Faculty Research Assistant Postings (2Ls, 3Ls, LLMs)

Following is a listing of currently active RA positions on CSM.  Full descriptions and application instructions are available through the CSM Job Postings Tab: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/

1. Professor Bauer – CSM ID 434590. Research assistance is needed on a project involving the ethical and other issues facing government lawyers in rendering advice on sensitive national security legal matters. Assignments will involve research into the available literature, with occasional requests for short memoranda summarizing the materials identified. Short meetings to discuss the research may also be requested from time to time, but likely no more than once or twice a month.
2. Professor Das – CSM ID 434739. Nature of Research: deportation, detention, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, statutory interpretation and constitutional issues in immigration law.
3. Professor Friedman – CSM ID 434573. Nature of Research:  Policing and the Constitution, Fourth Amendment, Technology, some Foreign Intelligence.
4. Professor Fromer – CSM ID 434556. Nature of Research: intellectual property (I’m working on projects on copyright, trademark, and patent now, so the research would involve some subset of those 3 areas, which we can work out based on interest.)
5. Professor Garland – CSM ID 434546.  Professor David Garland would like to hire a research assistant to assist with a study of the history of punishment and state government.
6. Professor Gillers – CSM ID 434584. Nature of Research: Reading page proofs from the 10th edition of my professional responsibility casebook. This requires close attention to text and detail: Citations have to be checked, cases keycited, clarity ensured, typos and grammar corrected, cases edited without gaps, etc. The number of pages to be read will depend on the number of students who sign on.
7. Professor Hershkoff – CSM ID 434783. Nature of Research: Rights of low-income persons under federal programs and the federal Constitution.
8. Professors Kingsbury and Stewart – CSM ID 434727. Professors Kingsbury and Stewart require several research assistants to assist on two books relating to law and global governance, dealing with Global Administrative Law and Global Hybrid and Private Regulatory Governance, respectively. Academic background in international law and institutions or regulation is highly desirable. (Professor Kingsbury also seeks RAs interested in work on the IILJ’s project on Data, Measurement, and the governance of Illicit Activities.)  Research will focus on specific global regulatory regimes and problems and on literature on relevant legal and institutional topics.
9. Professor Roman – CSM ID 434548. Nature of Research: Primarily case law research for a paper on the doctrine of de facto parenthood as it relates to foster parents; RA will also be required to do some research in social science journals as well.
10. Professor Rubinfeld – CSM ID 434559. Nature of Research:  (1) antitrust policy – (a) monopolization issues relating to the Android operating system and (b) merger analysis relating to changes in bargaining power.  (2) political economy of federalism – with a focus on political decisionmaking.
11. Professor Skinner-Thompson – CSM ID 434769. I am working on an article on the LGBT rights movement and need assistance researching and analyzing the multiple marriage equality lawsuits that have been filed.  The assistant will help to analyze whether the dozens of pending marriage equality lawsuits have painted an inaccurate picture of the nation’s LGBTQ community, thereby cementing traditional “family” values as opposed to challenging such values.
12. Professor Thompson, A. – CSM ID 434531. Professor Anthony Thompson is looking for research assistants for the Fall 2014 semester to work on issues related to Prosecutorial Misconduct, leadership for lawyers and Reentry issues. Hours are flexible.
13. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice – CSM ID 434540. The Just Security Blog (http://www.justsecurity.org), an online forum for high-level discussion of law, rights, and U.S. national security based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the NYU School of Law, is now accepting applications for research assistants (“RAs”) for the fall semester 2014. Just Security RAs will primarily be responsible for (i) providing research support to Just Security staff, the senior editorial team, and other contributors; (ii) developing and updating Just Security’s resource libraries, including Books We’ve Read (http://justsecurity.org/books-read/) and Editors’ Picks Reading Lists (http://justsecurity.org/editors-picks/); and (iii) assisting in the maintenance of the Just Security site.