Faculty Profiles
Outstanding intellectual leadership and scholarship from a law school faculty are expected. At New York Law School, students enjoy something more: a dynamic group of teachers with extensive professional and public policy accomplishments.
Most faculty members have had significant prior experience in legal practice: as public defenders, corporate lawyers, jurists, in government, and as advocates for the public interest. This rich store of real-world experience enables students to better understand the law from the perspective of the practicing attorney.
Full-Time and Instructors
Susan J. Abraham
Professor of Law
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Penelope Andrews
Professor of Law; Co-Director, Racial Justice Project
Nice to meet you!Alan I. Appel ’76
Professor of Law; Director, International Tax Program
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Melynda Barnhart
Visiting Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Tamara C. Belinfanti
Lester Martin Professor of Law
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Lenni B. Benson
Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law; Founder and Senior Advisor, Safe Passage Project
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Alvin Bragg
Visiting Professor of Law; Co-Director, Racial Justice Project
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Camille Broussard
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Information Services; Director, The Mendik Library
Nice to meet you!Kirk D. Burkhalter ’04
Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Claudine Caracciolo
Visiting Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!David Chang
Theodore Dwight 125th Anniversary Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Richard Chused
Professor of Law
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Anna G. Cominsky ’05
Visiting Associate Professor of Law; Managing Attorney of NYLS Legal Services Inc.
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Anthony W. Crowell
Dean and President; Professor of Law
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Paulina Davis
Associate Dean for Academic and Bar Success
Nice to meet you!Victoria Eastus
Visiting Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Kris Franklin
Professor of Law; Director, Academic Initiatives; Co-Director, Initiative for Excellence in Law Teaching; Co-Advisor, Dispute Resolution Team
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Doni Gewirtzman
Professor of Law; Co-Dean for Faculty Scholarship
Nice to meet you!Anne Goldstein
Professor of Law; Director, First-Year Legal Skills Program
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Brandt Goldstein
Visiting Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Lisa F. Grumet
Visiting Associate Professor of Law; Director, Diane Abbey Law Institute for Children and Families
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Jeffrey J. Haas
Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Kim Hawkins
Professor of Law; Stephen J. Ellmann Dean for Clinical and Experiential Learning; Co-Director, Housing Justice Leadership Institute
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Martha R. Hochberger
Visiting Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Sandra K. Janin ’75
Professor of Legal Writing; Director, Upper Level Writing Program
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Specialty: Legal Writing
Ramesh Kasarabada
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Gerald Korngold
Professor of Law; Director, Center for Real Estate Studies
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Specialty: Real Estate
Gowri J. Krishna
Professor of Law
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William P. LaPiana
Associate Dean; Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates; Director, Estate Planning, Graduate Tax Program
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Arthur S. Leonard
Robert F. Wagner Professor of Labor and Employment Law; Editor, LGBT Law Notes
Nice to meet you!Specialty: AIDS, Contracts, Discrimination, Employment Law, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Labor Law, Sexual Harassment
Molly Manning
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Richard D. Marsico
Professor of Law; Director, Impact Center for Public Interest Law
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Michael T. McCarthy
Professor of Legal Research; Head of Reference Services
Nice to meet you!Howard S. Meyers
Professor of Law; Dean of Adjunct Faculty Engagement; Director, Center for Business and Financial Law; Director, Institute for Financial Services Law
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William R. Mills
Professor of Legal Research; Associate Librarian for Information Services
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Megan E.K. Montcalm
Associate Director of Academic and Bar Success Initiatives
Nice to meet you!Frank W. Munger
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law; Co-Chair, Law and Society Colloquium
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Justin Murray
Associate Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Samantha Pownall ’11
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
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Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Michael Roffer ’83
Professor of Legal Research; Associate Librarian for Reader Services
Nice to meet you!Rebecca Roiphe
Trustee Professor of Law; Co-Dean for Faculty Scholarship
Nice to meet you!Ross Sandler
Professor of Law; Director, Center for New York City Law; Editor, CityLaw, CityLand and CityRegs Newsletters
Nice to meet you!Andrew Scherer
Visiting Associate Professor of Law; Policy Director, Impact Center for Public Interest Law
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Houman B. Shadab
Professor of Law; Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology
Nice to meet you!Faith Stevelman
Professor of Law (on leave)
Nice to meet you!Preyal Shah
Assistant Dean for Bar Success
Nice to meet you!Richard K. Sherwin
Wallace Stevens Professor of Law; Director, Visual Persuasion Project
Nice to meet you!Lynn Boepple Su
Professor of Law
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Specialty: Legal Writing
Ruti G. Teitel
Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law; Chair, Global Law and Justice Colloquium; Co-Director, Institute for Global Law, Justice & Policy; Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics; Visiting Professor, Hebrew University School of Law, Mt. Scopus
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Ann F. Thomas
Otto L. Walter Distinguished Professor of Tax Law; Director, Graduate Tax Program
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Marshall Tracht
Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Elizabeth Valentin
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Daniel A. Warshawsky
Professor of Law
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Michelle Zierler
Professor of Legal Writing; Faculty Publisher, New York Law School Law Review
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In-Memoriam
Stephen J. Ellmann
Martin Professor of Law
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Richard C.E. Beck
Professor of Law, Emeritus; Founding Director, Graduate Tax Program
Nice to meet you!Robert Blecker
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Nice to meet you!Lloyd Bonfield
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Nice to meet you!Frank A. Bress
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Nice to meet you!Carol A. Buckler
Professor of Law, Emerita
Nice to meet you!Ronald H. Filler
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Nice to meet you!Mariana Hogan
Professor of Law, Emerita
Nice to meet you!David Schoenbrod
Trustee Professor of Law
Nice to meet you!Specialty: Administrative Law, Damages, Environmental Law, Federalism, Injunctions, Regulation, Remedies
Nadine Strossen
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991–2008
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