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NYU Law Forum previews midterm election—and what’s next

With voting already underway in a contentious midterm election in the United States, three faculty experts examined stresses ...
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Nicholas Saady LLM ’20 plays to win in music, entertainment, and sports

More than a decade ago, Nicholas Saady was playing cricket professionally in England. Today, he’s counsel at Pryor Cashman ...
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Margaret Satterthwaite ’99 honored with American Bar Association prize for human rights work

Professor Margaret Satterthwaite ’99, the United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, has ...
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Gary Bettman ’77 on his winning record

On September 28—the day before the 2026-2027 season opener in the National Hockey League got underway—Gary Bettman ’77, the ...
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Vanita Gupta ’01 launches new center to rebuild trust and reimagine institutions in US democracy

This week NYU Law launched the Center for Law and Public Trust, with former US Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta ’01 as its director. The center will house initiatives that seek to build public ...
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Rosalie Silberman Abella, retired Canadian justice, contrasts American and Canadian constitutional rights in Madison Lecture

Rosalie Silberman Abella, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, offered a wide-ranging exploration of the differences between American and Canadian constitutional jurisprudence when she ...
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Planetary Principles – An International Law Discussion with members of the UN ICJ, ILC, and other leading international lawyers

Please join the Institute for International Law and Justice for this event, bringing together International Court of Justice Judge Bogdan Aurescu, six members of the UN International Law Commission, ...
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The Supreme Court upheld the US TikTok ban. What does that mean for free speech protections?

The nine-month legal battle between ByteDance—the Chinese company that owns TikTok—and the United States government ended in a win for the government on January 17, 2025, when the US Supreme Court ...
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Legal history scholar Nathaniel Donahue to join NYU Law faculty

Nathaniel Donahue, currently a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU Law, will join the Law School faculty on June 1 as assistant professor of law, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 announced on March ...
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In Memoriam: Sally Burns

Professor Sarah “Sally” Burns, who founded and taught NYU Law’s Reproductive Justice Clinic, passed away on September 11, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 has announced. “[Burns] made enormous contributions to ...
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Former US deputy AG Lisa Monaco returns to NYU Law

Lisa Monaco returns to NYU Law as a distinguished scholar in residence after serving as US deputy attorney general from 2021 to 2025, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 announced on February 3. Monaco first ...
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Kahaari Kenyatta ’26 and Aila Ansheles LLM ’26 selected to deliver student Convocation addresses

Kahaari Shakoor Kenyatta ’26 and Aila Ansheles LLM ’26 have been selected to deliver student Convocation addresses for the JD and graduate convocation ceremonies, respectively. NYU Law Convocation ...