The New York University Annual Survey of American Law (Annual Survey) is a student-edited law journal at New York University School of Law

New York University School of Law

The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....

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Mission

The Annual Survey was founded in 1942, making it the second-oldest law journal at NYU. Originally, it was compiled by members of the NYU faculty as a comprehensive annual reference to developments in American law. The Annual Survey is now a quarterly publication that, in addition to publishing generalist legal scholarship, continues to dedicate itself to exploring legal developments from a practice-oriented perspective.

Scholarship

The Annual Survey publishes four unique issues each year. A topical issue focuses on developments in one particular area of law, while a survey issue reviews contemporary developments throughout the field of American law. The Annual Survey each year sponsors a symposium, bringing scholars, advocates, and members of the judiciary to NYU to discuss a topic of interest, and publishes a symposium issue of the journal with articles arising out of the symposium. A dedication is held each year to honor an important figure in the legal community at which scholars and peers honor that figure. This event leads to a dedication issue focused on the life and work of that author. The Annual Survey also fosters student scholarship through a note-writing program, and frequently publishes the work of NYU students.

Selection

Each year the Annual Survey selects 44 new Staff Editors from the rising 2L class on the basis of writing competition entries, bluebook

Bluebook

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. The Bluebook is compiled by the Harvard Law Review Association, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal....

ing, grades, resumes, and personal statements. The Annual Survey does not factor in ranking preference in the journal match system except as a tiebreaker.

Writing Program and Competition

Soon after selection to the Annual Survey, rising 2L Staff Editors are invited to participate in a special competition for the journal's writing program. The writing program allows 2L Staff Editors to focus exclusively on the development of a student note for publication in the Annual Survey: program participants agree to a rigorous writing schedule but are afforded an exemption from most journal production assignments.

List of Dedicatees

Each spring the Annual Survey dedicates a volume to a preeminent member of the legal community, who is honored in a ceremony and dinner at the law school attended by journal members as well as scholars and peers who join the journal in its dedication. The Annual Survey's dedication issue features tributes and scholarship on that jurist's contributions to American law.

Cass Sunstein Cass Sunstein Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who currently is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration...  (2011) Arthur R. Miller Arthur R. Miller Arthur Raphael Miller is a leading scholar in the field of American civil procedure and a University Professor at New York University. Before that he was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School , after being on the faculties of the University of Michigan and the University of...  (2010) Patricia Wald Patricia Wald Patricia McGowan Wald is an American judge. Wald served as the chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Wald graduated from Connecticut College in 1948 and earned...  (2009) Anthony Amsterdam (2008) Stephen Breyer Stephen Breyer Stephen Gerald Breyer is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, and known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court....  (2007) Ronald Dworkin Ronald Dworkin Ronald Myles Dworkin, QC, FBA is an American philosopher and scholar of constitutional law. He is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, and has taught previously at Yale Law School and the...  (2006) Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia Antonin Gregory Scalia is an American jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice...  (2005) Richard A. Posner (2004) John Sexton John Sexton John Edward Sexton is the fifteenth President of New York University, having held this position since May 17, 2002, and the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. From 1988 to 2002, he served as Dean of the NYU School of Law, which during his deanship became one...  (2003) Laurence H. Tribe (2002) Norman Dorsen Norman Dorsen Norman Dorsen is a professor at the New York University School of Law, and specializes in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, and Comparative Constitutional Law. Previously Dorsen was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 - 1991. Dorsen was also president of the Society of...  (2001) George Mitchell George J. Mitchell George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...  (2000) Alexander Boraine & Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...  (1999) Janet Reno Janet Reno Janet Wood Reno is a former Attorney General of the United States . She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11...  (1998) Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice.She is generally viewed as belonging to...  (1997) Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981...  (1996) Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...  (1995) Judith S. Kaye (1994) John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 19, 1975 until his retirement on June 29, 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court's history...  (1993) Martin Lipton Martin Lipton Martin Lipton is an American lawyer. He is a founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specializing in advising major corporations on mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy. He has written and lectured extensively on these subjects...  (1991) Harry A. Blackmun (1990) Barbara Jordan Barbara Jordan Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...  (1989) Bernard Schwartz (1988) Frank M. Johnson, Jr. (1987) William Wayne Justice William Wayne Justice William Wayne Justice was an American jurist. He served as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas and a Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas....  (1986)

