Registration Required

Greg Racz, President, Chief Legal Officer and a co-founder of MGG Investment Group will be our guest speaker for the Amy and Brian Schorr Family Luncheon Speaker Series on November 16, 2015.

Lunch will be served at 12:30 pm in Furman 326

Please RSVP for this event.

Greg Racz, President, Chief Legal Officer and a co-founder of MGG Investment Group

Prior to joining MGG, Mr. Racz, was President, Principal and Chief Legal Officer of Hutchin Hill, a multi-billion multi-strategy hedge fund.  Prior to joining Hutchin Hill, Mr. Racz co-founded Octavian Advisors, LP, a $1 billion+ multi-strategy investment fund, and served as President, Chief Operating Officer and general counsel (2006-2009).  Previously, Mr. Racz was a member of the corporate department of law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (1999-2006).  There he advised on corporate, securities, and compliance matters for Fortune 500 businesses, investment firms, and institutional and high net worth clients, including ConocoPhillips, General Mills, Walt Disney Company, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Fox Paine, Warburg Pincus, a Washington State Investment Board affiliate, and owners of the New Jersey Devils.

Mr. Racz was also a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and Buffalo News (1993-1995), and worked at the Manhattan D.A.’s Office (1991-1993).  A clerk on the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, Mr. Racz received his JD, Order of the Coif, magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law and his BA, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College. Mr. Racz studied at Oxford University and Leningrad State University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees & Investment Committee of the NYU School of Law Foundation, and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the P&I Research Advisory Panel.He was named a “2011 Rising Star of Hedge Funds” by Institutional Investor.

20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society
Thursday, November 5, 2015 | 6:00 p.m. 
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge

Sherrilyn Ifill ’87, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will present her lecture titled, “America Divided: Brown‘s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality.” A reception will immediately follow the lecture. Register here.

Do you want $5,000?

Do you like hanging with the cool kids who love writing papers?

Then apply for the Lederman Fellowship in Law & Economics.

We will pay you COLD, HARD CASH for writing a research paper.

PLUS we will make it fun!

All 2Ls encouraged to apply by Tuesday, November 10.

More information available here.

Contact Professor Bubb or Professor Marotta-Wurgler for more information.

The Global Fellows Forum is at the heart of the Global Fellows Program, and represents an integral component in the Hauser Global Law School Program’s “Turn to Scholarship” initiated in 2003. The primary mission of the Global Fellows Program is the production of publishable scholarship, and the Global Fellows Forum serves as an important vehicle for facilitating the achievement of that mission.

All Global Fellows, that is Global and Senior Global Research Fellows, Global and Senior Global Fellows from Practice & Government and Post-Doctoral Global Fellows, attend the Global Fellows Forum, which features presentations of research by Global Fellows to an audience of other NYU School of Law fellows, faculty and invited guests. This provides an opportunity for Global Fellows to gather, collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback in a supportive and intellectual environment.

Please see below for our Forum schedule for the 2015-16 Academic Year. Research abstracts will be available about one week prior to each Forum date.

Space may be limited, so kindly RSVP to law.globalvisitors@nyu.edu if you would like to attend.

NOTE: Moderator for all sessions will be Prof. Kevin Davis, Vice Dean, Beller Family Professor of Business Law

Fall Global Fellows Forum

Wednesday, November 4 – Furman Hall 910

On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 2:00-4:00PM the Jean Monnet Center will present a talk by Professor Federico Fabbrini, Associate Professor of European & International Law at the Faculty of Law at University of Copenhagen and iCourts: Center for International Courts.

The purpose of the talk – which is based on a book entitled “Economic Governance in Europe” (forthcoming with Oxford University Press) – is to offer a broad picture of how relations of power in the EU have changed, considering three different dimension: 1) the vertical relations of power between the member states and the EU institutions: 2) the relations of power between the political branches and the courts; and 3) the horizontal relations of power between the EU member states themselves.

Refreshments will be served.

