NYU School of Law has hired six fulltime professors to join the school’s faculty in the 2010-2011 academic year. These new faculty members boast a variety of legal expertise, including backgrounds in business, criminal, international, and procedure law.
One of the new professors, Richard Epstein, has actually been teaching at NYU Law as a Visiting Professor for the last few fall terms. He is known for his work regarding constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical topics related to law, and comes to NYU from Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the faculty from 1972 through the end of the 2009-2010 academic year. For the 2010-2011 academic year, Professor Epstein will teach the first-year Contracts course in the fall and a class on food and drug law in the spring. Daryl Levinson, meanwhile, is returning the NYU School of Law after teaching at Harvard Law School for five years. Planning to teach Remedies in the fall and Constitutional Law in the spring, Levinson is known for his expertise in public law as well as constitutional law and theory. Erin Murphy, on the other hand, is slated to teach Criminal Law in the spring, drawing on her variety of research and experience in criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence. Leaving his current position as a senior researcher for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, joining NYU School of Law’s faculty will be Ryan Bubb’s first teaching position. He will teach the Corporations course in the fall. Sarah Woo will teach International Finance Regulation as well as the International Insolvency seminar this spring, sharing her expertise in bankruptcy and financial regulation with her students. Franco Ferrari, who comes to NYU from Verona University School of Law in Italy, is the final new fulltime faculty member. Known for his work in comparative law, Ferrari will teach International Business Transaction in the fall, and next spring teach the Comparative Law of Torts as well as Forum Shopping & International Commercial Law seminars.
