New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the
law school
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of
New York University
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, a
private research university
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in
New York City
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. Established in 1835, it is the oldest law school in New York City and the oldest surviving law school in
New York State
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. Located in
Greenwich Village
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in
Lower Manhattan
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, NYU Law offers
J.D.,
LL.M.
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, and
J.S.D.
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degrees in law.
Globally, NYU Law is ranked as the fifth-best law school in the world by the ''
Academic Ranking of World Universities'' (''ARWU'') for subject Law in 2022, after having ranked as the world's fourth-best law school in 2020. In 2017, NYU Law ranked as high as second best in the world by the same benchmark
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Ranking ''ARWU''. NYU Law is also consistently ranked in the top 10 by the ''
QS World University Rankings
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''. NYU Law is in the
list of T14 law schools which has consistently ranked the Law school within the top 7, since ''
U.S. News & World Report'' began publishing its rankings in 1987. In the
''SSRN'' (formerly known as the ''Social Science Research Network)'' ranking of the top 350 U.S. Law Schools for 2022, NYU Law ranked third best in the
United States
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. NYU Law has been the leading Law school in the U.S. and in the world in both
international law
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and
tax law, consistently ranking the first in both. Additionally, NYU Law is the best law school in the U.S. for the study of
criminal law and
procedure
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for 2022. NYU Law ranks first (with a double tie) for business and corporate law in 2022. NYU Law also ranks the first in ''
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'' rankings of top law schools for Best Career Prospects. NYU School of Law boasts the best overall
faculty
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in the United States, having the leading
scholar
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s in every field of the law.
NYU Law alumni include judges at the
International Court of Justice
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, numerous
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laureates, prominent US lawyers such as
David Boies, and leading human rights practitioners such as
Amal Alamuddin Clooney. Some of the leading
legal philosophers in the world are currently teaching at NYU Law, including
Jeremy Waldron and
Thomas Nagel. NYU Law private practice lawyers include the four founders of
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and
Cravath, Swaine & Moore partner and former chairman
Evan Chesler, the leading law firms in the United States. The current president of the
American Civil Liberties Union
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(ACLU),
Deborah N. Archer
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, is a Clinical Professor and member of the faculty.
NYU Law is known for a significant orientation in
public interest. The school's
Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Law Fellowship is widely recognized as the most prestigious public interest program of its kind.
According to the school's
ABA
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-required disclosures, NYU Law's bar passage rate is 98.7% in 2022, the second highest in the United States.
History
New York University School of Law was founded in 1835, making it the oldest law school in
New York City
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.
It is also the oldest surviving law school in
New York State
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and one of the oldest in the United States. The only law school in the state to precede it was a small institution conducted by
Peter van Schaack in
Kinderhook, New York, from 1785 to his death in 1832.
Founded just four years after the establishment of New York University,
NYU Law is also the university's oldest
professional school
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.
The school was founded by
Benjamin Franklin Butler, the
United States Attorney General
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, at the request of the Council of the New York University. Butler submitted to the
chancellor of the university,
James M. Mathews, a "Plan for the organization of a law faculty in the University of the City of New York,"
which defined a three-year course of study.
This plan was formally accepted by the university council on June 2, 1835, marking the inception of the school of law. Instruction began, and Butler was elected the school's first principal professor in March 1838.
The curriculum he instituted was the first in the country to teach law using the "course method," which came to be adopted as the standard for legal education in the United States.
NYU School of Law was one of the first law schools in the United States to admit women, beginning in 1890.
The Metropolitan Law School was absorbed by NYU School of Law in 1895, and became its evening division. The law school began raising its standards for admission in the early 20th century. In 1924, it required that all students have had completed at least one year of
undergraduate education
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or its equivalent. This was increased to two undergraduate years in 1926, in conformity with the
American Bar Association
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's recommendation.
The law school relocated to its present location of 40
Washington Square South in
Greenwich Village
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in 1951, under the direction of its dean,
Arthur T. Vanderbilt. That year, it also established the
Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship The Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship is a full-tuition public service scholarship for students at New York University School of Law. It is widely considered to be the most prestigious public interest scholarship for law students in the United States.
