Buildings NYU Law School facilities at the school's Washington Square Campus include:
Vanderbilt Hall The law school's main building, named after
Arthur T. Vanderbilt, occupies the entire block between West Third and Washington Square South (West Fourth) and between Macdougal and Sullivan Streets. Part of the first floor as well as the underground floors host the library, which it shares with Furman Hall. The first floor also holds the auditorium, student center, and main banquet hall. The second floor is mostly classrooms, while the third and fourth floors are mostly faculty and dean offices.
Furman Hall Located on
West 3rd Street between
Sullivan and
Thompson Streets, and on Sullivan and Thompson Streets between West 3rd and
West 4th Streets, Furman Hall opened on January 22, 2004, and is named for alumnus and donor
Jay Furman. It connects to Vanderbilt Hall through the law library, part of which is underneath Sullivan Street. The underground level also hosts the Lawyering faculty. Floors one-three have classrooms, lounges, and study space. The fourth floor hosts the career counseling program, and the fifth and sixth floors house the legal practice clinics. The highest floors, generally inaccessible to non-residents, are apartments for faculty and their families. The ninth floor is accessible to students and hosts the Lester Pollack Colloquium room. The building's West 3rd Street facade incorporates the remaining part of the facade of a townhouse that
Edgar Allan Poe lived in from 1844 to 1846, near the site where the house originally stood, the result of a settlement between NYU and preservationists who objected to the university's 2000 plan to tear down the building, which had already lost two stories from the time that Poe dwelled there.
Hayden Hall Located at 240 Mercer Street, on the southern side of West Third street, adjacent to Broadway, and a couple of blocks east of D'Agostino Hall, Wilf Hall, Furman Hall and Vanderbilt Hall, Hayden Hall houses approximately 500 Law students and faculty.
D'Agostino Hall Located at the intersection of West Third Street and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, D'Agostino Residence Hall houses approximately 300 law students and faculty. It is across the street from the rear of the main law school building, Vanderbilt Hall, and less than 1 block from Wilf Hall and Furman Hall. Elevators to the apartments are on the highest level, the Front Desk is on the street level, and The Commons (residents' lounge with computers and printers) is on the lower level. One floor beneath The Commons is the sub-basement, home to most of NYU's legal journals. The second (above-ground) floor, houses numerous administrative offices (Development, Alumni Relations, Special Events, Communications, Human Resources and Financial Services). Two large function rooms - Lipton Hall and the Faculty Club - are also located in the building. The law building is named after Filomen D'Agostino, one of the first woman lawyers, who graduated in 1920. Later in life, Ms. D'Agostino donated $4 million to support residential scholarship and faculty research; the school responded by naming their new apartment building after her.
22 Washington Square North 22 Washington Square North, located in a historic 1830s townhouse on the north side of
Washington Square Park in "
The Row", houses the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, and the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. This building was renovated in 2009.
Wilf Hall Wilf Hall, at 139 Macdougal Street, houses approximately a dozen of the schools centers, programs and institutes as well as the admissions offices (Graduate and JD). Per the NYU Law Magazine, it is a "campus destination for faculty, students, and research scholars from an array of disciplines to exchange ideas and, through their work, shape the public discourse around the leading social and political issues of the day." Wilf Hall also contains the
Provincetown Playhouse. The playhouse opened in the 1920s and premiered many Eugene O'Neil plays. The theatre is run by NYU's Steinhardt School of Education. The building was designed by
Morris Adjmi Architects.
