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

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Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1962, Drew University, J.D., 1969, Rutgers University. Professor Aquilino also studied at Cornell University, University of Mu- nich, and Freie Universitat Berlin. From 1969 to 1971, he was a law clerk to Judge John M. Cannella of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Thereafter he was in private practice with the firm of Davis Polk 8: Wardwell until 1985, when he became one of the nine judges of the United States Court of International Trade. Jutta F. Bertram-Nothnagel Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. Referendar, 1968, Assessor, 1972, Uni- versity of Wurzburg, LL.M., 1982, New York University. Professor Bertram-Nothnagel has been educated in both the Roman and Common Law systems. During her clerkship at various judicial and ad- ministrative agencies, she has also been an assistant in legal history and civil law to Professor Merzbacher at the University of Wurzburg. At Car- dozo she has coached students for the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. She teaches spe- cial areas of international law. Michael A. Cardozo Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, Brown University, LL.B., 1966, Co- lumbia University. Professor Cardozo is a partner at Pros- kauer, Rose, Goetz 8: Mendelsohn, New York City. He concentrates on civil litigation and in that capacity he represented the National Basketball Association in a variety of actions. He has also served as counsel to the New York Rangers and the World Hockey Association. He joined the firm in 1967 after serving for a year as a law clerk to Judge Edward C. McClean of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Cardozo is an honors gradu- ate of Columbia University Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He is currently chairman of the New York State Joint Commit- tee on Judicial Administration and has been an active committee member of several bar associations, especially in the areas of judicial administration and court reform. Katharine T. Cobb Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, Brown University, J.D., 1976, University of Virginia. Since graduating from law school, Professor Cobb has worked exclusive- ly for the Office of the District Attor- ney, New York County, as an assis- tant district attorney. In September 1982 she became deputy chief of the Special Projects Bureau. In April 1983 she served as deputy chief of a trial bureau. In August 1984 she became acting bureau chief, and since March 1985, Professor Cobb has been bureau chief. Joe Tom Easley Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, Texas A :St M University, J.D., 1971, University of Texas. Professor Easley practices law in New York City and is currently completing a graduate degree in epidemiology and public health at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a former law clerk to Chief Judge Baily Aldrich of the Unit- ed States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Easley is a lec- turer for a national bar review course and is a member of the New York City and State bar associations. Daniel G. Fish Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1968, State University at Stony Brook, J.D., 1976, University of Texas. Professor Fish is the senior staff attor- ney with the Institute on Law and Rights of Older Adults, Hunter Col- lege Brookdale Center on Aging. He was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow for two years and served with the Dal- las Legal Services Foundation. He has written extensively on topics involv- ing health care for the elderly. James H. Fogel Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Harvard University, J.D., 1975, Yale University. Professor Fogel joined the New York County District Attorney's Office as assistant district attorney in 1977 after two years with Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen, Kamin 81: Soll. He is senior trial counsel, director of Trial Advocacy Program, and deputy chief, Major Offense!Career Criminal Bureau. Janice Goodman Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1957, University of Pennsylva- nia, J.D., 1971, New York University. Professor Goodman is a practicing at- torney in New York City, specializing in employment discrimination, litiga- tion, and matrimonial matters. She has successfully litigated many large class action cases alleging sex-based discrimination, including the Wire Service Guild v. The Associated Press, Women's Committee for Equal Em- ployment Opportunity v. National Broadcasting Company and Newman v. General Motors. In 1972-73 she was associated with the Center for Consti- tutional Rights in the areas of wom- en's rights and reproductive freedom. She was a founding partner of the first feminist law firm in New York City: Bellamy, Blank, Goodman, Ross and Stanley, and a founder of the Women and the Law Conference. She is pres- ently representing the 911 Operators of New York City in a suit demanding pay equity with Fire Alarm Dispatch- ers and is representing some of the class members in Berkman v. City of New York, a suit brought by female firefighters. John Hazard Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1930, Yale University, LL.B., 1934, Harvard University, Certificate, 1937, Moscow Juridical Institute, J.S.D., 1939, Uni- versity of Chicago. I.I..D., 1969, Uni- versity of Freiburg, 1970, Lehigh Uni- versity, 1975, University of Leiden, 1977, University of Paris, 1979, Uni- versity of Louvain. Professor Hazard was an associate at Baldwin Todd 8: Young in New York City, 1939-41, Foreign Economic Ad- ministrator, 1941-46, professor at Co- lumbia University, 1946-76, Nash Professor, 1976-77, and has been Nash Professor Emeritus at Columbia since 1977. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of Com- parative Law. He is the author of Law 8: Social Change in the USSR, 1953, Settling Disputes in Soviet Society, 1960, Communists 8a Their Law, 1969, and Managing Change in the USSR, 1983.

