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

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AMES B. LEW IS Visiting Professor of Law, LL.B., 1940, Catholic University of , America. Professor Lewis has been engaged in private practice in the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 8: Garrison, New York City, of which he became a partner in 1955, specializing in taxation. He has taught on the adjunct faculties of New York University and Rutgers Law Schools. He has served on the legal staffs of the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service. Professor Lewis has been a consultant to the American Law Instituteis federal estate and gift tax and federal income tax projects. He is chairman of the Section of Taxation, American Bar Association. He is the author of The Estate Tax, now in its fourth edition, and of The Marital Deduction. PETER LUSHI G Professor of Law, B.A., 1962, LL.B., 1965, Columbia University Professor Lushing has served in the Legal Aid Society as a trial attorney in the criminal division 11968-721, and in the New York County District Attorney's Office as the administrative assistant district attorney, and as chief of the appeals bureau 119741. He has also been senior attorney in the Office of General Counsel to the Addiction Services Agency 119721, associate with a New York City law firm 11973- 741, and individual practitioner specializing in appellate litigation 11975-761. Profes- sor Lushing was notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review, Kent Scholar in his first year, and twice a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 119651 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 11966-671. 1 29

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RTH 'R J. J COBSGN Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, .l.D., 1974, Ph.D., 1978, Harvard University. Professor Jacobson was an associate with the firm of Cleary, Gott- lieb, Steen SL Hamilton, New York City, from 1975 to 1977. He holds a Ph.D. in government, on the political philosophy of Hegel. His scholarly work has focused on fiduciary obligation and the law of associations. Professor .Iacobson's areas of teaching are civil proce- dure, jurisprudence, and corporate law. He served as associate dean of academic affairs during 1982-83. STEPHE . KRGLL Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1968, J.D., 1971, Harvard University. Professor Kroll clerked for Judge Milton Pollack of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and was associated with the firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons 8L Gates, New York City, from 1972 to 1979. He is consultant to the New York State Law Revision Commission Project on Recodification of the Insur- ance Law, and a member of the American Law Institute. He was recently appointed to membership on the American Civil Liberties Union's Advisory Committee on Equality and has served as a visiting member of the faculty of University of Miami School of Law's Graduate Program in Estate Planning. Professor Kroll teaches civil procedure, investment institutions, and pension plans. In 1983, Professor Kroll was selected as scholar-in-residence in the Office of General Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. He is presently on leave, serving as assistant to the commissioner, Internal Revenue Service. RICH RD . JGEL ,uv at wt- 4- . at ' M .1 .,, t. Associate Dean. B.A., 1972, J.D., 1975, New York University. After graduating as a Root-Tilden Scholar from New York Univer- sity School of Law, Dean Joel joined the Bronx District Attorney's Office in 1975. After serving as deputy chief of the Appeals Bureau, he came .to Yeshiva University as Director of University Alumni Affairs. In 1980 he became assistant dean at Cardozo School of Law, and has been associate dean since 1982. In addition to his adminis- trative duties, Dean Joel teaches professional responsibility and has taught legal writing and moot court.

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ABBY S. MILSTEI Director of Legal Writing. B.A., 1973, Radcliffe Collegeg J.D., 1976, Harvard University. Ms. Milstein, after graduating cum laude from Harvard, was a research consultant to Prof. Gary Bellow and Assistant Dean Jeanne Kettleson of the Harvard Law School. From 1978 to 1980, she served as assistant commissioner and director of research at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. MONRCE E. PRICE 7 Professor of Law and Dean. B.A., 1960, LL.B., 1964, Yale University. Dean Price graduated magna cum laude from Yale, where he was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart and was an assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. ln- 1968 he was appointed professor of law at the School of Law of the University of California at Los Angeles. Dean Price has served as deputy director of California Indian Legal Services, was one of the foudners of the Native American Rights Fund, and is the author of Law and the American Indian. In the field of communications law, Dean Price was president of California's Foundation for Community Service Cable Television, deputy director of the Sloan Commission on Cable Communica- tions, and is co-author of Cable Television: A Guide to Citizen Action. He was court- appointed referee to monitor the Loss Angeles school district's desegregation plan and is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Law and Social Policy. He is of counsel to the law firm of Munger, Tolles 8: Rickershauser in Los Angeles. Author of numerous scholarly law articles on communications policy, Native American land and water rights, copyright and the arts, and other fields, he was appointed dean of Cardozo in 1982. STE 'EN S. NEMERSCN Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean. B.A., 1968, Brooklyn Collegeg Ph.D., 1973, City University of New Yorkg J .D., 1976, Columbia University. Professor Nemerson was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Colum- bia and notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review. While in law school he was a lecturer in the Departments of Philoso- phy at Brooklyn College and Herbert H. Lehman College. Upon graduation he clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. Before joining the Cardozo faculty in 1981, he served for four years on the University of Minnesota Law School faculty. He has published and lectured in the areas of criminal law and philosophy of law.