The Law School announces five new faculty appointments
Cynthia Estlund, a leading academic in the field of labor and employment law, will join the Law School faculty as a tenured professor in the fall. Estlund is the Isidore and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She has written extensively about the role of the workplace in a democrative society and the shortcomings of U.S. labor laws.
Roderick Hills, an expert in constitutional law who teaches comparative federalism; education law; local government law; and property and land use regulation, will join the Law School faculty as a tenured professor in Fall 2006. Hills currently teaches at the University of Michigan Law School, and clerked for Judge Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Robert Sitkoff, whose work focuses on the law and economics of trusts and estates and business organizations, will join the Law School faculty as a tenured professor in September. He is currently a professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and is working with Professor Max Schanzenbach on a book-length study of jurisdictional competition in trust law, which will be published by Yale University Press.
Jeremy Waldron, considered one of the best political and legal philosophers of our time, will join the NYU School of Law faculty in Fall 2006. Currently a University Professor and Professor of Law at Columbia University, Waldron has developed original theories in legal and political philosophy and applies them to issues including indigenous rights, nationalism and torture.
In addition, Dean Richard Revesz announced last fall that Smita Narula and Margaret Satterthwaite '99 would join the faculty as assistant professors of clinical law effective January 1, 2006. Narula and Satterthwaite have been the executive director and research director, respectively, of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice since May 2003. They also have been co-teaching the International Human Rights Clinic.
Finally, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler will become an assistant professor of law at NYU in September. She is currently a fellow at the Center for Law and Business. Her scholarship and teaching interests include commercial law, contracts, corporate law, corporate finance and law and economics.
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