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

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AU M. SHUPACK Professor of Law. B.A., 1961, Columbia University, J.D., 1970, University of Chicago. , Professor Shupack graduated from college summa cum laude and cum laude from Chicago. Before entering law school, he did gradu- ate work and was a teaching fellow in government at Harvard Uni- versity. While in law school, he was a member of the Chicago Law Review and a teaching assistant to Prof. Soia Mentschikoff in a course in jurisprudence. In 1979 he was a visiting professor at Uni- versity of Chicago Law School. While an associate at Cleary, Gott- lieb, Steen 81. Hamilton, New York City, he taught commercial law as an adjunct professor at University of Connecticut Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and has served as a member of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorgani- zation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. RICHARD G. SINGER Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, Amherst College, J.D., 1966, University of Chicago, LL.M., 1971, J.S.D., 1977, Columbia University. Professor Singer has served most recently as Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law. Upon graduating from Chicago, he clerked for Judge Harrison Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. His varied professional experience includes service on the law faculties of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Alabama, as well as on the adjunct law faculty. George Washington University. Professor Singer served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, reporter for the American Bar Association, Standards Relating to the Legal Status of Prisoners, reporter for the Uniform Corrections Act, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and director, ABA Resource Center on Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and director, ABA Resource Center on Correctional Law and Legal Services. He is the author of Just Deserts: Sentencing Based on Equality and Desert, and co-author of Rights of the Imprisoned: Cases, Materials, and Directions. His area of primary teaching interest include crimi- nal law, corrections law, and torts. He is an authority in the area of prisoner's rights, in which he has published extensively. JONATHAN L.F. SILVER Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, Yale University, J.D., 1973, Universi- ty of Pennsylvania. Professor Silver received his law degree cum laude, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and received the Jefferson B. Fordham Award. He was chairman of the Prison Research Council, a student group aiding indigent prisoners. Following graduation, Professor Silver was law clerk to Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit C1973-743. He was an asso- ciate in law at Columbia University C1974-755, served with the Of- fice of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 119755, and has done consulting work for the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Silver joined Cardozo's original faculty in 1976.

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B RRY C. SCHECK Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Legal Educa- tion. B.S., 1971, Yale Universityg .l.D., M.C.P., 1974, University of California at Berkeley. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Yale and with honors from University of California Law School at Berkeley, Professor 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 Defense Council, and is co-author of Raising and Litigating Claims of Electronic Surveillance. Professor Scheck is a member of the Committee on the Criminal Courts, Association of the Bar of the City of New York. AVID R DENSTI E Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, M.A.T., 1965, Yale Universityg J.D., 1969, New York University. Professor Rudenstine was a fellow in the New York University Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, having spent the two years preceding his entry into law school in Uganda as a Peace Corps volunteer. Professor Rudenstine was a staff attorney in the New York City Legal Services Program from 1969 to 1972, and served as director of the Citizens' Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice, Inc., a nonprofit- research corporation, from 1972 to 1974. He was counsel to the National News Council until the end of 1974, when he joined the New York Civil Liberties Union, where he served as a project director, associate director, and acting executive director. He has written articles on parole, sentencing, and the First Amendment, and is the primary author of Prison Without Walls: Report on New York Parole and sole author of Rights of Ex-Offenders. He has also been a Guggenheim Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School and a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar. 1 HERBERT SEMMEL Visiting Professor of Law. B.S., 1950, New York University, LL.B., 1953, Harvard University. Professor Semmel was director of the Health Law Project at the Center for Law and Social Policy 1974-80 and was director of the center itself 1977-80. He was professor of law at the University of Illinois from 1965 to 1972 and has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Texas, and most recently at Antioch. He is director of Cardozo's Center for Law and Health Policy, chair of the Legal Action Committee of the American Public Health Associ- ation, and has served on the District of Columbia Medicaid Advisory Committee and Statewide Health Coordinating Council. He is au- thor of Social Justice Through Law: New Approaches in the Lw of Civil Procedure and co-author of a book of teaching materials in health law to be published in 1985.

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STEWART E. STERK Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, J.D., 1976, Columbia University. Professor Sterk joined the faculty in 1979 after serving for two years as law clerk to Chiefjudge Charles D. Breitel of the New York Court of Appeals. While in law school, Professor Sterk was manag- ing editor of the Columbia Law Review. His primary areas of inter- est are conflict of laws, land use, and trusts and estates. ,ffl K THERI E VAN WEZEL STO E Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1970, Radcliffe Collegeg J.D., 1979, Harvard University. Professor Stone has worked, lectured, and written extensively in the area of labor law. She was a legislative assistant for the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, Washington, D.C. C1970-725, labor analyst for Urban Planning Aid, Cambridge, Mass. C1973-741, and served as director of the Unemployment Compensation Clinic, Sommerville, Mass. U974-761. She has taught courses in labor relations at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University C1972-771. Her most recent publications include The Structure of Postwart Labor Relations, 1 1 Review of Law and Social Change 125 C1982-831, and The Postwar Paradigm in American Labor Law, 90 Yale Law Journal 1509 fJune, 19813. She is currently associated with the firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky 8a Lieberman, P.C., New York City. SUZANN E LAST STO E Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1974, Princeton University, J.D., 1978, Columbia University. Professor Stone graduated from Princeton summa cum laude. Before entering law school, she did graduate work and was a Dan- forth Fellow in Jewish history and classical religions at Yale Univer- sity. While in law school, Professor Stone was writing and research editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Stone Scholar. She was law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1978-79 and was associated with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 8L Garrison, New York City, from 1979 to 1983. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics. Her primary scholarly interests are in the areas of procedure, federal courts, and conflict of laws.