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Ieffrey A. Lowin Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1964, LL.B., 1967, Harvard University. Professor Lowin graduated from college magna cum laude and was editor-in-chief of the Harvard journal on Legislation. He is a member of the firm of Guggenheimer 8: Untermyer, New York City. His prac- tice encompasses estate taxation, plan- ning, and administration, and he is the author of articles on the special problems of estate planning for art collectors. Martin P. Levin Adjunct Professor of Law. B.S., 1946, Temple University, JD., 1983, New York Law School. Counsel to Cowan, Leibowitz and Latman, Professor Levin served as president of the Book Group, Times Mirror Company, 1966- 83, and is currently a consultant to the com- pany. His prior publishing experience was with Grosset Sc Dunlap, 1950-66, where he reached the position of senior vice president and served on the Board of Directors. He is a former chairman of the American Associa- tion of Publishers, currently serves on a number of boards, and is a member of the Library of Congress Center for the Book Ex- ecutive Committee, and core faculty of the Stanford University Publishing Institute. Jonathan A. Weiss Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1959, Princeton University, M.A., 1963, Uni- versity of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1966, Harvard University. From 1966 to 1968, Professor Volck- hausen served with the Asia Founda- tion as program officer for programs in legal development in Asia. He was staff and managing attorney for Mobiliza- tion for Youth Legal Services C1969-731. Until 1979 he worked for the New York State Banking Department, serving as deputy superintendent and general counsel to the department for the last three of those years. He was special counsel to Hughes, Hubbard and Reed before becoming executive vice presi- dent, general counsel, and secretary to the Dime Savings Bank of New York, FSB, in 1981. William A. Volckhausen Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1960, LL.B., 1963, Yale University. Professor Weiss has been director of legal services for the elderly poor in New York City since 1969. Prior to that he served as managing attorney at two legal services offices and as an attorney at the Center on Social Policy and Law at Columbia University. Professor Weiss is an honors graduate of Yale College, was elected to the Law Review at Chicago Law School, then graduated in the top 10? from Yale Law School, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in ltaly. He has served as a consultant to numerous public interest and government organi- zations, including the Office of Economic Opportunity, National Institute for Mental Health of Children, and President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Professor Weiss has appeared as a guest speaker at many educational institu- tions and professional organizations, and on several radio and television pro- grams. He has published over 35 articles and two books on law and philosophy.

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Seymour Hertz Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1954, LL.B., 1956, Columbia University. Professor Hertz was a Harlan Fiske Stone and james Kent Scholar at Co- lumbia Law School. He has been a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 8: Garrison since 1967, spe- cializing in corporate securities mat- ters and business combinations. He is a past member of the Securities Regu- lation Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and of the New York County Lawyers Asso- ciation, has participated in a number of PLI seminars dealing with securi- ties regulation and business combina- tions, and is the author of a chapter, Corporate Action, in Business Combinations, published by PLI. Barry L. Katz Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.S., 1973, J.D., 1976, Georgetown University. A member of the firm of Shereff Friedman Hoffman Sr Goodman, Pro- fessor Katz was formerly associated 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 cer- tified public accountant, he was an in- structor in financial accounting at Georgetown University. At law school he was editor of the Law Review. Robert M. Levy Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Harvard University, I.D., 1975, New York University. Professor Levy is a staff attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union. He was the director of the NYCLU's mental disability law project and has litigated widely on behalf of mentally disabled persons in community and institutional settings. He is currently the NYCLU's chief counsel in the Willowbrook case. Lela Porter Love Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, Harvard University, M.Ed., 1975, Virginia Commonwealth University, J.D., 1979, Georgetown University. Professor Love earned her master's de- gree while serving in the Teacher Corps. As a member of George Wash- ington University's clinical law facul- ty, she organized and directed a Small Business Clinic. She has practiced as an arbitrator in New York City's Civil Court and as a mediator for the Brooklyn Mediation Center, in addi- tion to her private practice as an advocate. Gertrud Mainzer Adjunct Professor of Law. Abitur, 1933, University of Frankfurt am Main, M.L.S., 1956, Pratt Institute, 1.D., 1965, New York University. After graduating from New York University School of Law cum laude, Professor Mainzer, while associated with the Law School's Project on So- cial Welfare Law, brought In re Gault before the United States Supreme Court, establishing due process rights for juvenile delinquents. Thereafter she was in private practice with Herz- feld and Rubin, specializing in family law, social welfare law, and the rights of the elderly. She was a cooperating attorney for the American and New York Civil Liberties Union. From 1979 until her retirement in 1984, she was a judge on the Family Court of the State of New York. She has returned to pri- vate practice and is presently chair of the Committee on Children and the Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Edwin Earl McAmis Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1956, LL.B., 1959, Harvard University Professor McAmis has been a partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher 8: Flom since 1977. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Aston Magna Foundation for Mu- sic, Inc., and has been an active com- mittee member of several bar associa- tions in the areas of ethics and litigation. 1. Ezra Merkin Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1976, Columbia University, J.D., 1979, Harvard University. Professor Merkin graduated from Harvard cum laude. Following an as- sociation with the law firm of Mil- bank, Tweed, Hadley Sr McCloy, he joined Halcyon Investments, an in- vestment management firm in New York City. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mark S. Nadel , Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1978, Amherst College, J.D., 1981, Harvard University. Professor Nadel is a research associate at the Columbia University Business School Research Program in Telecom- munications and Information Policy. His publications have focused on mass media law and economics, par- ticularly the First Amendment, cable television, and media ownership. Mitchell I. Nelson Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1970, Brandeis University, j.D., 1973, University of Chicago. Professor Nelson graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with hon- ors in philosophy from Brandeis. On graduation from law school, he joined the firm of Wien, Malkin 'Sn Bettex, New York City, becoming a member in 1979. He is currently a director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, the 92nd Street Y, and a member of the Real Estate Board of New York Legal Committee, City Bar Association Committee on Housing and Urban Development and Adviso- ry Board, Security Title and Guaranty Co Dennis Rapps Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1964, M.A., 1967, Brooklyn College, I.D., 1971, New York University. Professor Rapps is currently executive director of the National Jewish Com- mission on Law and Public Affairs QCOLPAJ, a voluntary association of attorneys seeking to facilitate the rea- sonable accommodation of religious needs when those needs conflict with standard societal practices. Martin David Schechter Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1955, Brooklyn College, LL.B., 1957, New York University. Professor Schechter is an active prac- titioner specializing in all aspects of real estate law in the metropolitan New York area and throughout the country. He has had substantial expe- rience in the field, and has written and lectured on his practical approach to solving problems relating to real es- tate transactions. He has been a mem- ber of the firm of Brodsky, Linett, Alt- man, Schechter dz Reicher since 1972.