NYU Law 2012 Admitted Students book by NYU School of Law

The View from Washington Square

Contents

What You Need to Know Now 9

Faculty Who Will Inspire You 19

Your 1L Year: The Inside Story 25

Charting Your Course(s) 31

Law School Life Beyond the Books 47

Getting the Career You Want 55

The Fine Print 63

Welcome, Class of 2016

NYU Law is a pacesetter in legal education, from clinical programs to international law. Our groundbreaking Loan Repayment Assistance Program makes it possible to pursue public interest work after graduation, and our guaranteed summer funding for public interest work is among the most generous in the nation. The Law School pioneered the three-tiered clinical and advocacy program— and now offers 36 different clinics. NYU is the first truly global law school; the intellectual firepower of our Hauser Global Law School Program allows us to weave an international perspective into everything we do.

Students at NYU Law get the skills they’ll need to be successful lawyers in the 21st century. Our 1L curriculum includes electives like International Law and Corporations; the Lawyering Program develops students’ practical understanding of the law; and Legislation and the Regulatory State teaches them about the important role of the administrative state in our legal regime. Our cutting-edge colloquia bring together worldclass scholars to analyze their works in progress. Our interdisciplinary programs, such as Law and Economics, Law and Politics, and Law and Philosophy, synthesize—and celebrate—the interconnectedness of today’s world. Our growing Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business is breaking new ground, offering joint classes with the Stern School of Business and unique transaction courses where students work closely with top-notch practitioners to explore with full-time faculty how deals are structured to add value.

Nestled in charming Greenwich Village, NYU Law takes advantage of all New York City has to offer. The Law School features the best of both worlds: a strong community of leading scholars and access to the very best real-world practitioners and policymakers in the most energized city in the world. NYU Law is a place with such a vibrant intellectual life that there are 29 centers encouraging the exchange of ideas through conferences, fellowships, academic programs, and courses, and more than 70 student organizations. Yet it’s a place so personal that outgoing Dean Richard Revesz, left, is known as Ricky and still finds time to teach and research, often working closely and collaboratively with students on his scholarship. At the core of its mission, NYU Law is committed to training outstanding students to become leaders as well as lawyers. 3

Our Graduate School Model

There are many academic paths to choose from at NYU Law, and along each one you’ll find closeknit communities of students mentored by dedicated faculty. When Margot Pollans ’10 was in the process of selecting a law school, she came to an Admitted Students Day at NYU Law. Dean Revesz spoke about the many opportunities that the Law School offers its students. In the midst of a long list of clinics and student groups, he mentioned a research project being conducted by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Its director, Professor Vicki Been ’83, was studying the impact of community gardens on the property values of surrounding neighborhoods. Pollans was intrigued and began corresponding with Been. “She told me that as a student at NYU, I could work with her on the gardens project and on a variety of other exciting projects related to urban land use issues,” says Pollans, now an environmental law fellow at Georgetown

University Institute for Public Representation, in Washington, D.C. “I was immediately sold.” Pollans’s story is not an unusual one. Increasingly, incoming J.D. students are looking for a chance to have one-on-one contact with faculty members. This trend only makes NYU Law that much more attractive—the Law School has been extraordinarily successful in creating programs in which small, close-knit communities of students work under intensive faculty mentorship and benefit from extensive programmatic components. The meaningful relationships our students have forged with one another and with faculty members have provided them with unique and engaging educational experiences more typical of graduate schools than of law schools.

Women are admitted into NYU School of Law for the first time. That’s 29 years before Yale, 37 years before Columbia, and 60 years before Harvard.

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New York University creates an unprecedented three-year program of study for prospective lawyers, teaching law by subject areas, such as torts and contracts. This so impressed NYU Law’s William Kent that when he was recruited to teach at Harvard, he took the course method with him.

The Black Allied Law Students Association (BALSA) is established at New York University School of Law. Today BALSA is one of more than 200 chapters of the National Black Law Students Association, the largest student-run organization in America.

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NYU Law’s Clinical and Advocacy Programs are pioneered by Professor Anthony Amsterdam. This unparalleled program includes the yearlong Lawyering course, in which students learn real-life legal skills, as well as simulation courses and fieldwork clinics, nine of which focus on criminal issues.

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The first Public Interest Legal Career Fair is held. Currently, it is the largest career fair of its kind in the country. Last year, representatives from more than 200 organizations attended. The Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program, NYU Law’s flagship public interest program that awards full tuition to its scholars, is founded.

The Hauser Global Law School Program officially begins. The first of its kind, the program recognizes that legal education must now transcend national boundaries. It incorporates nonU.S. and transnational legal perspectives into the NYU Law curriculum, promotes scholarship on comparative and global law, and brings together faculty, scholars, and students from around the world.

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LRAP, the Loan Repayment Assistance Program, begins. Today this postgraduation scholarship continues to provide unparalleled financial support for our J.D. graduates working in the public interest. This commitment to easing the burden of student loan repayment allows our graduates the flexibility to pursue a range of careers in nearly every corner of the globe.

A Tradition

NYU School of Law is the first American law school to place clerks at the International Court of Justice.

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Guaranteed Public Interest Law Center Summer Funding begins. The most ambitious such program in the nation, it ensures funding for all firstand second-year students who want to get experience working in public interest and government positions. In 2012, 437 students used PILC summer funding grants to work in 33 countries.

1L electives are offered for the first time, in response to student petitions. The students asked for just one elective; the dean and the faculty thought it was such a good idea, they offered five: Constitutional Law, Corporations, Income Taxation, International Law, and Property. This academic innovation gives students an early edge in launching their legal careers.

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The NYU@NUS LL.M. program launches. Students develop skills that position them for careers in Asia. The Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business is formed. This unique, cutting-edge program is aimed at training J.D. students who want to practice at the intersection of law and business.

The Milbank Tweed Forum begins. This weekly lunchtime student event brings together panels of experts to debate issues of the day, from the price of national security to the collateral cost of criminal convictions. The Environmental LL.M. degree program debuts, bringing the number of LL.M. degrees to nine, including New York University School of Law’s renowned Tax LL.M., the oldest and best of its kind in the nation.

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Wilf Hall, a home to many NYU Law centers, opens. It becomes a focal point for faculty, students, and research scholars from an array of disciplines to exchange ideas and, through their work, help shape the public discourse around the leading social and political issues of the day.

Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, one of the nation’s most prominent appellate judges, joins the Law School. Other Washington insiders teaching at NYU Law include Neil Barofsky ’95, former TARP special inspector general; Robert Bauer, former White House counsel; and Professor David Kamin ’09, former special assistant to the president for economic policy. 2012

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NYU School of Law announces that it will plant its flag on three continents, setting up NYU Law-designed and -managed programs for 3Ls to study in Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai during their final semester. This is just one of several initiatives to enhance the curriculum and emphasize focused study in the third year.

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I wanted to go to a law school that was academically rigorous and that would position me well in the job market, but I also wanted a school with a sense of community, one where I would have the freedom to explore a little and make sure that what I thought I wanted to do was actually what I wanted to do. I can say confidently now that NYU was the right choice. B R A N D I M C N E I L ’13

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What You Need to Know Now

There is no better way to sample all that NYU Law has to offer than to attend our Admitted Students Days. Please save the dates:

March 7–8 April 4 –5 April 25–26

Don’t miss the chance to find out more about the Law School and explore the downtown neighborhood that provides a stimulating backdrop to classes, lectures, panels, and colloquia. Our program begins on Thursday afternoon, to give you time to get a taste of NYU Law and determine whether our school is right for you. It kicks off with a panel on student life, where you will hear perspectives from 1Ls, 2Ls, and 3Ls on their time at NYU Law. You will also have the opportunity to sit in on selected classes and meet members of our more than 70 student organizations, as well as the editors of our law review and journals. A panel discussion featuring recent alumni who are now working at public service jobs, as associates at private firms, and as judicial clerks follows. In the evening, our current students host a reception, then invite you to join them for a night out experiencing our incom-

parable Greenwich Village neighborhood. On Friday, you will get a chance to hear from outgoing Dean Richard Revesz, who will share his view on the qualities that make NYU Law unique, from our focus on educating lawyers for a global economy to our commitment to public service. Throughout the day, you will have a number of opportunities to experience the faculty firsthand. You can sit in on classes such as Legislation and the Regulatory State, Evidence, Federal Courts, and Health Law. Or go to faculty-led forums on topics such as international law, judicial clerkships, corporate and business law, and careers in legal academia. At lunch, prospective students are seated with faculty

and have a chance for more informal interaction. After lunch, faculty members hold office hours specifically set aside for admitted students. No matter what your area of interest—business law, environmental law, international law, taxation— there will likely be a professor with his or her door open, waiting to discuss it with you. Before or after you take your campus tour, you can drop in on a wide array of panel discussions featuring alumni, administrators, and students. The whirlwind day comes to a close with another informal reception hosted by current students where you can ask more questions, compare notes, or just have some refreshments and kick back with your future classmates.

Do you want to see our campus but can’t make an Admitted Students Day session? On select dates throughout the Spring semester, you can get a guided tour conducted by current law students. You can see much more than buildings; you can also sit in

on classes and get a feeling for what it’s like to attend NYU Law. Go to our Admitted Students website (its.law.nyu. edu/admitted/login) for a list of tour dates and classes.

Another option is to take a self-guided tour of our campus. Just check in at the Welcome Center (located in the lobby of Wilf Hall, 139 MacDougal Street).

Welcome to the Neighborhood Our lively downtown campus is like no other. Tucked into an eclectic mix of quaint townhouses and cosmopolitan cafĂŠs, it includes Vanderbilt Hall (opposite and arches below), Furman Hall (left), 22 Washington Square North (below, next to subway stop), and Wilf Hall (above).

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of 1Ls live in affordable, on-campus housing. NYU Law has two high-rise apartment-style residence halls and two low-rise apartment buildings that offer students a variety of smoke-free living arrangements. Students usually have their own rooms in shared twoor three-bedroom apartments, but there are also studio and one-bedroom apartment options. Family housing accommodations (in the form of studios and one-bedroom apartments) are also available but limited in quantity. For more about housing at NYU Law, go to law.nyu.edu/housing.

