To: The Law School Community
From: Trevor Morrison
Date: August 29, 2014
Re: Welcoming the Forum on Law, Culture & Society to NYU Law
I hope you will join me in welcoming the Forum on Law, Culture & Society (FOLCS) to NYU Law. Founded in 2005 at Fordham University Law School by Thane Rosenbaum, FOLCS has built a reputation as an ideas-driven cultural organization that focuses on the relationship between law and society. In the past nine years, it has hosted conversations with a range of notable guests, including former President Bill Clinton, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, film director Oliver Stone, and numerous other government officials, actors, writers, and legal experts.
FOLCS adds to the already enormously rich intellectual life of the Law School, where offerings range from lectures, colloquia, and conferences to the Wednesday lunchtime discussions of the Milbank Tweed Forum. Thane Rosenbaum joins NYU Law as a seniorfellow and will continue his role as director of FOLCS.
In addition to its Conversations series, FOLCS hosts Trials & Error, which examines high-profile legal cases from the past, and an annual film festival, which combines a well-known film about the law and human rights with commentary by a post-screening guest (on Oct. 21, the lead-off film for the 2014 festival will be The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with Justice Stephen Breyer as the commentator). Future FOLCS guests include actress Julianna Margulies, author John Grisham, and actor Tom Cruise.
FOLCS will eventually schedule most of its programs at the Law School, and they will be free of charge to members of the NYU Law community. However, many FOLCS events during this academic year will take place at the 92nd Street Y or at the Time-Warner Center and are open to the public. I encourage you to visit the upcoming events page of the FOLCS website to see the schedule of events. (Members of the NYU Law community can obtain a 30% discount on tickets on FOLCS events at the 92nd Street Y by using the discount code “NYU”.) You can also sign up to receive FOLCS event announcements at FOLCS.org or by emailing info@folcs.org.