New York Law School

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New York Law School
Motto:Juris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, autem non laedere, suum cuique tribuere.
The precepts of the law are these: to live justly, not to injure anyone, and to render to each person what is due.
Established1891
Type:Private
Dean:Richard A. Matasar
Students:1,480
LocationNew York City, New York, USA
Campus:Urban
Website:www.nyls.edu

New York Law School is a private law school in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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[edit] History

New York Law School is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. The Law School was founded in 1891 by a group of faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore William Dwight, a prominent figure in the history of American legal education. Dwight and his fellow trailblazers broke away from Columbia College to protest teaching methods they did not support. They established New York Law School in Lower Manhattan—where it has remained ever since—in the heart of the city’s legal, financial, government, and corporate headquarters. In 1894, the Law School established one of the nation’s first evening divisions in order to provide an alternative to full-time legal studies.

New York Law School quickly achieved success. In 1892, after only a year in operation, it was the second-largest law school in the United States; by 1904, it was the largest. It experienced steady growth in its early years, that was only interrupted for one year when the school closed during World War I. During these early years, the Law School saw some of its most famous alumni graduate. The Law School was forced to close a second time from 1941 to 1947, for the duration of World War II. After reopening, the Law School started a new program that was influenced by a committee of alumni headed by New York State Supreme Court Justice Albert Cohn. This led to accreditation by the American Bar Association in 1954; continued growth led to membership in the Association of American Law Schools in 1974.

The buildings of the Law School underwent renovation during the leadership of Dean James F. Simon, from 1983 to 1992. Under his successor, Dean Harry H. Wellington, who served in that position until 2000, the curriculum was revised to put greater emphasis on the practical skills of a professional attorney. Since the current dean, Richard A. Matasar, took over, the Law School has continued to grow, with a newly articulated mission statement that centers on three goals: to embrace innovation, to foster integrity and professionalism, and to advance justice for a diverse society. The School has also adopted the motto “Learn Law. Take Action,” which expresses its commitment to teaching students to use the skills and knowledge they gain as lawyers to do something valuable for others.

The Law School opened its first dormitory in the East Village in 2005, and in August 2006, it broke ground on a $190 million expansion and renovation program that will transform its TriBeCa campus into a cohesive architectural complex nearly double its current size. The centerpiece of the expansion will be a new glass-enclosed, 200,000-square-foot, nine-level building—five stories above ground and four below—which will integrate with the School’s existing buildings. The new facility is scheduled for completion in 2008, followed by the complete renovation of the School’s existing buildings by spring 2010.

[edit] Curriculum

New York Law School has three divisions: Full-time Day, Part-time Day, and Part-time Evening. The Law School offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.), the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation, the Joint J.D./LL.M. in Taxation, the Joint J.D./M.B.A. with Baruch College, City University of New York, the Joint Bachelor’s/J.D. with Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Joint Bachelor’s/J.D. with Adelphi University.

The School’s curriculum focuses on integrating the study of theory and practice and on including the perspectives of legal practitioners. The Law School’s Lawyering Skills Center offers clinics, simulation courses, and externships to carry out that goal. Through a number of other new initiatives and programs, the School has expanded its offerings in order to provide “the Right Program for Each Student.”

New York Law School operates on the standard semester basis. 86 credits are required for graduation, 38 of which are for required courses. The first and second years have mandatory studies, and the third year is all elective courses. Students must maintain a minimum 2.0 GPA for all courses. Required first-year courses are Civil Procedure, Contracts I and II, Criminal Law, Evidence, Lawyering, Legal Reasoning, Writing and Research, Property, Torts, and Written and Oral Advocacy. Required second-year courses are Constitutional Law I and II, and the Legal Profession. An upper-division writing requirement is also necessary study.

The areas of concentration offered for study by New York Law School are Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Corporate and Securities Law, Criminal Law, International Law, Information and Media Law, Labor and Employment Law, Professional Values and Practice, Real Estate Law and Taxation. New York Law School has five clinics: Criminal Law, Elder Law, Mediation, Securities Arbitration and Urban Law. The stimulation courses offered are Advocacy of Criminal Cases, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiating, Counseling and Interviewing (NCI), Trial Advocacy, and The Role of the Government Attorney.

