If you were to design a criminal law and justice program from
scratch, you might go out and hire the author of the foremost criminal
law casebook, a top constitutional scholar, a couple of the world’s
leading sociologists of crime and punishment, renowned former defenders
and prosecutors, the chief architect of groundbreaking clinical
education programs, an economist and expert on business crime, an
authority on international criminal law and national security issues,
noted experts on Chinese criminal law, a rising sentencing scholar, and
acclaimed public interest lawyers who specialize in representing
death-row inmates.
Or you could just clone the criminal law faculty of
the New York University School of Law.
“We have the strongest criminal law faculty in legal academia,” says
Professor James Jacobs, the group’s de facto chair and director of the
NYU School of Law’s Center for Research in Crime and Justice. Or the
most diverse, interdisciplinary, collegial, or innovative faculty,
depending on whom you ask. Whichever adjective you settle on, the NYU
School of Law offers an embarrassment of riches to students seeking
knowledge and training in criminal law. Whether you are interested in
combating terrorism or the latest in rehabilitation, leading scholars
can be found at NYU.
Along with the world-class faculty are extraordinarily wide-ranging
course offerings, research centers, colloquia, and special programs.
Policy-makers and practitioners from all over the world regularly
converge on Washington Square South to explore critical issues in crime
and punishment. Governments and grant-makers routinely single out the
NYU School of Law faculty and alumni for important roles in the
administration of criminal justice—both here and abroad. The criminal
law program and its scholarship has emerged from, and burnishes, the
same legacy that brought the NYU School of Law to national prominence
during the past 20 years or so.
Making the Case for NYU
In the past decade, the NYU School of Law has welcomed such leading
lights as Stephen Schulhofer, co-author of the leading criminal law
casebook; David Garland, who virtually invented the field of the
sociology of punishment; Jerome Skolnick, a noted sociologist of
policing; Anthony Thompson, founder of the country’s first offender
reentry clinic; Jennifer Arlen, a 1986 graduate, and one of the few law
and economics scholars of corporate wrongdoing; Barry Friedman, an
expert in criminal procedure; Kim Taylor Thompson, a national authority
on indigent defense; and Bryan Stevenson, a prominent death penalty
litigator. Long-time faculty members like Anthony Amsterdam, Paul
Chevigny, Harry First, Martin Guggenheim (’71), Randy Hertz, James
Jacobs, Holly Maguigan, David Richards, and Harry Subin are recognized
throughout the country as being preeminent in their fields as well.
Having succeeded in drawing a critical mass of scholars with a central
interest in criminal law, the Law School attracts an exceptional group
of adjunct faculty. Scholars and practitioners are keen to visit the NYU
School of Law and to participate in its lively intellectual community.
It would be difficult to find another law school with such a large
criminal law faculty, or a group of professors who are so collegial and
interested in one another’s work. “We have built a real sense of
community among the criminal law and justice group despite diverse
politics, methodologies, and interests,” Jacobs says. “There is great
camaraderie and vibrant exchange.” Schulhofer agrees: “The NYU School of
Law is home to a variety of academic orientations, offering not just a
theoretical approach to the law, but also the perspectives of
litigation, empirical research, community service, and intersecting
fields like psychology and gender studies. This keeps it stimulating and
exciting, especially given the constant opportunities for informal
interaction among faculty at weekly lunches, monthly lectures, and
programs put on by the Hauser Global Law School Program, the Brennan
Center for Justice, and the Center on Law and Security.”
David Garland, the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law, who moved
with his family from Scotland to join NYU’s faculty permanently after
several stints as a visitor, finds the Law School’s intellectual life
intense and energizing: “The Law School is like a small university all
to itself. The presence of so many great criminal law scholars and
clinicians, and the frequent opportunities for interaction at lunches
and colloquia, are a tremendous resource and stimulus.” Garland, a
professor of both law and sociology, is currently working on a study of
capital punishment in U.S. culture. He says he cannot imagine a better
place to conduct his research than here, particularly given the presence
of colleagues Stevenson, Amsterdam and Hertz, all of whom, says
Garland, are legendary figures in the world of death penalty litigation.
As a scholar focused on corporate crime, there were three reasons to
come to NYU, says Jennifer Arlen, the Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law:
“First, NYU has one of the strongest groups of faculty in three areas
important to my work: criminal law, corporate law, and law and
economics. Second, being at NYU gives me access to the excellent cadre
of visitors—leading people in their fields—who come to NYU. You don’t
have to track people down; eventually the best people come here. Third,
being at NYU helps me to ground my work in the real world by giving me
access to very smart people who practice law in New York, many of whom
are involved with NYU as adjunct faculty or participate in events
organized by NYU’s Center for Law and Business.” One way Arlen takes
advantage of these resources is by caucusing at top law firms such as
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom, sharing academic ideas with some of the best lawyers who
handle the most complex cases and obtaining critical insights into the
real-world institutional dynamics and relationships that influence
corporate transactions.
