Tenure As NYU Law School Dean
During his tenure as dean at NYU Law, Revesz has enhanced school’s historic commitment to public interest law, institutionalizing funding opportunities that enable greater numbers of students to pursue public interest work. He also completed a successful campaign to endow the prestigious Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program, restoring the program to its full strength of 20 full-tuition scholarships a year, and more than tripled the size of the AnBryce Scholarship Program, enabling more students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue a legal education and furthering the institution’s mission to promote diversity in the legal profession. Revesz has overseen numerous innovations in the NYU Law curriculum, including the introduction of an Administrative and Regulatory State course in the first-year and the implementation of a first-year elective. The Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business was designed to train future entrepreneurs and leaders of business in cooperation with NYU’s Stern School of Business and offers a wealth of transactional courses to teach students the art of deal making in a number of industries. Revesz also recently completed an ambitious capital campaign that raised $415 million to support the institution’s educational mission. On October 24th, 2012, Revesz announced his intention to step down as Dean as of May 31, 2013. In March 2013, it was reported that NYU gave Revesz a $5.7m loan to purchase an apartment.
After his tenure at NYU Law, Revesz will head the NYU Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment.
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