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for public service.
Academics

NYU Law publishes ten student-edited
law journals. The journals appear below in the order of their founding:
* ''Moot Court Board'' (which is considered a journal at NYU Law)
* ''
New York University Law Review''
* ''
NYU Annual Survey of American Law''
* ''
NYU Journal of International Law and Politics''
* ''Review of Law & Social Change''
* ''
New York University Environmental Law Journal
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''
* ''Journal of Legislation & Public Policy''
* ''
Journal of Law & Business''
* ''
Journal of Law & Liberty''
* ''
Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law''
NYU Law also publishes three faculty-edited law journals:
* ''Clinical Law Review''
* ''The International Journal of Constitutional Law (I·CON)''
* ''Tax Law Review''
The law school's
Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program is a full-tuition scholarship awarded each year to twenty students committed to public service.
NYU Law offers several fellowships to students admitted to the LLM Program. The Hauser Global Scholarship admits eight to ten top LLM students from all over the world. The scholarship includes full tuition waiver and reasonable accommodation costs. In addition, it offers the
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as well as Vanderbilt scholarships for International law studies and other branches of law respectively.
The school has a law and business program in which eight student-leaders in law and business are awarded fellowships in the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program. In addition, the NYU Center for Law, Economics and Organization administers the Lawrence Lederman Fellowship to facilitate the study of Law & Economics the program provides a $5,000 scholarship to selected students to work closely with NYU Law faculty and participate in a series of collaborative workshops designed to help students write a substantial research paper.
NYU Law also hosts the original chapter of the
Unemployment Action Center
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.
LL.M. in Taxation Program
NYU Law School's LL.M. programs in
Taxation and in
International Taxation have been consistently ranked first by the ''U.S. News & World Report'' magazine since they started ranking specialty law school programs in 1992. Brant Hellwig is currently the faculty director of the program.
Tax LL.M. students are permitted to enroll in a general course of study or specialize in specific areas such as business taxation or
estate planning. Many of the program's professors are practitioners in their respective fields.
Master of Science (M.S.) in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy
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NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The program is intended for mid-to-senior level professionals, and cohorts have historically been diverse, professionally and academically. Faculty directors include:
Nasir Memon, Randy Milch, and
Sam Rascoff. Other notable faculty include: Ed Amoroso, Judi Germano, Zach Goldman,
Ira Rubinstein
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, Rob Silvers, and Chris Sprigman.
Partnerships
More recently, the NYU School of Law has entered into dual degree agreements with the
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and the
University of Melbourne Law School.
Oxford University
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has a program of academic exchanges with New York University School of Law, mainly involving faculty members and research students working in areas of shared interest.
NYU Law offers a dual-degree program with
Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government. Students may earn a JD/
MPA or a JD/
MPP.
NYU Law offers a dual-degree program with the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Students may earn a JD/MPA.
There is also an
exchange program between
Columbia Law School
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and NYU School of Law which allows a limited number of JD and LL.M. students to take courses at each other's schools. Columbia Law and NYU Law also play a
basketball
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game every spring, the
Deans' Cup The Deans' Cup is an annual charity basketball game between Columbia Law School (CLS) and New York University School of Law (NYU), two of the top law schools in the country. First held in 2002, the game raises money for public interest and communit ...
, to raise money for their public interest and community service organizations. NYU Law has taken home the Deans' Cup for the last three tournaments.
Career planning
Graduates of the law school routinely obtain employment in elite public and private-sector positions.
According to New York University School of Law's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 93.7 percent of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Admissions
More than 11,000 applicants competed for about 480 seats in the 2021 entering class at NYU Law. The 2010 edition of University of Chicago Professor Brian Leiter's ranking of the top law schools by student quality placed NYU Law 4th out of the 144 accredited schools in the United States.
