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September 2013

nYLS announces Two-Year 
honors Program
New York Law School 

announces that, beginning in 
January 2015, it will offer a 
two-year J.d. honors program. 
Candidates for admission will
be expected to have completed 
at least two to three years
of meaningful professional
work experience and/or
possess unique academic 

credentials. Because it is an 
honors program, admission will New York Law School has 
automatically come with at least 
a $50,000 merit scholarship for undertaken many substantial 
the 24-month program, for all 
enrolled students. new York law efforts and initiatives in the 
School is the irst in the nation 
to introduce a two-year J.d. past year in furtherance of 

honors program. the law School the goals of the Strategic 
will guarantee postgraduate 
fellowships to all two-year honor Plan. We are pleased to 
students through partnerships 
with irms, companies, nonproit include this timeline, which 
organizations, and government 
agencies. dean crowell is provides some highlights
interviewed about the program 
on New York Public radio and of the key milestones since 

Bloomberg law.
august 2013.









august 2013
Two nYLS Professors win 
fulbrights

Dean Crowell announces that 
Professor richard k. Sherwin 
and Professor Stephen J. 
ellmann have been named 
September 2013
Fulbright recipients. Professor 
nYLS Launches new web Site
Sherwin, who has received the 
New York Law School launches honor to work on a new project 
its new website and receives called “The moving Images of 
great feedback on the website’s Law,” is serving as the fulbright 
look, ease of use, and mobile- visiting research Chair in Law 
friendly design. Some of the new and Literature at the Institute for 
the Public Life of Arts and Ideas 
features include a searchable at mcgill University in montreal, 
class catalog, an institutional Quebec, canada, in the 2013- 
events calendar, a redesigned 
newsroom (including a social 14 academic year. Professor 
media directory and toolkit), and ellmann has received a fulbright 
a faculty news page.
Specialist Award to work on 
comparative constitutional law 
and clinical legal education 
planning this past summer at 
the University of Capetown 
Faculty of law in South africa.








Professor Professor 
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Sherwin
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