The topic of the January 29 NYU Law Forum, held just nine days into the Trump administration, couldn’t have been timelier: the extent of the power of the US president to hire and fire government ...

Jaime Mercado’s job as head of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett’s new Sao Paulo office represents the biggest bet of his legal career. He won approval to open the office—just the fifth international ...

Lisa Monaco returns to NYU Law as a distinguished scholar in residence after serving as US deputy attorney general from 2021 ...

In a recent article, Professor Stephen Choi and his co-author note that Donald Trump “has said that he considered one of his greatest achievements in office to have been appointing a record number of ...

Eight leading scholars from around the world revisit a 50-year-old debate between H.L.A. Hart and Lon Fuller. The scholars of the Hart-Fuller Debate seated, from left: Jeremy Waldron and Benjamin ...

Sofia DeSimone ’26. What inspired you to go to law school? My dad is a lawyer, and I grew up watching him read through giant stacks of files and prepare for court. I didn’t th ...

Could a no-strings-attached cash transfer program—which provides financially struggling adults with a guaranteed basic income for a period of time—actually help to fight poverty? In recent years, the ...

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