Admission to the New York University School of Law is highly competitive. The 25th and 75th
LSAT percentiles for the 2021 entering class were 170 and 174, respectively, with a median of 172. The 25th and 75th undergraduate
GPA percentiles were 3.73 and 3.93, respectively, with a median of 3.86.
Facilities
NYU Law School facilities at the school's Washington Square Campus include:
Vanderbilt Hall
The law school's main building, named after
Arthur T. Vanderbilt, occupies the entire block between West Third and Washington Square South (West Fourth) and between Macdougal and Sullivan Streets. Part of the first floor as well as the underground floors host the library, which it shares with Furman Hall. The first floor also holds the auditorium, student center, and main banquet hall. The second floor is mostly classrooms, while the third and fourth floors are mostly faculty and dean offices.
Furman Hall
Located on
West 3rd Street between
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and
Thompson Streets, and on Sullivan and Thompson Streets between West 3rd and
West 4th Streets, Furman Hall opened on January 22, 2004, and is named for alumnus and donor
Jay Furman. It connects to Vanderbilt Hall through the law library, part of which is underneath Sullivan Street. The underground level also hosts the Lawyering faculty. Floors one-three have classrooms, lounges, and study space. The fourth floor hosts the career counseling program, and the fifth and sixth floors house the legal practice clinics. The highest floors, generally inaccessible to non-residents, are apartments for faculty and their families. The ninth floor is accessible to students and hosts the Lester Pollack Colloquium room.
The building's West 3rd Street facade incorporates the remaining part of the facade of a townhouse that
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lived in from 1844 to 1846, near the site where the house originally stood, the result of a settlement between NYU and preservationists who objected to the university's 2000 plan to tear down the building, which had already lost two stories from the time that Poe dwelled there.
Hayden Residence Hall
Located at 240 Mercer Street, on the southern side of West Third street, adjacent to Broadway, and a couple of blocks east of D'Agostino Hall, Wilf Hall, Furman Hall and Vanderbilt Hall, Hayden Hall houses approximately 500 Law students and faculty. The basement is home to "Mercer Pub" (a room with couches, tables, and a small kitchen that can also be reserved by student groups for social events) and several student run organizations. Hayden is available for summer housing for non-NYU Law students through its Summer Living in New York program.
D'Agostino Residence Hall
Located at the intersection of West Third Street and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, D'Agostino Residence Hall houses approximately 300 law students and faculty. It is across the street from the rear of the main law school building, Vanderbilt Hall, and less than 1 block from Wilf Hall and Furman Hall.
Elevators to the apartments are on the highest level, the Front Desk is on the street level, and The Commons (residents' lounge with computers and printers) is on the lower level. One floor beneath The Commons is the sub-basement, home to most of NYU's legal journals. The second (above-ground) floor, houses numerous administrative offices (Development, Alumni Relations, Special Events, Communications, Human Resources and Financial Services). Two large function rooms - Lipton Hall and the Faculty Club - are also located in the building.
The law building is named after Filomen D'Agostino, one of the first woman lawyers, who graduated in 1920. Later in life, Ms. D'Agostino donated $4 million to support residential scholarship and faculty research; the school responded by naming their new apartment building after her.
D'Agostino Hall is also available for summer housing for non-NYU Law students through its Summer Living in New York program.
22 Washington Square North
22 Washington Square North, located in a historic 1830s townhouse on the north side of
Washington Square Park in "
The Row", houses the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, and the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. This building was renovated in 2009 by
Morris Adjmi Architects, has a green wall, and should meet silver
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Wilf Hall
Wilf Hall, at 139 Macdougal Street, houses approximately a dozen of the schools centers, programs and institutes as well as the admissions offices (Graduate and JD). Per the NYU Law Magazine, it is a "campus destination for faculty, students, and research scholars from an array of disciplines to exchange ideas and, through their work, shape the public discourse around the leading social and political issues of the day."
Wilf Hall also contains the
Provincetown Playhouse. The playhouse opened in the 1920s and premiered many Eugene O'Neil plays. The theatre is run by NYU's Steinhardt School of Education. The building was designed by
Morris Adjmi Architects.