[edit] Academic Centers

The faculty has established seven academic centers which provide specialized study and offer prime opportunities for exchange between the students, faculty, and expert practitioners. These seven academic centers engage many students in advanced research through the John Marshall Harlan Scholars Program, an academic honors program designed for students with the strongest academic credentials. Harlan Scholars have the opportunity, through affiliation with a center to focus on a particular field of study, gaining depth and substantive expertise beyond the broad understanding of the law that is gained in the J.D. program.

[edit] Center for Business Law and Policy

The Center on Business Law & Policy is designed to provide its Harlan Scholars honors students an enriched educational experience in the business, securities, and commercial law areas. The Center's goal is to prepare a motivated, hard-working corps of students to excel as planners and counselors in general advising, litigation and especially deal-making situations where businesses and other commercial entities are clients. Center graduates will have a firm grounding in the fundamentals needed to enter business-oriented law firms, law departments in corporations, investment banks, financial services and brokerage firms, institutional investors, as well as regulators and other commercially oriented governmental offices, and will be exposed to the areas of law that are relevant to these types of practices.

[edit] Center for International Law

New York Law School, aided by a grant from the C.V. Starr Foundation, created the Center for International Law. The Center supports teaching and research in all areas of international law but concentrates on the law of international trade and finance, deriving much of its strength from interaction with New York’s business, commercial, financial, and legal communities. The Center organizes symposia events to engage students and faculty in discussions of important and timely issues with experts and practitioners in the field. For professional development, the Center offers extensive resources for studying and researching careers in international law.

The Center publishes The International Review an award-winning and only academic newsletter published by an ABA-accredited law school that reports on a broad range of contemporary international and comparative law issues. (The Newsletter on Newsletters awarded The International Review with its 2007 Gold Award for "Best Edited Organization Newsletter.") It is published twice a year by the Center, and is free through email subscription or on the website. The International Review

[edit] Center for New York City Law

The Center for New York City Law is the only program of its kind in the country. Its objectives are to gather and disseminate information about New York City’s laws, rules, and procedures; to sponsor publications, symposia, and conferences on topics related to governing the city; and to suggest reforms to make city government more effective and efficient. The Center’s bimonthly publication, City Law, tracks New York City’s rules and regulations, how they are enforced, and court challenges to them. Its Web site, www.citylaw.org, contains a searchable library of more than 5,000 administrative decisions of New York City agencies. The Center publishes three newsletters: CityLaw, CityLand and CityReg. It also maintains a Web site [www.citylaw.org] with 40,000 New York City administrative decisions in fully searchable format.

[edit] Center for Professional Values and Practice

The School’s Center for Professional Values and Practice provides a vehicle through which to examine the role of the legal profession and approaches to law practice. The Center’s work supports the development of lawyering skills and reflective professionalism, including consideration of how these have evolved over the decades, even as business and ethical pressures have intensified and become more complex,and the roles of lawyers in society have multiplied.

[edit] Center for Real Estate Studies

The recently established Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School aims to become one of the leading academic research centers devoted to the study of both the private practice and public regulation of real estate. The Center will sponsor conferences, symposia, and continuing legal education programs on these issues and will host distinguished lawyers and other real estate professionals to speak on developments in the practice of real estate law.

The Center for Real Estate Studies will also be a leader in developing innovative legal education programs, creating partnerships with leading real estate lawyers in NYC, and better training our students pursuing real estate careers. The new Center will help bridge the existing gap between the private practice and academic study of real estate, and will become one of the premier places in the country for the study of real estate.

[edit] Institute for Information Law and Policy

The Institute for Information Law and Policy is New York Law School’s home for the study of information, communication and law in the global digital age. The goal of the Institute is to apply the theory and technology of communications and information to strengthening democratic institutions and the rule of law as technology evolves. Through its curriculum, ongoing conference and speaker series and a variety of original projects, the Institute investigates the emerging field of information law, which encompasses intellectual property, privacy, free speech, information access, communications, and all areas of law pertaining to information and communication practices.

[edit] Justice Action Center

The Justice Action Center brings together New York Law School faculty and students in an ongoing critical evaluation of public interest lawyering. Through scholarship and fieldwork, the Center seeks to evaluate the efficacy of law as an agent of change and social betterment. Through a focused curriculum, symposia, clinical experience, and research opportunities, the Center seeks to instill in students a deeper intellectual understanding of the law regardless of their final career goals, and to present opportunities to maintain their ties to the social justice community beyond law school.