J. Skelly Wright J. Skelly Wright James Skelly Wright was a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and anti-segregationist. The J...  (1985) Hans A. Linde Hans A. Linde Hans Arthur Linde, is a German American attorney and former jurist in Oregon. Born in Germany, he also lived with his family in Denmark before immigrating to Portland, Oregon. After serving in the United States Army during World War II he graduated from college and law school. Linde then worked...  (1984) Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991...  (1983) Shirley M. Hufstedler (1982) William J. Brennan (1981) Edward Weinfeld Edward Weinfeld Edward Weinfeld was a longtime federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1950 to 1988....  (1980) David L. Bazelon David L. Bazelon David Lionel Bazelon was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.-Early life, education, and career:...  (1979) Henry J. Friendly (1978) Charles D. Breitel Charles D. Breitel Charles David Breitel was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1974 to 1978.-Life:...  (1977) Herbert Peterfreund (1976) Robert B. McKay (1975) Walter J. Derenberg (1973) Justine Wise Polier (1972) Robert A. Leflar (1971) Frank Rowe Kenison (1970) Jack L. Kroner (1969) Russell D. Niles Russell D. Niles Russell D. Niles was a lawyer and expert in anti-trust law, president of the New York City Bar Association, and a dean of New York University School of Law.-Early life and education:...  (1968) Francis J. Putnam (1965) Tom C. Clark Tom C. Clark Thomas Campbell Clark was United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States .- Early life and career :...  (1964) Charles S. Desmond Charles S. Desmond Charles Stewart Desmond , was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1960 to 1966.-Life:...  & Edmond Cahn (1963) Laurence P. Simpson (1962)

Fred H. Blume Fred H. Blume Friedrich Heinrich Blume , or Fred H. Blume, as he referred to himself, was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court. He was born in Winzlar, Germany, January 9, 1875. He served as a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court for 42 years and by himself translated into English Justinian’s Code and the...  (1961) Austin Wakeman Scott Austin Wakeman Scott Austin Wakeman Scott wrote a ten-volume treatise covering many topics of personal trusts such as the formation and termination of express trusts, resulting and constructive trusts, and the conflicts of interest encountered in the administration of trusts...  (1960) Whitney North Seymour Whitney North Seymour Whitney North Seymour was a prominent New York trial lawyer and bar leader who served in the Hoover Administration and later served as the 84th president of the American Bar Association...  (1959) Charles E. Clark Charles Edward Clark Charles Edward Clark was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1939 to 1963. A native of Connecticut, Clark attended Yale College and Yale Law School...  (1958) Harold H. Burton (1957) Herbert F. Goodrich (1956) Henry T. Heald (1955) John Johnston Parker (1954) Arthur Lehman Goodhart Arthur Lehman Goodhart Arthur Lehman Goodhart, KBE, KC was an American-born British academic jurist and lawyer; he was professor of jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 1931–51, when he was also a Fellow of University College, Oxford...  (1953) Edward S. Corwin (1952) Phanor Eder and Robert P. Patterson Robert P. Patterson Robert Porter Patterson was the United States Under Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry S. Truman from September 27, 1945 to July 18, 1947....  (1951) Bernard Baruch Bernard Baruch Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist.-Early life...  (1950) Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...  (1949) Arthur T. Vanderbilt Arthur T. Vanderbilt Arthur T. Vanderbilt was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1948 to 1957. He also was a noted attorney, legal educator and nationally known proponent of court modernization.-Biography:...  (1948) Roscoe Pound Roscoe Pound Nathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator. He was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936...  (1947) LaFollette, Monroney and Galloway (1946) Carl McFarland (1945) Manley O. Hudson (1944) Frank H. Sommer (1943) Harry Woodburn Chase Harry Woodburn Chase Harry Woodburn Chase was the 12th President of the University of North Carolina , President of the University of Illinois , and 8th President of New York University .- References :...  (1942)

Notable Alumni

Raymond Lohier

Raymond Lohier

Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr. is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and formerly an American prosecutor and an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force in the criminal...

(Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)

External links

• NYU Annual Survey
• NYU School of Law