Student Housing and Me: A Love Story By Ashley Smith ’12 Read more about our students’ experiences in Life at NYU Law (blogs.law.nyu.edu/lifeatnyulaw). Between graduating from college and matriculating at NYU Law, I lived in a Manhattan apartment. Toward the end of my tenancy, the elevator was frequently out of order, the hot water became unreliable, and I found evidence, shall we say, that I was cohabiting with small, furry creatures. So I began to

think about moving into campus housing. It’s no secret that NYU Law is located in arguably the best neighborhood in New York City. Finding virtually any cuisine you crave is a simple matter of walking a block or two, and the Village is littered with shops of many sorts, a diverse array of bars, and all the necessary stuff like supermarkets and drugstores, too. NYU Law also virtually guarantees housing to its first-year students—in D’Agostino Hall,

conveniently located near the two Law School buildings, or Mercer Street Residence, a few blocks’ walk away. I was assigned to a two-bedroom apartment in Mercer with a 1L roommate. I don’t know how they did it, but from a brief housing questionnaire, NYU Law Housing matched me with a roommate with whom I got along famously. And the apartment! It was splendid. Also, security guards are vigilantly on duty 24 hours a day. They make you show your ID, even if they know you—but it made me feel safe. If anything goes awry in your Mercer or D’Ag apartment, you need only submit an online work request and it will be attended to in 24 hours or less. Mercer, like D’Agostino, has computer labs, study lounges, washers and dryers, a recreation room, and even a terrace that is a lovely place to read or socialize. What’s more, the elevators and hot water work brilliantly, and I have yet to see a small furry creature. Living in NYU Law housing was so nice, I did it twice—my 2L year I lived in Mercer, too! 15

January 1

April 1

The Need Access Financial Aid application and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) become available

Recommended deadline for submitting the Need Access Financial Aid and FAFSA applications

March 7-8

April 4-5

Admitted Students Days

Early February to late April Notification of institutional financial aid awards sent out

May 3 J.D. deposit deadline

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April 25-26

Housing application for entering students goes live

Admitted Students Days

May 15 Deadline for priority housing application. Applications received after this date will be assigned on a space- available basis.

June 14 First round of housing assignments completed. Students notified via their NYU e-mail accounts.

June 28 Assigned housing cancellations deadline. After this date, late charges are incurred.

August 21 Orientation begins

Mark Your Calendar

In these tough economic times, NYU School of Law is keeping its financial aid promises. The Law School has long devoted a substantial chunk of its resources to scholarship programs, institutional grants, and our vaunted Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), which helps our graduates who choose public service careers by easing their debt burden. Despite the challenging times, this support is unwavering. In addition to a long and varied list of full-tuition scholarships, such as the AnBryce Scholarship Program, the Furman Academic Scholars Program, and the flagship Root-Tilden-Kern Program, the Law School awards a significant number of Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholarships, in amounts up to full tuition, on the basis of need, academic merit, or a combination of the two. Apply for financial aid online at www.needaccess.org/students/ student.aspx.

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The best thing about the NYU Law faculty is that they have an open-door policy. They are leaders in their fields, but they take time out to talk to you and mentor you. They are warm and friendly—and not nearly as intimidating in person as they sound on paper. ISIAH HARRIS ‘13

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Faculty Who Will Inspire You

NYU Law has added 45 full-time faculty to the roster since 2002. “It’s a spectacular group,” says Dean Revesz of the 45 full-time faculty he has hired since he took the helm of NYU Law 10 years ago. “Each one brings a unique set of strengths to the Law School.” Indeed, the faculty is expert in a wide range of areas: constitutional, corporate, criminal, environmental, human rights, 20

immigration, innovation, international, labor, national security, tax, and torts, as well as Hebrew law and legal philosophy. Many of Revesz’s recruits have come to NYU Law from peer schools such as Columbia, Chicago, Harvard, and Yale. José Alvarez, a preeminent international law scholar;

Cynthia Estlund, whose research focuses on labor law; Samuel Issacharoff, an authority in civil procedure; Catherine Sharkey, a torts expert; and Jeremy Waldron, a renowned legal philosopher, all relocated downtown from Columbia. Richard Epstein, one of the most influential legal scholars in the U.S., and

Adam Cox, a leading young academic in public law, moved from Chicago to NYU Law. In the fall they were joined by their former Chicago colleague Adam Samaha, who teaches constitutional law, constitutional theory, and procedure. European Union law expert Gráinne de Búrca, constitutional scholar Daryl Levinson, and international human rights expert Ryan Goodman came from Harvard. Kenji Yoshino, a specialist in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature, was at Yale before joining our faculty. Last January, Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, one of the nation’s most prominent appellate judges, also joined NYU Law’s heavy-hitting roster. And new to NYU this fall is Alan Sykes, a leading international law and economics scholar who was most recently at Stanford Law School.

Washington, D.C., Comes to Washington Square NYU Law students had front-row seats to an inside view of history when former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson visited Government Responses to the Financial Crisis, a seminar that Neil Barofsky ’95, former special inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, taught last fall. According to Barofsky, “Secretary Paulson’s visit was emblematic of what Dean Revesz asked me to do when putting together this course. It is one thing to study in depth the government’s response to the financial crisis; it is yet another for the students to have the opportunity to use what they have learned to grill one of the chief architects of that response in such an intimate setting.” Barofsky, now a senior fellow at NYU Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, is just one of several leading figures from the federal government bringing Washington experience to Washington Square classrooms. Robert Bauer, after stepping down as White House counsel, came to NYU Law in 2011 as a senior fellow and adjunct

professor of law. Bauer also served as general counsel to President Obama’s reelection campaign, and is general counsel to the Democratic National Committee and the president’s personal lawyer. Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for 26 years, joined the Law School in January 2012. This fall, David Kamin ’09, former special assistant to the president for economic policy, joined NYU Law fulltime, too; his most-recent boss Peter Orszag, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, came to the Law School as a distinguished scholar; and Amy Salzman ’85, former associate director for policy outreach for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, became an adjunct professor. Other Washington movers and shakers already on campus include former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray and Sally Katzen, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Clinton. 21

Bryan Stevenson made a winning argument before the Supreme Court that mandatory lifewithout-parole sentencing for juveniles convicted of homicide is unconstitutional.

Ronald Dworkin won a 2012 Balzan Prize for his groundbreaking scholarship on the philosophy of law and political philosophy.

The New York Law Journal’s most recent annual “Lawyers Who Lead by Example” list recognized the achievements of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, co-directed by Nancy Morawetz ’81 and Alina Das ’05.

David Garland received the American Society of Criminology top honor for contributions to theory or research in criminology, and an award for the most outstanding recent criminology publication.

James Jacobs won a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research for a book on jurisprudential and policy issues surrounding criminal records.

John Ferejohn won the biennial William H. Riker Prize in Political Science for research that has advanced the scientific study of politics.

Theodor Meron was appointed president of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Marcel Kahan is the most recognized author in the history of Corporate Practice Commentator’s “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles.”

The American Law Institute named Oren Bar-Gill a reporter on the Restatement Third of the Law of Consumer Contracts.

Led by Vicki Been ’83 and Ingrid Gould Ellen, the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy won a $1 million MacArthur Award to expand its research and policy analysis nationwide.

Honors and Accolades Kenji Yoshino Our faculty are top scholars and leading practitioners who garner distinctions regularly.

was elected to Harvard University’s Board of Supreme Court victory, Ronald Dworkin’s 2012 Balzan Prize, and Marcel Kahan and Overseers.

Here is just a sampling of some recent accomplishments, including Bryan Stevenson’s Stephen Choi’s one-two finish as the most recognized authors in the history of Corporate Practice Commentator’s“Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles.”

Arthur Gonzalez (LL.M. ’90) was honored by the Hispanic National Bar Association for his role as New York State’s first Latino bankruptcy judge and first Latino chief judge of a bankruptcy court.

Jeanne Fromer was elected to the American Law Institute; she and Oren Bar-Gill were the first recipients of the ALI’s new Young Scholars Medal.

Stephen Choi is the second most recognized author in the history of Corporate Practice Commentator’s “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles.”

Samuel Scheffler delivered the prestigious three-day Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley. 23

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It’s great that NYU Law lets you take an elective as a 1L— many other schools don’t. I took Corporations with Jennifer Arlen. She was a wonderful teacher and extremely friendly. For instance, when we were trying to decide on our 2L courses, she had an informal information session at her house and advised people on what courses to take if they were interested in corporate law. CO L L E E N L E E ’13

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Your 1L Year: The Inside Story

Lawyering: Real-World Skills NYU Lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned Lawyering Program, pioneered by University Professor Anthony Amsterdam, covers the real-world skills that every lawyer needs to practice effectively and successfully. The first semester is designed to develop essential skills in legal research and writing, to examine the functions and techniques of several forms of legal writing, and to explore the interplay of law and fact in legal analysis. The second semester concentrates on activities basic to legal practice: interviewing, counseling, case analysis and problem handling, negotiation, informal advocacy, and trial advocacy. Working collaboratively in small teams, the students role-play, then critically review their experiences in each activity. These skills will be indispensable when students take one of NYUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 36 clinics as a 2L or 3Lâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and in the future, when they begin their careers as lawyers.

Leading Experts Teach Your 1L Classes During their first year, students begin to learn to think like lawyers by taking classes in contracts, procedure, torts, and criminal law. These introductory courses are taught by world-class professors such as Richard Epstein, who teaches Contracts and Torts; Arthur Miller, Burt Neuborne, and Helen Hershkoff, who teach Procedure; and Stephen Schulhofer, who teaches Criminal Law. In Contracts, students focus on the body of law concerned with private agreements.

In Procedure, they examine the rules governing civil litigation, with an emphasis on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and consider constitutional issues relating to jurisdiction and procedural protections. In Torts, students analyze civil liability for breach of duty causing harm to persons or property. In Criminal Law, they study elements of criminal liability and defenses. Property and Constitutional Law are also required courses but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be taken in the first year.

Several years ago, the Law School introduced a course now called Legislation and the Regulatory State, designed to expose students to the role of the administrative state in our legal regime. Students examine the legislative lawmaking processes, the implementation of statutes by administrative agencies through rule-making and other procedures, and the role of courts in interpreting statutes and reviewing administrative action at the behest of affected private parties. Legislation and the Regulatory State is also taught by faculty who are leaders in their fields, including Douglas H. Ginsburg, one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prominent appellate judges; Richard Stewart, director of the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law; Sally Katzen, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Clinton; and Adam Cox, a leading young academic in public law. Each professor approaches the topic from his or her vantage point, but the goals of the course are the same: to introduce the tools that lawyers need in a world of statutes and regulations.

Richard Epstein teaches Torts and Contracts.

Helen Hershkoff is a leading expert in civil procedure.

