Affiliated Faculty
The Furman Center is fortunate to be able to draw upon the talents and expertise of numerous faculty from New York University’s School of Law, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, Stern School of Business and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Andrew Caplin More info
Professor of Economics at New York University
Housing Finance, Macroeconomic Theory -
Sewin Chan More info
Professor Sewin Chan, Associate Professor of Public Policy at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaches courses in microeconomics, public finance, and health economics. Her research is concerned with the well-being of individuals and households and how it is shaped by the interaction of economic behavior, market institutions and government policies. Professor Chan’s current focus is on the economics of aging and retirement. Her recent projects include the impact of job loss on older workers, individual responsiveness to financial retirement incentives, and the well-being of caregiving grandparents. Professor Chan has also worked on the economics of the residential housing market, examining the inherent risks of homeownership and designing innovative financial instruments for controlling those risks. Professor Chan has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, and the Center for Retirement Research. Her research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics. She holds an M.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
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Paula Galowitz More info
For over two decades, Professor Paula Galowitz has concentrated her teaching, scholarship, and bar association work on improving legal services for the indigent. Today, she is widely known both as a clinical teacher and as an expert on civil legal services for indigent clients.
A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Galowitz clerked for Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg of the New York State Court of Appeals before joining the Civil Division of the New York Legal Aid Society. In 1980, she came to NYU School of Law. Professor Galowitz teaches in the Medical-Legal Advocacy Clinic, a clinic which employs a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to provide legal advocacy in a medical setting for clients referred by medical professionals. This clinic is a medical-legal collaboration to improve health outcomes for patients/clients by providing on-site legal advocacy assistance and training to medical providers. a field work clinic that represents indigents in a wide variety of matters involving housing, government benefits, family law, immigration, education, and AIDS-related matters. She also teaches a simulated course on civil litigation and a seminar on Professional Responsibility in the Public Interest.
Galowitz is currently on the Board of Directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) and was Co-Chair of the Task Force on Housing Court of the New York County Lawyers’ Association. She has previously been chair of the Committee of the Housing Court of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and chair of the Committee on Legal Services, an organization of law professors working to improve the delivery of civil legal services.
Galowitz sees her Bar Association work as connected intimately to her work as an educator. “Given the retrenchment in the funding available for civil legal services,” she says, “we have an affirmative responsibility as members of a legal profession committed to pro bono work and systemic reform to work with the practicing bar to help those most sorely in need.”
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Clayton Gillette More info
Professor Clayton Gillette joined the New York University School of Law faculty in 2000. For the prior eight years, he was the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Gillette began his teaching career at Boston University where he served as the Warren Scholar in Municipal Law and Associate Dean, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia as well as at NYU School of Law.
Professor Gillette earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975 and a B.A. from Amherst College in 1972. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was associated with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in New York City.
Gillette’s scholarship concentrates on commercial law and local government law. He is the author of casebooks on Local Government Law (with Lynn Baker) and Payment Systems and Credit Instruments (with Alan Schwartz and Robert Scott), and a textbook on Municipal Debt Finance Law (with Robert S. Amdursky). Gillette’s numerous articles include studies of long-term commercial contracts, initiatives, relations between localities and their neighbors, privatization of municipal services, and judicial construction of contracts governing homeowners associations. He has also served as the Reporter for the ABA Intersectional Task Force on Initiatives and Referenda and has consulted in litigation ranging from the Agent Orange Products Liability Litigation to the default on municipal bonds by Orange County, California and the Washington Public Power Supply System.
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Zhan Guo More info
Zhan Guo studies transportation and land use, public transit, and pedestrian behavior at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is interested in understanding the multiple travel options faced by individual travelers and how government policies could affect the availability of these options and the subsequent individual decisions. His research has focused on two interesting and interconnected questions. First, how does the governmental regulation over the built environment (e.g. land use planning and infrastructure investment) limit travel options and encourage one particular travel means-car driving? Second, how do travelers perceive different travel options? Could we reinforce, change, or even deceive that perception in order to promote the “right” behavior. Within this framework, He has conducted empirical studies in Boston, Chicago, London, Portland, and New York City.
