This morning, the Center for New York City and State Law presents the 2026 Civic Fame Awards. The Civic Fame Award honors ...

This morning, the Center for New York City and State Law presents the 2026 Civic Fame Awards. The Civic Fame Award honors ...

After announcing that he would not run for the congressional seat he held prior to 2025, Anthony DeEsposito declined to run again, opening a last minute substitution of Jeanine Driscoll to run against ...

GOP Matching Funds Legislation Introduced; Party Flipping?; Federal Lawsuits; A Look Back at N.Y. Voting Rights Cases; Upcoming Events; Voting Rights Act Preclearance; N.Y.C. Charter Commission Meets; ...

This week- Congressional Map Challenge Ends, the SAVE Act & New York. Funding for Census 2030 Advances in Albany; Attorney General Preclearance Activity; Elections- Campaign Laws Flouted by ...

On March 31, 2026, the Center for New York City and State Law at New York Law School hosted the first of three events in our new series “The Making of a Housing Crisis.” The first event, “What’s the ...

Early tort law was heavily weighted towards injuries that involved train accidents. Here in the New York City metropolitan region with its huge dependence on rail transport, the older typical ...

New York State’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census failed to live up to the reforms envisioned by voters who endorsed the 2014 constitutional changes. Instead, the redistricting process ...

Christopher Columbus is in trouble. Political pressure to remove Columbus monuments most recently dates from 1992 during the preparations for the 500 th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage. The ...

Recently the City got some good news about Rikers Island, a change from the bad news of recent years. On August 2, 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio, together with Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, ...

United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), joined by 17 Republican colleagues, reintroduced the Equal Representation Act legislation to ensure that only legal citizens are factored into the count for ...

How small is too small when it comes to trip hazards on New York City sidewalks? New York courts, grappling with this issue for over 125 years, have declined to advance a standard based solely on the ...