Columbia Professor Named New Dean Of NYU Law

April 5th, 2013 by Sakib Ahmed

The NYU Law School is continuing its string of hires from Columbia Law School, announcing yesterday that Columbia professor Trevor W. Morrison will be its new dean.

NYU made headlines back in 2006 when it got 3 Columbia law school professors to decamp to NYU and again in 2010 when it poached another Columbia faculty member.

Morrison, 41, who has taught at Columbia since 2008, was previously a faculty member at Cornell Law School and a visiting associate professor at NYU Law in 2007, and spent 2009 on leave from Columbia, serving in the White House as associate counsel to President Barack Obama. Morrison will succeed current dean Richard Revesz, whose 11 year tenure will end on May 31. Read more…


Straus Protests Continue With March To Vanderbilt Hall

December 7th, 2012 by Andrew Elrod

A group of protesters marched around Washington Square Park on Thursday. Students from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and organizers from the SEIU marched in protest of NYU Trustee Daniel Straus’s involvement in a number of labor disputes in New Jersey and Connecticut. Two nursing home companies Mr. Straus owns have been repeatedly been found in violation of federal labor law, including illegal firings, lockouts, and failing to negotiate with an employees’ union.

Thursday’s protest was the latest event that NYU’s SLAM has organized over the past year. The previous week, three employees of Mr. Straus’s companies, as well as National Lawyers’ Guild president Gideon Oliver, spoke at Vanderbilt hall about the dispute. The panel was hosted by SLAM to publicize the poor labor policies of CareOne and HealthBridge, companies owned by Mr. Straus, as well as their retaliation to student protests. Read more…


BREAKING: Chinese Activist Chen Guangcheng To Serve As Visiting Scholar At NYU Law

May 10th, 2012 by Brett Chamberlin

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng will attend NYU Law’s US-Asia Law Institute as a visiting scholar, Professor Jerome Cohen confirmed today. “He’s clear that he’s coming to NYU,” Cohen, co-director of the Institute, told NYU Local in a phone interview today. “He would come here immediately.”

Chen, a blind human-rights activist, captured headlines recently after escaping house arrest and seeking asylum at the American Embassy in Beijing. Chen had been detained without charges since 2010, after spending the previous four years in jail.

Chen’s escape put the United States is a tricky diplomatic position. Sheltering Chen would strain an already tense relationship with the Chinese government, but releasing the blind activist back into custody was deemed unacceptable by American diplomats. Read more…


NYU Law School Purchases $3.6 Million Condo For Its Faculty, Regular NYU Jealous Of Cooler Older Brother

March 19th, 2012 by Myles Tanzer

While we were on break, NYU Law School filed papers with the city to finalize their $3.6 Million purchase of an Upper West Side condo. Michael Orey, a spokesman for NYU Law, told The International Business Times that the apartment will be used for faculty to rent.

NYU Local is hereby formally requesting that NYU Law lets us use their new spot to throw a party this weekend. It’s our friends birthday. JSex told us that you’d let us. C’mon, we promise to use coasters and everything. Read more…


NYU and Columbia Law Schools Compete for Worst Dining Fees

October 27th, 2009 by Kenneth Hsu

371479157_65f345c858The battle for NYC’s college continues Answer man aka arlen faber the download. Legal geek blog Above the Law reported two weeks ago that some Columbia Law School students were pissed that they had to pay $.15 for plastic forks at their cafeteria, despite a yearly tuition of nearly $50,000.

But not to be outdone, the lounge NYU Law recently countered with a more annoying and pricey free: $.25 for plastic cups (approximately $45,000 in tuition). We win!

Of course, pesky fees are no new phenomenon for NYU undergraduates: printing is now $.10 per page, bus routes are being cut, and last time I asked for a cup of water at the West 4th Starbucks, the employee told me it costs $.50. I thought she was kidding. She wasn’t.

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