News & Events

We are proud to announce the winners of the annual journal awards!

Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award
The graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Law Review

• Yotam Barkai, The Child Paradox in First Amendment Doctrine. Read it here: http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-87-number-5/child-paradox-firs…

Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Prize
The graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Law Review in International, Commercial, or Public Law

• Sean Childers, Discrimination During Traffic Stops: How an Economic Account Justifying Racial Profiling Falls Short. Read it here: http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-87-number-4/discrimination-dur…
• Zoey F. Orol, Reading the Early American Legal Profession: A Study of the First American Law Review. Read it here: http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-87-number-5/reading-early-amer…

Edmond Cahn Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion

• Trang (Mae) Nguyen

Morton Geller Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion

• Julie Mecca
• Abigail Nurse

Sheila Baynes (Articles Editor ’14) has been selected as one of the Ford Foundation Fellows. She will be working at the Environmental Defense Fund — Air and Land, Water and Wildlife in Boulder, Colorado this summer.

“The students receiving the Ford Fellowship represent the high caliber of public interest talent at NYU School of Law,” said Denise Tomasini-Joshi, assistant dean for public service at the Public Interest Law Center. “They honor NYU’s tradition of public service and rigorous scholarship and will undoubtedly use their experience with the Ford Fellowship as a springboard to a career making positive change.”

To read more: http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/FORD_FOUNDATION_NAMES_25_NYU_LAW_FELLOWS_2013

The N.Y.U. Law Review is proud to announce the 2013-2014 Editorial Board. The new masthead can be viewed here.

Professor Vinay Harpalani (Articles Editor ’09) will be speaking at NYU Law School on February 12 at 6:30 pm in VH206, as part of the NYU BALSA Political Action Speaker Series. The presentation will cover his new article, “Diversity Within Racial Groups and the Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Admissions,” which was just published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

This article examines the key issues in Fisher v. Texas, the case about race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), which the U.S. Supreme Court heard on October 10. He argues that UT can constitutionally justify its race-conscious admissions policy as a means of attaining diversity WITHIN racial groups, which is part of the compelling interest articulated in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003). His article was cited in the Supreme Court amicus brief of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) in Fisher, and UT also used his argument about diversity within racial groups in its Supreme Court brief and at oral argument.

The full article is available for download here.

He also has a brief follow-up essay, entitled “Fisher’s Fishing Expedition,” which will soon be published in Heightened Scrutiny, the online supplement to the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.  The current draft of that essay, which focused on the October 10, 2012 oral arguments in Fisher v. Texas, is available here.

The N.Y.U. Law Review will begin accepting submissions on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. We will only accept submissions through Scholastica. We will no longer accept submissions through ExpressO, and we do not accept submissions by email.

Institutions can create accounts to pay for their authors’ submissions to Scholastica, so authors affiliated with law schools can have the same payment experience they have had on ExpressO. Scholastica is committed to ensuring that authors are able to submit articles regardless of institutional support and will consider requests for fee waivers and other accommodations at this email address. Additional information about Scholastica is available at their site. Additional information about the Law Review’s submission procedures is available here.

Families for Freedom, in collaboration with the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic, has published a new report titled, “Uncovering USBP: Bonus Programs for United States Border Patrol Agents and the Arrest of Lawfully Present Individuals.” The report “reveals the existence of various incentive programs provided to Border Patrol agents in their quest to apprehend individuals of color, many of whom have legal status.”

Natasha Rivera Silber, an Articles Editor, is one of the primary authors of this report, and Anthony Enriquez, our Senior Notes Editor, contributed to the FOIA proceedings which obtained the data the report is based on.

You can read the report here: http://familiesforfreedom.org/resources/families-freedom-new-report…

We congratulate N.Y.U. Law Review members Yotam Barkai, Amelia Frenkel, Zoey Orol, Julie Simeone, and Theresa Troupson for advancing to the Spring Semi-Final Round of the annual Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition. Julie Simeone was also selected as the winner of the Albert Podell Award for Best Oral Advocate. The Marden Competition is hosted by the NYU Law Moot Court Board. Each competitor briefed a novel issue of appellate law and argued both sides of the issue before panels of judges. Based on their combined brief and oral argument score, twelve competitors advanced to the Spring Semi-Final Round.

Today, the N.Y.U. Law Review is proud to announce the launch of the N.Y.U. Law Review Online, the journal’s new online supplement. This  site will provide a forum for dynamic legal commentary published on a more expedited basis than the typical Law Review production schedule permits.The supplement will publish original content on a continuous basis, and will feature essays, responses, lectures, and other forms of legal scholarship. For more information on how to submit pieces to the N.Y.U. Law Review Online, visit our Submissions page.

The first edition of the N.Y.U. Law Review Online features a debate among scholars of comparative constitutional law surrounding David Law and Mila Versteeg’s June 2012 N.Y.U. Law Review Article, The Declining Influence of the U.S. Constitution. Sujit Choudhry, Vicki Jackson, and Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton have written responses to this piece, and David Law and Mila Versteeg have written a rejoinder. We hope that you find this dialogue as engaging as we do, and enjoy this new outlet for years to come.

The N.Y.U. Law Review is excited to announce that we will be transitioning to a new article submission service. Starting with our next submission cycle in February 2013, we will only accept submissions through Scholastica (www.scholasticahq.com) and will no longer accept submissions through ExpressO. For more information, visit the submissions page.

The N.Y.U. Law Review Alumni Committee hosted a happy hour for the Editorial Boards of classes ’08 through ’12 on Friday, October 19. It was a great opportunity to reconnect with old colleagues and meet our current members. If you would like to be involved with future Law Review Alumni events, please contact us at lawreviewalumcomm@nyu.edu.