Fact Sheet

President and Dean:Anthony W. Crowell
Dean and President
Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania, B.A. 1992, magna cum laude
American University, J.D. 1997, cum laude
Appointed: May 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 J.D. students enrolled in all divisions, all classes, is approximately 1,503. There are approximately 95 students enrolled in the School's advanced degree programs in financial services law, real estate, taxation, and mental disability law.

Students are 50.4% women, and 25.1% self-identified minority (entering class of 2012).
 
Bar Pass Rate:
In July 2012, 453 May graduates sat for the NY bar exam and 71.1% 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
LL.M. in American Business 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

Centers:

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
     
Moots:The Moot Court Association administers two annual moot court competitions:
Student Organizations:
More than 30 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 of Operations, 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
     

 * Office of the Consultant on Legal Education /
   Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
   American Bar Association
   321 N. Clark Street, 21st Floor
   Chicago, IL 60654
   Phone: 312.988.6738
   Fax: 312.988.5681
   legaled@americanbar.org