For Harry First, the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, NYU proved
itself a top destination when it lured Arlen to join the faculty. “When
Jennifer came here from the University of Southern California, the NYU
School of Law became one of the few law schools in the country to have
two full-time faculty members who teach business crime,” he says. First
served as chief of the Antitrust Bureau in the Office of the New York
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer from 1999 to 2001, directing New
York’s antitrust enforcement efforts in cases ranging from bid-rigging
to Microsoft. He found that the post provided “a welcome opportunity to
see how the practice of law keeps changing and to get a realistic sense
of how legal disputes are resolved, tried, and settled today.” First’s
hands-on experience in antitrust enforcement is a resource that he draws
on in his scholarship and classroom teaching. He is revising his
business crimes casebook, in collaboration with Arlen, and intends to
deal with the complexity of both today’s white-collar criminal activity
and the multiple and overlapping responses by state and federal
enforcement agencies. “More than anything,” he says, “I hope that the
liveliness and currency of classroom discussion and case analysis has
been improved by my stint in public service.” He anticipates even
greater strength in NYU’s business crime area with the addition this
year of Professor Kevin Davis, formerly of the University of Toronto,
who was a visiting professor at the Law School last year.
New York City provides broad opportunities for the Law School’s
clinicians who consider the criminal law clinical offerings the best in
the nation. According to Randy Hertz, professor of clinical law and
director of clinical and advocacy programs, there is no place better
than New York City to develop innovative clinical programs given the
variety of defenders’ offices and communitybased organizations and the
city’s diverse populations with strong civic involvement. He credits the
NYU School of Law with making the most of what New York has to offer:
“NYU attracts a solid core of public interest law students and
consistently hires the best clinicians available, allowing for a large
program with great opportunities for interaction in and out of the
classroom.”
Two of those clinicians are Kim Taylor-Thompson and Anthony Thompson.
Taylor-Thompson was teaching at Stanford Law School and Thompson was in
private practice when they got the call from former NYU School of Law
dean, now NYU president, John Sexton inviting them to think about a move
cross country—something they hadn’t been considering. But once they
took a look at the department, they were hooked. “We saw that Randy
Hertz presented a high-quality program and we could do some growing
professionally,” Thompson says. As if to prove that point, both are
working on new books, with expected publication dates in 2005.
The newest member of the criminal law faculty, Professor Rachel
Barkow, was also attracted by the unusual spirit of innovation and
community at the Law School. Following a clerkship with U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and then a stint practicing regulatory law
at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington, D.C., Barkow
chose to begin her teaching career at the NYU School of Law in part
because the place pioneered the requirement of administrative and
regulatory law in the first-year curriculum. “I came here because I like
working with incredibly smart people who do not rest on their laurels,”
Barkow says.
“The Law School is full of people who are leaders in their
fields yet who are always interested in what a colleague is doing.” As a
teacher of both firstyear Administrative Law and Criminal Law, Barkow
sees important connections between the two: “When you get involved in
the criminal justice system, you are really interacting with an
administrative regime.” Given the list of important criminal justice
decisions made outside the courtroom—plea bargains, charging decisions,
sentencing guidelines, parole board rulings, among others—Barkow’s
scholarship has explored the mechanisms of administrative oversight of
law enforcement including through jury nullification and sentencing
commissions. As the leading young scholar of sentencing law, Barkow
recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on reforming
the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in the wake of the Supreme Court’s
decision last June in
Blakely v. Washington, which casts doubt on the guidelines’ constitutionality.
Editor’s note: Since this article was published in September 2004, Erin Murphy has joined the faculty.
http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/magazine/2004/partners-in-crime/
[sidebar:
A very sophisticated system was concocted. The websites, when GLOBALIZATION began full-throttle, well Treasurers had their own "BENT" ? websites, too. And the COURTS? Yes, the most "prestigious" had slogans. ENVY OF THE WORLD. One of the most high in the level of the system absolutely had those words, may to this day, I could not bear to see most of the "Globalists" intentions to totalitarian earth's planet.
HOW TO EMPIRE WORLD EARTH!
We have a United States President that is CRIMINAL FRAUD. Begin with the fact, that, he isn't a "lawyer" and neither was Louis Brandeis. And, that's the RUB alright: "CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER" IS INDEED "WHAT IT IS" AND CUI BONO!!! OXYMORON: "CRIMINAL JUSTICE"! IE WALL STREET WINS BIG TIME HARVESTING SHYLOCK IN "ITS'" POUNDS OF FLESH!!! MIND-AMERICA IS DAMNED HERE IN THIS TIME. "Digital VIRTUAL Money" purchases ?
GOYIM "Palestinian Westerners" CRIMINALLY CHARGE THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME AND PUT THEM IN JAIL!
Lock them up, torture them and yes, kill them whenever the killing gets done. Never-mind, "God's Work" is getting done. GOD'S WORK! WTF, FIRE THAT DEVIL RIGHT NOW!
TWO (2) "R/s" the question gets asked in the County of Cowlitz, the JAIL. The sickness in the smaller communities and the sickness in the larger - BIG CITIES IN THE SOUTH, EG ALABAMA!
