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New York University

College/University

37 Mentions

25 Reimbursements

$87.5K Income Paid

New York University has been linked to six current Supreme Court justices via their disclosure forms. These ties could include direct financial relationships — such as employment, travel reimbursements or gifts — as well as other connections, such as degrees awarded.

Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Samuel Alito
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh
Brett Kavanaugh
  • Clarence Thomas $15.8K income • 6 mentions

    $15.8K income • 6 mentions

    Noninvestment income

    Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.

    Report Year Amount Purpose
    2008 $8,330.00 Academic - Other
    2003 $7,500.00 Teaching

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    July 12 – 15, 2011 Buenos Aires, Argentina Conference/Symposium

    Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    July 14 – 17, 2008 Florence, Italy Conference/Symposium

    Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Sept. 22, 2004 New York, NY Speaking

    Speech

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    July 9, 2003 Florence, Italy Teaching Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Samuel Alito 1 mention

    1 mention

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    July 17 – 23, 2016 Barcelona, Spain Conference/Symposium

    Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Sonia Sotomayor $71.7K income • 20 mentions

    $71.7K income • 20 mentions

    Positions

    Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.

    Report Years Position
    2003 – 2007 Adjunct professor

    Noninvestment income

    Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.

    Report Year Amount Purpose
    2007 $14,780.00 Teaching

    Adjunct professor

    2006 $14,780.00 Teaching

    Adjunct Proferssor

    2005 $14,315.00 Teaching

    Adjunct professor

    2003 $14,600.00 Teaching

    Adjunct Professor

    2004 $13,205.00 Teaching

    Adjunct professor

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    July 17 – 22, 2022 Edinburgh, United Kingdom Conference/Symposium

    Participation in New York University Law Leadership Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    July 3 – 19, 2019 Lisbon, Portugal Conference/Symposium

    Participation in New York University law leadership conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    April 6, 2018 New York, NY Speaking

    Conversation with retired South Africa Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs

    Food, Transportation
    March 6, 2018 New York, NY Speaking

    Address at convocation honoring Judge Robert A. Katzmann

    Food, Transportation
    Feb. 8, 2016 New York, NY Speaking

    Question and answer conversation with Annual Survey of American Law staff

    Food, Transportation
    Dec. 11, 2015 New York, NY Speaking

    Address to Latino Law Students Association

    Food, Transportation
    March 13, 2015 New York, NY Book Event

    Panel discussion on Burt Neuborne’s book “Madison’s Music”

    Food, Transportation
    July 7 – 11, 2014 Florence, Italy Conference/Symposium

    Participation in Law School Innovative Law and Policy Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Sept. 12, 2012 New York, NY Moot Court

    Moot court judging

    Food, Transportation
    May 16, 2012 New York, NY Speaking

    Commencement address

    Food, Transportation
  • Elena Kagan 4 mentions

    4 mentions

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    April 4 – 5, 2016 New York, NY Moot Court, Speaking

    Speech, moot court

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    May 21, 2014 New York, NY Ceremony

    Commencement

    Food, Transportation
    April 9, 2013 New York, NY Speaking

    Speech

    Food, Transportation
    July 11 – 15, 2011 Argentina Conference/Symposium

    Conference

    Air Transportation, Food, Hotel, Lodging
  • Neil Gorsuch 1 mention

    1 mention

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    April 6 – 8, 2014 New York, NY Academic - Other

    Educational program

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
  • Brett Kavanaugh 5 mentions

    5 mentions

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Oct. 13, 2017 New York, NY Teaching

    Teach a class at NYU Law School

    Transportation
    July 14 – 16, 2017 New York, NY Speaking

    Give talk on judging to new federal and state appellate judges; Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration New Appellate Judges Seminar (repaid back to NYU)

    Food, Lodging
    April 6 – 7, 2015 New York, NY Moot Court

    Judge moot court competition

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Nov. 18 – 19, 2013 New York, NY Academic - Other

    Speak on national security panel and talk to class

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    April 13 – 14, 2010 New York, NY Moot Court

    Moot court

    Food, Lodging, Transportation

About The Data

The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)

Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.

In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.

After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].

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