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Debunking the Law School Misery Myth By Amanda Ploch ’12 Read more about our students’ experiences in Life at NYU Law (blogs.law.nyu.edu/lifeatnyulaw). Three years ago, the summer before my first year at NYU Law, my mom recommended that I read a certain book about law school, to get an inside view into what to expect over the next three years. I’m sure many have read it, and NYU Law even has a copy or two in the library. While it did provide a lot of helpful info, it also made me absolutely terrified to start school and convinced me that law school would be some sort of horrible nightmare that I would somehow survive, yet hate in the process. Fears about roommates shut28

ting off my alarm clock so I’d miss class and students stealing books echoed in my brain as 1L orientation drew closer and closer. And then school started. And the nightmare never actually came true. After three years, I look back and laugh about the scary law school hype that had invaded my mind. My peers here were amazing and went out of their way to help one another— it was a far cry from the sort of sabotaging, scheming environment I had feared I would find. Granted, maybe it’s because I try to find the positive in things, and probably a lot of it depends on the student, institution, and time when you attend, but my three years at NYU Law brought me some of

the greatest times of my life. Sure, there were some really tough moments here as well, but overall, when I look back, I think fondly about my time in law school. Here are three things that I think have helped keep that nightmare far, far away: Being part of an amazing law school community: I quickly joined a few student groups as a 1L and also joined a journal, and I met so many wonderful people from those activities. I once told someone that I would take a bullet for my journal. That’s a stretch, but I sure did enjoy being part of this wonderful community. Making time for fun: I came here convinced that I would

spend three years living in NYC and never enjoy any of what the city had to offer. Again, I was so wrong. I made time to go have fun and take advantage of uniquely New York activities. After all, what’s the point of going to school in Greenwich Village if you don’t take some time to go watch the cast of “Glee” filming in Washington Square Park when the opportunity arises? Taking a deep breath: Law school is a lot of hard work, but in the end you should do the best you can, take a deep breath, and trust that it’ll be OK. Letting some of the pressure off of myself was very helpful. So don’t buy into all the scary law school myths. And to my very dear roommates over the years: Thank you for being people who I know wouldn’t go near my alarm clock.

1L Electives Give You an Edge The Law School introduced Spring electives for 1Ls in 2006. The inspiration came from students who petitioned Dean Revesz to offer International Law as an elective, arguing that the course benefited students accepting summer posts with international organizations. He and the faculty took the idea and ran with it, deciding to offer not just International Law but four other electives as well. Students can now choose among Constitutional Law, Corporations, Income Taxation, International Law, and Property. (Those who do not take Property and Constitutional Law in the first year will be required to take it later.) This academic innovation gives students with particular interests a unique opportunity to explore an area of law in more depth and to jump-start their legal careers in an ever more competitive legal environment.

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NYU Law consistently does a great job in the classroom reminding students that it’s worth thinking about the hard questions because we are among the people who will tackle them going forward. Very little in the law is as settled as you expect it to be when you begin your studies. PA U L B R A C H M A N ’13

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Charting Your Course(s)

A Meeting of the Minds NYU Law has nine colloquia, meta-seminars in which small groups of faculty members and students engage in the most rigorous intellectual experience available in legal education. They generate a free flow of ideas, blurring the distinction between teacher and student in favor of the joint pursuit of advanced study involving law and other disciplines. The hugely popular Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy is led by legal philosophers Ronald Dworkin (far right), Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, who is well known for his argument that law’s fundamental purpose is to be ethical, and University Professor Thomas Nagel, whose work ranges widely from ethics to political and legal theory. The reputations of the colloquium’s leaders are so stellar that the two have long been able to persuade some of the biggest names in the field to visit. A few: Jürgen Habermas, Kathleen Sullivan, Thomas Scanlon, and Peter Singer. The colloquium, as well as the Law School itself, has become the hottest ticket in legal and moral philosophy.

A Changing Curriculum for Changing Times This fall, NYU Law announced plans to plant its flag on three continents, setting up NYU Law-designed and -managed programs for its students to study in Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai during their final semester of law school. This is just one of several initiatives the school is taking to enhance its curriculum, with a particular emphasis on the third year. The purpose of the changes is to ensure that NYU Law graduates are optimally equipped to compete in the 21st-century legal marketplace. In addition to the studyabroad programs, the other initiatives, which will begin in the 2013-14 academic year,

include a Washington, D.C.based government lawyering clinic for students interested in developing expertise in the U.S. legislative and regulatory process. There will also be faculty-designed “professional pathways” to guide students in a focused area of study and skill development in one of eight areas of law and make them highly competitive for jobs in that field. And throughout law school, all students will receive increased business and financial literacy and leadership training. Law School Trustee Evan Chesler ’75, then presiding partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, chaired the committee

that Dean Revesz convened to initiate the changes. “As the head of a major firm—and as an active litigator who deals with client matters every day— I am quite familiar with the changing needs of purchasers and providers of legal services,” Chesler says. “All of us on the strategy committee saw an opportunity for NYU Law to enhance the skills and degree of focus its graduates bring to the marketplace. With the new initiatives, NYU Law is ensuring that its spectrum of offerings is rich and balanced, and that its students will continue to be among the most sought-after in the legal marketplace.” 33

As globalization reshapes the way people think about the interaction of business and law, NYU Law continues to lead the way in innovative programs and offerings, from the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business to the J.D./M.B.A. program with NYUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly regarded Leonard N. Stern School of Business to the Pollack Center for Law & Business, and our unique, teamoriented law and business courses. The bottom line: We get you ready for the business world.

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Corporate Transactions: Both Sides of the Equation In the Law and Business of Corporate Transactions, students from both the Law School and NYU’s Stern School of Business examine the legal and financial frameworks of mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcies. Last year it was taught by Gerald Rosenfeld, faculty co-director of the Jacobson Leadership Program and vice chairman at Lazard, and Lewis Steinberg ’84 (LL.M. ’92), an adjunct professor as well as managing director and head of strategic advisory services in Credit Suisse’s investment banking department. They delved into issues such as federal and state law implications, tax considerations, deal

structures and negotiations, shareholder activism, the timeline of a reorganization, and different players’ roles. Steinberg took the lead in the M&A lectures, while Rosenfeld offered his expertise on bankruptcies and reorganizations. But both professors played an important part in each session, with the one not giving the lecture offering comments or asking questions to clarify the content for students. “What I’m most interested in conveying is the necessity that each side has in the other,” said Rosenfeld. “Transactions are done by both business and legal professionals working together. The first day a lawyer

at a firm goes into a deal meeting, there are investment bankers there, and vice versa. We came to the conclusion that it was silly to keep these pre-professionals apart in their education. The essential thing to communicate is a mutual dependence of each set of skills coming together to create a successful transaction.” The class culminated in final presentations in which law and business students collaborate on transaction case studies. Heather Lockhart ’12 had already completed her transaction course requirement but enjoyed Rosenfeld’s teaching so much that she signed up for the corporate transactions

class anyway. “I became a Jerry groupie,” she says. “It sounds so dry, just doing M&A and bankruptcy legal and business issues for three hours on a Monday night. Yet I sat there and I actually enjoyed the discussion that’s going on. I give full credit to Jerry and Lew for keeping it lively.” For Steinberg, the class was about bridging divides. “The conventional wisdom among bankers is that lawyers are just there to hold up the deal, and the conventional wisdom among lawyers is that bankers just give a lot of prattle,” he said. “I hope to give each side mutual respect for the other and a realization that they both bring to the table a great deal of expertise. We try to give the law students enough understanding of what bankers do that they can both communicate with them and appreciate that it’s a joint effort to advise the client. The same is true for the bankers. We try to explain to them that the lawyers aren’t just trying to hold everything up, but they actually have some important pressure points they have to focus on.” 35

Law and Business I applied to the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business during the law school decision-making process. I had an interest in corporate law from the beginning—deal work appealed to me—and that ended up influencing a lot of the courses I chose to take.

CO R P O R AT E L A W

1L HIGHLIGHT

Community The biggest thing I took out of my 1L year was the people I met, many of whom are great friends today.

1L SUMMER

Rob Hilton My Story

Market Watch I worked at the New York Stock Exchange in the Regulation and Enforcement Division. Helen Scott and Gerald Rosenfeld, the directors of the Jacobson Program, were very helpful in my getting this job. I believe they learned of the position through Richard Ketchum ’75, who was then head of enforcement at the NYSE. It was an amazing learning experience.

Coursework I took a range of courses focusing on corporate and transactional law, including Bankruptcy, Real Estate Deals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Restructuring Firms and Industries, and Securities Regulation. In Real Estate Deals, taught by Professor Vicki Been ’83, we were given the deal documents, and asked to dissect what went wrong and what went well. After you presented to the class, either a businessperson or a lawyer who worked on the deal reviewed your presentation and answered questions about the deal.

ACADEMICS

2L SUMMER

Firm Ground I worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in its corporate department during my 2L summer. I found this job with the help of the Office of Career Services.

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A Turn at Stern Law students are allowed to take classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and as a third-year I took Negotiating Complex Transactions with Executives and Lawyers. I worked hand in hand with the business school students, and it gave me insight into how business students think, which I knew would be helpful in my future career.

3L HIGHLIGHT

MENTORS

Real-World Role Models One thing that I really enjoyed about the Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business is that they arranged mentors for students in the program. The first year I had Gary Bettman ’77, the commissioner of the NHL. My second mentor was Brian Schorr ’82, the chief legal officer at Trian Partners, a hedge fund in New York.

Wise Counsel Helen and Jerry helped me navigate law school from the very first day, providing both academic and career advice. They’re two of the nicest people I’ve ever met Jerry, who is a strategic advisor and vice chairman at Lazard, has a business perspective, and Helen, a former corporate lawyer, has a legal perspective—they make quite an interesting duo.

FA C U LT Y

Post-Graduation I’m currently an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, the firm where I worked for my 2L summer. I am doing corporate work, with a particular focus on Mergers & Acquisitions.

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International legal issues are central to the practice of law and to the resolution of major global problems in the 21st century. The Law Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international law program provides students with unsurpassed preparation for these ongoing challenges and opportunities. Faculty who are well connected and highly experienced involve students in their work on such issues as international commercial law, global climate change, transitional justice, economic development, World Trade Organization disputes, global antitrust litigation, Security Council powers, and antiterrorism, among many others.

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International

Getting the Global Perspective At the core of NYU School of Law’s continued innovation in international law are several important and extremely active centers. The Hauser Global Law School Program, launched in 1995, has moved NYU School of Law beyond the traditional study of international law to systematic examination of transnational issues and new ways to train 21st-century lawyers. The program, directed by Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law Gráinne de Búrca, brings more than a dozen preeminent foreign law professors and judges to research and teach at the Law School each year. Hauser Scholars add their energy, insights, and perspectives to the community—and to every classroom. Not only does the program bring the world to NYU, but it also brings NYU to the world through student exchange

programs with 15 partner law schools around the globe and, beginning in 2013-14, with NYU Law-designed and -managed programs for 3Ls in Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai. The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, directed by University Professor Joseph Weiler, fosters cuttingedge scholarship on issues of international, European, and other regional law and policy. The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice makes substantive contributions to scholarship and advocacy on human rights issues including caste discrimination, unlawful detention and rendition, racial profiling, extrajudicial executions, and transitional justice. John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Philip Alston, the former U.N. Special

Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, co-chairs the center with Professor Ryan Goodman. At the Institute for International Law and Justice, students collaborate on research papers and organize conferences and workshops with faculty. Topics include the role of international courts and international administrative tribunals and whether national courts should extend judicial review to cover international bodies. The Institute for International Law and Justice is directed by Professor Benedict Kingsbury. The Center on Law and Security, led by Faculty Director Samuel Rascoff and Executive Director Zachary Goldman ’09, is a non-partisan research and policy program for examining the legal dimensions of counterterrorism and

peacekeeping nationally and internationally. Dorit Beinisch, former president of the Supreme Court of Israel, was a senior fellow at the center this fall. The Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law, led by Professor Franco Ferrari, was launched in 2010 to advance the study and practice of international business transactions and ways to solve related disputes through either litigation or arbitration. The Center for Constitutional Transitions, opened in Spring 2012 and headed by Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law Sujit Choudhry, supports constitution-building through agenda-setting research and the education of the next generation of constitutional advisers.

