IN THIS ISSUE Furman Hall Opens: The Architecture of a Law School’s Vision. The Creative Counsel: Professor Burt Neuborne reflects on his NYU career as a litigating academic. Law School Top Criminal Minds: THE MAGAZINE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY A world-class faculty makes the case for NYU. SCHOOL OF LAW AUTUMN 2004 Partners in Crime On Our Cover Criminal Law Personified: Here’s how to make a professor proud. NAACP Legal Defense Fund law- yer, Vanita Gupta (’01), the subject of Turning the Tables in Tulia, on page 53, confers with co-coun- sel during the course of her high-stakes bid to free 35 wrongly-convicted citizens of Tulia, Texas. The lawyer facing Gupta in the sketch is another NYU School of Law graduate, Adam Levin (’97), who took the case pro bono for D.C. firm Hogan & Hartson. Levin is now one of the firm’s senior associates. Artist Marilyn Church has covered famous court- room spectacles including trials involving Robert Chambers, John Gotti, and Jean Harris of Scars- dale Diet fame—since the seventies. Her work is often on ABC and in The New York Times, and has been published in Fortune, Esquire, Time, and Newsweek. Message from Dean Revesz he Law School continues to astonish me with its vitality. Having completed my second year of stewardship as dean, I feel so grateful for the privilege of learning and interacting with the various communities that comprise the T NYU School of Law. In one extraordinary week last spring, for example, I first welcomed James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, to an important conference on Human Rights and Development. Next, I listened to my colleague Barry Friedman, one of the nation’s leading constitutional theory experts, deliver the inaugural chair lecture for the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professorship of Law, established by Law School Trustee Alan Fuchsberg (’79) and his family in honor of his father, a distinguished judge on the New York Court of Appeals, who graduated in 1935. I moved on to greet the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who had convened to hear Professor Noah Feldman report on his experience serving as a senior advisor on constitutional law to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, before heading over to the eighth annual Hauser Lecture on international humanitarian law featuring Lord Paddy Ashdown, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The lecture, organized by long-time faculty member Theodor Meron, who is currently on leave to serve as the president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, drew a distinguished crowd. Antonio Cassese, also a judge on the ICTY and former President of the tribunal from 1993 to 1997 was there, as was Richard Goldstone, a judge on South Africa’s Constitutional Court and former chief prosecutor for the ICTY. My week was topped off when I presented Rita Hauser (’59) with the Vanderbilt Award; appropriately, the pathbreaking Hauser Global Law School Program, co- founded by Rita and her husband, Gustave (LL.M. ’57), had made the indelible Ashdown session possible. And then it was on to the next week, which brought similar intellectual excitement. For those of us who work and study on Washington Square South, the constant buzz of activity makes every day memorable. At any given time, there are workshops, roundtables, panel discussions and lectures with distinguished guests attended by students, faculty, alumni, and practitioners. I hope that the Student Spotlight, Around the Law School, and Alumni Activities sections in this issue will convey some of that feeling. Our new opening section, Notes & Renderings, should get you quickly up to speed on some of the highlights. Be sure to note the exciting news that we successfully completed our $30 million endowment campaign for the Root-Tilden-Kern Program, the leading public interest pro- gram in the country, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Thanks to the incredible generosity of Jerome Kern (’60), and many others, we will, once again, offer each entering class 20 full-tuition scholarships. The most tangible physical milestone this year—the opening of Furman Hall, the first new academic building on campus since Vanderbilt Hall was built more than 50 years ago—serves as the editorial gateway to the issue’s longer pieces including Creative Counsel, our profile of the accomplished and affable Burt Neuborne, the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, written by Joseph Berger of The New York Times. We are also proud to showcase Vanita Gupta (’01), whose tale is proof positive of the outstanding training in criminal law available to NYU School of Law students. A profile of this alumna and her battle to free 35 wrongly convicted Texans is embedded in the cover story on our criminal law program, Par tners in Crime, written by Jodi Balsam (’86). This article continues the tradition of focusing on one substantive area of law in which the NYU School of