Centers and institutes
NYU Law is home to many centers and institutes, specializing in various areas of law.
* The
Brennan Center for Justice
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is a progressive, non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on issues involving democracy and justice.
* The Center for Law, Economics and Organization promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in law and economics. It is directed by Jennifer Arlen, Oren Bar-Gill, John Ferejohn, Mark Geistfeld, Lewis Kornhauser, and Geoffrey Miller.
* The Reiss Center on Law and Security is an independent, non-partisan, global center of expertise designed to promote an informed understanding of the major legal and security issues that define the post-9/11 environment. The center houses the editorially independent online forum ''Just Security''. Its fellows include:
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Sidney Blumenthal,
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,
Roger Cressey, Joshua Dratel, Carol Dysinger,
Barton Gellman,
Bernard Haykel
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, Thomas Hegghammer, Brian Palmer,
Michael Sheehan, Alexandra Starr, Robert Windrem, and
Lawrence Wright.
Its former fellows included: Paul Cruickshank,
Amos Elon
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,
Baltasar Garzón,
Tara McKelvey,
Dana Priest, and
Nir Rosen.
The Center generates local, national, and international awareness of the legal dimension of security issues, including the Terrorist Trial Report Card, a comprehensive study on every terrorism prosecution in the United States since the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
** ''Just Security'' an online forum for analysis of U.S. national security law and policy, is based at the Reiss Center.
* The
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law is a think-tank dedicated to the promotion of good government and prosecution practices in criminal matters. Its work has been the subject of a feature story in the Associated Press.
History and mis ...
is a think-tank dedicated to the promotion of good government and prosecution practices in criminal matters, with a focus on the exercise of power and discretion by prosecutors. Its academic component gathers empirical research, publishes scholarship, and organizes and hosts conferences and symposia. Its litigation component litigate criminal cases or cases having implications for the administration of criminal law, particularly cases in which the exercise of power and discretion by prosecutors raises substantive legal issues. Its public policy and media component seeks to improve public dialogue on criminal justice matters in various ways, including testifying before public officials and the publishing of op-ed pieces.
* The
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
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is a joint venture between the law school and NYU's
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. It is an academic research center devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate development and housing.
* Th
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policyis a center that brings together legal scholars and practitioners, technologists, economists, social scientists, physical scientists, historians, innovators, and industry experts who study, theoretically and empirically, the incentives that motivate innovators, how those incentives vary among different types of creative endeavor, and the laws and policies that help or hinder them. The Engelberg Center is led by faculty members Barton Beebe, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Jeanne Fromer, Scott Hemphill, Jason Schultz, Christopher Sprigman, and Kathy Strandburg, along with Executive Director Michael Weinberg.
* The Hauser Global Law School Program, launched in 1994, has moved NYU School of Law beyond the traditional study of comparative and international law to systematic examination of transnational issues. The program incorporates non-U.S. and transnational legal perspectives into the law school’s curriculum, promotes scholarship on comparative and global law, and brings together faculty, scholars, and students from around the world.
* The Institute for Executive Education offers focused training for professionals and integrates key elements of law, business, and public policy into its programming. Led by Faculty Director
Gerald Rosenfeld and Executive Director Erin O’Brien, the institute provides custom programs for organizations. Custom programs allow organizations such as law firms, universities, corporations, NGOs, and government entities to create specialized training for professionals. Notable faculty include:
Trevor Morrison
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, José Alvarez,
Preet Bharara, Randy Milch,
Kenji Yoshino, Stephen Choi,
Jerome Cohen
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, Mitchell Kane,
Philip Alston, David Rosenbloom,
Benedict Kingsbury, and
Sam Rascoff.
* The Institute for International Law and Justice integrates the law school’s scholarly excellence in international law into the policy activities of the
United Nations
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,
non-governmental organizations,
law firms
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, and industry.
* The Institute for Law & Society is a joint venture between the law school and the
NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science. It serves as an intellectual center for faculty, graduate students, and law students interested in studying law and legal institutions from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. It offers an opportunity to earn a J.D.-Ph.D or J.D.-M.A. dual degree in law and society.