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Roderick Hills More info
Professor Roderick Hills teaches and writes in a variety of public law areas – constitutional law (with an emphasis on doctrines governing federalism), local government law, land-use regulation, jurisdiction and conflicts of law, education law. His interest in these topics springs from their common focus on the problems and promise of decentralization. The United States has one of the most decentralized systems of regulation in the world, placing enormous power over land, schools, assistance to the needy (among many other topics) under the control of subnational governments, ranging from school districts to states. How these governments interact with each other and with higher levels of government poses complex legal questions. As a matter of policy, decentralization is said to have some characteristic virtues (for instance, efficient representation of local preferences) and vices (for instance, promotion of class and race segregation). Professor Hills’ work explores our decentralized legal regime with an eye towards evaluating how well it balances these costs and benefits.
Professor Hills’ recent work has focused the virtues and vices of decentralization in the federal control of non-federal corruption (Federalism and Corruption: (When) Do Federal Criminal Prosecutions Improve Non-Federal Democracy?,6 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 113 (January 2005)), the states’ regulation of local government (Is Federalism Good for Localism? The Localist Case for Federalist Regimes, 221 J. L. & Politics 187 (2005)), the use of federalism to defuse controversies over culture and religion (Westphalian Liberalism, forthcoming in ___ Fordham L. Rev. ___ (2006)), and the comparative advantages of federal and state politics in providing efficiently non-uniform policy-making for non-uniform communities (Compared to What? Tiebout and the Comparative Merits of Congress and the States in Constitutional Federalism, in The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates. W.A. Fischel, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006)). He is working on a long-term project to describe the ways in which federal regimes in the United States, Canada, and Germany have decentralized the definition of complex private rights to subnational governments as a way of managing cultural conflict, expanding on earlier work that treated private rights themselves as systems of decentralized governance (The Constitutional Rights of Private Governments, 78 NYU L Rev 144 (2003)). His articles have been published in the Michigan Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Supreme Court Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
In addition to being a scholar and teacher, Professor Hills has been a cooperating council with the American Civil Liberties Union for many years, filing briefs in cases challenging denial of domestic partnership benefits to same-sex couples (Pride at Work v. Granholm), exclusion of prison inmates from the protections of state anti-discrimination law (Mason v. Granholm), denial of rights to challenge prison guards’ visitation by family members for prison inmates (Bazzetta v. McGinnis), and discrimination of recently arrived indigent migrants in public assistance (Saenz v. Roe).
Professor Hills holds bachelor’s and law degrees from Yale University, and was a Century Fellow with the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 1988. While attending law school, Hills was a member of the Yale Law Journal and co-editor in chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Humanities. Following law school, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, he practiced law in Boulder, Colorado.
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James B. Jacobs More info
James B. Jacobs is the Warren E. burger Professor of law and Director, Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He holds a J.D. (‘73) and Ph.D.in Sociology (‘75) from the University of Chicago. His doctoral dissertation, Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (1977), a classic in penology, is still assigned in classrooms around the country. In 1982, after seven years as a faculty member at Cornell Law School, Professor Jacobs was recruited to New York University School of Law, where he was appointed Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He regularly teaches one of the first year sections of criminal law and upper year electives in criminal procedure, federal criminal law and juvenile justice. He also teaches specialized seminars on such subjects as privatization of criminal justice, the jurisprudence of criminal records, labor racketeering, gun control, sentencing, corruption control, prisoners’ rights, victims and criminal procedure, and the war on drugs.
Since coming to NYU School of Law, Jacobs has convened the monthly Hoffinger Criminal Justice Colloquium, which brings together academics from diverse disciplines, criminal justice policy makers, researchers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and journalists with the Law School’s criminal law faculty for public lectures and discussions key criminal justice issues. NYU Law students are always welcome.
Jacobs has published fourteen books and more than 100 articles on such topics as prisons and imprisonment, drunk driving, corruption and its control, hate crime, gun contyrol, and labor racketeering. Professor Jacobs frequently involves law students in his research projects. For example, he co-authored Busting the Mob: U.S. v. Cosa Nostra (1994) with law students, Christopher Panarella and Jay Worthington III; he co-authored Gotham Unbound: How NYC Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime (1998)with law students Robert Raddick and Coleen Friel. His most recent book is Mobsters, Unions and Feds: Organized Crime and the American Labor Movement (2006. Forthcoming is a volume on United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a civil RICO case whose remedial phase is on-going since 1989.
