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

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Brenner served as senior note editor of the Stanford Law Review. He has lectured in areas of media law, telecommuni- cations policy, and jurisprudence at Stanford University, George Washington University. and Washington school of Law of American University. Professor Brenner has served as legal assistant to the chairman of the Federal Communica- tions Commission since I979. A member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University and of the American Feder- ation of Television S Radio Artists, he comes to the law school with vast media experience Cas commentator, per- former, production assistant, an writerj and an extensive list of publications both in broadcast regulation and other legal areas as well as in more general areas of interest. KATHERINE T. COBB Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., l973, Brown Univer- sity, J.D., l976, University of Virginia. Since graduating from law school, Professor Cobb has worked exclusively for the Office of the District Attorney, New York County, as an assistant district attorney. In Sep- tember I982, she became deputy chief of the Special Projects Bureau. Since April l983, she has served as deputy chief of a trial bureau. JOHN H. GROSS Adjunct Professor of Law, B.S., IQ64, University of Pennsylva- nia, J.D., l967, George Washington University. Professor Gross was an associate with Sullivan E, Cromwell. New York City, for two years after graduating from George Washington. where he was a member of the Law Review. From i969 to l975 he served as an Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, and in l975 was the assistant chief of the Criminal Division. Since l975 he has been a member of the firm of Anderson, Russell. Kill 8 Olick. New York City, In I979 he was associate special counsel, U.S. Department of Justice. appointed to handle President Cart- er's Warehouse Investigation. He has participated in trial advocacy programs at Harvard Law School and for the Dis- trict Attorney of New York County. MICHAEL A. CARDOZO Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., l963, Brown University, LL.B., l966. Columbia University. Professor Cardozo is a partner at Proskauer, Rose, Goetz S Mendelson, New York City. He joined the firm in i967 after serving for a year as a law clerk to Judge Edward C. McClean of the United States District Court of New York. Professor Cardozo is an honors graduate of Columbia University Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He is currently chairman of the Council on Judicial Administration of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has been an active committee member of several bar associ- ations, especially in the areas of judicial administration and court reform. RICHARD JANVEY Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., I967, University of Wisconsin, J.D., I970, University of Chicago. Professor Janvey is associate general counsel to Arthur Young and Company. Prior to this he was an associate at Debevoise. Plimpton, Lyons S Gates, after serving as a law clerk to Judge David N, Edelstein of the United States Dis- trict Court for the Southern District of New York. BARRY L. KATZ Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.S., l973, J.D., I976. Georgetown University. Associate with the firm of Shereff Friedman Hoffman 8 Goodman. Professor Katz was formerly with the firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher 8 Flom and served as law clerk to Judge Robert W. Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A certified public accountanr, he was an instructor in finacial accounting at Georgetown University and was a member of the adjunct faculty of Cardozo School of Law in l98O-Sl. SANFORD M. KATZ Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., l952, New York University, Certificate, l957, Academy of International Law, The Hague, LL.B., I958, Columbia University. Professor Katz is widely known as a criminal defense lawyer, although he maintains a civil practice as well. He has tried scores of cases in all areas of criminal law, including approxi- mately I5 prosecutions for murder. He is perhaps best known for his defense in the Panthers ll Trial in I97O. He has been a lecturer with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy 09791 and the Practicing Law Institute 0973, I975D, He is chairman of the Central Screening Committee, Indigent De- fendants Criminal Defense Panel of the First Judicial Depart- ment CManhattan and the Bronxb DONALD L. KREINDLER Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., l952, Brooklyn Col- lege, LL.B., l954, Columbia University. Professor Kreindler is a senior partner at Kreindler S Relkin, New York City, and former president of the Lawyers Associ- ation of th Textile lndustry. He presently sits on the boards of governors of this organization and the New York Board of Trade-Textile Section. He is the author of What the Busi- ness Man Should Know about Commercial Arbitration and What the Business Executive Should Know about the Uni- form Commercial Code, NORMAN MARCUS Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B. A., l953, Columbia University, LL.B., l957, Yale University. Professor Marcus has been counsel to the New York City Planning Commission since l963, a professor of planning law at Pratt Institute since I965, and an adjunct Associate profes-

