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Notes and Renderings

Voting Rights Endure—for Now

When Debo Adegbile ’94 (above left) appeared before the Supreme Court in April to argue against a constitutional challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights...

The State of Matrimony

Last may, near the end of a year-long period in which six states legalized same-sex marriage, David Boies (LL.M. ’67) teamed with Bush v. Gore rival...

A Prized Fighter for Equal Justice

Bryan Stevenson, professor of clinical law and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has won a 2009 International Justice Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber...

Two Alumni Clear a Painful Docket

When articles are written about how the thousands of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were compensated, there will be one interesting footnote: All but three...

Ensuring the right to rest one’s weary head

Steven Banks ’81, attorney-in-chief of the Legal Aid Society, may have developed a new appreciation for Charles Dickens’s Bleak House after brokering a deal with New...

Committed to Diversity

At a time when legal education is moving further out of reach for those with big career ambitions but small financial means, the NYU School of...

Félicitations to Bellamy

In an April 7 ceremony in Paris, Carol Bellamy ’68 was made a chevalier in the Legion of Honor in recognition of her service from 1995...

Plugging Into a Powerful Partnership

A three-year effort by the editors of seven top law journals culminated with the April launch of the Legal Workshop, an online magazine featuring ideas found...

Green Team

Joining forces, law students from the Environmental Law Society and administrators from the dean’s office, residential services, operations and administrative services, and student affairs are working...

A Growing Problem: Hungry Farmworkers

A briefing paper written by members of Law Students for Human Rights and solicited by Olivier De Schutter, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food...

Notes and Renderings