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Mitchell L. Moss More info
Mitchell L. Moss, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, teaches and does research on urban planning and politics, with special emphasis on economic development, telecommunications, and the governance of New York City.
From 1988 to 2004, Professor Moss served as Director of the Taub Urban Research Center. He is the author of a study on the need for reform of The Stafford Act, the principal federal legislation governing federal disaster policies. Professor Moss’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, New York Newsday, The New York Post, and The New York Observer. Professor Moss was voted Professor the Year by NYU Wagner students in 2002 and in 2003, he was awarded the American Planning Association’s NY Metro Chapter’s Robert Ponte Award for his contribution to the vitality of the New York Area. He is the member of the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York.
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Katherine O’Regan More info
Katherine O’Regan is Associate Professor of Public Policy, and Director of the Public and Nonprofit Management and Analysis Program (PNP) at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and spent ten years teaching at the Yale School of Management prior to joining the Wagner faculty in 2000. She teaches courses in microeconomics, poverty, program evaluation, and urban economics, and has received teaching awards from Berkeley, Yale, and NYU Wagner.
Her research focuses on issues and programs affecting the urban poor and the neighborhoods in which they live, including transportation problems and access to employment, concentrated poverty and social networks, and affordable housing. She is currently working on a large project (with Ingrid Gould Ellen) examining neighborhood transitions over the past few decades, including possible broad causes (changes in federal housing policy, and changes in crime, in particular), and outcomes (including possible displacement, and improvements in neighborhood conditions). Among others, she serves on the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the Nonprofit Association for Academic Centers, the editorial board for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the research advisory board for The Reinvestment Fund.
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Jerry Salama More info
Jerry Salama is an Adjunct Professor of Law, teaching a course on Land Use, Housing and Community Development in New York City. He concentrates his research and writing in the affordable housing field. He has published a study on the redevelopment of public housing under the HOPE VI Program. Salama has also published two analyses on ways to reduce the cost of new housing construction in New York City through the Furman Center. He is currently working with Professors Vicki Been and Ingrid Gould Ellen on the Subsidized Housing Information Project to analyze the “expiring use” affordable housing stock in New York City.
In addition to his work at NYU, Salama manages and develops low and middle-income housing in Harlem, including gut rehabilitation of occupied low-income housing with tax credits and new construction middle income-homeownership and rental housing. He created and administers the first-ever equity fund for the acquisition and stabilization of affordable housing in low-income communities. He has served as the Deputy Commissioner for Housing Management and Sales of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) where he supervised property management services for 36,000 City-owned housing units and designed and implemented new programs for the financing, rehabilitation and sale of these buildings. In prior careers, Salama was also a real estate lawyer at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; the Acting General Manager (Chief Operating Officer) of the New York City Housing Authority; and Counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development.
Mr. Salama is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Amy Ellen Schwartz More info
Amy Ellen Schwartz is Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics and Director of the NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy. She teaches courses in public finance and policy at both Wagner and The Steinhardt School of Education. Her research is primarily in applied econometrics, focusing on issues in urban policy and education policy and finance. Current research in K12 education examines the education of immigrant children in New York City, the race gap in test scores, and the impact of school organization and school size on student performance. Her work on economic development in New York City investigates the impact of Business Improvement Districts on property values. Previous research has examined the cost of college, evaluated the role of public infrastructure in determining state output, growth, and employment, and other issues in public finance. Professor Schwartz’s research has been published in the American Economic Review, The Journal of Human Resources, National Tax Journal, and Journal of Public Economics. In addition, Professor Schwartz has consulted on various issues of economic and tax policy for nonprofit organizations and governments. Professor Schwartz received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
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Leanna Stiefel More info
Leanna Stiefel, Professor of Economics at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaches courses in multiple regression and economics of education. Her areas of expertise are school finance and education policy, applied economics and applied statistics. Some of her current and recent research projects include: costs of small high schools in New York City; effects of school organization on student achievement; racial test score gaps; and segregation, resource use and achievement of immigrant school children. She is author of Statistical Analysis for Public and Non-Profit Managers (1990) and co-author of Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research (2005) as well as The Measurement of Equity in School Finance (1984), and her work appears in journals and edited books. She is past president of the American Education Finance Association, past member of the policy council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), and a current governor on the New York State Education Finance Research Consortium. She has been a consultant for organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Education Commission of the States, the New York ACLU, and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972), her AB degree with high honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1967), and holds an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business (1984).
