Message From the Dean

WELCOME TO A NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

Dear CUNY Law Community,

As we begin a new academic year, I am pleased to look back on the remarkable accomplishments of 2025–2026 and share this annual report with you.

The past year reflected the very best of CUNY Law. Together, we strengthened our academic programs, expanded opportunities for students, advanced groundbreaking scholarship, deepened our partnerships with communities across New York, and continued to demonstrate why CUNY Law remains a national leader in public interest legal education.

We celebrated significant milestones, from earning our Middle States accreditation to welcoming Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to our campus. We launched new initiatives, raised record support for students, and graduated another extraordinary class of advocates prepared to use their legal education in the service of justice.
These accomplishments were made possible by the dedication, talent, and care of our faculty, staff, students, alumni, and supporters. Every achievement highlighted in these pages reflects countless hours of hard work, collaboration, and a shared commitment to our mission: law in the service of human needs.

As we move forward into the 2026–2027 academic year, I hope you will take pride in all that we accomplished together. The progress of the past year gives us much to celebrate—and an even stronger foundation from which to build.

Thank you for your continued commitment to CUNY Law and to the communities we serve. I look forward to all that we will achieve together in the year ahead.

Best regards,

Natalie Gomez-Velez
Interim Dean and Professor of Law