| President and
Dean: | Carol A.
Buckler Interim Dean and Professor of Law Yale, B.A. 1978,
cum laude Harvard, J.D. 1982, cum laude Appointed: January 2012 |
| Founded: | 1891 |
| ABA Accreditation*: | 1954 |
Location: | Manhattan's TriBeCa district--home of New York
City's legal, government, and corporate headquarters. |
Campus: | Urban campus includes four integrated buildings,
including the School's state-of-the-art, 235,000-square-foot facility,
opened in 2009. |
| Enrollment: | The total number of students enrolled in all divisions, all
classes is approximately 1,750.
Students are 55% women, and 35%
self-identified minority (entering class of 2011). |
Bar Pass
Rate:
| In July
2011, 406 May graduates sat for the NY bar exam and 81%
passed. |
Graduation
Rate:
| For the
past five years, 85% of students, on average, have completed their law
degrees at NYLS. |
| Current Faculty: | Full-Time: 94; Adjunct: 118 |
| Degree
Programs: | J.D.
(Full-Time Day and Part-Time Evening Divisions) LL.M. in Taxation LL.M. in Real Estate LL.M. in Financial Services Law M.A. in
Mental Disability Law Studies Bachelor's/J.D. with Stevens Institute
of Technology J.D./M.B.A. with Baruch College J.D./M.A. in
Forensic Psychology and Law, with John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
CUNY |
| Distance Learning: | Online
Program in Mental Disability Law |
| Research Facilities: | The Mendik Law Library with
extensive special collections, and computer research and training
laboratories |
| Publications: | Student-edited journal: New York Law
School Law Review
Publications of the Centers: CityLaw CityLand CityRegs Media Law &
Policy The International Review
Other
Publications: New York Law School Magazine (the alumni
magazine) De Novo (student newspaper) Global Human Rights Bulletin
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Centers: | - Center
on Business Law & Policy, Professor Faith Stevelman, Director, and
Professor Howard S. Meyers, Associate Director
- Center
on Financial Services Law, Professor Ronald H. Filler,
Director
- Center
for International Law, Professor Lloyd Bonfield, Director
- Center
for New York City Law, Professor Ross Sandler, Director
- Center
for Professional Values and Practice, Professor Elizabeth Chambliss,
Director
- Center
for Real Estate Studies, Professor Andrew R. Berman,
Director
- Diane
Abbey Law Center for Children and Families, Professor Carlin Meyer,
Director
- Institute
for Information Law & Policy, Professor Dan Hunter,
Director
- Justice
Action Center, Professor Richard D. Marsico, Director
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Special Programs: | - Legal Practice
Program
In fall 2011, NYLS launched a new first-year skills
program, Legal Practice, which provides students with a comprehensive
introduction to lawyering skills at the beginning of their law school
careers. The program is designed to prepare students for their first legal
work experience and presents them with challenging scenarios that call on
them to problem-solve and apply the law in context. - Lawyering
Skills Center
Building on the Legal Practice Program, the
Lawyering Skills Center provides students with multiple opportunities to
gain hands-on experience in a real-world setting: clinics where they
represent or work with actual clients under the supervision of faculty or
attorneys; externships where students are placed in offices of practicing
attorneys or in judicial chambers; and simulation courses where students
interact with actors or others in a variety of lawyering
situations. - Media Center
- Program in
Law and Journalism
- Public Interest
and Community Service
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| Moots: | The Moot Court Association administers two annual
moot court competitions: |
Student
Organizations:
| More than 40 student-run
organizations
|
| Major Law Firms with NYLS Alumni as Founders and Name
Partners: | Abbey
Spanier Rodd & Abrams Chadbourne & Parke Davis, Polk,
Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst Guggenheimer & Untermeyer Kaye Scholer Kelley, Drye,
Warren, Clark, Carr & Ellis LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae Marvin, Hooker & Roosevelt Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Proskauer Rose Whitman Breed
Abbott & Morgan |
| Our Distinguished Graduates: | For more than 100 years, NYLS
graduates have enriched their communities—as jurists, public
servants, government and corporate leaders, private practitioners, and
creative artists. Some of our most distinguished graduates
include: - Chester Carlson ’39,
inventor of the xerography photocopy
process
- Maurice R. Greenberg '50, former Chairman
and CEO of American International Group, Inc.; current Chairman and CEO of
C.V. Starr and Co., Inc.
- Kathleen Grimm '80,
Deputy Chancellor for Finance and Administration, New York City Department
of Education
- Hon. John Marshall Harlan ’24,
United States Supreme Court Justice
- Lawrence S. Huntington
'64, former Chairman and CEO of Fiduciary Trust
International
- Arnold Kopelson '59, Academy
Award-winning producer of Platoon and The
Fugitive
- Hon. Roger J. Miner
'56, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit
- Charles E. Phillips Jr. '93, CEO of
Infor; former President of Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software
company
- Elmer Rice, Class of 1912, Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Playwright
- Sybil Shainwald
’76, pioneering women's health litigator and
advocate
- Hon. Judith Sheindlin '65, "Judge
Judy," New York family court judge, author, and TV
personality
- Hon. Faviola A. Soto '78, Judge, New
York State Court of Claims
- Wallace Stevens, Class
of 1903, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
- Robert F.
Wagner, Class of 1900, U.S. Senator from New York 1927-49; author
of National Labor Relations Act
- Zygmunt Wilf '74,
principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL
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