Robin Steinberg strives to represent the whole person. As a student in the Women’s Prison Project, Robin Steinberg ’82 found a calling in public defense while representing women incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, New York. “I was so moved by the women and their stories that I wanted to understand better what was happening in the criminal justice system,” she says. Steinberg later took the Criminal Defense Clinic and is now executive director of the innovative Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit she founded to implement a holistic approach to criminal
defense. Named the 2009 Alumna of the Year by the NYU Law group Law Women, Steinberg also recently spoke about her criminal defense philosophy as part of the Public Interest Law Center’s Leaders in Public Interest lecture series. “I am eternally grateful to NYU, my clinical instructors, and my clients for bringing my law degree to life and giving it meaning,” she said. To watch Steinberg’s speech, go to law.nyu.edu/more.
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Amy Adler Philip Alston Anthony Amsterdam Claudia Angelos
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Vicki Been ’83 Derrick Bell Jr.
Cristina Rodríguez
Sarah Burns
Laura Sager
Paulette Caldwell
Margaret Satterthwaite ’99
Paul Chevigny
Stephen Schulhofer
Peggy Cooper Davis
Bryan Stevenson
Norman Dorsen
Richard Stewart
Cynthia Estlund
Kim Taylor-Thompson
Samuel Estreicher
Anthony Thompson
Paula Galowitz
Frank Upham
David Golove
Katrina Wyman
Martin Guggenheim ’71
Kenji Yoshino
Helen Hershkoff Randy Hertz Roderick Hills Jr. James Jacobs Benedict Kingsbury Sylvia Law ’68 Holly Maguigan Deborah Malamud Nancy Morawetz ’81 Smita Narula Burt Neuborne Richard Revesz
Public Interest Environmental Law Practice Race and the Law: U.S. and South Africa Sexuality and the Law Transitional Justice
Postgraduate Fellowships Arthur Helton Global Human Rights Fellowship Equal Justice Initiative Fellowships George A. Katz Fellowship at the Brennan Center for Justice Kirkland & Ellis Fellowship International Court of Justice Clerkships NYU/NYPD Graduate Fellowship NYU School of Law Fellowship at Human Rights Watch NYU Tax Policy Fellowship
Selected Courses Capital Punishment Law and Litigation Case Studies in Transitional Justice Death Penalty: Social and Historical Perspectives International Human Rights Police, Law and Society: Issues in Democratic Policing
Outten & Golden Employment Law Fellowship Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights Sinsheimer Fellowship at the Partnership for Children’s Rights
Scholarships Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program
Joint Degree Programs with a Public Interest focus: J.D./M.P.A.*, J.D./ M.U.P., or J.D./Ph.D. with NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service J.D./M.P.P. with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government J.D./M.S.W. with NYU’s Silver School of Social Work J.D./M.A. or J.D./Ph.D. in economics, history, philosophy, politics, or sociology at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science *Also: J.D./M.P.A. with Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs or Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights Scholarship Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American (BLAPA) Law Alumni Association Public Service Scholarship Reynolds Graduate Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program
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