The faculty created the Law School’s seven academic centers to maximize the effectiveness of their research, scholarship, teaching, and activism, and to increase the opportunity for students to engage in important public policy issues. The centers complement course work in civil rights, international human rights, international trade and finance, constitutional law, urban legal studies, media law, intellectual property law, immigration law, refugee and asylum law, Internet law, and professional values and practice.

All students at New York Law School have a variety of opportunities to participate in the work of the centers. Through the Harlan Scholars Program, top students are offered the opportunity for specialized study in one of the centers. (Click here for more information about the Harlan Scholars Program)

The Centers

• Center for International Law
• Center for New York City Law
• Center for Professional Values and Practice
• Center for Real Estate Studies 
• Center on Business Law & Policy
• Institute for Information Law and Policy
• Justice Action Center