Notes and Renderings
A Blue-Chip Change Agent
It’s hard to imagine a better choice than Evan Chesler ’75 to head a special strategy committee of the Law School’s board of trustees that has...
9/11 Fund Special Master Faces New Challenge
In June, a federal health official’s ruling cleared the way for 50 different types of cancer to be added to the list of sicknesses covered by...
Victory for Ma
In January, Taiwan reelected President Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76). Ma, who heads the Kuomintang Party, won with 51.6 percent of the vote, beating opponent Tsai Ingwen...
The Mind of Richard Epstein
A few subjects Richard Epstein has been speaking, blogging, writing, and thinking about over the last year. — All of 2012 Notes and Renderings 2012...
Advocating for the Weak
After a report by a U.N.-appointed panel concluded that a group of U.N. peacekeepers brought cholera to Haiti and transmitted it through a leaky camp latrine,...
Green on Top
Wilf Hall, home to many NYU Law centers and institutes, has earned a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and...
How People Who Don’t Yet Exist Matter More to Us Than People Who Do
University Professor Samuel Scheffler delivered the prestigious, three-day Tanner Lectures on Human Values in March at the University of California, Berkeley. At the lectures, a multi-university...
Supreme Court Cite-Seeing
In a year when the nation was closely watching the Supreme Court, Professor Bryan Stevenson argued and won a pair of cases that will put an...
Toying with Innovation
Nathan Sawaya ’98 didn’t just hit the books when he was a law student—he also built a replica of Greenwich Village out of ordinary Lego sets....
