Professor Amy Adler
New York University
Professor Adler studies the legal regulation of art, speech, and sexuality. Her recent articles have included analyses of stripping, pornography, child pornography, art and obscenity. Professor Adler’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and cultural theory. Her work draws on an eclectic variety of fields, primarily from the arts and humanities, to explore problems of language, interpretation and sexuality that have particular relevance for First Amendment doctrine and theory. She has lectured to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from legal scholars, to artists, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Professor Adler was an attorney at Debevoise and Plimpton, and then a fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and where she received the Marshall Allison Prize for promise in the arts and letters. She also graduated from the Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge John M. Walker, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Stephen Choi
New York University
Stephen Choi joined the NYU faculty in 2005. He taught as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 2005, Choi taught at the UC Berkeley Law School where he was the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law. While in law school, Choi served as a legal methods instructor and supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School in 1994 and received his Ph.D. in economics in 1997. Choi has been a recipient of the Fay Diploma, Sears Prize and Irving Oberman Memorial Award. He also held John M. Olin, Jacob K. Javits and Fulbright Fellowships.
Following graduation, Choi worked as an associate at McKinsey & Company in New York. His research interests focus on the theoretical and empirical analysis of corporations and capital markets. He has published in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Virginia Law Review, among others, and has presented papers at numerous conferences and symposia.
Professor Peggy Cooper Davis
New York University
Peggy Cooper Davis is the John S.R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics at New York University School of Law. She is also Director of the Lawyering Program, a widely acclaimed course of experiential learning that distinguishes the law school's first year curriculum. Working through the Lawyering Program, and through related interdisciplinary seminars and colloquia, Professor Davis strives to revolutionize legal education so that it systematically addresses the interpretive, interactive, ethical and social dimensions of professional practice.
Professor Davis joined the N.Y.U. law faculty in September, 1983, after having served for three years as a Judge of the Family Court of the State of New York and having engaged, during the preceding ten years, in the practice and administration of law. Her scholarly work has been influential in the areas of child welfare, constitutional rights of family liberty, and interdisciplinary analysis of legal pedagogy and process. Her 1997 book, Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values, illuminates the importance of anti-slavery traditions as interpretive guides to the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Professor Davis has served as chair of the board of the Russell Sage Foundation and as a director of numerous not-for-profit, for-profit and government entitles.
Professor Richard A. Epstein
New York University
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. He has been a visiting law professor at New York University Law School since 2007, and will join as a permanent member of the faculty in Fall 2010. Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. He served as Interim Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from February to June, 2001. He received an LL.D., h.c. from the University of Ghent, 2003. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991-2001, At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. His books include Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business; 9th ed. 2008); Supreme Neglect: Now to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property (Oxford 2008); Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice: Why Less is More (AEI 2007); Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation (Yale, 2006); How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (Cato, 2006); Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago, 2003): Torts (Aspen Law & Business 1999); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books, 1998): Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care? (Addison-Wesley, 1997); Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard, 1995); Bargaining With the State (Princeton, 1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard, 1992); and Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985).
He has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects. He has taught courses in civil procedure, communications, conflicts of laws, constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal law, jurisprudence, health law and policy, legal history, property, real estate development and finance, labor law; land use planning, patents, individual, estate and corporate taxation, Roman Law; torts, and workers' compensation.
Professor John Ferejohn
New York University
John Ferejohn is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stanford University. Prior to joining the NYU law faculty, Professor Ferejohn taught courses in American government, political philosophy, and positive political theory at Stanford University and, prior to that, the California Institute of Technology. He has written widely on these topics as well as on issues of public law, having published numerous articles and books, on positive political theory and political institutions and behavior focusing on Congress, law and legislation, and constitutional adjudication in the United States and Europe. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences as well as the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor David Garland
New York University
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an LLB and a PhD and from Sheffield University with a postgraduate MA in Criminology. From 1979 until 1997 he taught at the University of Edinburgh and held visiting positions at Leuven University, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and NYU’s Global Law program. He is the author of Punishment and Welfare (1985), Punishment and Modern Society (1990), The Culture of Control (2001), and Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (forthcoming 2010); the founding editor of the journal Punishment & Society and the editor of Criminology and Social Theory (2000) and Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences (2001). At NYU he teaches classes – in the Law School and in the Sociology Department – on social theory, criminology, sociology of law and criminal justice.
Professor David Golove
New York University
Professor Golove is the Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. He specializes in the field of constitutional law and foreign affairs. His current research focuses on constitutional law and war and the relationship between international law, especially the laws of war, and the scope of presidential powers.
Professor Mary Holland
New York University
Mary Holland directs the Graduate Legal Skills Program at NYU Law School, where she works closely with foreign-trained LL.M. students on their legal research and writing skills. She previously worked with J.D. students in NYU’s Lawyering Program. She has published several articles and has worked with many law students to help them publish their scholarly papers.
Educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Holland has worked in international public and private law. Prior to joining NYU, Holland worked for six years at major U.S. law firms, with three years based in Moscow, Russia. She also worked at a major U.S. human rights advocacy organization as Director of its European Program. After graduating law school, she clerked for a federal district court judge. She has taught international law courses at Columbia Law School and has served as a consultant to the Aspen Institute Justice and Society Program.
