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

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Steven L. Schwarcz Adjunct Professor of Law. B.S., 1971, New York University, J.D., 1974, Co- lumbia University. After receiving his bachelor'-s degree summa cum laude in aeronautical en- gineering fgraduating first in his classj, Professor Schwarcz entered law school, where he was a teaching fellow in property law and served on the Leg- islative Drafting Research Fund, working on projects concerned with regulating the automobile's effect on the environment and financial protec- tion for catastrophic nuclear liability. He has worked at Shearman Sz Ster- ling since graduating from law school, and was elected a partner in 1982. He concentrates on international corpo- rate finance with an emphasis on cor- porate reorganization of troubled companies. Professor Schwarcz also has maintained his interest in science, serving on the City Bar Association's Special Committee on Science and Law. He has been active for some years as counsel for the historic pres- ervation of the national landmark El- dridge Street Synagogue. Herbert Semmel Adjunct Research Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and Health. B.S., 1950, New York Univer- sity, 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 Univer- sity of Illinois from 1965 to 1972 and has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and Univer- sity of Texas. He is director of Cardo- zo's Center for Law and Health, chair of the Legal Action Committee of the American Public Health Association, and has served on the District of Co- lumbia Medicaid Advisory Commit- tee and Statewide Health Coordinat- ing Council. He is author of Social Justice Through Law: New Approach- es in the Law of Civil Procedure. Jonathan L. Sulos Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., M.A., 1971, Colgate University, I.D., 1974, Harvard University. Professor Sulds is a member of the firm of Gibson, Dunn 8: Crutcher, where he specializes in labor and em- ployment law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University and cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was articles editor of the Harvard Civil RightsfCivil Liberties Law Review. I'-Ie is a member of the Labor and Em- ployment Law Committee, Associa- tion of the Bar of the City of New York. Leon Wildes Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1954, Yeshiva University, J.D., 1957, LL.M., 1959, New York University. Senior partner of Wildes 8: Weinberg, a leading New York City immigration law firm, Professor Wildes is-widely known for his representation of john Lennon and Yoko Ono in their cele- brated immigration case. He is the former national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Asso- ciation, and a member of its Board of Governors. Having published and lec- tured extensively in his field, Profes- sor Wildes inaugurated Cardozo's course on immigration law. -sem i . A , ,af Wi

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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.

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