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

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Lester Brickman Professor of Law. B.S., 1961, Carnegie-Mellon University, J.D., 1964, University of Ploridag LL.M., 1965, Yale University. Professor Brickman has taught courses in contracts, profes- sional responsibility, federal jurisdiction, and family law since entering into teaching in 1965. He is a specialist in lawyers' ethics and legal services delivery systems, and has written and lectured on the standard of care of the legal professional, lawyers' fees, lawyers' advertising, specialization, use of paraprofession- als, group and prepaid legal services, unauthorized practice, and systems approaches to law practice. He is also a leading expert in the field of clinical legal education. He has consulted for the U.S. Office of Education, Ford Foundation, National Science Founda- tion, Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association, Law Enforcement Assistance Admin- istration, and Legal Services Corporation. He served as Cardozo's acting dean from 1980 to 1982. gy 4 7 ' e 1 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 University, 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 consultant with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and Arizona Criminal Code Commission. Pro- fessor 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. Professor de Grazia was managing editor of the Universi- ty of Chicago Law Review. His most recent published work is Banned Films: Movies, Censors, and the First Amendment. Currently he is a member of PEN American Center and its Freedom to Write Committee. Norma P. D'Apolito Assistant Dean. B.A., 1971, Vassar Collegeg JD., 1974, New York University. After graduating from law school, Dean D'Apolito joined the Pennsylvania Department of Justice as a deputy attorney gen- eral in the Litigation Division. Thereafter she worked in a num- ber of positions specializing in civil rights litigation, including staff counsel for the Prisoner's Rights Project in New York, managing attorney for Greater Boston Legal Services, and se- nior attorney for the Juvenile Rights Project in Boston. In 1983 she began at Cardozo as assis- tant dean for placement and di- rector of the Center for Profes- sional Development. In addition to her administrative responsi- bilities, Dean D'Apolito teaches --11 legal writing and education law. 85

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J. David Bleich Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics. B.A., 1960, Brooklyn College, M.A., 1968, Columbia University, Ph.D., 1974, New York University. Dr. Bleich has taught at Hunter Col- lege, Rutgers University, and Bar-Ilan University, and is professor of Talmud at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva Univer- sity. He has written extensively on Jew- ish law and ethics, among his publsihed works are: Jewish Bioethics, With Per- fect Faith: Foundation of Jewish Belief, Contemporary Halakhic Problems ftwo volumesjp 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 Center, and is a fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy and a member of the Government Committee on Life and the Law. William W. Bratton, Jr. Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, J.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 Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons 8: Gates from 1977 to 1980. He teaches contracts, corporations, and corporate finance, and has written articles dealing with the relations of corporations and senior security holders. John D. Appel Visiting Professor of Law. B.B.A., 1953, J.D., 1956, University of Michigan. After graduation from University of Michigan Law School, Professor Appel be- came an instructor at Columbia Universi- ty Law School 11956-581, and then entered private practice in New York City 11958- 61J. In 1961 he joined the CBS Law Depart- ment and was deputy general counsel of CBS, Inc., 1968-80. From 1980 to 1983, he was vice president and general counsel of Western Union Corporation. He teaches restitution, intellectual property, antitrust law, trusts and estates, and contracts. David 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 programl 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. 5 ae .iff-if : 5' ws? psi? ,- 9533- X NN Ns

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Toby Golick Director, Bet Tzedek Legal Services Clinic. B.A., 1966, Bar- nard College, 1.D., 1969, Colum- bia University. Professor Golick has worked in legal services for the poor since her graduation from Co- lumbia Law School in 1969. For over 10 years she was a senior attorney at Legal Services for the Elderly in New York City, where she litigated numerous impor- . tant cases involving the rights of the elderly and disabled. She has 'S' been a frequent lecturer on pub- lic benefit and health law issues, and has taught previously at Rutgers and Harvard Law Schools. She is a member -of the Special Committee on Legal Problems of the Aging of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Com- mittee on Public Interest Law of the New York State Bar Association. '27 r...J-F--M... Richard P. Friedman Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, 1.D., 1976, Harvard Universi- typ D.Phil., 1978, Oxford University. A magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Professor Friedman was awarded the Sears Prize for finish- ing first or second in his second year of law school. He served on the Harvard Law Review and as law clerk to Chief judge Irving R. Kauf- man, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At Oxford, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar, his 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 Sr Garrison, New York City. His primary teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of constitutional law and history, antitrust, evidence, commodities law, and administrative law. 'A 19 3 ,l 4 1 t Minasse Haile Professor of Law. B.A., 1950, University of Wisconsing LLB., 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 11961-623, he helped draft the first civil service regulations of Ethiopia and helped establish the first Person- nel Administrative Agency. He was Minister of Information Culture, and Tourism, while simultaneously serving as chairman of the Emper- or's Private Cabinet comprising the departments of Foreign Affairs, judicial Affairs, Economic Affairs, Social Affairs, Chief of Staff Section. External Security, and Religious Affairs. ln 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 Ethio- pia's delegations to the United Nations General Assembly. Organization of African Unity, Non-Alignecl Nations Conferences, Conferences 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. Since making his home in the United States, he has been visiting lecturer at Haverford College and visiting associate professor of law at Villanova University School of Law.