A recent report shining a light on excessive felony prison sentences handed down by more than 140 trial judges in New York over a 16-year period has experts and advocacy groups calling for increased transparency to help ensure that courts are imposing fair penalties on criminal defendants in the Empire State.
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On May 24, Dean Trevor Morrison announced that four new faculty members will take up positions at the Law School this summer: Maggie Blackhawk, as professor of law; César Rodríguez-Garavito, as professor of clinical law; Noah Rosenblum, as assistant professor of law; and as previously reported Vincent South
In Jacob K. Javits Professorship Lecture, Deborah Archer and Melissa Murray consider democracy, inequality, and civil unrest
Professor of Clinical Law Deborah Archer and Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law Melissa Murray, co-recipients of the 2021 Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professorship at NYU, engaged in a discussion titled “Democracy, Inequality, and Civil Unrest” for the 2020-21 Jacob K. Javits Professorship Lecture on March 30.
The virtual conversation, moderated by Dean Trevor Morrison, brought together two leading legal minds. Archer, an expert on civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice, is faculty co-director of NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law and director of the Civil Rights Clinic; she was recently named president of the American Civil Liberties Union. Murray, faculty director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, is an authority on family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice.