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

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LESTER BRICKMAN ,. 1 Professor of Law. B.S., 1961, Carnegie Mellon University: J.D., 1964, University of Florida, LLM., 1965, Yale University. Professor Brickman has taught courses in contracts, professional responsibility, federaljurisdiction, and family law since entering into teaching in 1965. He is a specialist in legal services delivery systems, F and has written and lectured on lawyers' advertising, specialization, use of paraprofessionals, group and prepaid legal services, unautho- ,H rized practice, and systems approaches to law practice. He is also a 55 5 leading expert in the field of clinical legal education. He has consult- 1 ' ed for the U.S. Office of Education, Ford Foundation, National -- Science Foundation, Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association, Law Enforcement Assis- tance Administration, and Legal Services Corporation. He served as Cardozo's acting dean from 1980 to 1982. 1 AVID G. CARLSON Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1974, University of California at Santa Barbara, J.D., 1977, Hastings College of Law, University of California. Professor Carlson was editor-in-chief of the Hastings Law Journal and law clerk fexternship programj to Justice Raymond L. Sullivan of the California Supreme Court while at Hastings. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Carlson was an associate with the firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, New York City, from 1977 to 1981. He teaches in the areas of admiralty, bankruptcy, commercial law, and property. -. '-4. EDWARD DE GRAZIA Professor of Law. B.A., 1948, J.D., 1951, University of Chicago. Professor de Grazia has taught at the law schools of Catholic University of America, University of Connecticut, Georgetown Uni- versity, and American University.'From 1956 to 1959 he served with the Office of Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris, subsequently, as a con- sultant with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for Interna- tional Development, and Arizona Criminal Code Commission. Professor de Grazia engaged in the private practice of law for over 10 years in Washington, D.C., specializing in communications law and First Amendment litigation. During 1968-72 he was director of Georgetown University's Program for Pretrial Diversion of Accused Offenders to Community Mental Health Treatment Programs. Pro- fessor de Grazia was managing editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. His most recent published work is Banned Films: Mov- ies, Censors, and the First Amendment.

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JDH . PPEL Visiting Professor of Law and Associate Dean, B.B.A., 1953, J .D., 1956, University of Michigan. After graduation from University of Michigan Law School, Pro- fessor Appel became an instructor at Columbia University Law School C1956-585, and then entered private practice in New York City C1958-611. In 1961 hejoined the CBS Law Department and was deputy general counsel of CBS, Inc., 1968-80. From 1980 to 1983, he was vice president and general counsel of Western Union Corpora- J. DAVID BLEICH Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics. B.A., 1960, Brooklyn College, M.A., 1968, Columbia Universityg Ph.D., 1974, New York University. Dr. Bleich has taught at Hunter College, Rutgers University, and Bar-Ilan Univer- sity, and is professor of Talmud at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University. He has written extensively on Jewish law and ethics: among his published works are Jewish Bioethics, With Perfect Faith: Foundations of Jewish Beliefg Contemporary Halakhic Problems Ctwo volumesjg and Judaism and Healing. He is editor of the Halakhah department of Tradition. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at the Hastings Institute for Ethics, Society, and Life Sciences, and is a fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy. tion. He teaches restitution and antitrust law. Rf WILLIAM W. BR -10' .I TTO , JR Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, .l.D., 1976, Columbia University. Professor Bratton graduated magna cum laude from college. While in law school, he was both Kent and Stone Scholar, and served as articles editor of the Columbia Law Review. He was law clerk to Judge William H. Timbers, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1976-77, and was associated with the firm of Debe- voise, Plimpton, Lyons 8: Gates from 1977 to 1980. He teaches contracts, corporations, and corporate finance, and has written arti- cles dealing with the relations of corporations and senior security holders.

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:X :Q RICHARD D. 1' .M A - Q 5 FRIEDMAN ii. S A ,,., . If-1:3-:ft ' ii Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, J .D., 1976, Harvard Uni- Q, versity, D. Phil., 1978, Oxford University. l A magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Har- ',-,Q 2 :', 'l'i i vard Law School, Professor Friedman was awarded the Sears Prize for finishing first or second in his second year of law school. He ,. 1 is 33313 served on the Harvard Law Review and as law clerk to Chief Judge ' Irving R. Kaufman, United States Court of Appeals for the Second -f ' 'e 'P i ei 5 Circuit. At Oxford, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar, his A D.Phil. thesis was Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, 1930- 1941. Prior to joining the faculty, he was associated with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Sc Garrison, New York City. His primary teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of constitu- tional law, antitrust, evidence, and commodities law. ' ASSE H ILE Professor of Law. B.A,, 1950, University of Wisconsing LL.B., 1954, M. A., 1957, Ph.D., 1961, Columbia University. Professor Haile comes to Cardozo School of Law after an illustrious career in his native country, Ethiopia. As Civil Service Commissioner, Central Personnel Agency of Ethiopia C1961-625, he helped draft the first civil service regulations of Ethiopia and helped establish the first Personnel Administrative Agency. He was Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, while simultaneously serving as chairman of the Emperorls Private Cabinet comprising the departments of Foreign Affairs, Judicial Affairs, Economic Affairs, Social Affairs, Chief of Staff Section, External Security, and Religious Affairs. In 1968 Professor Haile became Ambassador of Ethiopia to the United States. He served as Ambassador until 1971, when he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, heading Ethiopials delegations to the United Nations General As- sembly, Organization of African Unity, Non-Aligned Nations Conferences, Confer- ences of East and Central African States, and other international and regional conferences as well as to bilateral meetings. He was elected chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity. LESLIE E. GERWIN Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1972, Prescott College, J.D., 1975, Antioch School of Law. Professor Gerwin was a member of the faculty of University of Miami School of Law from 1975 to 1976. She has taught torts, administrative law, consumer law, elements of law, and legislative process. Having served as a law clerk to Judge Sylvia Bacon, Superior Court forthe District of Columbia, Professor Gerwin has also held staff and consulting positions with members of Congress and private organizations, principally on consumer and social welfare policies and legislation. She has been a consultant on administrative practices and procedures to the Food and Drug Administration.