New York University School of Law
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NYU School of Law |
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| Established | 1835 |
| Type | Private |
| Postgraduates | 1700 |
| Location | New York City, New York, USA |
| Dean | Richard Revesz |
| Website | www.law.nyu.edu |
The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
NYU Law is the oldest law school in New York City. It is currently ranked the number four law school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report; it is that publication's highest ranked New York law school. [1]
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[edit] Academic programs
NYU Law is particularly strong in criminal law, environmental law, corporate law, international law and tax law, and offers many courses in these areas. It also offers arguably the most well-respected LL.M. in international legal studies and taxation. Many top tax attorneys and professors hold NYU degrees. Although none of NYU's alumni have been appointed justices (judges) of the Supreme Court of the United States, NYU's alumni have served as judges of the International Court of Justice[2] [3].
NYU publishes eight student-edited law journals, which are, in order of their founding:
- New York University Law Review
- Annual Survey of American Law
- Journal of International Law and Politics
- Review of Law & Social Change
- Environmental Law Journal
- Journal of Legislation & Public Policy
- Journal of Law & Liberty
- Journal of Law & Business
The law school's Moot Court Board also publishes a well-regarded moot court casebook.
In 2005, NYU Law entered into an agreement with the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, in Toronto, Canada, that will allow select students to obtain a joint-Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and JD, studying at both schools, in four years. This program will begin in the fall of 2006 and will accommodate 20 students per year. This program is known as the Osgoode-NYU LLB/JD degree and is highly sought after. New York University School of Law and the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law have also created a dual degree program.
NYU Law also hosts the original chapter of the Unemployment Action Center.
The NYU Law school offers several prestigious fellowships to students admitted to the LLM Program. The most elite is the Hauser Global Scholarship where 8 - 10 top LLM students are admitted from all over the world. The scholarship includes full tution waiver and reasonable accommodation costs. In addition, it offers the Hugo Grotius as well as Vanderbilt scholarships for International law studies and other branches of law respectively.
[edit] Faculty
NYU is well regarded for its faculty. Some of NYU's best-known professors include:
- Thomas Nagel (Legal Philosophy)
- Ronald Dworkin (Legal Philosophy)
- Derrick Bell (Constitutional Law)
- Oscar Chase (Procedure)
- Stephen Schulhofer (Criminal Law)
- Laurie L. Malman (Tax Law)
- Daniel N. Shaviro (Tax Law)
- Burt Neuborne (Evidence, Holocaust Litigation Expert)
- Marcel Kahan (Corporate Law)
- Jerome Cohen (Chinese Law)
- Sylvia Law (Health Law)
- Oren Bar-Gill (Corporate Law and Economics of Law)
- Norman Dorsen (Constitutional Law)
- Stephen Gillers (Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility)
- Joseph H. H. Weiler (International Law)
- Samuel Issacharoff (Procedure, Democracy)
- Noah Feldman (Constitutional Law)
- Richard Pildes (Constitutional Law, Law of Democracy, Administrative Law)
- Sam Estreicher (Labor Law)
- Linda Silberman (International Law)
- Rachel Barkow (Administrative Law)
- Jeremy Waldron (Legal Philosophy)
- Deborah Schenk (Tax Law)
- Theodor Meron (International Law)
- Gerald P. López (Clinical Law/Community Problem Solving)
- Vicki Been (Land Use, Real Estate, Urban Affairs, Environmental Law)
There are four faculty-edited journals:
- Clinical Law Review
- East European Constitutional Review
- International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON)
- Tax Law Review
[edit] Centers and Institutes
NYU Law is home to many centers and institutes, specializing in various areas of law. The Center on Law and Security is an independent, non-partisan, global center of expertise designed to promote an informed understanding of the major legal and security issues that define the post-9/11 environment. Towards that end, the Center brings together policymakers, practitioners, scholars, journalists and other experts who might not otherwise meet to address major issues and gaps in policy discourse and to provide concrete policy recommendations. Through its many activities, the Center generates local, national, and international awareness of the legal dimension of security issues, including the Terrorist Trial Report Card, a comprehensive study on every terrorism prosecution in the United States since 9/11.