Professor Robert Howse
New York University
Robert Howse is the Lloyd C Nelson Professor of International Law and Faculty Director, Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU Law School. He has also taught, among other institutions, as a visitor at the Universities of Toronto and Michigan and as a visitor at Harvard, Tel Aviv, the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and Fordham. He is co-author with Michael Trebilcock of the Regulation of International Trade (third edition: 2005). His recent publications include a collection of essays, The WTO System: Law Politics and Legitimacy (2007) and, co authored with Ruti Teitel, "Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters," Global Policy (2010) and "Cross-judging: Tribunalization in a Fragmented but Interconnected Global Order," NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (2009).
Professor Samuel Issacharoff
New York University
Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He writes extensively on the related issues of the law governing the political process and the role of constitutional courts in stabilizing democracy. His work on American law consists of many articles and co-authorship of the leading casebook, Law of Democracy. He is one of the pioneers of an approach to public law issues that focuses on the intersection between law and political institutions, with a particular emphasis on the need to preserve democratic competition for elective office.
Prior to coming to NYU, Professor Issacharoff was a faculty member at the University of Texas and then Columbia Law School. He has lectured and taught on issues of public law and comparative constitutional law at leading universities around the world. He also works extensively on issues relating to the functioning of the legal system, with an emphasis on complex litigation and the law of class actions. Professor Issacharoff is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a longstanding national honorary society.
Professor Benedict Kingsbury
New York University
Benedict Kingsbury is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law (iilj.org). With Richard Stewart, he initiated and directs the IILJ's Global Administrative Law Research Project, a pioneering approach to issues of accountability, transparency, participation and review in global governance. He also directs NYU Law School's Program in the History and Theory of International Law, with Robert Howse and Global Professor Martti Koskenniemi; and served as Chair of the Law School's Graduate Division 2007-09. He is a New Zealand citizen. Kingsbury previously held a permanent teaching position at Oxford University (where he earlier completed an M.Phil in International Relations and a D.Phil in Law), and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Tokyo Law Faculty, the University of Padua, and the University of Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). Kingsbury's research and publications reflect a commitment to a broad, theoretically-grounded approach to international law, closely integrating work in legal theory, political theory, history, and global governance.
Professor Sally Merry
New York University
Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Law and Socity Program at New York University. Her work explores the role of law in urban life in the US, in the colonizing process, and in contemporary transnationalism. Her recent books are Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000), which received the 2001 J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2006), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global, (co-edited with Mark Goodale; Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwells, 2008). She has authored or edited four other books: Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai’i and Fiji (co-edited with Donald Brenneis, School of American Research Press, 2004), The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation (co-edited with Neal Milner, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1993), Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working Class Americans (University of Chicago Press, 1990), and Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers (Temple University Press, 1981). She has recently published articles on women's human rights, violence against women, and the process of localizing human rights. She is past-president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and president-elect of the American Ethnological Society. In 2007 she received the Kalven Prize of the Law and Society Association, an award that recognizes a significant a body of scholarship in the field.
Professor Richard Stewart
New York University
Richard B. Stewart - University Professor, Director, Hauser Global Law School Program, Director, Guarini Center for Environmental and Land Use Law, New York University School of Law.
Richard Stewart is recognized as one of the world's leading scholars in environmental and administrative law. Before joining the NYU faculty, he was Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School. He served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resource Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he formulated the U.S. government’s position on the Rio Climate Convention, and Chairman of Environmental Defense Fund. Recently, Stewart launched, with Professor Benedict Kingsbury, a major new research initiative on Climate Finance, including a major conference in Abu Dhabi in May 2009 and recent publication of Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development (2009). He also co-directs the NYU project on Global Administrative Law and a major law reform project, Breaking the Logjam: Making Environmental Protection Work that recently issued a blueprint for major changes and innovations in US environmental laws including climate legislation.
Professor Jeremy Waldron
New York University
Jeremy Waldron is University Professor, in the School of Law, at New York University, a position he has held since 2006. Before that he was University Professor at Columbia Law School. Besides NYU and Columbia (1997-2006), his academic appointments have been at Oxford, Edinburgh, Berkeley and Princeton. Professor Waldron is much in demand as a lecturer, having recently delivered the Storrs Lectures at Yale (2007), the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley (2009), and the Holmes Lectures at Harvard (2009). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998
Professor Waldron’s books include Liberal Rights (Cambridge, 1993); The Dignity of Legislation (Cambridge, 1999); Law and Disagreement (Oxford, 1999); and Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs (Oxford, forthcoming 2010). He is the author of more than a hundred published articles and essays in legal and political philosophy, both contemporary and historical. His work on theories of rights, constitutionalism, democracy, property, torture, the rule of law, and homelessness are well known, as is his work in historical political theory.
Professor Joseph Weiler
New York University
Professor J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. He serves as Director of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He is also Director of the J.S.D. Program at the Law School. He was previously Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School and then the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and the Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The European Journal of International Law. His recent publications include Un'Europa Cristiana (translated into nine languages), The Constitution of Europe (translated into seven languages), and a novella, Der Fall Steinmann.
Professor Kenji Yoshino
New York University
Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. A graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Yale, he taught at Yale Law School from 1998 to 2008. At Yale, he served as the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law as well as the Deputy Dean for Intellectual Life. His fields are constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature. He has published in major law reviews, such as the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, as well as in more popular venues, such as the L.A. Times, the N.Y. Times, and the Washington Post. He is a regular contributor to NPR as well as to several television programs. His award-winning first book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights was published by Random House in 2006. His second book, tentatively titled Justice in Shakespeare, will be published later this year by Ecco Press.