Law has extraordinary strengths. I am confident that an independent peer review would conclude that, among the leading law schools in the country, we have the strongest criminal law program. Our international and environmental law programs, which were the focus of The Law School in the past two years, meet the same standard. I hope you will agree that this issue reflects the intellectual energy and vibrancy of the Law School itself. Please do weigh in with your verdict at [email protected]. We hope to hear from you. Richard Revesz The Law School THE MAGAZINE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW The Architecture of Creative Counsel: a Law School’s Vision Professor Furman Hall, the first new construction Burt Neuborne on campus since Vanderbilt Hall some Meet this rare blend of litigating 50 years ago, makes a grand entrance. academic and imaginative lawyer. By Joanna Goddard By Joseph Berger 10 16 4 104 Notes & Student Spotlight Renderings Scholarship . 104 Excerpts from three outstanding Recent NYU School 58 articles by Class of 2004 of Law graduates members Kristine Hutchinson, head to the U.S. Faculty Focus Josh Kagan, and David Lehn. Supreme Court for Scholarship . 58 vaunted clerkships, Five Law School teachers and thinkers— Events........... 110 professors win grants, Barry Friedman, David Golove, Marcel Kahan, Students start new make cases, garner Deborah Malamud, and Anthony Thompson— law journals, appointments, share excerpts of their recently published explore issues and more… scholarship articles. ranging from inter- national law Good Reads......................... 77 to courtroom A list of all the work published by full- technology to time, visiting, global, and library faculty. 56 Feature Updates water use, and (Plus, keep an eye out for newspaper Last year’s cover story, Training even squeeze op-eds written by faculty and reprinted Environmental and Land Use Lawyers in some fun. throughout the magazine.) for the New Millenium, focused on the environmental program; this year, we look New Faculty . 84 at a few new environmental law projects: The Law School welcomes five new professors, Regulating Regulators; Danube Clean-up; as well as visitors from around the globe. Bait and Switch? Shorts . 94 The 2002 magazine took a close look at Professor Stephen Gillers (’68) steps down the international area in International Law from the vice-deanship—and Professors for the Future; a report, this time, on Clayton Gillette and Barry Adler fill his (really the forward-thinking Center on Law and big) shoes, six new chairs are celebrated Security’s high-level conference, “Prosecuting with inaugural lectures, and more. Terrorism: The Global Challenge.” Faculty in the News . 99 The New York Times profiles Professor The- odor Meron’s work at the Hague; Professor Geoffrey Miller’s class-action law- suit study makes waves; and the Chronicle for Higher Education says that Professor Gerald López is a “lawyer with an attitude.” AUTUMN 2004 Volume XIV Managing Editor Elyse Mall Klayman Creative Director David Niedenthal Assistant Managing Editor Partners in Crime Elizabeth Rohlfing Graphic Designers The Criminal Law Program boasts the sharpest Michael Bierman criminal minds in the country—a phalanx of professors Nathan Coates Eric Felisbret who value the lively exchange that distinguishes Yasmin Mistry their intellectual community. It’s simply the best Kim Sajan place to study criminal law—no offense. Senior Editors Jeanhee Kim By Jodi Balsam (’86) Kathleen Maloney Jill Rachlin Marbaix Barbara Tierney Plus: Turning the Tables in Tulia on page 53, a profile of Associate Editor graduate Vanita Gupta (’01), who took what she learned Jill Filipovic and steered an NAACP Legal Defense Fund appeal that Staff Writer would ultimately free 35 innocent people from jail. Dan Bell By Dan Bell Writers COVER STORY 24 Jodi Balsam (’86) Joseph Berger Wendy Davis Joanna Goddard Jessica O’Brien Kate Siamon 122 148 Contributors Joseph Alonzo (’06) Around the Alumni Activities Alma Asay (’05) Brigham Barnes (’06) Law School Awards, anniversaries, and generous William Baxter (’04) Ruth Beering A survey of donations (along with consequential Daniel Bonnici (’05) achievements) are celebrated. on-campus Emily Bushnell (’05) events ranging Brandon Buskey (‘06) David Chubak (’05) from tax work- Michelle Chui (’06) shops to civil Will Edmonson (’05) Linda Hsia Elmstrom rights sessions, Jordan Fletcher (’06) auctions to Shinbum Han (’06) Deepa Janakiraman (’05) international Joi Lakes (’05) affairs seminars. Kevin Lees (’06) Josh Mahowald (’06) Vincent Mareino (’05) Jeremy Masys (’06) Kevin Moriarty (’04) Jonathan Regenstein (’05) 160 Mary Santanello (’06) Vishal Sheth (’05) The Back Page: Liberty’s Kids Brian Sutherland (’06) Professor Jack Rakove, who visited the NYU Lindsay Traylor (’05) Luke Tullberg (’06) School of Law last year from Stanford, vetted Lais Washington (’06) Liberty’s Kids, an acclaimed and star- stud- Craig Winters (’06) Priyanjali Yadav (LL .M .