[edit] Facilities
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NYU School of Law Halls
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NYU Law School facilities at the school's Washington Square Campus include:
[edit] Furman Hall
NYU's newest building, located on West Third Street between Sullivan and Thompson, was opened on January 22, 2004 and is named for a successful alumnus and donor, Jay Furman. It connects to Vanderbilt Hall through the law library, part of which is underneath Sullivan street. The underground level also hosts the lawyering faculty. Floors one-three have classrooms, lounges, and study space. The fourth floor hosts the career counseling program, and the fifth and sixth floors house the legal practice clinics. The highest floors, generally inaccessible to non-residents, are luxury apartments for faculty and their families.
[edit] Vanderbilt Hall
The Law School's Main Building, it occupies the entire block between West Third and Washington Square South (West Fourth) and between Macdougal and Sullivan Streets. Part of the first floor as well as the underground floors host the library, which it shares with Furman Hall. The first floor also holds the auditorium, student center, and main banquet hall. The second floor is mostly classrooms, while the third and fourth floors are mostly faculty and dean offices.
[edit] Mercer Street Residence
Located at 240 Mercer Street, on the southern side of West Third street, adjacent to Broadway, and a couple blocks east of D'Agostino and Vanderbilt, the Mercer residence houses a few hundred students and faculty. Its rooms are slightly more spacious than those in D'Agostino Hall. The seventh floor enjoys a terrace. The basement is home to "Mercer Pub" (a study area that can also be reserved by student groups for social events) and several student-run organizations.
[edit] D`Agostino Residence Hall
Located at the intersection of West Third Street and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, this residence hall houses hundreds of students of the New York University School of Law, plus a very small number of faculty. It is across the street from the backside of the main building of the law school.
The lobby is a double-split-level. Elevators to the apartments are on the highest level; the security desk and Admissions Office are on the street level; and a residents' lounge unofficially known as The Pit is on the lowest level.
One floor beneath The Pit is the sub-basement, home to most of NYU's legal journals. Journal officers have been known to sleep in the sub-basement during busy periods. The second (above-ground)) floor, until 2004, held the school's career services offices. Those offices have been relocated to Furman Hall, so the above-ground floors are now entirely student and faculty housing.
Each August, D'Agostino hosts "Early Interview Week", where more than 350 law firms conduct interviews for summer associate and entry-level associate positions. The top firms in the United States attend the interview session. Interviews are conducted in the temporarily uninhabited apartments.
D'Agostino Hall shares a name with the D'Agostino supermarket chain. The two are not named after the same D'Agostino, although both were noted Manhattan philanthropists. The law building is named after Filomen D'Agostino, one of the first woman lawyers, who graduated in 1920. Later in life, Ms. D'Agostino donated $4 million to support residential scholarship and faculty research; the school responded by naming their new apartment building after her.[1] The grocery chain is named after Nicholas D'Agostino, Sr., an immigrant who founded the store in 1932 at age 22.
[edit] Famous alumni
See main article List of NYU Law School people; see also List of New York University people
Famous alumni include Governor Samuel J. Tilden; former New York City mayors Fiorello La Guardia, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani; the four founders of the prestigious law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander, Rudy Boschwitz and Jacob Javits; John F. Kennedy, Jr.; and many U.S. Representatives, including Mitchell Jenkins, Jefferson Monroe Levy and Isaac Siegel; as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureates Elihu Root and Mohamed ElBaradei. Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, is an alumna; Dennis G. Jacobs, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is an alumnus. Judge Pauline Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also graduated from NYU Law.
[edit] References
- ^ "Law School at N.Y.U. Givena $4 Million Gift", New York Times, December 30, 1984.
[edit] External links
- New York University School of Law
- New York University
- Brennan Center for Justice
- Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
- The Center on Law and Security
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