User:CmdrDan/NYU Law School Notable Alumni

Notable alumni edit

See main article List of NYU Law School people; see also List of New York University people

Famous alumni include journalist Glenn Greenwald, Governor and Democratic presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden; former New York City mayors Fiorello La Guardia, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani; New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly; the four founders of the prominent law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Evan Chesler, the current Chairman at Cravath, Swaine & Moore; comedian Demetri Martin; Republic of China president Ma Ying-Jeou; former President of Panama Guillermo Endara; former Director of the FBI Louis Freeh; U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander, Rudy Boschwitz and Jacob Javits; sportscaster Howard Cosell; Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue; NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman; John F. Kennedy, Jr.; Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barofsky; many U.S. Representatives, including Mitchell Jenkins, Jefferson Monroe Levy and Isaac Siegel; former Chairman of Paramount Pictures Jonathan Dolgen; Hollywood and Broadway producer Marc E. Platt; Hollywood producer and former Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment Peter Guber; several corporate leaders including Interpublic Group of Companies Chairman and CEO Michael I. Roth; ConocoPhillips President and COO John A. Carrig; Robert Half International Chairman and CEO Harold Max Messner; and Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher; Marvel Entertainment Vice President John Turitzin; as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureates Elihu Root and Mohamed ElBaradei.

Notable alumni include

Notability Name
journalist Glenn Greenwald
Governor and Democratic presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden
New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
New York City Mayor Ed Koch
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly
the four founders of the prominent law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Lawyer and current Law Firm Chair Cravath, Swaine & Moore Evan Chesler
comedian Demetri Martin
Republic of China president Ma Ying-Jeou
former President of Panama Guillermo Endara
former Director of the FBI Louis Freeh
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander
U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz
U.S. Senator Jacob Javits
sportscaster Howard Cosell
Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
Lawyer, Journalist, Magazine Publisher John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barofsky
U.S. Representative Mitchell Jenkins
U.S. Representative Jefferson Monroe Levy
U.S. Representative Isaac Siegel
former Chairman of Paramount Pictures Jonathan Dolgen
Hollywood and Broadway producer Marc E. Platt
Hollywood producer and former Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment Peter Guber
Interpublic Group of Companies Chairman and CEO Michael I. Roth
ConocoPhillips President and COO John A. Carrig
Robert Half International Chairman and CEO Harold Max Messner
Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher
Marvel Entertainment Vice President John Turitzin
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elihu Root
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei
former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Judith Kaye
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Dennis G. Jacobs
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit .[1] Pauline Newman


Among judges, Judith Kaye, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, is an alumna; Dennis G. Jacobs, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is an alumnus. Judge Pauline Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also graduated from NYU Law.[2] NYU Law alumni have served as judges of the International Court of Justice, which is popularly known as the World Court,[3] and of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

  1. ^ Notable NYU School of Law Alumni, NYU School of Law. Accessed July 7, 2007.
  2. ^ Notable NYU School of Law Alumni, NYU School of Law. Accessed July 7, 2007.
  3. ^ "NYU Law’s Owada named to International Court of Justice: Joins three law school alumni already on ICJ, NYU Today, Vol. 16 No. 4, December 10, 2002. Accessed July 7, 2007.