Centers and institutes NYU Law is home to many centers and institutes, specializing in various areas of law: • The
Brennan Center for Justice focuses on issues involving democracy and justice. • The Center for Law, Economics and Organization promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in law and economics. It is directed by Jennifer Arlen, Oren Bar-Gill, John Ferejohn, Mark Geistfeld, Lewis Kornhauser, and Geoffrey Miller. • The Reiss Center on Law and Security. •
Just Security is housed by the Reiss Center. It is an editorially independent online forum for analysis of U.S. national security law and policy. Its fellows include:
Peter Bergen,
Sidney Blumenthal,
Peter Clarke,
Roger Cressey,
Barton Gellman,
Bernard Haykel,
Michael Sheehan, and
Lawrence Wright. Its former fellows included:
Amos Elon,
Baltasar Garzón,
Tara McKelvey,
Dana Priest, and
Nir Rosen. The Center generates awareness of the legal dimension of security issues, including the Terrorist Trial Report Card, a comprehensive study on every terrorism prosecution in the United States since the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. • The
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law is a think-tank dedicated to the promotion of good government and prosecution practices in criminal matters, with a focus on the exercise of power and discretion by prosecutors. Its academic component gathers empirical research, publishes scholarship, and organizes and hosts conferences and symposia. Its litigation component litigate criminal cases or cases having implications for the administration of criminal law, particularly cases in which the exercise of power and discretion by prosecutors raises substantive legal issues. Its public policy and media component seeks to improve public dialogue on criminal justice matters in various ways, including testifying before public officials and the publishing of op-ed pieces. • The
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy is a joint venture between the law school and NYU's
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. It is an academic research center devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate development and housing. • The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy is led by faculty members Barton Beebe, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Jeanne Fromer, Scott Hemphill, Jason Schultz, Christopher Sprigman, and Kathy Strandburg, along with Executive Director Michael Weinberg. • The Hauser Global Law School Program, launched in 1994, program incorporates non-U.S. and transnational legal perspectives into the law school's curriculum, promotes scholarship on comparative and global law, and brings together faculty, scholars, and students from around the world. • The Institute for Executive Education offers focused training for professionals and integrates key elements of law, business, and public policy into its programming. Led by Faculty Director
Gerald Rosenfeld and Executive Director Erin O’Brien, the institute provides custom programs for organizations. Custom programs allow organizations such as law firms, universities, corporations, NGOs, and government entities to create specialized training for professionals. Notable faculty include:
Trevor Morrison, José Alvarez,
Preet Bharara, Randy Milch,
Kenji Yoshino, Stephen Choi,
Jerome Cohen, Mitchell Kane,
Philip Alston, David Rosenbloom,
Benedict Kingsbury, and
Sam Rascoff. • The Institute for International Law and Justice. • The Institute for Law & Society is a joint venture between the law school and the
NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science. It serves as an intellectual center for faculty, graduate students, and law students interested in studying law and legal institutions from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. It offers an opportunity to earn a J.D.-Ph.D or J.D.-M.A. dual degree in law and society. • The Institute for Policy Integrity is a non-partisan think tank directed by
Richard Revesz and Don Goodson. It produces original scholarly research in the fields of economics, law, and public policy and advocates for reform before courts and government agencies, with a primary focus on environmental and energy policy. • The Pollack Center for Law and Business is a joint venture between the law school and the
New York University Stern School of Business. The center is designed to enrich the professional education of students of law and business and to facilitate joint teaching to involve leaders in banking, business, and law in the intellectual life of the university through sponsorship of meetings, conferences and dinners. The Pollack Center also offers a program for students to earn the Advanced Professional Certificate in Law and Business. • The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center is an independent non-partisan academic center dedicated to the study and support of state attorneys general in their work defending and promoting clean energy, climate and environmental law and policies. The executive director is Bethany Davis Noll. • The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice brings in as Fellows each year approximately 14 leading scholars from different disciplines and cultures. Each year the Straus Institute defines an annual theme that serves as the overarching subject around which the annual fora, colloquia and conference are set. The faculty director is
Joseph H. H. Weiler. • The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization is headed by
Moshe Halbertal and
Joseph H. H. Weiler. • The U.S.-Asia Law Institute serves as a resource and partner to various Asian countries as they reform and further develop their legal systems and institutions. It also works to improve the understanding of Asian legal systems by lawyers, academics, policy makers and the public. The faculty director is
Jerome A. Cohen. • The Marron Institute. • The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. The faculty directors are Anthony Thompson and
Deborah N. Archer. • The Tax Law Center == People ==