Digging in at the School of Law groundbreaking were (l-r): NYU President L. Jay Oliva, NYU Board of Trustees Chair Martin Lipton (LAW ’55), Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, School of Law Dean and President-designate John Sexton, and Lester Pollack (LAW ’57), chair of the School of Law Board of Trustees.
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Sandra Day O’Connor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, joined leaders of NYU and the School of Law on September 25th to break ground for a new, nine-story academic building for the law school. The ceremony took place at the site of the new building on West Third Street between Thompson and Sullivan Streets in Manhattan.
“The need for lawyers does not diminish in times of crisis,” Justice O’Connor told the gathering. “It only increases. New York University School of Law has played, and will continue to play, an important role in training lawyers who understand the need to convince a sometimes hostile world that our dream of a society that conforms to the rule of law is a dream we all should share.”
“This project reaffirms our commitment to prepare students to seek justice through law,” said John Sexton, dean of the law school and NYU President-designate, who presided at the groundbreaking. “With it, we also reaffirm our University’s resolute commitment to a great city. We build for our law school’s future, as our city must rebuild for its future, on a foundation of justice, the bedrock of our republic.”
Other speakers at the groundbreaking included NYU President L. Jay Oliva; Lester Pollack (LAW ’57), chair of the School of Law Board of Trustees; Jay Furman (STERN ’65, LAW ’71), chair of the NYU Law Foundation Building Committee; Martin Lipton (LAW ’55), chair of the NYU Board of Trustees; and Rishi Bhandari, president of the Student Bar Association at the Law School.
The new academic building is expected to open in January 2004, and will include almost 170,000 square feet. Classrooms, seminar rooms, moot courtrooms, student meeting areas and group study rooms will occupy the lower floors of the new building. A café and student lounge will face Third Street at street level. The building will be connected by a below-street-level walkway to Vanderbilt Hall, which it will face across Sullivan Street. The Global Law Center will be located on the third floor, and upper floors will house administrative and faculty offices, the school’s clinical program, and faculty housing.
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