* The Institute for Policy Integrity is headed by
Richard Revesz
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and Michael Livermore. It advocates for sound cost-benefit analysis at the state, national, and global levels.
* The Pollack Center for Law and Business is a joint venture between the law school and the
New York University Stern School of Business. The center is designed to enrich the professional education of students of law and business and to facilitate joint teaching to involve leaders in banking, business, and law in the intellectual life of the university through sponsorship of meetings, conferences and dinners. The Pollack Center also offers a program for students to earn the Advanced Professional Certificate in Law and Business. The director is William T. Allen, a professor at the law school and former Chancellor of the
Delaware Court of Chancery.
*The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center is an independent non-partisan academic center dedicated to the study and support of state attorneys general in their work defending and promoting clean energy, climate and environmental law and policies. The executive director is Bethany Davis Noll.
* The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice brings in as Fellows each year approximately 14 leading scholars from different disciplines and cultures. Each year the Straus Institute defines an annual theme that serves as the overarching subject around which the annual fora, colloquia and conference are set. The faculty director is
Joseph H. H. Weiler.
* The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization is headed by
Moshe Halbertal
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and
Joseph H. H. Weiler. The foundational premise of the Center is 1) that the study of Jewish law can profit immensely from insights gained from general jurisprudence; and 2) that Jewish law and Jewish civilization can provide illuminating perspectives both on the general study of law as a per se academic discipline, and on the reflection of law as a central social institution refracting the most important issues in our society.
* The U.S.-Asia Law Institute serves as a resource and partner to various Asian countries as they reform and further develop their legal systems and institutions. It also works to improve the understanding of Asian legal systems by lawyers, academics, policy makers and the public. The faculty director is
Jerome A. Cohen
Jerome Alan Cohen (born July 1, 1930) is a professor of law at New York University School of Law, an expert in Chinese law, a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as "of counsel" at the international law f ...
.
* The Marron Institute is an interdisciplinary and international effort to advance new research and teaching on cities and the urban environment with a focus on enabling cities globally to become more livable, sustainable, and equitable. The Marron Institute seeks to foster collaboration among faculty and researchers university-wide, bringing together the social sciences, humanities and professional schools on new research. The Institute also aims to create a vibrant learning community for scholars and students who lead and study urban research.
*The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law works to highlight and dismantle structures and institutions that have been infected by racial bias and plagued by inequality. The Center coordinates curricular development, convenes public conversations, shapes policy by engaging in advocacy, and provides training on issues of race and inequality. The faculty directors are Anthony Thompson and
Deborah N. Archer
Deborah N. Archer is an American civil rights lawyer and law professor. She is the Jacob K. Javits Professor at New York University and professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law. She also directs the Center on Race, Inequalit ...
.
*The Tax Law Center, led by Executive Directo
Chye-Ching Huang works to protect and strengthen the tax system through rigorous, high-impact legal work in the public interest. To do so, the center provides technical input on tax legislation, comments on tax regulations, and submits amicus briefs in tax litigation, with the aim of improving the integrity of the tax system, saving and raising revenues, and advancing equity.
Employment
According to New York University School of Law's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 93.7 percent of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
NYU Law's
Law School Transparency under-employment score is 3 percent, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.
The law school was ranked sixth of all law schools nationwide by the ''
National Law Journal'' in terms of sending the highest percentage of 2015 graduates to the largest 100 law firms in the U.S., calculated at 44.5 percent.
Costs
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at NYU Law for the 2014–2015 academic year is $83,722. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $309,177.
Faculty
In 2012, NYU Law had the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard.
NYU Law was concluded to have the best overall faculty in the U.S. in a 2018 study conducted by legal scholar J.B. Heaton.
Some of NYU's notable professors include:
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Alberto Alemanno (
European Union Law)
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William Allen William Allen may refer to:
Politicians
United States
*William Allen (congressman) (1827–1881), United States Representative from Ohio
* William Allen (governor) (1803–1879), U.S. Representative, Senator, and 31st Governor of Ohio
* Willia ...
