Troy A. McKenzie is an American lawyer who is the Dean and Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at the

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. He assumed the position of dean on June 1, 2022, succeeding Trevor Morrison.

Biography

In 1997, McKenzie graduated with a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

in chemical engineering from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. He went on to receive his

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from

, graduating ''

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'' in 2000 after serving as an executive editor of the ''Law Review''. He is a member of the

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. After law school, McKenzie clerked for Judge Pierre Leval of the

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, and then for Justice

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of the

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. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2007, McKenzie was a litigation associate at

Debevoise & Plimpton Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is an international white-shoe law firm headquartered in New York City, with offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Luxembourg. The firm specializes in intellectual ...

in New York. His scholarship at NYU Law focuses on

civil procedure Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and regulations along with some standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits (as opposed to procedures in criminal law matters). These rules govern how a lawsuit or ca ...

bankruptcy law Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the deb ...

, complex litigation, the federal courts, and

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s. McKenzie returned to NYU Law in 2017 after serving for two years as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the

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. In 2019, McKenzie was the Ropes & Gray Visiting Professor of Law at

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

. He taught courses on

and the workings of the

U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on question ...

. He is a member of both the

American Law Institute The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars limited to 3,000 elected members and established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of United States common law and i ...

and the

American Bankruptcy Institute The American Bankruptcy Institute is an organization of over 13,000 bankruptcy and insolvency professionals, including attorneys, judges, law professors, accountants, investment bankers and turn-around specialists. It bills itself as the "largest ...

Selected publications

* "'Helpless' Groups," 81 Fordham L. Rev. 3213 (2013) * "Getting to the Core of Stern v. Marshall: History, Expertise, and the Separation of Powers," 86 Am. Bankr. L.J. 23 (2012) * "The Mass Tort Bankruptcy: A Pre-History," 5 J. Tort L. 59 (2012) * "Toward a Bankruptcy Model for Non-Class Aggregate Litigation," 87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 960 (2012)

References

External links

Profile at New York University
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Biography

Selected publications

See also

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