The new Reiss Center and Just Security series What You Need to Know: Unpacking the Law in Russia’s War Against Ukraine is back this week. In brief question-and-answer interviews with leading experts, we probe some of the most urgent and unsettled legal questions in a tragic conflict that threatens to reshape the international legal […]
More »New Series | What You Need to Know: Unpacking the Law in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
The Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security present a new series, What You Need to Know: Unpacking the Law in Russia’s War Against Ukraine. In brief question-and-answer interviews with leading experts, we will probe some of the most urgent and unsettled legal questions in a tragic conflict that threatens to […]
More »Kenji Yoshino to receive NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award
On April 14, NYU announced that Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and faculty director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, is among the 2021-2022 recipients of the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Yoshino specializes in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature, and regularly teaches Constitutional Law and Leadership, Diversity, […]
More »Global Crises and the Renewed Relevance of Human Rights
A Conversation with the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council
In the third decade of the new millennium, the simultaneity, speed, and depth of existential challenges like climate change, geopolitical instability, war, technological disruption, and intensifying social inequalities are testing the traditional human rights paradigm like never before.
The UN Human Rights Council […]
More »The Fight for Gender Justice, Part III: The Next Generation of Gender Justice
Join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity for the final event in The Fight for Gender Justice, a three-part speaker series presented by the BWLN and the Ms. Foundation. The speaker series, which began in Fall 2021, convenes thought […]
More »NYU Law Forum: NFTs Explained … To the Extent Possible
What is an NFT, and why are people talking about them? In this Forum, Professors Amy Adler and Chris Sprigman—joined by Mitchell F. Chan, an artist and leading NFT innovator—will look at what NFTs do, and just as importantly, what they don’t do. They’ll discuss a number of recent NFT controversies and examine the role […]
More »Risk Scoring and Children’s Rights in Chile
The Chilean government, like many others, has deployed predictive modelling software to assess children’s risk of facing harm or abuse. The Childhood Alert System, an “early warning system” based on algorithmic predictions, assigns risk scores to children and adolescents. But this system consistently and disproportionately focuses on low-income families and is deemed merely an exercise […]
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