In 2006, the School's Labor & Employment Law Program became part of the Justice Action Center. Ever since New York Law School alumnus Senator Robert F. Wagner—the “legislative pilot of the New Deal”—wrote and led the fight to enact the National Labor Relations Act, New York Law School has remained on the cutting edge of labor and employment law and public policy. In the tradition of Senator Wagner, New York Law School’s Labor & Employment Law Program seeks to advance and influence law and public policy with an action-oriented, public-interested agenda.

[edit] Notable Faculty

[edit] Former

[edit] Present

  • Andrew Berman, former partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood’s New York Real Estate Group.
  • Richard B. Bernstein, distinguished adjunct professor of constitutional law and legal history.
  • Robert Blecker, nationally known retributivist advocate of the death penalty.
  • Tai-Heng Cheng, expert on international law, and Associate Director of the Center for International Law.
  • Sydney M. Cone III, C.V. Starr Professor of Law, Founder and Director of the Center for International Law, former partner and now senior counsel with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
  • Aleta G. Estreicher, authority in corporate and securities law.
  • Annette Gordon-Reed, renowned presidential scholar, expert in American legal history.
  • Seth Harris, authority on labor and employment law; former Counselor to Alexis Herman, U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration.
  • Arthur S. Leonard, pioneering scholar and activist on sexual orientation law.
  • Faith Kahn, Director of the Center on Business Law & Policy, authority on corporate governance and securities law.
  • Beth Simone Noveck, expert on intellectual property, technology, and law.
  • Michael L. Perlin, award-winning author on mental disability law.
  • Rudolph J.R. Peritz, expert in antitrust law, as well as economic regulation, jurisprudence, and information technology and the law. Author of "Competition Policy in America: 1888–1992", and co-author of casebook "U.S. Antitrust Law in Global Perspective".
  • Edward A. Purcell Jr., leading authority on U.S. legal history. Award winning author, his book, "The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism & the Problem of Value", was awarded the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize by the Organization of American Historians. His most recent book, "Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America" won the Triennial Griswold Prize from the Supreme Court Historical Society, and the Coif Triennial Book Award from the Association of American Law Schools.
  • David S. Schoenbrod, pioneer in the field of environmental law.
  • Richard K. Sherwin, expert on use of visual persuasion in litigation.
  • James F. Simon, author of seven books on American history, law, and politics.
  • Nadine Strossen, President of the American Civil Liberties Union, member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Ruti Teitel, authority on international law, human rights, and constitutional law, member of Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Hon. Evan Wallach, adjunct professor, judge on U.S. Court of International Trade.
  • Henry H. Wellington, Sterling Professor of Law, former Dean on Yale Law School.

[edit] Notable Alumni

In addition to more than 100 sitting judges and many partners of prominent law firms, New York Law School graduates have achieved success working in business, education, and the arts.

[edit] Academic

  • Philip Milledoler Brett, President of Rutgers University.
  • Edward Duffield, President of Princeton University. At one time he was also President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company.
  • Francis Patrick Garvan, Dean of Fordham University School of Law. Later became head of the Chemical Foundation, which played a role in the founding of the American Institute of Physics, and the National Institutes of Health. Remains the only non-scientist to win the Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for distinguished service in the field of chemistry.

