Our Core Values

Embrace innovation.

Foster integrity and professionalism.

Advance justice for a diverse society.

These three core institutional values focus our approach to legal education and are reflected in our curriculum, our teaching, the services we provide to our students, and our conduct as an institution of higher learning.

Embracing innovation

A recognition that our times demand the ability to adapt to change and to new situations as they arise and that doing so successfully requires a commitment to lifelong learning. At New York Law School, change is driven by the need to respond to the emerging needs of our society and a commitment to help our students develop real-world skills that will be demanded of lawyers in the years to come.

Fostering integrity and professionalism

A commitment to pursue the ongoing improvement of the legal profession by embracing ethics and professionalism as a way of life. Law is probably more explicitly challenged to define questions of professionalism and integrity than any other field, and at New York Law School we deeply explore how lawyers meet this challenge.

Advancing justice for a diverse society

An explicit reminder that law ultimately is about justice, fairness,and morality. At New York Law School, we advance justice by bringing real-life experience to bear on scholarship, and by teaching students theory, also by equipping them to change the world for the better and urging them out into that world to test their skills.