Faculty Collaboration Professor Frank Upham needed an RA to write a paper with him about law and development in Cambodia, and I applied. He then helped me get a job as a legal intern in the Land Law Program at Legal Aid Cambodia in Phnom Penh. As part of the research, I did interviews with advocates and technical advisers in the field and co-authored the paper. We later presented the paper at a conference in Florence and are still working together on editing the piece for publication.

NYU for International Law I knew I was interested in international law—I had just completed a master’s in international affairs at Columbia University—and I was paying attention to where key professors in international law were teaching. I was impressed that NYU had a lot of new faculty in that area, such as José Alvarez.

WHY NYU LAW

Student Organizations My favorite part of my 1L year was being part of student groups. I did a pro bono advocacy project for Law Students for Human Rights. It was great to be able to do something meaningful even though I was just starting to learn about the law.

1L SUMMER

Leah Trzcin My Story

1L HIGHLIGHT

Law and Economics I am a Lederman Fellow; I was interested in the program as an opportunity to discuss issues of law and economics in a small community and to get additional feedback on my own writing. Clinical Experience I enjoyed the collaborative small-group environment of the Global Justice Clinic. It was nice to utilize more practical advocacy and legal strategies skills as applied to a specific real-world issue.

2L YEAR

Favorite Course My favorite class has been Financing Development with Professor Kevin Davis because I like the mix of law with practice. He sets up the class as a series of case studies on specific transactions and invites practitioners to come and speak about their experience working in law and development.

2L HIGHLIGHT

2L SUMMER

Summer in the City I worked as a summer associate in the Project Development & Finance and Bankruptcy groups at Shearman & Sterling in New York. I got the offer through Career Services.

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Journal Editor This year I’m editor-inchief of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. It is a great experience to collaborate with other students, put out a concrete product, and learn about aspects of international law and politics that I wouldn’t be exposed to in the classroom.

After Law School I’m going back to Shearman & Sterling to do project finance and development. I’m interested in emerging markets and infrastructure; it brings together my background in investment banking and international studies.

3L YEAR

CAREER

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NYU Law has an amazing faculty. I am really impressed with how approachable they are. They are always willing to take time to talk, not only about topics related to school and law, but about career goals, too.

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Four hundred students participate in one of our 36 clinics each year; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost half the upper-J.D. student body. We have one of the largest clinical faculties in the country and keep the teacher-student ratio very low (1:8) to ensure that the faculty can devote enough time to supervising all aspects of studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work on cases and other fieldwork projects.

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Clinics

Leading by Example In windowless offices in Montgomery, Alabama, 200 yards from where slaves were auctioned off 150 years ago, Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson and students in his Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic work with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a group that Stevenson founded, directs, and took national, to represent death-row prisoners in post-conviction proceedings and individuals sentenced to life in prison without parole for crimes they committed as adolescents. The state of Alabama, where Stevenson started EJI, has no public defender system. “I’m not just bringing students down here for the sake of training them,” says Stevenson. “We’re meeting a critical legal need.” EJI has obtained relief in the form of new trials, reduced sentences, or exoneration for more than 85 death-row prisoners.

“The clinic,” notes Stevenson, “is the perfect nexus of legal training and education while helping defendants who are literally dying for representation.” Students frequently travel the state interviewing death-row clients and family members, reviewing local court files and state evidence, and gathering information from jurors, trial lawyers, and witnesses. They also help prepare briefs, petitions, and motions, and they even work on litigation designed to reform the legal system. For many, the experience is life-changing. “It’s a privilege to work on these cases and to serve these clients and their families,” says Aaryn Urell ’01, who became so involved in the clinic that she eventually went to work for EJI. The past year has been a truly momentous one for Stevenson, who argued success-

fully before the Supreme Court in March 2012 that mandatory life-without-parole sentencing schemes for juveniles convicted of homicide are cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional. The Court’s 5–4 combined decision in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs, released last June, builds upon earlier Eighth Amendment arguments Stevenson has been making for nearly his entire legal career against capital punishment and what he calls death-in-prison sentences. Stevenson, who also teaches a seminar on race, poverty, and criminal justice and addressed the United Nations on the problem of racial bias in the criminal justice system, has consistently been recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. He has won numerous awards, including the

Olof Palme Prize for International Human Rights, in 2000, and the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation’s Justice Prize, in 2009. Most recently, Stevenson received a Ford Foundation Visionaries Award for working to improve people’s lives with “courage, commitment, and innovative thinking.”

Why NYU Law I came to NYU Law because I thought that the public interest community would be a great fit for me. There are a lot of clinics, which help prepare you for the real world, and the faculty are very supportive of public interest students and are happy to take them under their wing. That’s what I think is most positive about NYU: I had— and still have— so many mentors!

PUBLIC INTEREST

My Story

Root-Tilden-Kern One of my favorite aspects of the Root-Tilden-Kern Program is the student mentorship program. When I was a 1L, I was assigned a 3L mentor, who was really fabulous for me. We are still friends today. It was so important to me that I cofounded the Public Interest Mentoring Program, which provides that same kind of mentorship for all public interest students.

CO M M U N I T Y

Student Organizations I was involved with the Women of Color Collective, the Multiracial Law Students Association, and the Coalition for Legal Recruiting, among other student organizations. Later, I was an articles editor of the Law Review.

SCHOLARSHIP

Julia Sheke

Client-Centered As a legal intern with the Foreclosure Prevention Project of South Brooklyn Legal Services, I worked directly with clients facing foreclosure. Amicus Brief As a legal intern with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Criminal Justice Practice, I worked on an amicus brief for the Supreme Court.

SUMMERS

Favorite Course Criminal Procedure with Barry Friedman. He is charismatic and puts a ton of effort into teaching. He cares a lot about why something is true and about the principles underlying a decision, not just about teaching the rules. The class was engaging and dynamic.

ACADEMICS

CLINICS

Hands-On Learning I took the Immigrant Defense Clinic and the Juvenile Defender Clinic. I had my own cases and even got to go to trial. It was nice to be able to help people— to start to do the work you came to law school to do.

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After Law School I always knew I wanted to do a clerkship. The Clerkship Office was great. I ended up with two clerkships, one in an appellate court and one in a district one, for Chief Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. When my second clerkship ended, I took a job at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, a small public interest firm in New York with a lot of NYU Law alums.

CLERKSHIP

Next Stop, Supreme Court Professor Rachel Barkow, who had been a Supreme Court clerk herself, suggested that I apply to be one, too. I did, and just recently I was offered a clerkship with Justice Stephen Breyer. I’m very excited about the opportunity. I start there in July.

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At NYU, professors are invested in students. Professor Rachel Barkow, who is the faculty director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, was a wonderful mentor to me. She was my Criminal Law professor and I was her research assistant. As a fellow at the center, I helped work on an amicus brief for the Supreme Court and got to see the oral argument. It was one of my favorite law school experiences.

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The kind of student that comes here selfselects for the excitement and challenge of living in a big city and the fun of the Village. It’s such a unique experience to go to law school in New York. There is no other city like it, with so much going on at any moment. Law school can feel isolating, but not NYU. E V E LY N M A L AV E ‘ 1 3

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Law School Life Beyond the Books

437 first- and second-year students used PILC Summer Funding Grants last summer to do public interest work within

33 100 countries, including the U.S. Nearly

of those students interned with the federal government.

Zack Orjuela ’12 chose to go to India to work at People’s Watch, a human rights organization. It was an experience he’ll never forget. “Working with People’s Watch was a great way to pursue my passion for human rights advocacy while exploring a different culture,” says Orjuela. “I was both saddened by the state-sanctioned violence against the poor and inspired by the organization’s commitment to protect India’s most vulnerable citizens.” 48

Chen Guangcheng Calls Change in China “Inevitable” Five months after leaving China and arriving at NYU, the blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng sat down for an in-depth conversation about the future of China with ProfessorJerome Cohen and Ira Belkin, executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute. The event was part of the Law School’s weekly Milbank Tweed Forum, which typically draws more than 100 students to Greenberg Lounge to munch on sandwiches and listen to experts discuss legal issues from environmental regulations to international law and corporate tax policy. Launched in 2009, the Forum inspires lively debates among students and fosters a deeper sense of community at the school.

Chen, who had fought for the rights of the disabled and for the rights of women forced to undergo sterilization, became an international human rights figure last year when he fled home imprisonment in Shandong province and took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. In New York, Chen continues to advocate for his nephew, Chen Kegui, who has been indicted for intentionally injuring a police officer, a crime that may carry serious consequences. “The gap between the rule of law and a situation like [my nephew’s] is very great,” said Chen, whose legal studies at NYU have included the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and their counterparts in Chinese law.

“This is what life is like for a large portion of the Chinese population. It’s not like life in big cities like Shanghai and Beijing.” China, said Chen, has arrived at a point where change is inevitable. Chen urged the audience to respect their own ability to make a difference, noting that it is the individual efforts of ordinary people that will determine the direction of China. In the extended Q&A session, students lined up to ask questions about everything from China’s central government to Taiwan to Asian legal values. The activist repeatedly emphasized the importance of individual action. “If you’re afraid of people who abuse power,

then nothing will ever change,” said Chen. “Every emperor of China wanted their dynasty to last forever, but history shows that was not the case. We should believe in the power of the people. Your power is much greater than mine.” 49

Vibrant Intellectual Life Throughout the year, many international leaders, prominent thinkers, and accomplished practitioners visit campus. Last spring, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a campaign stop at NYU Law to deliver a speech on international relations. Other recent guests include Lord Collins of Mapesbury, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.K.; Judge Karen Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; the legal defense team for the Russian band Pussy Riot; Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen; U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York; and Sara Moss â&#x20AC;&#x2122;74, executive vice president and general counsel of the EstĂŠe Lauder Companies, to name just a few.

NYU Law boasts more than 70 student organizationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and almost half of them have a public interest orientation. The Environmental Law Society, for example, is the student-run organization for future environmental lawyers and others interested in environmental issues. The group sponsors a lunch series featuring prominent environmental lawyers and scholars, works with environmental organizations to provide research assistance, and organizes social and community service events, among other activities. Last October, it co-sponsored an event on legal responses to factory farming featuring panelists from the New York Times, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. It also hosted a panel on the controversial practice of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fracking,â&#x20AC;? or gas drilling by means of hydraulic fracturing, featuring a cross-section of environmental advocates.