Location: 1st Floor Lounge, 22 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10011

Please kindly RSVP by email to jeanmonnet@nyu.edu if you would like to attend.

ABRA will reopen on October 30 at 1:30 p.m. so that you will have the opportunity to change your spring schedule if you wish. You can find the full schedule of add/drop cycles in the Registration Calendar.

Note that some new classes have been added – you can find the list here. Spring Stern Preferential classes will soon be listed here.

For those interested in negotiation, note that the class Negotiating Complex Transactions will be offered in spring. The class description and schedule is now available online. This class does require a prerequisite, so if you’d like to bid on it please contact the professor to request to waive the prerequisite and submit a prerequisite waiver form to OGA.

If you would like to discuss your spring schedule, please contact OGA at law.graduateaffairs@nyu.edu to make an appointment with Barbara Landress or Lourdes Olvera-Marshall.

Trick-or-Treat ~ 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Halloween Reception for Trick-or-Treaters ~ 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

In its fine tradition of ghoulishly fun Halloween activities, the Department of Residence Services will once again be hosting children of all members of the Law School community for trick-or-treating on Friday, October 30 in Mercer Residence, 240 Mercer Street.

PARENTS
Parents should RSVP law.reslife@nyu.edu no later than 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 29 so we may plan accordingly. Please indicate the number of children that will be joining you.

RESIDENTS OF MERCER
Residents of Mercer who would like to host trick-or-treaters and give out treats may email us with their name and room number at law.reslife@nyu.edu. Thank you in advance for helping us provide a safe and enjoyable Halloween experience to our little ghouls!

Professor of Law

R.S.V.P is required

Please R.S.V.P here

Did you know that despite strong laws on the books, wage theft is still rampant in New York City, especially in the low wage labor market?  You can get training on wage theft in order to help change this situation, affecting the lives of many underrepresented New Yorkers, and earn pro bono hours towards your NY bar requirements!

Who are we? What do we do?
Make the Road New York (MRNY) has been a key provider of high quality, language appropriate, accessible civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers since 1997. The Legal Department at Make the Road tackles poverty from three angles. We address key income disruptions that keep families in poverty by helping low-wage workers collect unpaid minimum and overtime wages, by helping families access and maintain often unstable public benefits streams, and by assisting immigrants to legalize their status and thus put their families on track toward improved employment possibilities. We battle poverty’s worst effects: hunger, substandard or non-existent housing, and lack of access to decent medical care. And we work to effect change in the systems that perpetuate and exacerbate poverty by engaging in impact litigation, government agency monitoring, law reform, and policy innovation.

Our Workplace Justice Project supports low-wage workers to combat the exploitation they face daily on the job through an integrated strategy of popular education and Know Your Rights (KYR) training through workshops, individual counseling and advocacy. MRNY’s community education and legal support work are crafted to arm impacted community members with the knowledge, tools, and skills they need to tackle the problems they face.
What is the wage theft clinic?

• Workers will come to the wage theft clinic for assistance in filing claims for unpaid wages (not being paid minimum wage, overtime, spread-of- hours or other wages they are owed under the law) with the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL).
• Participants will be trained on November 3, 2015 from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. at our Jackson Heights office on wage theft and filing claims with the NYSDOL.
• Participants will then volunteer in one or both of our open clinics:
  • November 12, 2015: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
  • November 19, 2015: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
• Participants will conduct an intake and assessment of the worker’s unpaid wage claims, along with MRNY Employment attorneys, and assist the workers to fill out the necessary forms to claim their unpaid wages.

Requirements to participate

• Participants in the clinic must be J.D. or LL.M. students and participate in the training session on November 3, 2015 from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. at our Jackson Heights office.
• Since our clients are mostly Spanish speaking, Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.
• Time requirements apart from the training and clinic sessions are minimal; participants should take no longer than an hour to complete the paperwork for filing a claim.

If you are interested, please send your name, telephone, email address and expected year of graduation to kyle.giller@maketheroadny.org.

