Law and Pop Culture

Russell Rennie '17

The Best-Kept Secrets of NYU Law’s Library Holdings

When I want to stop working but am too lazy to leave the NYU Law library, I go into the stacks and try to find the strangest book I can.

Selina Grün LLM '16

Pushing Boundaries: Learning from Successful Female Lawyers, Judges, and Academics

Women now represent half of the NYU Law student body. We have more possibilities than ever before, and fear is not an option.

Jonathan Levin '17

“War as Screensaver, War as Wallpaper”: Aesthetics of War in the New York Times

The NYU Art Law Society hosted a lecture by David Shields, the author of a provocative new book about the glamorizing of war through photography.

Carter Nelson '16

Watching Movies for a Good Cause: Criminal Justice Reform

Being a student at NYU Law has given me the opportunity to participate in the national discussion about police and criminal justice reform in some unique ways.

Jessica Wilkins '16

Tulips and Time Management: First Spring at NYU Law

New York spring is like a storybook. Snow was literally melting all around me, tulips are now blooming, and the air is getting warmer every day.

Jessica Wilkins '16

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the NYU Law Review

Here’s the inside scoop on the work and the perks of being a member of the NYU Law Review.

Carter Nelson '16

Lessons for Law School Learned from French Cinema

Sometimes the flexible rules of storytelling in surrealistic cinema are the best tools to communicate some essential aspect of reality. Likewise, the problems our legal system addresses are incredibly complex, and the solutions to these problems are anything but obvious.

Peter Dubrowski '14

The Real Law Review (U-E)

There’s this weird tradition in American law schools that seems particularly out of place in a world of musty casebooks, crippling workloads, and reflexively competitive people. Every year, all across this great nation of ours, future litigators, judges, educators, and businessmen stop studying, put on stage makeup, and pretend like they’re actors in the strange, sometimes scary ritual of legal education we call Law Revue.

Amber Rudolphi '13

Course Selection: That Time When a Doctrinal Course Becomes Useful

Despite my preference for seminars, clinics, and simulation courses, doctrinal courses also can demonstrate their utility when you least expect it and most need it.

Peter Dubrowski '14

Students, Citizens, Partisans: Election Volunteerism at NYU Law

You may or may not have noticed, but 2012 was an election year. Here are some of the election-related events and volunteer activities that NYU Law students led and participated in.

Nate Stein '15

The Curve

As you probably know, there is a curve in law school.

Nate Stein '15

And We’re Back

I am in the majority. I am part of the approximately two-thirds of students who are starting law school after a gap in their schoolings. It’s good to be back. School is still the same as I remember: a huge collection of people my age who over-fill auditoriums and clap very loudly. If orientation week was any indication, law school is going to be no different, except there is a lot more free food, and this time around my handwriting is much worse.