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STEPHEN DIAMOND Professor of Law. B.A., l967, Swarthmore College, M.A., l968, J.D., Ph.D., I976, Harvard University, Certificate in Social Anthropology, l97O, Cambridge University. Professor Diamond graduated from Law School cum laude, simultaneously receiving a Ph.D. in history. He clerked for Judge Frank A. Kaufman, United States District Court, Mary- land. A leading young historian, he is studing the emergence of, and changes in, state and local property taxes. RICHARD D. HOBBET Professor of Law. BA., I949, J.D., l95l, University of Iowa. Professor Hobbet taught personal income tax and corporate tax law at Duke University School of Law from i968 to l975, and during l975 he was a visiting professor at University of Florida College of law. While a student at University of Iowa Law School, Professor Hobbet was editor-in-chief of the Iowa Law Review. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, he served as a trial attorney with the Internal Revenue Service, Chicago Region 0952-545, assistant general counsel for Iowa- Illinois Gas and Electric Company 6954-575. and associate and part- ner in a Milwaukee law firm 0955-685. While in Milwaukee he served for three years on the Board of Directors of the Urban League. RICHARD M. JOEL Associate Dean. B.A., l972, J.D., I975, New York University. After graduating as a Root-Tilden Scholar from New York University School of Law. Dean Joel joined the Bronx District Attorney's Office in l975. After serving as deputy chief of the Appeals Bureau, he came to Yeshiva University Alumni Affairs. In I98O he became associate dean at Cardozo School of Law. In addition to his administrative duties, Dean Joel teaches legal writing and moot court. CHARLOTTE G. MERIWETHER Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., l975, New College, J.D., Yale University. Professor Meriwether served as article and book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. She was visiting assistant professor at Tulane University School of Law, and has been associated with the firm of Hughes Hubbard S Reed, New York City. Professor Meriwether's areas of teaching include contracts, international trade, and corporations. ABBY S. MILSTEIN Director of Legal Writing. B.A., I973. Radcliffe College, J.D., I976, Harvard University. Ms. Milstein, after graduating cum laude from Harvard. was research cunsultant to Prof. Gary Bellow and Assistant Dean Jeanne Kettleson of the Harvard Law School. From l978-to l98O, she served as assistant commissioner and director of research at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. BARRY C. SCHECK Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Legal Education. B.S., I97l, Yale University, J.D., M.C.P., l974, Uni- versity of California of Berkeley. After graduating Phi Betta Kappa from Yale and with honors from University of California Law School at Berkeley, Profes- sor Scheck was a staff attorney for four years with the Legal Aid Society of New York. He has served on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and Defence Council, and is co-author of Raising and Litigating Claims of Electron- ics Surveillance. Professor Scheck is a member of the Committee on the Criminal Courts, Association of the Bar of the City of New York. PHILIP R. AARONS Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., I973, J.D., I976, Columbia University. Professor Aarons is executive director of the New York City industrial Development Agency, and was president and chief executive officer of the New York City Public Development Corporation. He also served as assistant to Mayor Edward I. Koch 0978-793, after working as an associate specializing in real estate law at Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen. Kamin S Soll, New York City. Professor Aarons graduated with honors from both the college and the law school at Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Law Review. PETER L. BERGER Adjunct Professor of Law. B.E.E., I96l. City College of New York, J.D., I966, George Washington University. Professor Berger majored in electrical engineering at City College, completed two years of graduate work in engineer- ing, and went on to earn his J.D. with honors at George Wasington University, where he served as patent editor of the Law Review. He has held positions as patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent attorney with Bell Telephone, and was a member of the adjunct faculty at Seton Hall Law School I977 to l983. A member of the firm of Berger and Palmer, he specializes in patents. trdemarks, and copyright law. DANIEL BRAMBILLA Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., I972, St. Peter's Colleges J.D., I977, Fordam University. Professor Brambilla is an associate at Proskauer, Rose, Goetz E, Mendelsohn. New York City. He is a member of the Copy- right Committe of the Association of the Bar of New York. DANIEL L. BRENNER Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., M.A., l973, J.D., I976, Stanford University. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Professor

