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

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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.

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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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jonathan L.F. Silver Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, Yale University, j.D., 1973, University 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 Re- search Council, a student group aiding indi- gent prisoners. Following graduation, Profes- sor Silver was law clerk to Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 11973-741. He was an associate in law at Columbia University C1974-753, served with the Office of the Gen- eral Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission t1975J, and has done consulting work for the National Academy of Sciences. Pro- fessor Silver joined Cardozo's original faculty in 1976. Stewart E. Sterk Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, JD., 1976, Co- lumbia University. Professor Sterk joined the faculty in 1979 af- ter serving for two years as law clerk to Chief judge Charles D. Breitel of the New York Court of Appeals. While in law school, Pro- fessor Sterk was managing editor of the Co- lumbia Law Review. He has served as a visit- ing professor at Columbia Law School. His primary areas of interest are conflict of laws, land use, and trusts and estates. :X Katherine Van Wezel Stone Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1970, Radcliffe College, J.D,, 1979, Harvard University. Professor Stone has practiced, lectured, and written extensively in the field of labor law. She has practiced at the firms of Cohen, Weiss and Simon 11979-811 and Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky 8: Lieberman 11981-841, both in New York City. She was a legislative assistant for the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, Washington, D.C. 11970-725, a labor analyst for Urban Planning Aid, Cambridge, Mass. QI973-741, and directed an unemployment compensation clinic, Somerville, Mass. 11974- 76J. She has also written several major articles in the field of labor history, and lectured on labor relations at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brandeis University C1972-771. Her most recent publications include The Structure of Postwar Labor Relations, 11 Review of Law and Social Change 125 11982-831, and The Postwar Paradigm in American Labor Law, 90 Yale Law Journal 1509 Uune 19811. Suzanne Last Stone Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1974, Princeton University, j.D., 1978, Colum- bia University. Professor Stone graduated from Princeton summa cum laude. Before entering law school, she did graduate work and was a Danforth Fellow in jewish history and classical religions at Yale University. While in law school, Professor Stone was writing and research editor of the Colum- bia Law Review and a Stone Scholar. She was law clerk to Judge John Minor Wis- dom 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 8: Garrison, New York City, from 1979 to 1983. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Federal Courts. Her prima- ry scholarly interests are in the areas of procedure, federal courts, and conflict of laws. 91