We hope to see you here! You can help change a person’s life and fight systematic injustice!

On Tuesday, November 10, join us for Part III of this lunch lecture series on the history of Roman law, with Professor Richard Epstein.  He will continue to discuss questions of property in Roman law.  This will likely be the last of these lunches for the semester.

Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Time: 12:15pm-1:30pm
Furman Hall, Room 310

Free lunch will be served. 

This event is open to NYU students, faculty, and fellows only.  You must have a current NYU email address to register.

To RSVP for Part III of the series, please click here or visit:

http://goo.gl/forms/pR3s0pXEeQ

Registration is required as space is limited.

On Friday, November 6, Mervyn Allister King KG, GBE, FBA, Professor of Economics and Law at New York University School of Law, will be delivering a keynote address commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.  “Magna Carta: Then and Now” will be held from 1:00pm-2:00pm in Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall.

King served as Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee and Financial Policy Committee from 2003 – June 2013. He was previously Deputy Governor from 1998 to 2003, Chief Economist and Executive Director from 1991, and non-executive director of the Bank from 1990 to 1991. King was knighted (GBE) in 2011, made a life peer in 2013 and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014.

Please RSVP by clicking here or copying and pasting the link below into your browser:

https://nyu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4Jf8Do16uqyQtOl

In preparation for May 2016 graduation, we strongly advise that you take a moment to review your academic record to make sure that you are on track to graduate. You are responsible for making sure you are in compliance with all the graduation requirements.

Five Steps To Confirm You Are On Track For Graduation:

1. Degree Audit:
The program is available via Albert and will assist you with counting adjunct credits, determining what requirements have been completed and/or remain to be completed. We are still, however, working with the University as Degree Audit does not accurately reflect the number of non-law credits that count towards the JD degree. You must check your transcript for the correct credit allocation for non-law classes. As updates are made to Degree Audit we will keep you apprised.

See the instructions on how to generate a Degree Audit report and obtain other important Degree Audit information here.

Finally, please keep in mind that Degree Audit will be approximately two hours behind the release of ABRA results. So, if ABRA results are released at 1:30 pm, Degree Audit may not contain the most accurate information until 3:30 pm that day.

2. Degree Audit Questions:
If after reviewing Degree Audit you have questions please email us at law.acadservices@nyu.edu or call us at 212-998-6020. If you would like to speak with a counselor from Academic Services please contact by email or phone to make an appointment.

3. Review the Requirements for the Juris Doctor Degree:
You must complete at least 83 credits (which includes the required courses of Property, Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility and Substantial Writing). Please refer to the J.D. Academic Regulations and Requirements Guide.

4. Bar Exams:
Please read the National Conference of Bar Examiners Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admissions for details on the bar requirements for your jurisdiction.

Please also review our Bar Exam Checklist for important information and deadlines concerning applying to take the bar exam.

Have a wonderful fall semester!

We want to remind you that ABRA will re-open on Friday, October 30 at 1:30 pm for spring 2016 add/drop registration. This is an opportunity for you to make changes to your spring 2016 schedule. During the add/drop period, you may add and drop classes and/or place yourself on a waitlist for a closed class.

There will be four add/drop cycles which will not be daily cycles. Bids entered during these add/drop cycles will be processed at the end of each cycle. (See the online Registration Calendar for dates.)

Beginning on Friday, January 8 at 1:30 pm, there will be daily add/drop cycles. The final daily add/drop cycle will end on Wednesday, January 27 at 9:30 am. Each daily cycle will run daily from 1:30 pm until 9:30 am the following day. Results of the daily add/drop cycles will be published at 1:30 pm each day.

Please pay careful attention to the dates and deadlines in the 2015-2016 Academic Calendar and Registration Calendar as these dates are firm and final. A couple of dates which are coming up quickly are noted below:

October 30 at 1:30 pm – November 4 at 9:30 am:
Spring 2016 November Add/Drop #1. This add/drop cycle will last six days. All eligible students, including JD 1Ls, may make requests in ABRA during this period.