The Future of Marriage Equality: A Star-Studded Symposium MSNBC host Rachel Maddow sat down with Proposition 8 litigators Theodore Olson and David Boies (LL.M. ’67) at NYU School of Law this fall for an in-depth interview about the future of marriage equality, an issue that may be taken up by the Supreme Court this year. This keynote panel kicked off a symposium organized by the NYU Review of Law & Social Change. Called “Making Constitutional

Change: The Past, Present, and Future Role of Perry v. Brown,” it was held in collaboration with Professor Kenji Yoshino, OUTLaw, and Epic Theater Ensemble, which performed a stage reading of 8, a play based on the Prop 8 trial transcripts. The conversation with Boies, a trustee of the Law School who has endowed the David Boies Professor of Law, and Olson, a board member

of the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration, ranged widely over the course of an hour, touching on points such as how to win over Justice Scalia on the issue, the public’s support for gay marriage, and the worstcase scenario for this legal challenge. With no fewer than 60 Supreme Court cases under their belts, the highprofile team who argued on opposite sides of Bush v. Gore

in 2000 spoke authoritatively and confidently about their chances, assuming the case is granted certification. “We believe the Supreme Court will get it right. David and I are writing no justice of this court off,” Olson said. “We have a little joke—David will ensure that we get the ones that voted his way on Bush v. Gore, and I’ll get the side of the court that I got, so it will be unanimous.”

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Getting the Career You Want

From the Office of Career Services to the Public Interest Law Center to the Judicial Clerkship Office to the Academic Careers Program, the Law School has the most extensive advising and recruiting program in the country. During 2011-12, 621 private law firms, public interest organizations, government agencies, corporations, and public accounting firms visited NYU School of Law to interview students. The interviewers came from approximately 30 states and five foreign countries; 74 percent were from outside New York. The result: Despite a tough economy, nine months after graduation the em足 ployment rate for the Class of 2011 was 95.7 percent. (One percent of the class enrolled in full-time degree programs.)

The NYU Law degree opens up a world of professional possibilities. Whether your goal is to work in a firm, serve the public, or use your legal skills to pursue an alternative career, you’ll find the support and direction you need. A wide range of job fairs, on-campus recruiting programs, panels, workshops, and special events bring private- and public-sector employers and our highly motivated students together. At our annual Career Educational Fair, students meet lawyers from two dozen legal specialties. NYU’s Public Interest Legal Career Fair is the nation’s largest event of its kind, attended by 200 employers and more than 2,000 students from 21 law schools. Students get many opportunities to learn about both traditional and nontraditional career paths. In 2011-12, 65 firms firms hosted receptions and informal luncheons for first-year students. Throughout the year students meet alumni from corporations, finance, consulting, and industry through panels, Dean’s Roundtable events, brown bag luncheons, and field trips to their offices.

NYU Law’s largest privatesector recruiting event, Early Interview Week, is held in August and features approximately 370 legal employers. EIW is attended primarily by law firms, with limited representation from other private-sector employers and government organizations. The Law School also conducts a fall On-Campus Interview Program; about one-third of the employers who participate are public interest and government organizations. Approximately 80 percent of the students who participate in the fall recruitment program obtain privatesector summer positions based on these interviews. The Law School’s support for students who wish to devote themselves to public service is unparalleled. The Public Interest Law Center’s Summer Funding Program, the most ambitious such program in the nation, guar antees funding for all first-

and second-year students who want to work in public interest and government po sitions. Graduates have gone on to work at the American Civil Liberties Union, the Environmental Defense Fund, Human Rights Watch, and the U.S. Department of Justice, to name just a few. But it is individual atten tion that is a cornerstone of NYU Law’s impressive career services strategy. Last year alone, the eight-member counseling staff of the Office of Career Services (OCS) conducted 1,100 counseling appointments and drop-in sessions. PILC has three counselors, skilled public interest attorneys dedicated to helping students achieve their career goals. To find out more about NYU Law’s OCS and PILC, go to www.law.nyu.edu/ careerservices and www. law.nyu.edu/ publicinterestlawcenter. 57

From Policymaker to Professor: David Kamin ’09 In early 2012, when President Obama’s economic team was putting together the 2013 federal budget, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Jack Lew, then-director of the Office of Management and Budget, were debating how much money would be saved by ending the Iraq war and how it should be accounted for. They turned to the young assistants at the side of the room, zeroing in on David Kamin ’09. Kamin gave the number and an explanation. Everyone took it as fact and moved on. “David Kamin has been making invaluable contributions on budget and tax policy since the very beginning of this administration,” says Geithner. “His deep knowledge of the numbers and intricacies of the budget has helped win him the respect of the entire economic team.” Before leaving his position as special assistant to the president for economic policy to join the faculty of his alma mater this fall, Kamin made a significant impact on important legislation. He influenced Obama’s healthcare law and the continuation of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance.

He played a role in resolving the debt crisis last year and in crafting each of the president’s budgets. He was one of the main authors of Obama’s plan to rescue the U.S. Postal Service from bankruptcy. Kamin, a graduate of Swarthmore College, began his career in Washington in 2002, at the Committee for Economic Development, where he worked on some projects with Peter Orszag, then at the Brookings Institution. He attended NYU Law in part because he was offered a Furman Academic Scholarship, an opportunity that provided an intellectual community and support system for those preparing to enter academia. Sitting in class during his final semester in the fall of 2008, Kamin received a phone call. It was Orszag, newly appointed director of the OMB, asking him to serve as his special assistant. “Some people dream to be an astronaut,” says Kamin, whose scholarship is an outgrowth of his real-world work. “I dreamed to be a public policy wonk, and I got to live that out.”

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K E V I N B L A C K ’99, who, since graduation, has worked as a public defender in Seattle; fought against capital punishment at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama; represented the Washington State Mental Health Division as an assistant attorney general; and is now staff counsel for the Human Services & Corrections Committee in the Washington State Senate. 59

Where They Are Now

At a student Forum, University Professor Arthur Miller brought together 12 alumni who had pursued a wide range of career options, from private practice to public interest. Rocco Andriola ’82, managing director, Millennium Partners; co-founder and co-chairman, Save Lives Now New York; formerly managing director, Lehman Brothers Jodi Balsam ’86, associate professor of law, New York Law School; formerly counsel for operations and litigation, National Football League; litigation attorney, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Jonathan Bing ’95, partner, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker; formerly special deputy superintendent, New York Liquidation Bureau; assemblyman, New York State Assembly; litigation and employment attorney, Torys Joe Ehrlich ’97, executive vice president, Owens Group; formerly private-equity attorney, O’Melveny & Myers The Honorable Betty Ellerin (Ret.) ’52, senior counsel, Alston & Bird; formerly justice and presiding justice, State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division Brad Friedman ’86, partner, Milberg; formerly litigation attorney, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Linda Gadsby ’92, vice president and deputy general counsel, Scholastic Inc.; formerly labor and employment attorney Steven Greenhouse ’82, author, and labor and workplace reporter, the New York Times; formerly Times correspondent Alison Mikkor ’02, acting assistant professor of lawyering, NYU Law; formerly litigation associate, Debevoise & Plimpton Anne Milgram ’96, senior fellow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, NYU Law; formerly New Jersey attorney general; counsel to U.S. Senator Jon S. Corzine; federal prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice Annalisa Mirón ’04, assistant federal defender, Federal Defenders of New York; formerly executive director, Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights, NYU Law; federal public defender, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem Jason Washington ’07, White House Fellow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; formerly senior policy adviser, City of Baltimore; corporate associate, Kirkland & Ellis 61

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The Fine Print

Centers Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights

Hauser Global Law School Program Information Law Institute Institute for Affordable Housing Policy

New Additions Four new clinics were added this year, including Constitutional Transitions: The Middle East Revolutions and Technology Law and Policy.

Brennan Center for Justice

Institute for International Law and Justice

Center for Constitutional Transitions

Institute for Law & Society

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

Institute for Policy Integrity

Children’s Rights

Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice

Civil Rights

Center for Labor and Employment Law Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Center for Research in Crime and Justice Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Center on Law and Security Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy

Migration Policy Institute

Community Development and Economic Justice

National Center on Philanthropy and the Law

Comparative Criminal Justice: Focus on Domestic Violence

Pollack Center for Law and Business

Constitutional Transitions: The Middle East Revolutions

Public Interest Law Center The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice

Criminal and Community Defense

The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization

Employment and Housing Discrimination

U.S.-Asia Law Institute

Clinics

Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law

Administrative and Regulatory State

Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy

Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy— Nonpartisan Election Protection

Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy

Business Law Transactions

Criminal Appellate Defender Environmental Law Equal Justice and Capital Defender Family Defense Federal Defender Global Justice Government Civil Litigation—E.D.N.Y. Government Civil Litigation—S.D.N.Y. Immigrant Defense Immigrant Rights International Environmental Law International Human Rights

International Organizations

Clerks Across the USA— and Beyond

Juvenile Defender

Between the 2007 and 2013 terms, NYU alums clerked in 44 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and four foreign countries.

Litigation, Organizing, and Systematic Change

LGBT Rights

Mediation

New York Civil Liberties

Courses by Topic

Prosecution—E.D.N.Y.

2012–13

Prosecution—S.D.N.Y.

Administrative Law

Mediation—Advanced: Dispute System Design Medical-Legal Advocacy

Racial Justice Tax Technology Law and Policy

Colloquia Constitutional Transitions Colloquium; Professors Sujit Choudhry and Intisar Rabb Golieb Research Colloquium; Professors William Nelson ’65 and John Reid

Administrative and Regulatory State Clinic Administrative Law in Practice Seminar Administrative Law Seminar Administrative Process Seminar Advanced Dispute Systems Design: The 9/11 and BP Oil Spill Funds and Alternatives to the Tort System Appellate and Legislative Advocacy Workshop: The Current Supreme Court Docket Art Law

Hauser Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law; Professor Ryan Goodman

Constitutional Law

Colloquium on Innovation Policy; Professors Rochelle Dreyfuss and Harry First

Current Issues in Immigrants’ Rights Seminar

The Colloquium on Law, Economics, and Politics; Professors John Ferejohn and Lewis Kornhauser

Energy, Environment, and Security: Law and Policy

Colloquium on Law, Economics, and Politics of Urban Affairs; Professors Vicki Been ’83 and Ingrid Ellen Law and Economics Colloquium; Professors Jennifer Arlen ’86 and Ryan Bubb Legal History Colloquium; Professors Daniel Hulsebosch and William Nelson ’65 Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium; Professors William Gale and Daniel Shaviro

Constitutional Litigation Seminar

Energy and Climate Law and Policy

Environmental Values, Policy, and the Law Seminar Federal Budget Policy and Process Seminar Federal Courts and the Appellate Process Free Speech Global Environmental Law, Science, and Governance Seminar

Immigration Law and the Rights of Non-Citizens Labor Law Legislation and the Regulatory State Public Interest Environmental Law Practice The Art of Appellate Decisionmaking Tort Law in Modern Administrative State Seminar

Antitrust and Competition Law Antitrust and Regulatory Alternatives I Antitrust and Regulatory Alternatives II Antitrust Issues in the Distribution of Goods and Services Antitrust Law Antitrust Law and Economics Seminar Antitrust Law: Case Development and Litigation Strategy Seminar International and Comparative Antitrust Seminar Sports Law

Learning How to Shape Environmental Policy Students participate in regulatory proceedings before federal agencies in the Administrative and Regulatory State Clinic led by outgoing Dean Revesz and Michael Livermore ’06, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity.

