In a new Student Spotlight, Josiah Lambert ’28 discusses his journey to law school, his favorite way to spend a day in NYC, and how he became captain of NYU Law's Dean's Cup team: law.nyu.edu/news/student...
We spoke with the leaders of these initiatives—Vanita Gupta ’01, Bob Bauer, Samuel Issacharoff, Richard Pildes, and Amrit Singh—about their concerns and hopes: www.law.nyu.edu/news/magazin...
Illustration by Alex Nabaum
While each has a different focus, they originated from a common concern: Around the world, democracy and the rule of law have been taking a drubbing.
The NYU Law Democracy Project is one of three new initiatives at NYU Law taking on issues of governance around the world, joined by the Center for Law and Public Trust and the Rule of Law Lab.
A year ago, an NYU Law center found the legal field's equivalent of true internet virality: an essay written for the NYU Democracy Project on the unitary executive theory was called a "bombshell" in the NYT & drew mention in party briefs & oral arguments for Trump v. Slaughter at the Supreme Court.
She will be presented with the award at the Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner on November 6 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Congratulations to Vanita Gupta ’01 for receiving the Spirit of Justice award from GLAD Law for her work at the Department of Justice and her current advocacy on behalf of civil rights organizations in her capacity as founder and director of the Center for Law and Public Interest.
Together with her co-authors Leah Litman of the University of Michigan School of Law and Katherine Shaw of Penn Carey School of Law, @profmmurray.bsky.social won the 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law for the academic paper, “Unsettling the Presidency.”
