Brought to you by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital program (formerly the Law Venture Fund), this hub serves as the intersection of all things law and tech at the law school. Below you will find relevant resources and information on centers, clubs, clinics, colloquia, news, research, student journals, media, opportunities for students, events, and more!
Centers & Clubs:
- Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy provides a unique environment where scholars can examine the key drivers of innovation as well as the law and policy that best support innovation. The Center’s Student Fellowship program provides an opportunity for students to explore areas of innovation law and policy as part of the Engelberg Center community. The program revolves around regular meetings that provide Student Fellows an opportunity to connect with one another and participate in discussions with other members of the Engelberg Center community, outside experts, and practitioners.
- Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE)
The Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is a law and research program dedicated to developing a richer and deeper understanding of the causes of corporate misconduct and the nature of effective enforcement and compliance.
- Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance (ICGF)
In any significant corporate governance controversy, the de facto “deciders” are the largest institutional investors. This new balance of power sets the policy and research agenda. The Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance was launched in 2016 to address these issues, taking advantage of the concentration of finance, talent, and activity in New York and at New York University.
- Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship is a global leader in the field of law and social entrepreneurship. The Grunin Center is advancing a global movement that creates new ways for law and lawyers to drive positive change in the world.
Based in School of Law’s new Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies, Guarini Global Law & Tech brings together in-depth inter-disciplinary study, practice, and exploration of legal and regulatory issues that are transforming legal practice in a new global landscape.
The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice was established in 2002 to bring together and expand the rich array of teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities undertaken within on issues of international human rights law.
- Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business
The fast-paced, multi-jurisdictional world of enterprise increasingly demands professionals with both legal and business skills. School of Law’s Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business places students showing exceptional promise at the forefront of this convergence. The program capitalizes on the strengths of New York University’s dynamic Law and Business schools and their location in the financial center of the world.
The Law Social Enterprise & Startup Law Group is a student-run organization focused on social innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital, and the lawyer's role in these spaces.
- Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society
's IPELS is a student-run organization that seeks to promote the study and practice of intellectual property law and entertainment law within the law school community.
- Law and Business Association
The Law & Business Association is a student organization established to pursue both scholarship and professional opportunities in the various disciplines arising out of the crossroads of law and business.
The AI Now Institute at New York University aims to produce interdisciplinary research and public engagement to help ensure that AI systems are accountable to the communities and contexts in which they’re applied.
- Information Law Institute (ILI)
The Information Law Institute (ILI) is an academic center for the study of law, policy, and social norms defining and affecting the flow of information in a digitally networked society.
- Privacy Research Group
The Privacy Research Group at New York University's Information Law Institute (ILI) is a weekly meeting of students, professors, and industry professionals who are passionate about exploring, protecting, and understanding privacy in the digital age. The Information Law Institute is an academic center for the study of law, policy, and social norms defining and affecting the flow of information in a digitally networked society.
Clinics & Colloquia:
- Technology Law & Policy Clinic
With technological advances driving greater social, economic, and political change—including access to information, health care, and entertainment; impacts on the environment, education, and commerce; and increased surveillance by law-enforcement agencies—issues related to privacy, consumer rights, algorithmic accountability, free speech, and intellectual property are becoming increasingly critical and complex. The Technology Law & Policy Clinic focuses on the representation of individuals, nonprofits, and consumer groups who are engaged with these questions from a public interest point-of-view. It involves a mixture of fieldwork and seminar discussion ranging from technology law and policy to the ethical challenges of representing public interest organizations.
- Innovation Policy Colloquium
The Colloquium on Innovation Policy focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity, invention, and new technology.
News & Research:
New York University Journal of Law & Business ( JLB) is one of School of Law’s most innovative academic journals, providing a forum for dialogue and analysis of current issues, ideas, and problems at the intersection of two dynamic fields: law and business. JLB's examines the impact of blockchain on the practice of law.
Jennifer S. Fan delves into the first empirical study of startup corporate governance post-Great Recession and during the pandemic.
- Eating to Win
Scott Hemphill spotlights an antitrust problem for highly innovative industries: anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent competitors.
The Policing Project advocates for the responsible use of technology along three dimensions: legal, ethical, and democratically accountable.
- Student Spotlight: Kevin Kuate Fodouop ’23
Interview with a student who received the Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business Scholarship, Furman Academic Scholarship, Latham and Watkins Award in Technology and Law, Joyce Lowinson IILJ Research Scholars, Nordlicht Family Law and Social Entrepreneurship Scholarship, and the School of Law Dean's Scholarship.
Written by Yelena Niazyan, JD ‘20, Annual Survey of American Law, 2021
Written by Aaron C.F. Salerno, JD ‘20, Annual Survey of American Law, 2020
Written by Iqra Bawany, LLM ‘22, New York University Journal of Law & Business, 2021
- Mapping the State of Social Enterprise and the Law
The Grunin Center publishes an annual report that evaluates the state of social enterprise and the law in the United States. The report generally examines the challenges in defining the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investing, legislative developments in the United States with respect to forms of legal entities that are available to social entrepreneurs, and the role of U.S. legal education in training a new generation of lawyers knowledgeable about the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investing.
Media:
Student Opportunities
- Grunin Center Research Assistants
- White & Case Social Entrepreneurship Internship
- PCCE Student Fellows
Events