November 6 at 1:30 pm:
The results of November Add/Drop #1 are published in ABRA.

Course Updates: All changes in the curriculum will and have been posted on the Course Updates web site. You must check the site regularly for updated course information such as new courses, canceled courses, corrections to the schedule, as well as to review requirements, dates, deadlines, final examination information, etc.

Exams: Students are advised to review the exam information found both in the course descriptions and on the Exams web site. Please review the exam schedule and consider your studies and work conflicts; students may not request an exam postponement for heavy course loads or work conflicts.

We hope you are having a wonderful fall semester. We look forward to an even more wonderful spring semester! If you have any questions after reviewing this information and the links included here, please contact the Office of Academic Services (Furman Hall, Suite 400) at law.acadservices@nyu.edu or 1-212-998-6020.

Your ABRA bidding results will be available beginning at 1:30 pm on Monday, October 26.

To see the results, click on “Bidding Results” in ABRA (https://abra.law.nyu.edu/abra/). If you are satisfied with your results, you do not need to do anything more.

However, if you are not satisfied with your bidding results, there is good news. Starting on Monday at 1:30 pm, the daily add/drop cycles will begin. This is an opportunity for you to bid on the other open spring 2015 1L electives or add yourself to a waitlist for a closed class. You may enter bids each day between 1:30 pm and 9:30 am the following day. (Your bids will be processed daily after 9:30 am.) The bidding results from each daily cycle will be posted at 1:30 pm.

For assistance, please consult the Spring 2016 J.D. First-Year Electives Registration Guide, especially the ABRA FAQs in Addendum I. Please also see our web page with helpful videos on how to use ABRA—including a specific video on the add/drop process—at http://www.law.nyu.edu/recordsandregistration/biddingandregistration/videos.

For your convenience, a list of clearing prices is posted at the following link: http://www.law.nyu.edu/recordsandregistration/schedulingyourcourses/index.htm.

DATE: Monday, November 2
TIME: 12:45-1:45 p.m.
LOCATION: Furman Hall, Room 326

JD Class of 2016 students who previously applied for clerkships and plan to apply again should attend this session to learn about the differences in applying for clerkships as a graduating 3L and the timing of alumni clerkship applications. An updated NYU Judicial Clerkship Handbook and Appendix will be distributed.

Due to changes in timing, you should attend this information session even if you attended a similar meeting as a 2L.

This session is for students who have previously applied for a clerkship.

Click here to RSVP  for this event or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the Events page.

DATE: Monday, October 26
TIME: 12:45-1:45 p.m.
LOCATION: Furman Hall, Room 214

The Judicial Clerkship Office (JCO) will hold a “How-To Session” on the nuts and bolts of creating paper and OSCAR clerkship applications. We will discuss and demonstrate the steps you’ll need to take to put together applications to judges who want only paper applications – from mail merge, to which envelopes to use, to getting recommendation letters, etc.

In addition, we will walk you through setting up your OSCAR account with your application documents and recommenders, as well as searching for open positions and creating draft and final applications.

Click here to RSVP  for this event or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the Events page.

The following government programs have deadlines coming up in the next few weeks.  Details of these programs are provided in the 2015-16 Government Honors & Internship Handbook, located at arizonahandbooks.com/u/nyupilc

The following government programs have 2L deadlines coming up in the next few weeks.  Details of these programs are provided in the 2015-16 Government Honors & Internship Handbook, located at arizonahandbooks.com/u/nyupilc

The following government programs have 3L deadlines coming up in the next few weeks.  Details of these programs are provided in the 2015-16 Government Honors & Internship Handbook, located at arizonahandbooks.com/u/nyupilc

CSM has recently been improved! You now have the ability to select whether or not you are currently seeking Public Interest Post-Graduate Fellowships in addition to other job opportunities. See below. (Red rectangle added.)