Government Responses to the Financial Crisis Seminar Guarini Seminar Hays Program Seminar

Civil Procedure Bankruptcy Litigation Seminar Civil Litigation Comparative Civil Procedure Seminar Complex Litigation Federal Courts and the Appellate Process Introduction to U.S. Litigation and Procedures for International Business Lawyers Procedure

Human Trafficking Seminar Labor Law LGBT Rights Clinic New York Civil Liberties Clinic Sex Discrimination Seminar Sexuality and the Law Seminar

Comparative and Foreign Law

A New Public Interest Opportunity NYU, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale law schools have each been awarded 25 new Ford Foundation public-service fellowships, which give 1L and 2L students a chance at a 10-week summer placement with one of the Ford Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grantee organizations.

State Courts and Appellate Advocacy Seminar

Case Studies in Transitional Justice Seminar

The Art of Appellate Decisionmaking

Chinese Attitudes Toward International Law Seminar

Civil Rights

Comparative Law

History and Theory of International Law Seminar

Hauser Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law

Access to the Civil Justice System and Providing Civil Legal Services to the Poor: Policies, Practices, and Current Challenges Seminar

Comparative Law and Economics of Contracts

International & Comparative Antitrust Seminar

Comparative Law: Property Rights in Development Seminar

International Arbitration

Asian American Jurisprudence Seminar

Conflict of Laws

Civil Rights Clinic

Economic and Social Rights

Civil Rights Clinic Litigation Seminar

Essential Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Jurisprudence

Critical Narratives of Civil Rights Critical Race Theory Seminar Education Law Seminar Employment and Housing Discrimination Clinic Employment Discrimination Law Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process

International Arbitration: Investment Arbitration International Business & Investment Transactions with China Seminar International Business Transactions

E.U. and Comparative Taxation

International Commercial Arbitration

European and Comparative Company, Financial Markets, and Bankruptcy Law

International Human Rights Law

European Human Rights Law

International Human Rights Law & Humanitarian Law Scholarship Seminar

European Integration and Disintegration Seminar

International Investment Law & Arbitration

Global Justice Clinic

International Law and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

International Law

International Litigation & Arbitration

NYU Law Anytime

International Organizations

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International Tax I International Tax I & II International Tax Policy Seminar

Introduction to East Asian Legal Systems

Constitutional Law

Introduction to International Trade Law

Constitutional Litigation Seminar

Islamic Law

Constitutional Theories Seminar

Law and Development Law and Global Governance Seminar

Constitutional Transitions Clinic: The Middle East Revolutions

Law and Policy of Foreign Investment Seminar

Constitutional Transitions Colloquium: The Middle East Revolutions

Law & Society in China: Criminal Justice in American Perspective Seminar

Creation of the Constitution

Legal English Legal English Intensive Workshop Legal Harmonization Seminar Maimonides Mishneh Torah: Jewish Law and Legal Theory Seminar Religious Law and the Challenge of Science and Contemporary Mores Seminar

Current Issues in Immigrants Rights Seminar Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process Free Speech Global Environmental Law, Science, and Governance Seminar Hays Program Seminar

Sentencing & Punishment: A Comparative & International Human Rights Perspective Seminar

Immigration Law & the Rights of Non-Citizens

Sex Discrimination Seminar

Public Interest Environmental Law Practice

The United Nations and the Making of International Law Seminar

Prison Law & Policy

Religion and the First Amendment

Transitional Justice

Same-Sex Marriage on Trial Seminar

War, Crime, and Terror: Legal and Moral Dimensions of the CounterTerrorism Efforts of the U.S. and Other Countries Seminar

The Law of Democracy

Constitutional Law Administrative Process Seminar Advanced Topics in Art Law Seminar After Guilt: Sentencing, Incarceration, and Other Post-Conviction Issues Appellate & Legislative Advocacy Workshop: The Current Supreme Court Docket Art Law

Sexuality and the Law Seminar

Contracts and Commercial Law Accounting for Lawyers Admiralty Advanced Corporate Reorganization Under the Bankruptcy Code Seminar Analytical Methods for Lawyers A Study of Cross-Border Insolvency Cases and Relevant Law

Assigned Readings A sampling of recent faculty books illustrates the breadth and depth of scholarship at NYU Law: In Seduction by Contract: Law, Economics, and Psychology in Consumer Markets, Oren Bar-Gill applies behavioral economics to the understanding of long-term consumer contracts. Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, by Neil Barofsky ’95, is the best-selling account of his stint as the special inspector general in charge of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Moshe Halbertal’s On Sacrifice develops a theory of sacrifice as an offering and considers sacrifice’s complex religious, ethical, and political dimensions. The argument of Jeremy Waldron’s The Harm in Hate Speech is that the U.S., the only liberal democratic state without laws or codes against hate speech, should regulate such expression.

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Litigation Seminar

International Arbitration: Investment Arbitration

Advanced Corporate Reorganization Under the Bankruptcy Code Seminar

International Business & Investment Transactions with China Seminar

Anatomy of a Securities Offering

International Business Transactions

Bankruptcy and Reorganization

International Commercial Arbitration

Bankruptcy Litigation Seminar

Consumer Contracts Seminar

International Investment Law & Arbitration

Bankruptcy Reorganizations Seminar

Contract Theory Seminar

Introduction to International Trade Law

Business Crime

Contracts

Law & Business of Corporate Transactions

Contracts

Corporate Bond Contracts and Credit Agreements

Law & Business of Financial Institutions Law & Business of Microfinance

Corporate Bond Contracts and Credit Agreements

Corporate Finance

Law & Business Projects Seminar

Corporate Finance

Economic Analysis of Law

Law & Economics Colloquium: Business Law & Economics

Corporate Governance Seminar

Bankruptcy Reorganizations Seminar Commercial Law Commercial Sales Law Comparative Law & Economics of Contracts

Financial Instruments and the Capital Markets

Law, Economics & Psychology

Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery Seminar

Financing Development Seminar

Law of Nonprofit Organizations

Corporate Tax I

Information Privacy Law

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate Tax II

Insurance Law

Negotiation

Corporate Tax I & II

International Arbitration

Professional Responsibility in Law and Business

Corporations

President Redux

Project Finance Seminar Property

Last January, Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76) was elected to a second term as president of Taiwan. In an earlier interview with Professor Jerome Cohen, Ma said: “My studies taught me about the ideas of constitutional democracy—freedom, human rights, and rule of law. Those are probably the most important that have influenced me in the days since I left the United States.” 68

Bankruptcy

Criminal Securities and Commodities Fraud Seminar

Real Estate Transactions

European and Comparative Company, Financial Markets, and Bankruptcy Law

Restructuring Firms and Industries: Law and Business

Financial Instruments and the Capital Markets

Secured Transactions

Financing Development Seminar

The Law of Securitization

Futures and Options

Venture Capital

Insurance Law

Corporate and Securities Law A Study of Cross-Border Insolvency Cases and Relevant Law

International Business & Investment Transactions with China Seminar International Business Transactions Issues in SEC Enforcement Seminar Law & Business of Corporate Governance

Accounting for Lawyers

Law & Business of Corporate Transactions

Admiralty

Law & Business of Financial Institutions Law & Business of Microfinance

Law & Business Projects Seminar Law of Nonprofit Organizations

Helping Haiti Cope

Leadership in Organizations

Energy & Climate Law and Policy

Negotiating Complex Transactions with Executives and Lawyers

Energy, Environment, and Security: Law and Policy

Negotiating Corporate Transactions

Project Finance Seminar Restructuring Firms and Industries: Law and Business Secured Transactions Securities Law and Litigation Securities Regulation: Offerings, Registration, Exemptions, and Disclosures Social Venture Capital Survey of Securities Regulation The Law of Securitization Topics in Corporate and Securities Law Seminar Valuation Venture Capital Venture Capital Financing

Criminal Law and Administration After Guilt: Sentencing, Incarceration, and Other Post-Conviction Issues Business Crime Complex Federal Investigations Seminar Corruption & Corruption Control Seminar

Advanced Environmental Law Seminar Climate Change Policy Seminar

Mergers & Acquisitions

Professional Responsibility in Law and Business

Environmental Law

Environmental Law Professor Margaret Satterthwaite â&#x20AC;&#x2122;99 and her Global Justice Clinic traveled to Haiti to study gender-based violence in refugee camps. Criminal Procedure: Fourth and Fifth Amendments Criminal Procedure Survey Eighth Amendment Seminar Federal Courts and the Federal System Human Trafficking Seminar Imprisonment & Human Rights Seminar Information Privacy Law Intelligence Gathering and Law Enforcement: Post-9/11 Seminar International Criminal Courts and Tribunals Organized Crime Control Seminar

Environmental Law Clinic Environmental Values, Policy & the Law Seminar Farmed Animal Law & Policy Seminar Federal Budget Policy and Process Seminar Global Environmental Law, Science, and Governance Seminar International Environmental Law Clinic Oil Pollution and the Marine Environment Public Interest Environmental Law Practice The Law of Democracy

Evidence Advanced Trial Practice Evidence Federal Courts and the Appellate Process

Prison Law & Policy

Forensic Evidence Seminar

Professional Responsibility in Criminal Practice Seminar

The Art of Appellate Decisionmaking

Regulation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Retribution in Criminal Law Theory & Practice Seminar

Family Law Child, Parent & State Family Defense Clinic Family Law

Criminal Law

Sentencing & Punishment: A Comparative & International Human Rights Perspective Seminar

Criminal Litigation

Sentencing Seminar

Sex Discrimination Seminar

Criminal Procedure: Bail to Jail

Trial and Appellate Advocacy Seminar

Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic

Family Practice Simulation

First-Year Constitutional Law

Four-peat

Contracts

Advanced Corporate Tax Problems: International Seminar

Corporations

Advanced International Law

Criminal Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

International Law

Case Studies in Transitional Justice Seminar

Lawyering Legislation and the Regulatory State Procedure Property Torts

Health and Benefits Law

NYU Law defeated Columbia Law in the Deansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cup for the fourth year in a row. Since 2002, the event has raised more than $500,000 to fund public interest summer internships and other programs at both schools.

