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The 2010 edition of University of Chicago Professor Brian Leiter's ranking of the top law schools by student quality placed NYU Law 4th out of the 144 accredited schools in the United States. [25] Admission to the New York University School of Law is highly competitive.
J.D. 1988. Professor of law and academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University School of Law. John C. Coffee. LLM, 1976. Adolf A. Berle Professor at Columbia Law School. Yoram Dinstein. J.D. President of Tel Aviv University. Deborah Epstein.
In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms in four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall. In 1835, the School of Law, NYU's first professional school, was established. The university has been popularly known as New York University since its beginning. The school was officially renamed New York University in 1896.
To date, more than 800 Root-Tilden Scholars have graduated from NYU School of Law. [ 7 ] In 1998, then Dean John Sexton announced a precedent-setting gift of $5 million from an alumnus of the Root-Tilden Scholarship, Jerome H. Kern (class of 1960), that began a major capital campaign to raise $30 million for the program.
For the Class of 2024, NYU Shanghai admitted 1,533 students from a total pool of over 13,000 applicants. The admitted Class of 2024 was one of NYU Shanghai's most geographically diverse classes, with students coming from 44 US states and 96 countries around the world. [33]
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature , [ 13 ] NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin [ 14 ] as a non-denominational all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education .
The Law School Admission Test (LSAT / ˈ ɛ l s æ t / EL-sat) is a standardized test administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess reading comprehension and logical reasoning. [5]
John Edward Sexton (born September 29, 1942) is an American legal scholar. He is the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law at New York University where he teaches at the law school and NYU's undergraduate colleges. [1][2] Sexton served as the fifteenth president of NYU, from 2002 to 2015. During his time as president, NYU's stature rose ...