[edit] Business

  • Chester Carlson, a physicist and former engineer at Bell Labs, while a student at New York Law School in 1938 invented the xerography photocopy process.
  • Colby Chester, President of Postum Cereal Company (later became known as General Foods).
  • Blanche Lark Christerson, currently Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management.
  • Susan E. Cohig, presently Group Vice President for Club Services for the National Hockey League.
  • Gregory D. Frost, Chairman, CEO and General Counsel of Able Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq).
  • Maurice R. Greenberg, former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG); current chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr and Company.
  • Richard LaMotta, inventor of Chipwich ice cream sandwich, co-founder of Chipwich Inc., later sold to CoolBrands, and then Dreyer's (Nestle).
  • Lawrence S. Huntington, former Chairman of Fiduciary Trust Company.
  • Christopher Johnson Jr., currently VP and General Counsel of General Motors North America.
  • J. Bruce Llewellyn, Chairman of Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Philadelphia, among the five largest minority-owned businesses in the nation.
  • Marc Lasry, Founder and Managing Partner, Avenue Capital Group. Founder and Senior Managing Director, Amroc.
  • John McMahon, currently President and CEO, Orange & Rockland Utilities.
  • Bernard H. Mendik, former chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York, CEO of Mendik Properties which he sold to Steve Roth for $654 million and became co-chairman of Vornado. Later left Vornado to start another real estate company.
  • Charles Phillips (businessman), currently President of Oracle Corporation; former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
  • Harper Sibley, President and General Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Also, sat on the Board of Directors of Security Trust Company of Rochester, the New York Life Insurance Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Hollister Lumber Company and the Leckie Smokeless Coal Company.
  • Alfred Swayne, Chairman of General Motors Acceptance Corporation.
  • Kenneth D. Werner, currently President of Warner Brothers Domestic Television Distribution.
  • Zygmunt Wilf, head of Garden Commercial Properties, and principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL.

[edit] Civic

  • Cynthia Price Cohen, executive director Child Rights International Research Institute.
  • Raymond B. Fosdick, former President of the Rockefeller Foundation.
  • Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.
  • Christina M. Storm, founder and president of Lawyers Without Borders.

[edit] Cultural

  • Arthur Hornblow, Jr., film producer nominated for an Academy Award Best Picture Oscar four times: "Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935), "Hold Back the Dawn" (1941), "Gaslight" (1944), and "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957).
  • Arnold Kopelson, won Best Picture Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and an Independent Spirit Award, all for his production of Platoon (1986). Received a Best Picture Academy Award nomination for his production of "The Fugitive" (1993), and his films have been collectively responsible for 17 Academy Award nominations.
  • Arthur B. Reeve, author of 18 mystery/detective novels, best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes".
  • Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, "Street Scene" (1929), Class of 1912.
  • Judith Sheindlin ("Judge Judy"), New York family court judge, author, and television personality.
  • Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, "Collected Works" (1955), Class of 1903.

[edit] Government

  • James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I, and New York Supreme Court justice.
  • Kathleen Grimm, Deputy Chancellor, Finance and Administration for the New York City Department of Education.
  • Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, diplomat: Secretary of Legation and chargé d' affaires at Constantinople, he became Minister to Persia in 1901. He held the corresponding post in Japan (1902-06) and was U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (1906-07), and U.S. Ambassador Italy (1907-09).
  • Charles Maikish, former director of the World Trade Center, more recently head of the Lower Manhattan Command Center - the government entity that has been overseeing all public and private construction post - 9/11.
  • Ferdinand Pecora, appointed Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate's Committee on Banking and Currency following the 1932 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He led Senate hearings, known as the Pecora Commission into the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which launched a major reform of the American financial system, that resulted in the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Became one of the first members of the Securities Exchange Commission.
  • Laura Simone Unger, member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1997-2001), acting Chairman (2001).
  • Barbara M. Watson, daughter of James S. Watson (judicial), U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia, and first female Assistant Secretary of State of the United States.

[edit] Judicial

  • Clarence E. Case, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
  • Albert Cohn, New York State Supreme Court justice, and father of lawyer Roy Cohn.
  • Felix Frankfurter, United States Supreme Court Justice, attended New York Law School before completing his legal training at Harvard.
  • Charles William Froessel, New York Court of Appeals (1949-1962).
  • John Marshall Harlan II, United States Supreme Court Justice from 1955 to 1971.
  • Robert Alexander Inch, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
  • Roger J. Miner, Chief Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
  • Francis T. Murphy, Presiding Justice New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 1977-97.
  • Emilio Nuñez, became the first Latino judge in New York City.
  • John F. O'Brien, New York Court of Appeals (1929-1939), was appointed to fill the Associate position held by Benjamin N. Cardozo when he was appointed Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.
  • Samuel Seabury, associate justice of the Court of Appeals.
  • Nicholas Tsoucalas, former chief judge, now senior judge U.S. Court of International Trade.
  • James S. Watson, became a judge and was the first African American admitted to membership in the American Bar Association.

[edit] Political

[edit] Name Partners in Prominent Firms

[edit] References

  1. ^ Franklin William Fort, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 22, 2007.
  2. ^ Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 16, 2007.

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