Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law - Res Nova Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ADJUNCT FACULTY HELAINE BAFINETT Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1960, Barnard Col- legeg J.D., 1964, New York University. Professor Barnett's professional career has been de- voted tothe Legal Aid Society. She has been associate appellate counsel in both the Civil and Criminal Appeals Bureaus. Since 1974 she has been assistant attorney- in-charge of the Civil Division. From 1976 to 1979 she served as a member of the former Committee on Griev- ances, Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Discipline. She has most recently been appointed to the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, Association of the Bar of the City of New York. MARK A. BELNICK 4 A Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1968, Cornell Univer- sityg J.D., 1971, Columbia University. 1 A cum laude graduate of Cornell, Professor Belnick was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School. Associated with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 8 Garrison since 1972, he became a member of the firm in October 1979. He has extensive experience: as a litigator in many areas and most recently has become involved with matters concerning the Middle East. aoeizntw. i3EN.1AiviiN ii Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1967, Union College, J.D., 1970 University of Virginia: LL.M., 1974, New York University. Professor Benjamin is a member of the firm of Van Ginkel and Benjamin, supervising substantially all inter- national tax matters handled by the firm. He is a direc- tor of the International Tax Institute and author of arti- cles dealing with problems of international taxation. JESSICA DEGRAZIA Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, Uni- versity of Chicago, J.D., 1973, Yale University. Professor deGrazia directed the Felony Disposition Study for the Vera institute of Justice during 1973-74 and then joined the New York County District Attor- ney's Office, where she is now senior trial counsel and director of hiring. From 1978 to 1981 she served as director of training for the District Attorney's Office. ln 1980 she lectured at Yale Law School. JOHN H. GROSS Adjunct Professor of Law. BS., 1964, .Univeristy of Pennsylvania, 1967, George Washington Universi- ty. . r . 1 Vg ,A . V Professor .Gross was an associate with Sullivan 81 Cromwell, New York City, for two years after' graduating from George Washington, where he was a member of the Law Review. From 1969 to 1975 he served as an .Assistant UnitedtStates.Attorney, Southern District of New York, and in -1975 was the assistant chief of the Criminal Division. Since 1975 he has been a member of the firm of'Anderson, Russell, Kill Sr Olick, New York City. ln 1979 the was associate special' counsel, U.S. Department of Justice fCarter's Warehouse Investiga- tionj. .He has participated in trial advocacy programs at Harvard Law School and for the District Attorney of New York County. A

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DONALD J. RAPSON Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1951, J.D., 1954, Columbia University. Professor Rapson has been with the firm of Rapson, Henderson and Mills tAsbury Park and Manasquan, N.J.l since 1960. He has published extensively in the area of commercial law and has been a lecturer for, among others, the Annual Uniform Commercial Code Institute, Practicing Law Institute, American Law Insti- tute, and New York Bank Law Institute. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 1968, and was chair- man of the New Jersey Board of Examiners t1970-751. He is a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and Rutgers Law School-Newark, and adjunct associate professor of law at New York University School of Law. MICHAEL S. ROSS Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Rutgers University, J.D., 1974, New York University. Professor Ross was note and comment editor of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change and a member of the International Moot Court Team. He has been the recipient of over 65 intercollegiate debating trophies and was National Debate Champion- ship Regional Winner in 1971. From 1974 to 1978 Pro- fessor Ross was assistant district attorney, Kings Coun- ty. Since 1978 he has been AssistantjUnited States Attorney, Criminal Division, Southern District of New York, assigned to the Official Corruption!Special Pros- ecutions Unit. FREDERICK P. SCHAFFER Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1968, J.D., 1973, Harvard University. I Professor Schaffer served as editor and senior editor, respectively, of the Harvard Law Review. After gradu- ation he clerked for Judge Francis L. Van Dusen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was Assistant United States Attorney tCiviI Divisionl and Chief of the Tax Unit, Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. From 1979 to 1981 he was on the full-time faculty of Cardozo before joining the firm of Pollack 8. Kaminsky, New York City. PHILIP SHUCHMAN Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1950, Pennsylvania State University, LLB., 1953, M.A., 1957, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Shuchman entered full-time teaching fol- lowing 10 years in private practice. ln fall 1981 he joined the faculty of Rutgers University-Newark School of Law following an association with the University of Con- necticut School of Law dating to 1967. Courses hehas taught include civil procedure, creditors' rights and bankruptcy, jurisprudence, and law and social science. Professor Shuchman served as deputy director, Com- mission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate Sys- tem, and was on the Advisory Committee, Governors Commission on the Uniform Consumer Credit Code fConnecticutj. His writings include co-authorships in the areas of civil procedure and jurisprudence as well as Problems of Knowledge in Legal Scholarship, University of Connecticut Press, 1980. Professor Shuchman was a visiting professor of law at Cardozo in 1979-80 and was a member ofthe adjunct faculty in the spring of 1981. CHARLES B. UPDIKE Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1961, Amherst Col- legeg M.A., 1964, George Washington Universityg LL.B., 1967, Harvard University. Professor Updike is a partner in the firm of Schoe- man, Marsh, Updike 81 Welt, New York City. From 1968 to 1972 he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and from 1972 to 1976 an associate in the firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons 81 Gates. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Special Committee on the Proposed Federal Criminal Code. He has been an instructor in trial practice at Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education-New England Law Institute.