New York Law School
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| Motto | We are New York's law school. |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | June 11, 1891 |
| Endowment | $241,522,413 |
| Dean | Anthony Crowell |
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Academic staff
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Full-Time, 54; Adjunct, 59 |
| Students | 900 J.D. students; 35 advanced-degree students |
| Location | TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.nyls.edu |
New York Law School is an ABA-accredited private law school that was founded in 1891 in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
The current Dean of New York Law School is Anthony W. Crowell, who previously served as counselor to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New York Law School’s faculty includes 54 full-time and 59 adjunct professors. NYLS features a full-time day program, a part-time evening program, and a two-year accelerated J.D. honors program.
Notable NYLS faculty members include Edward A. Purcell Jr., an authority on the history of the United States Supreme Court, and Nadine Strossen, constitutional law expert and president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008.
Prominent NYLS alumni include Maurice R. Greenberg, former Chairman and CEO of American International Group Inc. and current Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr and Co. Inc.; Charles E. Phillips Jr., CEO of Infor and former President of Oracle; and Judith Sheindlin, “Judge Judy,” New York family court judge, author, and television personality. Other past graduates include United States Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II and Wallace Stevens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
According to ABA-required disclosures, 88.2% of the NYLS class of 2015 had obtained employment 10 months after graduation, and 69% of the 2015 class had obtained long-term, full-time JD-required or JD-Advantage employment.
During the winter of 1890, a dispute arose at Columbia Law School over an attempt to introduce the Case Method of study. The Case Method had been pioneered at Harvard Law School by Christopher Columbus Langdell. The dean and founder of Columbia Law School, Theodore Dwight, opposed this method, preferring the traditional method of having students read treatises rather than court decisions. Because of this disagreement, Dwight and a number of other faculty and students of Columbia Law School left and founded their own law school in Lower Manhattan the following year.
On June 11, 1891, New York Law School was chartered by the State of New York, and the school began operation shortly thereafter. By this time, Theodore Dwight was in poor health, and was not able to be actively involved with the Law School, so the position of dean went to one of the other professors from Columbia Law School, George Chase. New York Law School held its first classes on October 1, 1891, in the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, in Lower Manhattan's Financial District.
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