(
Corporate Law, Chancellor of Delaware)
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Philip Alston (Human Rights)
* José Enrique Alvarez (
International Law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...
)
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Anthony Amsterdam (
Criminal Law,
capital punishment
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)
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Kwame Anthony Appiah (Legal Philosophy)
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Deborah Archer
Deborah N. Archer is an American civil rights lawyer and law professor. She is the Jacob K. Javits Professor at New York University and professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law. She also directs the Center on Race, Inequal ...
(Racial Justice, Civil Rights)
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Rachel Barkow (
Administrative Law
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,
Criminal Law and Procedure
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or ...
)
*
Robert Bauer
Robert F. Bauer (born February 22, 1952) is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama.
Early life and education
Born in New York City into a Jewish family, Bauer graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy ...
(Law and Politics, Political Reform)
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Dorit Beinisch
Dorit Beinisch ( he, דורית ביניש; born February 28, 1942) was the 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel. Appointed on September 14, 2006, after the retirement of Aharon Barak, she served in this position until February 28, 201 ...
(National Security Law)
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Jerome A. Cohen
Jerome Alan Cohen (born July 1, 1930) is a professor of law at New York University School of Law, an expert in Chinese law, a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as "of counsel" at the international law f ...
(
Chinese Law)
*
Lawrence Collins (
Transnational Litigation
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The main difference between international liti ...
)
* Donald Donovan (
International Arbitration,
International Investment Law
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)
*
Richard Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at ...
(
Law and Economics, Torts,
Health Law &
Policy)
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Cynthia Estlund (
Labor Law,
Employment Law
Labour laws (also known as labor laws or employment laws) are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government. Collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, ...
, Property)
*
Samuel Estreicher (Labor Law, Employment Law, Administrative Law)
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Tali Farhadian (Criminal Law)
* Franco Ferrari (Sale of Goods, European Union Law,
International Arbitration)
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Barry Friedman (
Constitutional Law
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,
Criminal Law)
*
David W. Garland
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and professor of sociology at New York University, and an honorary professor in Criminology at Edinburgh Law School. He is well known for his historical and sociological studies of penal in ...
(Criminal Law, Sociology)
*
Stephen Gillers Stephen Gillers is a professor at the New York University School of Law. He is often cited as an expert in legal ethics.
Biography
After graduating from Brooklyn College with a B.A. in 1964, he received his J.D. in 1968 from the New York Universi ...
(
Legal Ethics)
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Douglas H. Ginsburg
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(
Administrative Law
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)
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Stephen Holmes (
liberal democracy
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)
* Robert Howse (International Law, Legal Theory, International Investment Arbitration, and Globalization Theory)
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Samuel Issacharoff (Procedure, Democracy)
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Sally Katzen (Administrative Law)
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Benedict Kingsbury (International Law)
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John Koeltl (Constitutional Litigation)
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Theodor Meron (International Law)
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Arthur R. Miller (Civil Procedure, Copyright, and Privacy)
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Trevor Morrison
Trevor W. Morrison (born 1971) is the Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law and dean emeritus at New York University School of Law. He was previously a professor at Columbia Law School and Cornell Law School, and an associate counsel to U.S. ...
(Dean, Constitutional Law)
*
Melissa Erica Murray
Melissa Erica Murray (born August 30, 1975) is an academic and legal scholar who is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University. Murray was previously the interim dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Early life a ...
(Constitutional Law)
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Thomas Nagel (Legal Philosophy)
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Burt Neuborne (Evidence,
Holocaust
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Litigation Expert)
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Richard Pildes (Constitutional Law, Election Law)
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Richard Revesz
Richard L. Revesz (born May 9, 1958) is an American lawyer and academic. He is the director of the American Law Institute and the Lawrence King Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He served as the Dean of the New York Univers ...
(
Environmental Law)
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Samuel Scheffler (Legal Philosophy)
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John Sexton (Civil Procedure)
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Catherine Sharkey
Catherine Moira Sharkey (born 1970) is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law.
