Podell Distinguished Teaching Awards Given to Three Law Professors

School of Law professors Cindy Estlund, Clay Gillette, and Troy McKenzie were honored at the school’s end-of-the-year dinner in May with the Albert Podell Distinguished Teaching Awards. Established last year by Podell (Law ’76), the awards recognize outstanding achievements by faculty in the classroom.

      Estlund is a leading scholar of labor and employment law who has written extensively on the relationship between the workplace and democracy. She has almost two decades of teaching experience and joined NYU in 2006. Gillette, a distinguished scholar of commercial law and local government law, has been teaching for over 16 years, first at Boston University and then the University of Virginia School of Law, before joining NYU in 2000. McKenzie (LAW ’00), the newest member of the law school faculty, is a bankruptcy scholar and teaches courses on complex litigation and procedure.

      In addition to his support of the Distinguished Teaching Awards, Podell has made other important contributions to the law school, including a faculty research fund and the Moot Court Program. He is the sponsor of the Albert N. Podell Moot Court Competition and established the Albert N. Podell Prize in Oral Advocacy as well as the Albert N. Podell Prize in Brief Writing. Most recently, he established the Albert Podell Global Scholar-at-Risk Fund to support scholars, researchers, faculty members, and intellectuals outside of the United States who face persecution in their home countries.