Community Development Law Seminar Employee Benefits Law

Employment Discrimination Law

Entertainment Law Seminar

Federal Health Reform: Law, Policy, and Politics Seminar

Fashion Law

Health Law

Information Privacy Law

Health Policy Seminar

Innovation Policy Colloquium

Insurance Law

Innovation Without IP Seminar

International Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Politics of Law, Knowledge, and Culture Seminar

Law of Nonprofit Organizations Law of the Welfare State Seminar Mental Health Law Seminar

Intellectual Property and Information Law Advanced Topics in Art Law Seminar Advanced Topics in Information Privacy Law Seminar

Free Speech

Intellectual Property Law Survey International Intellectual Property Law Law and the Many Faces of Information Seminar Mass Media Law Patent Law Patent Litigation Seminar

Advanced Trademark Law

Sports Law

Art Law

Trademarks and Unfair Competition

Biotech Patent Law

International Law

Chinese Attitudes Toward International Law Seminar Comparative Law Conflict of Laws Economic and Social Rights European Human Rights Law European Integration and Disintegration Seminar Fact Finding In International Law Seminar Financing Development Seminar Global Environmental Law, Science, and Governance Seminar Hauser Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law History & Theory of International Law Seminar Human Trafficking Seminar Immigration Law & the Rights of Non-Citizens International & Comparative Antitrust Seminar International Arbitration International Arbitration: Investment Arbitration International Business & Investment Transactions with China Seminar International Business Transactions International Commercial Arbitration International Criminal Courts and Tribunals

International Environmental Law Clinic

International Tax Policy Seminar

International Human Rights Clinic

Introduction to East Asian Legal Systems

International Human Rights Law

Introduction to International Trade Law

International Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law Scholarship Seminar

Law and Development

International Human Rights of Women

Law and Policy of Foreign Investment Seminar

International Intellectual Property Law International Investment Law & Arbitration International Law International Law and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict International Litigation & Arbitration International Monetary System International Organizations International Organizations Clinic International Tax I International Tax I & II

A Measured Response

Law and Global Governance Seminar

Law & Society in China: Criminal Justice in American Perspective Seminar Legal English Sentencing & Punishment: A Comparative & International Human Rights Perspective Seminar Survey of International Tax The Law & Practice of the United Nations The Practical & Theoretical Anatomy of an International Commercial Arbitration Seminar The United Nations and the Making of International Law Seminar Trademarks and Unfair Competition Transitional Justice War, Crime, and Terror: Legal and Moral Dimensions of the CounterTerrorism Efforts of the U.S. and Other Countries Seminar

The Law School is helping shape a new field: Law and Security. Led by Professor Samuel Rascoff and executive director Zachary Goldman â&#x20AC;&#x2122;09, the Center on Law and Security promotes an informed understanding of the major legal and security issues defining the post-9/11 world.

Showing New York Cares

AnBryce students and alumni helped the volunteer group New York Cares to revitalize local schools by painting murals and classrooms. International Investment Law & Arbitration International Law International Litigation & Arbitration Law and Policy of Foreign Investment Seminar Mediation Clinic Mediation Clinicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Advanced: Dispute System Design Mediation Clinic Seminar Negotiation The Practical & Theoretical Anatomy of an International Commercial Arbitration Seminar

International Litigation and Arbitration

Labor and Employment Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Employee Benefits Law

Comparative Law

Employment Discrimination Law

Conflict of Laws

Employment Law and Dispute Resolution

International Arbitration

Labor and Employment in the Entertainment Industry Seminar

International Arbitration: Investment Arbitration International Business Transactions

Labor Law Sports Law

International Commercial Arbitration 71

Lawyering and Simulation Advanced Dispute Systems Design: The 9/11 and BP Oil Spill Funds and Alternatives to the Tort System Advanced Trial Practice Anatomy of a Securities Offering

Legal Theory and Legal History Access to the Civil Justice System and Providing Civil Legal Services to the Poor: Policies, Practices, and Current Challenges Seminar

Lawyering

Advanced Dispute Systems Design: The 9/11 and BP Oil Spill Funds and Alternatives to the Tort System

The Art of Appellate Decisionmaking

Analytical Methods for Lawyers

Trial and Appellate Advocacy Seminar

Asian American Jurisprudence Seminar

U.S. Legal Methodology

Class and the Law Seminar

U.S. Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis II

Classical Liberalism: History, Theory & Contemporary Jurisprudence Seminar

Federal Courts and the Appellate Process

Colloquium on Law, Economics & Politics

From the Middle East to Manhattan

Dorit Beinisch, the recently retired president of the Israeli Supreme Court, is visiting NYU Law in the 2012-13 academic year as a distinguished global fellow and a senior fellow at the Law School’s Center on Law and Security. Before joining the Supreme Court, she served in Israel’s Ministry of Justice as the state attorney of Israel in charge of all state litigation in the courts. With Professor Samuel Rascoff, Beinisch is co-teaching a seminar on national security judging.

When a genie grants a mediocre law student three wishes and he asks for the best grades at NYU Law, complications ensue in Alawddin, this year’s edition of the NYU Law Revue, the annual student musical.

Comparative Law: Property Rights in Development Seminar

Law, Economics & Psychology

Contract Theory Seminar

Legal English

Critical Race Theory Seminar

Legal History Colloquium

Economic Analysis of Law

Legal Philosophy

Education Law Seminar

Legislation & Political Theory

Essential Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Jurisprudence

Maimonides Mishneh Torah: Jewish Law and Legal Theory Seminar

Farmed Animal Law & Policy Seminar

Nietzsche and the Law Seminar

Furman Scholars Seminar

Political Environment of the Law Seminar

Golieb Research Colloquium

Professional Responsibility and the Regulation of Lawyers

Human Dignity Seminar Introduction to Ethical Theory Introduction to Law and Social Theory Introduction to Political Philosophy Islamic Law Issues in SEC Enforcement Seminar Law and Development Law & Economics Colloquium: Business Law & Economics Law & Literature Seminar

Watch Out, Broadway, Here Comes Alawddin

Professional Responsibility in Civil Litigation Professional Responsibility in Law and Business Quantitative Methods Seminar Readings in Legal Thought Seminar Regulation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Religious Law and the Challenge of Science and Contemporary Mores Seminar Remedies

Resisting Injustice Seminar

Real Estate Transactions

International Tax I

Rule of Law

Trusts & Estates

International Tax II

Sexuality and the Law Seminar The Art of Appellate Decisionmaking

Security and Law

The Death Penalty: Social and Historical Perspectives Seminar

Energy, Environment, and Security: Law and Policy

The Federalist Papers Seminar

Judging National Security: A Comparative Perspective Seminar

Professional Responsibility

Post-9/11 National Security Law Seminar

Federal Courts and the Appellate Process Professional Responsibility and the Regulation of Lawyers

Taxation Accounting for Tax Consequences

International Tax I & II International Tax III International Tax Policy Seminar Multistate Taxation: Income Taxation Multistate Taxation: Sales and Gross Receipts Taxes Partnership Taxation State Taxation of Native Americans Survey of Income Taxation Survey of International Tax

Professional Responsibility in Civil Litigation

Advanced Corporate Tax Problems: International Seminar

Professional Responsibility in Criminal Practice Seminar

Advanced Corporate Tax Problems Seminar

Professional Responsibility in Law and Business

Advanced Partnership Tax I

Tax Penalties and Prosecutions

Advanced Partnership Tax II: Issues in Practice

Tax Policy

Advanced Tax Procedure

Tax Policy Seminar

Asia-Pacific Tax Systems Seminar

Tax Procedure

Bankruptcy Tax

Tax Treaties

Professional Responsibility in the Public Interest Seminar

Property, Land Use, and Urban Affairs Colloquium on Law, Economics, and Politics of Urban Affairs Community Development Law Seminar Comparative Law: Property Rights in Development Seminar

Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving Tax Deals

Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium

Classic Cases Corporate Tax I Corporate Tax II

A Vote for Democracy

Corporate Tax I & II Employee Benefits Law

Federal Health Reform: Law, Policy, and Politics Seminar

Estate and Gift Taxation

Health Law

E.U. and Comparative Taxation

Health Policy Seminar

Federal Budget Policy and Process Seminar

Land Use, Housing, and Community Development in New York City Seminar

Survey of Tax Procedure

Estate Planning

Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax

Land Use Regulation

Income Taxation

Law of the Welfare State Seminar

Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates I

Property

Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates II

Professors Samuel Issacharoff (left) and Richard Pildes, creators of the legal specialty known as the Law of Democracy, focus their scholarship on fairness and the electoral process.

Taxation of Affiliated Corporations Taxation of Business Conduits

Advanced Torts: Defamation, Privacy, and Business Torts

Taxation of Executive Compensation

Insurance Law

Taxation of Financial Instruments

Mental Health Law Seminar

Taxation of International Business Transactions

Remedies Sex Discrimination Seminar

Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions

Sports Law

Taxation of Private Equity Funds and Transactions

Tort Law in Modern Administrative State Seminar

Taxation of Property Transactions

Torts

Taxation of Sub-Chapter S Corporations

Torts: Products Liability

Tax-Exempt Organizations Timing Issues and the Income Tax Transfer Pricing

Torts and Insurance Advanced Dispute Systems Design: The 9/11 and BP Oil Spill Funds and Alternatives to the Tort System

Transactional Law and Law and Business Advanced Corporate Reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code Seminar Advanced Corporate Tax Problems Seminar Advanced Corporate Tax Problems: International Seminar Bankruptcy Reorganizations Seminar

It Takes the Village Our charming Greenwich Village campus includes Vanderbilt Hall; Furman Hall; 22 Washington Square North, a restored townhouse; and the recently built Wilf Hall, as well as our student residence halls.

Corporate Bond Contracts and Credit Agreements Entertainment Law Seminar Financial Instruments and the Capital Markets Financing Development Seminar International Business and Investment Transactions with China Seminar Law and Business of Corporate Governance

Law and Business of Corporate Transactions G

Law and Business of Microfinance Real Estate Transactions Venture Capital

Fellowship Programs Fellowships, such as the Furman Academic Fellowship Program, the Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History, and the Law and Economics Fellowship Program, offer postgraduates pursuing careers in academia the chance to work on their scholarship and be active members of the NYU Law community. The Law School also offers other fellowships, which provide both academic credit and a stipend. Here are a few: Criminal Justice Center Fellowships Awarded in the second year, these fellowships are designated for students who are strongly motivated to engage in in-depth criminal justice policy-oriented research under the supervision of one of the criminal law faculty. Supervised by Professor James Jacobs. Judge John J. Galgay Fellowships in Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law Students receive these fellowships in the spring semester of their first or second year. Galgay Fellows clerk full-time during the summer months for a United States bankruptcy judge, engage in a research and writing project during the following academic year, and are provided opportunities to observe courtroom proceedings, meet with practitioners, and gain insights into the practice of bankruptcy and reorganization law. Supervised by Associate Dean Barry Adler and Professor Arthur Gonzalez.

