New York Law School
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History
New York Law School, one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, was founded in 1891 by the faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia College Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of legal education. In 1894, the Law School established one of the nation's first evening divisions to provide those in the workforce, or with family obligations, a flexible alternative to full-time legal studies.From its inception, New York Law School's lower Manhattan location, in the midst of the country's largest concentration of government agencies, courts, law firms, banks, corporate headquarters, and securities exchanges, has made immersion in the legal life of a great city an essential part of the School's identity and curriculum.
The Law School offers the course of study leading to the J.D. degree through full-time day, and part-time day and evening divisions. It offers a joint degree program, the J.D./M.B.A., with Baruch College, City University of New York, and joint Bachelor's /J.D. programs with Stevens Institute of Technology and also with Adelphi University. In the fall semester 2003, the Law School began offering the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation, becoming one of only two law schools in the New York City area to offer this advanced training to tax attorneys.
New York Law School's continued vitality springs from the Faculty's active commitment first to legal education and scholarship, but also to the profession; from the talent and energy of its students and alumni; and from a curriculum that infuses theoretical analysis with the strategic and ethical questions that make the practice of law an unending challenge.
A full-time faculty of approximately 76 men and women is joined by a first-rate adjunct faculty, consisting of attorneys, judges, and other public officials who offer many elective courses each year in the various fields of their expertise. Approximately 1,400 students, most of them entering right after college, study at the Law School. In the Evening Division, many of the students have established careers in other fields.
Faculty
Learn with the BestNew York Law School has a distinguished full-time faculty of productive scholars and dedicated educators who share a strong commitment to the Law School’s vision and core values: embracing innovation, fostering integrity and professionalism, and advancing justice for a diverse society. Our faculty members value the opportunity to teach a diverse group of students—among the most diverse of any law school in the country.
Accomplished
Faculty members at New York Law School are accomplished in their academic areas. Many entered teaching after successful careers as practitioners in major firms, corporations, labor unions, and in government service. They have collectively authored more than 100 books and hundreds of articles in prominent scholarly law reviews and journals. Their works range from pathbreaking legal history to up-to-the-minute advocacy of reshaping governmental powers, from international law to the law of New York State, and from legal practice to legal philosophy.
Activist
Through their scholarship, research, and advocacy, members of the faculty are engaged in some of society’s most pressing concerns. In the area of economic and social justice here in the United States, they develop programs on economic literacy; advocate for civil liberties; testify before congressional committees; and are sought after by the media for their expertise. In the international arena, members of the faculty have a longstanding engagement with the development of constitutional democracy around the world, from South Africa to Latin America to Eastern Europe and elsewhere, and at the same time a strong focus on issues of private international law, such as the critical developments in the World Trade Organization.
Approachable
New York Law School is committed to a student-centered academic life. Faculty are available to students for course-work discussions, guidance on professional development goals, and intellectual exchange. Faculty members serve as advisers to the student-edited publications and student organizations. Their commitment is to their students’ success. Through the Academic Centers, supervised externships and fellowships, the Lawyering Skills Center’s clinics, and other experiential learning courses, the faculty has created ever-expanding opportunities for New York Law School students to make a difference in the world long before graduation.
Students
Approximately 1,400 students, most of them entering right after college, study at the Law School. In the Evening Division, many of the students have established careers in other fields. New York Law School students are 49 percent women, and 26 percent self-identified minority (in the entering class of 2004). The students' rich diversity of life experiences makes it possible to find easily among them those who are the first to pursue a graduate education as well those who are the second or third generation in their families to do so.Curriculum & Academic Centers
The Law School's curriculum is distinguished by its systematic effort to integrate the study of theory and practice and to include the perspectives of legal practitioners. To that end, the faculty established six academic centers which provide specialized study and offer prime opportunity for exchange between the students and expert practitioners:
Today, the six academic centers engage many of our students in advanced research through the John Marshall Harlan Scholars Program, a rigorous academic honors program designed for students with the strongest academic credentials. Harlan Scholars have the opportunity, through affiliation with one of the six academic centers, to focus on a particular field of study, gaining depth and substantive expertise beyond the broad understanding of the law that is gained in the J.D. program.
Notable Alumni
In addition to more than 100 sitting judges and many partners of prominent law firms, New York Law School graduates have achieved success working in business, education, and the arts. Here, a glimpse of a few of New York Law School’s notable alumni.
Legacy of Achievement
Highlights of historic contributions and achievements by New York Law School graduates in public service, business, and the arts:
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