Even as the US government has halted a wide range of initiatives to curb carbon emissions, efforts to combat climate change ...

Delivering the 2026 Fred T. Korematsu Lecture, US District Court Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York ...

You’re getting an LLM this year with a focus on criminal law. What drew you to this field? Although I am determined to start my career in criminal defense after finishing my master’s degree, I was ...

Rosalie Silberman Abella, retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, will join NYU Law this Spring as a distinguished ...

Philippa Webb and fellow barrister Amal Clooney LLM ’01 were catching up by phone, Webb remembers, when the sounds of exploding bombs on Clooney’s end interrupted their chat. “She says, ‘Oh, I’m just ...

Courts, legislatures, and the public at large should actively work to ensure that state constitutions are innovative, robust, and able to address modern-day issues, Chief Judge Rowan Wilson of the New ...

When the Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith (2023) that the legendary artist’s transformation of a photographer’s shot of the musician Prince didn’t ...

Joaquin G. Bernas, LLM ’65, JSD ’68, a Jesuit priest and a member of the constitutional commission that drafted the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, taught for many years at Ateneo de Manila ...

Ronald Dworkin, the Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, passed away on February 14 after a valiant battle with leukemia. Dworkin was not only an intellectual giant, but also a masterful teacher, ...

Erika Wilson wasn’t sure she wanted to become a lawyer until, as a college student, she watched Cheryl Mills, then–White House deputy counsel, defend President Bill Clinton during televised ...

To place Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law Richard Epstein on the political spectrum, just consider the titles of some of the Defining Ideas columns that he has written over the past year for the ...

Amrit Singh, a human rights lawyer and expert on democracy and the rule of law, will join the NYU Law faculty in August as a professor of practice and faculty director of the Rule of Law Lab. Singh’s ...