Arthur Garfield Hays Fellowships These fellowships are awarded for the third year on the basis of legal ability and commitment to civil liberties. Each fellow is given substantial responsibility for work on one or more projects, under the supervision of one of the practicing lawyers cooperating with the Hays Program. Fellows work with attorneys at the ACLU, NYCLU, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, NOW Legal Defense Fund, Children’s Rights Inc., Legal Aid Society, and various legal services organizations. Supervised by Professors Norman Dorsen, Helen Hershkoff, and Sylvia Law ’68. Lawrence Lederman Fellowships in Law and Economics To foster research and study in the area of law, economics, and business, each year NYU School of Law offers eight Lederman Fellowships to second-year students who want to write a research paper in law and economics or law and business. Lederman Fellows receive an $8,000 fellowship to write the research paper under the close supervision of a faculty member.

Financial Aid NYU Law devotes substantial resources to financial aid, including institutional grants, scholarship programs, and our generous Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP). Essentially a post-graduation scholarship for those working in the public interest, our LRAP eases the burden of student loan repayment and allows our graduates to pursue public interest careers worldwide.

Having Dinner at David Garland’s As part of the Faculty in Residence program, sponsored by the Department of Residence Services, Professor David Garland, author of the award-winning book Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, regularly serves up pizza and informal talks on a variety of academic topics at his own apartment in the Mercer Street Residence.

Graduate Programs

Joint Degrees

Competition, Innovation, and Information Law LL.M.

J.D./M.A. or Ph.D. in economics, history, philosophy, and politics with NYU

Corporation Law LL.M.

J.D./LL.M. in International Law or in Taxation at the Law School

Environmental Law LL.M.

J.D./M.A. in French Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies with NYU

International Business Regulation, Litigation, and Arbitration LL.M.

J.D./M.B.A., J.D./M.P.A., J.D./M.S.W., and J.D./M.U.P. with NYU

International Legal Studies LL.M.

J.D./M.P.A. with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

International Taxation LL.M. Legal Theory LL.M.

Traditional LL.M.

J.D./M.P.A. and J.D./M.P.P. with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Dual LL.M. in Global Business Law (Singapore)

J.D./J.D. with Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Executive LL.M. in Tax

J.D./LL.B. with the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

Taxation LL.M.

J.S.D. Program Advanced Professional Certificate Programs

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Annual Survey of American Law

NYU Law awards scholarships in amounts up to full tuition. Offering more than financial support, they provide fully integrated academic and professional programs:

Environmental Law Journal Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law

African Law Association AGL-NYU Mentoring Program Alternative Breaks

AnBryce Scholarship

American Constitution Society

Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights Scholarship

Anti-Trafficking Advocacy Coalition

Furman Academic Scholars Program

Asia Law Society

Institute for International Law and Justice Scholarship

Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association

Review of Law & Social Change

Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business

Black Allied Law Students Association

Faculty Journals and Publications

Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholarship Program

Coalition on Law & Representation

Journal of International Law & Politics Journal of Law & Business Journal of Law & Liberty Journal of Legislation & Public Policy Law Review Moot Court Board

Clinical Law Review International Journal of Constitutional Law (I·CON) Tax Law Review

Music and Dissent Lawyers for the imprisoned members of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk rock band, came to the Law School this fall to discuss their clients’ legal predicament, as well as the broader political climate in Russia. The event was organized by the Law School, including the Art Law Society, Professor Amy Adler, and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, as well as the Department of Performance Studies and Department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts.

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Dean’s Scholarships, in amounts up to full tuition, are awarded on the basis of need, academic merit, or a combination of both. For our easy online financial aid application, visit www.needaccess.org/ Students/Student.aspx. LL.M. and J.S.D. Scholarships Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarship David Marshall Scholarships Dean’s Graduate Awards and NYU@NUS Deans’ Awards Hauser Global Scholars and Singapura Scholars Program Taxation Program Scholarships

Art Law Society

Christian Legal Fellowship Competition, Public Policy, and Development Deans’ Cup Debtors’ Rights Project Domestic Violence Advocacy Project Education Law and Policy Society English as a Second Language Environmental Law Society Federalist Society Food Law High School Law Institute HIV Law Society Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society International Arbitration Association International Law Society I-PREP Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project

J.D./M.B.A. Association

University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Jewish Law Students Association

Research, Education, and Advocacy to Combat Homelessness

J. Reuben Clark Law Society

Running from the Law

Know Your Rights Project

South Asian Law Students Association

University of Paris II—Panthéon-Assas (France)

Latino Law Students Association

Southern Connection

Law and Business Association

Student Animal Legal Defense Fund

University of San Andrés (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Law and Film Society

Student Bar Association

University of Sydney (Australia)

Law and Government Society

Student Lawyer Athletic Program

Law and Social Entrepreneurship Association

Substantial Performance

Law Democrats

The Commentator

LawOM (Open Meditation and Yoga Association)

Transfer Student Committee

Law Revue

Unemployment Action Center

Law Rugby

West Coast Connection

Law Students for Economic Justice

Women of Color Collective

Trial Advocacy Society

Media Law Collaborative

Study-Abroad Programs

Mediation Organization

Exchange Program Partners

Mental Health Law Association

Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany)

Law Women Legal Outreach

Middle Eastern Law Students Association

Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)

Muslim Law Students Association

Direito GV—Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)

National Lawyers Guild Native American Law Students Association Older Wiser Law Students OUTLaw PORTMANTEAU Prisoners’ Rights and Education Project Public Interest Law Foundation Real Estate and Urban Policy Forum

Global Reach

Suspension Representation Project

Law Students for Human Rights Law Students for Reproductive Justice

University of Palermo (Argentina)

European University Institute (Florence, Italy) Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) National University of Singapore (Singapore) Oxford University (England) Peking University (Beijing, China) Sciences Po Law School (Paris, France) University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

The Law School recently announced major academic initiatives, including new study-abroad programs for 3Ls. NYU Law will plant its flag on three continents, setting up NYU Lawdesigned and -managed programs for its students to study in Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai during their final semester of law school. The program, which is supervised by Vice Dean Kevin Davis, will begin in the 2013-14 academic year. It will provide participating students with substantial exposure to another legal system, and the classroom experience will be complemented by internships in the region, study tours, and opportunities for language training. In addition to substantive legal skills, the program is designed to help students develop sensitivity to different legal cultures and contexts, linguistic ability, and the flexibility to work effectively across jurisdictions.

Full-time Faculty by Area of Focus Business Barry Adler William Allen Jennifer Arlen ’86 Oren Bar-Gill Ryan Bubb Stephen Choi Kevin Davis Richard Epstein Cynthia Estlund Samuel Estreicher Franco Ferrari Mark Geistfeld Clayton Gillette Douglas H. Ginsburg Robert Howse Marcel Kahan Andreas Lowenfeld Florencia Marotta-Wurgler ’01 Geoffrey Miller Gerald Rosenfeld Helen Scott Catherine Sharkey Stanley Siegel John Slain ’55 George Sorter Alan Sykes

Clinics Anthony Amsterdam Claudia Angelos Sarah Burns 78

Alina Das ’05 Paula Galowitz Martin Guggenheim ’71 Randy Hertz Holly Maguigan Nancy Morawetz ’81 Smita Narula Laura Sager Margaret Satterthwaite ’99 Bryan Stevenson Kim Taylor-Thompson Anthony Thompson

Constitutional Amy Adler Rachel Barkow Sujit Choudhry Adam Cox Norman Dorsen Ronald Dworkin Richard Epstein John Ferejohn Barry Friedman Clayton Gillette David Golove Helen Hershkoff Roderick Hills Jr. Stephen Holmes Daniel Hulsebosch Samuel Issacharoff Mattias Kumm Sylvia Law ’68 Daryl Levinson Deborah Malamud Burt Neuborne Richard Pildes David A.J. Richards Cristina Rodríguez (on leave) Adam Samaha Stephen Schulhofer Jeremy Waldron

Kenji Yoshino Diane Zimmerman

Criminal Anthony Amsterdam Jennifer Arlen ’86 Rachel Barkow Paul Chevigny Jerome Cohen Kevin Davis Harry First Barry Friedman David Garland Martin Guggenheim ’71 Randy Hertz James Jacobs Holly Maguigan Theodor Meron (emeritus) Erin Murphy Ronald Noble (on leave) Samuel Rascoff David A.J. Richards Stephen Schulhofer Jerome Skolnick Bryan Stevenson Harry Subin Kim Taylor-Thompson Anthony Thompson

Environmental Vicki Been ’83 Ingrid Gould Ellen Clayton Gillette Roderick Hills Jr. Robert Howse Dale Jamieson Benedict Kingsbury Richard Revesz Richard Stewart Katrina Wyman

Innovation Amy Adler Oren Bar-Gill Barton Beebe Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss Harry First Eleanor Fox ’61 Jeanne Fromer Stephen Gillers ’68 Douglas H. Ginsburg Lewis A. Kornhauser Andreas Lowenfeld Florencia Marotta-Wurgler ’01 Katherine Strandburg Alan Sykes Diane Zimmerman

International Philip Alston José Alvarez Vicki Been ’83 Simon Chesterman Paul Chevigny Sujit Choudhry Jerome Cohen Kevin Davis Gráinne de Búrca Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss Samuel Estreicher Franco Ferrari Harry First Eleanor Fox ’61 Clayton Gillette David Golove Ryan Goodman Moshe Halbertal Roderick Hills Jr. Stephen Holmes Robert Howse Benedict Kingsbury

Mattias Kumm Andreas Lowenfeld

Daniel Shaviro Alan Sykes

Paul Chevigny Peggy Cooper Davis

Martin Guggenheim ‘71 Helen Hershkoff

Theodor Meron Sally Engle Merry Geoffrey Miller Liam Murphy Smita Narula Burt Neuborne Intisar Rabb Samuel Rascoff Cristina Rodríguez (on leave) Margaret Satterthwaite ’99 Linda Silberman Bryan Stevenson Richard Stewart Alan Sykes Frank Upham Jeremy Waldron Joseph Weiler

Katrina Wyman

Norman Dorsen Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss Harry T. Edwards Richard Epstein Samuel Estreicher Barry Friedman Stephen Gillers ’68 David Golove Martin Guggenheim ’71 Helen Hershkoff Samuel Issacharoff Sylvia Law ’68 Andreas Lowenfeld Holly Maguigan Troy McKenzie ’00 Arthur Miller Geoffrey Miller Burt Neuborne Catherine Sharkey Linda Silberman

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Katrina Wyman

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