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sor at New York University Law School since l977. He is the author of many law review articles on zoning and urban development, and is a lecturer for the American Bar Associ- ation-American Law Institute's Practicing Law Institute. J. EZRA MERKIN Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., I976 Columbia Uni- versity, J.D., l979, Harvard University. Professor Merkin was on the staff of the Harvard Law Record and the Board of Student Advisors while at Harvard. After graduating cum laude, he became an associate with the firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley G McCloy, New York, New York City. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. ELLIOTT L. ME YROWITZ Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., I97l, University of North Carolina, M.A., I975, University of Pennsylvania, .l.D., l979, Rutgers University. Professor Meyrowitz currently serves as consultant to the lnstitute for World Order in New York City, where he is engaged in research and writing reports in the areas of international law, arms control, and military policy. He is a candidate for the Ph.D. in History at the University of Penn- sylvania, for which his dissertation is The Contours of American Foreign Policy in the Age of Interdependancef' He has taught courses, lectured. and written papers in the areas of diplomatic history rights. as well as the military, legal, and other implications of nuclear weapons. ARYEH NEIER Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.S., l958, Cornell Uni- versityg LL.D. CHon.j, I975, Hofstra University, LL.D. fHon.j. l979, Hamilton College. Professor Neier is currently vice chairman of Americas Watch, Helsinki Watch, and Fund for Free Expression. He has also been an adjunct professor of Law at New York Universi- ty since l978. He previously served as director and fellow of the New York lnstitute of the Humanities 0978-SID, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Cl97078J, and executive director 0965-705 and field director 0963-645 of the New York civil Liberties Union. He is the Author of three books, Dossier, Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution, and Defending My Enemy, and numerous articles. JOSEPH ORTEGA Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., l976, Syracuse Uni- versity, J.D., I979, Boston University. Since graduating from law school, Professor Ortega has worked exclusively for the Office of the District Attorney, New York County, as an assistant district attorney. He has held positions in the homicide investigations, and trial bu- reaus. Professor Ortega is a participant in the annual training program for the new assistant district attorneys. RICHARD N. PAPPER Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., l968, Harvard Uni- versity, J.D.. l972, Yale University. Professor Papper was on the Board of Directors, Yale Legal Services Organization, while at the Yale Law School. From l972 to I974 he was law clerk to Chief Judge Joseph S. Lord Ill, of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Penn- sylvania. He was an associate with the firm of Webster and Sheffield, New York, from l974 to l977. Since I977 he has been an Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York. MICHAEL H. POSNER Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., I972 University of Michigan, J.D., I975, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Posner has been executive director of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights since l978. Prior to this, he was an associate at Sonnenshein, Carlin, Nath 8 Rosenthal, Chicago. Professor Posner has represented the Lawyers Committee and the International League of Human Rights at many International meetings, and he has testified on international human rights and on immigration, refugee, and asylum laws before numerous Congressional committees. He is the author of many articles on international human rights violations and is a member of the boards of directors of Amnesty International fU.S.A.J, Americas Watch, Interna- tional League for Human Rights, and Human Rights Internet. JONATHAN B. RUBINSTEIN Adjunct Professor of Law. B. A., I96l, Ph.D., I968 Harvard University. Professor Rubinstein is currently research director for Re- search on Institutions and Social Policy, Inc., a position he has held since I979. Prior to that he served as a member of the Organized Crime Project Advisory Board of the Ford Foun- dation. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he attended Freie Universitat Berlin l96l-62 on a Fulbright Fel- Iowship. Professor Rubinstein has published in the areas of police corruption, law enforcement techniques, gambling, racketeering, and organized crime. FREDERICK P. SCHAFFER Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., I968, .l.D., I973, Harvard University. Professor Schaffer served as editor and senior editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation he clerked for Judge Francis L. Van Dusen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was Assistant United States Attor- ney fCiviI Divisionj and Chief of the Tax Unit, Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. From l979 to l98I he was on the full-time faculty of Cardozo before joining the firm of Pollack S Kaminsky, New York City. MELVIN SCHWECHTER ' Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.J.Ed., l968, Hebrew College B.A., I969, Brandeis Universityt M.A., l97I, Harvard University, J.D., I974, New York University. Professor Schwechter joined the law offices of Robert M. Gottschalk, P.C., in l979, after serving as an attorney-adviser for five years at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Wash- ington D.C. He is an expert in international trade law with special interest in U.S. trade with the Soviet Union.