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Kerwin E. Tesdell More info
Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
Community Development Law -
Frank K. Upham More info
Frank Upham teaches first-year Property, law and development, and a variety of courses and seminars on comparative law and society with an emphasis on East Asia and the developing world. He was the Faculty Director of the Global Law School Program from 1997-2002 and is the founder and co-faculty director of the Global Public Service Law Project, which brings activist lawyers primarily from the developing world for an LLM in Public Service Law.
Upham graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1967 and the Harvard Law School in 1974. From 1967 and 70, Upham taught in the Department of Western Languages at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, and was a freelance journalist in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, covering the war for Time, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. Before moving to NYU in 1994, he had taught at Ohio State, Harvard, and Boston College law schools.
Upham has spent considerable time at various institutions in Asia, including as a Japan Foundation Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Doshisha University in 1977, as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Sophia University in 1986, and as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2003. He speaks Chinese and French, as well as Japanese. His scholarship has focused on Japan, and his book Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan received from Harvard University Press the Thomas J. Wilson Prize in 1987. The book is generally viewed as the standard reference for discussions of Japanese law and its social and political role in contemporary Japan. More recently he has begun researching and writing about Chinese law and society and about the role of law in social and political development more generally.
In 1999, Upham founded the Global Public Service Law Project, which he continues to co-direct with Prof. Holly Maguigan. The Project was inspired by Upham’s realization, gained by working with both Japanese and American environmental and human rights lawyers, that there were very few institutional opportunities for activist lawyers throughout the world to learn from each other and to form the professional networks that are common for global commercial lawyers. This isolation is particularly acute for activist and public interest lawyers in the Third World. The Project addresses this need by bringing up to fifteen such lawyers to NYU each year, where they learn from each other, the rest of the student body, and the faculty before returning to their practices with the additional resources and training necessary to be more effective on the global stage.
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Lawrence J. White More info
Lawrence J. White is Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Deputy Chair of the Economics Department at Stern. During 1986-1989 he was on leave to serve as Board Member, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and during 1982-1983 he was on leave to serve as Director of the Economic Policy Office, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. He is the General Editor of The Review of Industrial Organization and formerly Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Economic Association International.
Prof. White received the B.A. from Harvard University (1964), the M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (1965), and the Ph.D. from Harvard University (1969). He is the author of The Automobile Industry Since 1945 (1971); Industrial Concentration and Economic Power in Pakistan (1974); Reforming Regulation: Processes and Problems (1981); The Regulation of Air Pollutant Emissions from Motor Vehicles (1982); The Public Library in the 1980s: The Problems of Choice (1983); International Trade in Ocean Shipping Services: The U.S. and the World (1988); The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation (1991); and articles in leading economics and law journals. He is the co-author of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, Princeton University Press, 2011 forthcoming (with V.V. Acharya, M. Richardson, and S. Van Nieuwerburgh).
He is editor or coeditor of eleven volumes: Deregulation of the Banking and Securities Industries (1979); Mergers and Acquisitions: Current Problems in Perspective (1982); Technology and the Regulation of Financial Markets: Securities, Futures, and Banking (1986); Private Antitrust Litigation: New Evidence, New Learning (1988); The Antitrust Revolution (1989); Bank Management and Regulation (1992); Structural Change in Banking (1993); The Antitrust Revolution: The Role of Economics, 2nd edn. (1994); The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 3rd edn. (1999); The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 4th edn. (2004); and The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 5th edn. (2009). He was the North American Editor of The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1984-1987 and 1990-1995.
Prof. White served on the Senior Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during 1978-1979, and he was Chairman of the Stern School’s Department of Economics, 1990-1995.
