Features
Face Forward
On January 28, 2012, the Economist did something it hadn’t done in 70 years: it launched a weekly section focused on a single country—in this case,...
Dean of the Decade
Early last year, Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, learned that his friend Robert Bauer, a confidant of President Obama and the White House...
Signature Issues in Commercial Law and Bankruptcy
If you graduated from NYU School of Law more than 10 years ago, it’s likely that you think of commercial law courses as essentially focused on...
Good Facts Make Good Neighborhoods
Statistics about housing abound, but often they’re skewed or designed to reinforce—rather than test—current beliefs among policymakers and a population that by and large is obsessed...
Cops and Robbers: The Corporate Edition
The international interest rate–rigging scandal currently ensnaring at least a dozen banks—and the fact that regulators might have known about it—stokes suspicions that corporate malfeasance is...
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...
A Chat with Chen Guangcheng
Henry Holt announced in July that it will publish the memoirs of Chen Guangcheng, a self-taught Chinese lawyer, in fall 2013. Chen’s story promises suspense and...