Reading-Riting-Rithmetic are what STUDENTS of "Education" learn, the elementary skills to understand language. The USA has become a melting pot of disassociated humans. The society is so tragic I can't begin to actually discuss what I now know, from experiencing what the SPIRIT of the LAW directs me into.
Growing the human population, making that "body of society" as sick as can be made to be, under-educate-uneducated-made-into-imbeciles AND WORSE -- psychopathy isn't a secret as the made-to-order "American Society".
Vaccinate the species, take the underdeveloped BRAIN and commit APARTHEID "Split The Hood": Metzitzah B'peh, Circumcision, whatever can be inflicted as "see the fetus grow".
GENOCIDE? How difficult when there is not in reality, a whole healthy HUMAN BEING. MONSANTO, GMOS ROUND-UP OH MY GOD.
PLEASE address reality those that are here and do have some synapses in the brain-blood-mind-body SPIRIT. Call the higher intelligent factor the RULE OF LAW, LETTER-SPIRIT | VERVE-CHI-KI-QUI, chemistry-energy-force-source REAL SCIENTIFIC FORENSICS, IMAGINATION-CLEAN-WHOLE-FIRM, POWER of "BEING WELL-BALANCED HUMAN". The higher of the species "Homo Sapiens" should now get a CHANCE TO CHANGE the "dial~tone"?! Is anybody at home?!
Oh my GOD, we've IPhones in Century 21, too! Courts are not technology virtuosos and that's a very serious problem for the state of affairs called "GLOBALISM".
The OBAMA whatever the name really is, and then the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Louis Brandeis and his same addiction to owning masses of slaves, in reality.
Slavery and killing the commodity is the ORDER for those that have been in a spin called suicide of their own species, a culture suicide
>>Whew, scary to go into their "imagination/$" but, we did.
Not a new concept. Been at this horror since the beginning of time. Time is going to be the tale-teller, yet again.
PSYCHOPATHS (see POLITICAL PONEROLOGY),
and REALIZE, ALEXANDER-SOLZHENITZYN
HISTORICAL writing about HISTORY, is also applicable to, today. He left America (said USA became also like why he left Russia - "GODLESS / GODLESSNESS"), and ALEXANDER-SOLZHENITZYN returned to RUSSIA. Why? Same today as during the other many times a few in a faction of FAUX RELIGION mass murder their own species.
DUE PROCESS AND DUE DILIGENCE. Become a virtuoso of life, and in this choice the LAW isn't an OXYMORON. THE SYSTEM WHICH IS "CRIMINAL JUSTICE" AND, THE "TEMPLE OF JUSTICE" AND, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL BILL OF RIGHTS CENTERS FOR ALL IN TRUTH IN JUSTICE!
HALLELUJAH "ALL SAINTS" WHEN THE EVE DAWNS
WE SHALL REBUILD!!!! WE??!! WHO HE IS SPEAKING TO, HE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT WHAT, EXACTLY? ASK PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY "PNAC" 'WHAT'S THE USE OF HAVING A NUKE IF YOU CAN'T USE IT?! "WILLIAM KRISTOL" OR HENRY KISSINGER, ISRAEL, ISRAELI FIRSTERS, ET AL!?
The
real scandal is not that the former president and first lady are so
wealthy, but how they got that wealthy. Clinton didn't just make "a lot
of money" when he left the White House. Together, the Clintons pulled in
$111 million from 2000 to 2007 — far more than what most people would
consider a lot.
Back
on 26 March 2013, I headlined, regarding Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's revised Keystone XL pipeline report, that "State Department's
Keystone XL 'Study' [Is] Now Exposed as a Triple Hoax," and documented
that Clinton's redo of her earlier faked report was itself fake,
because: first, "The study does discuss 'Climate Change Impacts on the
Proposed Project,' but not the proposed project's impacts on climate
change"; and, second, because it was not written by the State Department
but by an oil-industry contracting firm (ERM Inc.) that Clinton's State
Department had non-competitively assigned to be performed by the
company that was selected for this purpose by the corporation
(TransCanada) that would own the pipeline; and, third, because that
contractor had no climatologist. Both of Clinton's reports were simply
fakes; they were barely disguised promo-pieces for TransCanada.
Karen
Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal
department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she
was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank,
she held the position of Senior Counsel. 
Beginning
with how Kissinger and Nixon enabled the USD as the world's de facto
reserve currency through oil, Canadian Billionaire Ned Goodman explains
in the brief but far-reaching clip how it is both inevitable (and
rapidly approaching) that the rest of the world will turn its back on
the dollar. With China and Russia (among many others that we have
detailed in the past) agreeing on non-USD swap terms for energy, the
cracks are starting to show and as Goodman details, "in the 1930s, everyone wanted USD (backed by silver)," but today, backed by nothing, "everyone wants to get rid of them." Buying hard assets is crucial (he has never been more bullish of gold)
as we head into a period of stagflation or even high inflation; and as
Goodman previously commented "the world is totally upside down right now
- it's completely crazy," in fact, he adds, "I'm keen on anything
that's going to live with higher inflationary numbers, because I can't see the world getting out of the problems that it's in." 
