3L Externship Path at NYU Law
For students who want a jumpstart on being in a full-time working environment, NYU School of Law offers several options to take 14-credit clinics during 3L year. The structure allows for a year’s worth of real-world experience while still keeping the student grounded in academia. Among NYU Law’s vast array of clinics are nestled three […]
Bending the Rules: A Look at NYU Law’s Regulatory Policy Clinic
Normally people hear the phrase “bending the rules” and think of skirting a process or going outside the lines. In the world of administrative law, though, bending the rules is part of the process.
Adventures in Land Use Law with Professor Hills
As part of his Land Use Regulation course, Professor Roderick M. Hills, Jr. requires all students to attend a land use hearing and write a memo on the experience. Attending a hearing, as it turned out, was one of the most interesting experiences I’ve had so far in law school.
3L Advice on Picking Electives
Here are some of the insights I’ve gleaned from hours and hours on our course selection website.
A Bit of Venice in Vanderbilt Hall
I must’ve walked past the chandelier in the lobby of Vanderbilt a hundred times before I looked at it properly.
1L: Sotomayor and SCOTUS Lore
I don’t know quite how to describe what I imagined when I envisioned what a Supreme Court justice would look or sound like.
TA-king It Up a Notch: Being a Teaching Assistant at NYU Law
Being a teaching assistant at NYU Law is a great way to help develop and nurture our community while sharpening your own skills, too.
The TA Table
As a teaching assistant, I have the chance to get to know not only two professors, but also classmates outside of my year.
Clinically Excited for 3L Year Update
I was correct to be “clinically” excited for 3L year, as my experience in NYU’s Business Law Transactions Clinic has been even more fulfilling than I anticipated!
The Not-So-Secret Law School Within NYU Law
There is a whole other legal education available to us outside of the classroom that can be just as, or even more, valuable.
A Good Read, Indeed
Getting to know professors personally your 1L year can be challenging. Enter the 1L Reading Group.
The Second-to-Last Song
For my last post as an NYU Law student, I decided not to talk about graduation but rather the things I wish I had done here during my LLM studies.
A Cost of Ignorance: Is Cutting 3L Really a Good Idea?
At a public meeting in Greenberg Lounge two weeks ago, I saw Professor Samuel Estreicher, who teaches employment law and appellate advocacy here at NYU, defend his position that students should be allowed to sit for the bar after two years of law school and to have the option of walking with a certificate, rather than a J.D.
Tales from the Law Library: My Life as a Research Assistant
Most 1Ls, by May, look forward to putting the law library behind them. For research assistants, however, the library soon becomes a second home. Here’s what I thought about my summer pretending to be a law professor in NYU’s research assistant program.
Course Selection: The Path Not (Commonly) Taken
Law students must take a certain number of doctrinal classes to graduate, but otherwise, we have flexibility in selecting courses and creating our own schedules. Seminars, clinics, and simulation courses take law students outside the classroom setting and provide us with skills key to our future careers.
I am the 5%
Although law schools have attempted to diversify their student bodies over the years, a recent study casts strong doubt as to the effectiveness of these initiatives with respect to socioeconomic diversity. I offer my perspective on the issue based on my realization that I am among the 5%.
On Incomplete Information
Law and Economics is inescapable your 1L year. It is also perfectly understandable—even for arithmophobes like me.
The Beginning
I woke up this morning and realized that I am a law student. It’s official.
Work-Life Balance in Law School? It CAN Be Done
It is all too easy to retreat from life and forget who you were before law school. One student tells how she refused to succumb to the peer pressure of 24/7 studying.