Faculty Focus
Garland Gets a Guggenheim
Last April, David Garland became the most recent Law School professor to be awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. With this honor...
Accolades for Amsterdam
University Professor Anthony Amsterdam received the Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation in Chicago on February 11. Amsterdam has said that...
Remembering Chester Mirsky
Chet and I met in September 1982 when I came to NYU from Cornell on a “look see” visit. We became friends almost immediately and shared...
Cassese Named a Judge, Noble Reelected
Sabino Cassese and Ronald Noble, both law professors from the NYU community, recently won major appointments in organizations abroad. Cassese, a Global Visiting Professor of Law,...
It’s All Academic
Getting an entry-level teaching job at an accredited law school isn’t an easy task—only about 110 of the more than 1,000 applicants each year succeed. But...
Annual Survey Honors Dworkin
Some were friends and colleagues; others were intellectual adversaries of one of the most noteworthy and frequently cited legal philosophers of the past century. All came...
Introducing Cynthia Estlund
As a visiting professor last spring, did something that her colleagues have only fantasized about: She banned laptops in the classroom. “She came in as a...
Introducing Roderick M. Hills Jr.
Rick Hills, 42, may very well be the only professor who has had to find a home for his farm animals (goats, a sheep, a pony,...
Introducing Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Professor Florencia Marotta-Wurgler ’01 was online buying a used copy of a biography of Russian intellectual Lou Andreas-Salome, when an idea for a research paper struck...
Introducing Smita Narula
You won’t find Coca-Cola in Professor Smita Narula’s refrigerator—Narula, 33, a faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ), won’t buy it...
Introducing Margaret Satterthwaite
To watch Margaret Satterthwaite field emails in her office, dressed conservatively in a crisp white button-down shirt and navy pantsuit—funky blue/brown plastic glasses not withstanding—one would...
Introducing Jeremy Waldron
For a scholar who’s been described as a dynamo, a live wire, an enormously energetic intellect, Professor Jeremy Waldron had a quite uneventful upbringing. He was...