Biography
In 1992, Sharkey graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from Yale University, ''summa cum laude'', where she was tapped for S ...
(Tort Law, Empirical Legal Studies)
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Linda J. Silberman (
Conflict of Laws
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, Civil Procedure, International Arbitration)
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Christopher Jon Sprigman(Intellectual Property, Torts, Antitrust, Comparative Constitutional Law)
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Bryan Stevenson (Criminal Law, Capital Punishment)
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Jeremy Waldron (Legal Philosophy)
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Joseph H. H. Weiler (International Law)
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Joan Wexler (born 1946), Dean and President of
Brooklyn Law School
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Katrina Wyman
Katrina M. Wyman is a Canadian legal scholar and the Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
Early life and education
Wyman was born and raised in Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and M ...
(Environmental Law, Property Law)
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Kenji Yoshino (Constitutional Law,
LGBT Rights)
Notable alumni
Notable alumni include gubernatorial and democratic presidential candidate
Samuel J. Tilden; U.S. Senators
Lamar Alexander,
Rudy Boschwitz and
Jacob Javits; former New York City mayors
Fiorello La Guardia
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City fro ...
,
Ed Koch, and
Rudy Giuliani
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; former New York City Councilman and Council Consumer Affairs Committee Chairman
David B. Friedland
David B. Friedland (1903 - April 24, 1976) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician.
Political career
Friedland's first political campaign was for the New York Assembly, where he lost the primary t ...
; New York City police commissioner
Raymond Kelly;
Republic of China President
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Ma Ying-Jeou; former
president of Panama Guillermo Endara; former FBI director
Louis Freeh;
suffragette and college founding president
Jessica Garretson Finch; Centennial Professor of Law at
Brooklyn Law School and first female
SEC Commissioner Roberta Karmel
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; sportscaster
Howard Cosell; former NFL commissioner
Paul Tagliabue; NHL commissioner
Gary Bettman;
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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;
Jared Kushner
Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman and investor. He served as a senior advisor to 45th U.S. president Donald Trump, his father-in-law. Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a pri ...
, Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program,
Neil Barofsky; U.S. Representatives, such as
Hakeem Jeffries;
Mitchell Jenkins,
Jefferson Monroe Levy, and
Isaac Siegel
Isaac Siegel (April 12, 1880 – June 29, 1947) was a United States Representative from New York (state), New York.
Biography
He was born in New York City and attended the public schools. Siegel graduated from New York University School of ...
; former chairman of
Paramount Pictures
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Jonathan Dolgen; Hollywood and Broadway producer
Marc E. Platt; Hollywood producer and former chairman and CEO of
Sony Pictures Entertainment; comedian
Demetri Martin (did not graduate);
Peter Guber; journalist
Glenn Greenwald; civil rights leader
Vanita Gupta; president and director-counsel of the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Sherrilyn Ifill; several corporate leaders including
Interpublic Group of Companies chairman and CEO Michael I. Roth;
ConocoPhillips president and COO
John Carrig;
Southwest Airlines founder
Herb Kelleher; Marvel Entertainment vice-president
John Turitzin; and
Nobel Peace Prize
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laureates
Elihu Root and
Mohamed ElBaradei.
NYU Law alumni have served as judges of the
International Court of Justice
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, popularly known as the
World Court,
"NYU Law’s Owada named to International Court of Justice: Joins three law school alumni already on ICJ
, ''NYU Today'', Vol. 16 No. 4, December 10, 2002. Accessed July 7, 2007. and of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
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. Alumni judges include Judith Kaye and Jonathan Lippman
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, former chief judges of the New York Court of Appeals; Dennis G. Jacobs, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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; Second Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier
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, and United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit judge, Pauline Newman.[Notable NYU School of Law Alumni](_blank)
, NYU School of Law. Accessed July 7, 2007. NYU Law private practice lawyers include the four founders of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore chairman Evan Chesler.
See also
* Law of New York
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