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

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Richard M. Joel Associate Dean. B.A., 1972, J.D., 1975, New York University. After graduating as a Root-Tilden Scholar from New York University 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 Yeshi- va University as Director of Universi- ty Alumni Affairs. In 1980 he became assistant dean at Cardozo School of Law, and has been associate dean since 1982. In addition to his decanal duties, Dean Joel teaches professional responsibility and has taught legal writing and moot court. Monroe E. Price 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 Su- preme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart and was an assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. In 1968 he was appointed professor of law if at the School of Law of the Uni- versity of California at Los An- geles. Dean Price has served as deputy director of California In- dian Legal Services, was one of the founders of the Native American Rights Fund, and is the author of Law and the Amer- ican Indian. In the field of com- munications law, Dean Price was president of California's Foundation for Community Ser- vice Cable Television, deputy di- rector of the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications, and is co-author of a treatise on cable television and Cable Television: A Guide to Citizen Action. He was court-appointed referee to monitor the Los Angeles school district's desegregation plan and is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Law and Social Policy, and the Fund for Modern Courts. He is a member of the Mayor's Committee on the Judi- ciary. Author of numerous scholarly law articles on com- munications policy, Native American land and water rights, copyright and the arts, and other fields, he was appointed dean of Cardozo in 1982. James B. Lewis Visiting Professor of Law. LL.B., 1940, Catholic University of America. Professor Lewis has been en- gaged 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 Depart- ment and the Internal Revenue Ser- vice. Professor Lewis has been a consultant to the American Law In- stitute's federal estate and gift tax and federal income tax projects. He has been chairman of the Section of Taxation, American Bar Associa- tion. He is the author of The Estate Tax, now in its fourth edition, and of The Marital Deduction. Steven S. Nemerson Associate Professor of Law and As- sociate Dean. B.A., 1968, Brooklyn College, Ph.D., 1973, City University of New York, JD., 1976, Columbia University. Professor Nemerson was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia and notes and comments editor of the Co- lumbia Law Review. While in law school he was a lecturer in the Depart- ments of Philosophy at Brooklyn Col- lege and Herbert H. Lehman College. Upon graduation he clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein, United States Dis- trict Court, Eastern District of New York. Before joining the Cardozo fac- ulty 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.

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3 during 1982-83. 'Wudf Peter Lushing 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 119747. He has also been an associate with a New York City law firm 11973-741, and individual practitioner specializing in ap- pellate litigation 0975-761. Professor 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 Dis- trict Court for the Southern District of New York 119651 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit C1966-675. Currently he is reporter, Eastern District, New York, Criminal Procedure Committee. Arthur J. Jacobson Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, I.D., 1974, Ph.D., 1978, Harvard University. Professor Jacobson was an associate with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen 8: Hamil- ton, New York City, from 1975, to 1977. He holds a Ph.D. in government, on the politi- cal philosophy of Hegel. His scholarly work has focused on fiduciary obligation and the law of associations. Professor Ja- cobson's areas of teaching are civil proce- dure, jurisprudence, and corporate law. He served as associate dean of academic affairs an 3 Leslie S. Newman Director of Legal Writing. B.A., M.A., 1975, Brown Uni- versity, I.D., 1978, Boston University. Ms. Newman was managing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, where she supervised senior staff work, in addition to holding the position of senior attorney for hous- ing, responsible for housing law reform litigation. From 1980 to 1985, Ms. Newman was lead counsel for the plaintiff class of over 50,000 public housing tenants in Boston in a major institutional litigation case against the Boston Hous- ing Authority. She came to Cardozo in 1985 and has served as Summer Institute administrator and worked on various projects, as well as directing the legal writing and most court programs. In addition to her administrative responsi- bilities, Ms. Newman teaches legal writing, moot court, and supplementary writing.

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David Rudenstine Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, M.A.T., 1965, Yale Universityg I.D., 1969, New York University. Professor Rudenstine, who teaches constitu- tional law and federal courts, was a fellow in Q' 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 volun- teer. Professor Rudenstine was a staff attor- ney 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 re- search 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 direc- tor, and acting executive director. He has written articles on judicial reform of social institutions, 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. Paul M. Shupack Professor of Law. B.A., 1961, Columbia Universityp I.D., 1970, University of Chicago. Professor Shupack graduated from college summa cum laude and cum laude from Chicago. Before entering law school, he did graduate work and was a teaching fellow in government at Harvard University. While in law school, he was a member of the Chicago Law Review and a teaching assistant to Prof. Soia Ments- chikoff in a course in jurisprudence. In 1979 he was a visiting professor at University of Chicago Law School. While an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen 8: 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 Reorganization of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and now serves on that association's Committee on Uniform State Laws. Barry C. Scheck Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Legal Education. B.S., 1971, Yale University, J.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, Profes- sor 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 Rais- ing and Litigating Claims of Electronic Surveillance. Professor Scheck is a mem- ber of the Committee on the Criminal Courts, Association of the Bar of the City of New York.