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

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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

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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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Brooklyn Law School. X Lawrence A. Voeglman J. Weiss Assistant Director, Clinical Legal Edrcation. B.A., 1970, Brooklyn Collegeg JD., 1973, Professor Vogelman was a member of the Brooklyn Law Review and editor of the Moot Court Honor Society. He worked for four years 11973-771 as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society Criminal Defense Division and from 1977 to 1979 as associate appellate counsel with the Society's Appeals Bureau. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Tom C. Clark Institute of Trail Ad- vocacy, Hofstra University, Emory University Trial Advocacy Program, and has been a fre- quent lecturer on various aspects of the crimi- . nal justice system, particularly plea bargain- - ' ,. ing, sentence reform, and effective assistance H yvgg. ,r'i. ' of counsel. I , .,rf-613. f .e We Telford Taylor Dr. Herman George and Kate Kaiser Professor of Constitutional Law. B.A., 1928, M.A., 19.32, LL.D., 1949, Williams College, LLB., 1932, Harvard University. Professor Taylor's career in public service has been a long and distinguished one, beginning in 1933 when he served as assistant solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior 11933-31-ij, senior attorney, U.S. Department of Agriculture 11934-3515 associate counsel, Senate Interstate Commerce Commission 11935-391, special assistant to the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice H939-401g general counsel, Federal Communications Commission 11940-42jp and administrator, Small Defense Plants Administration 11951-52j. He achieved international renown as chief U.S, prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials 11946-493. As general counsel to the Joint Committee on Educational TV 11952-621, he was instrumental in advocating the interests of educational television. Professor Taylor has argued 16 cases before the United States Supreme Court. After many years in private practice in New York, he joined the faculty of Columbia Law school, where he is currently Nash Professor Emeritus. Among Professor Taylor's extensive writings on legal, political, and military subjects are his books Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations 119555, Courts of Terror 119761, and the acclaimed Munich: The Price of Peace C1979j. A major legal figure of our era, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alan I. Weisbard Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1972, Harvard Universityp I.D., 1977, Yale University. Professor Weisbard joined the faculty in 1982 following service as assistant director for legal studies with the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research in Washington, D.C. 11980-821. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Col- lege, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in Economics at Harvard, Francis Coker Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School, law clerk to judge Irving L. Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit C1977-787, and a practitioner of nuclear energy law with the Wash- ington law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts, 81: Trowbridge C1978-805. Since coming to Cardozo, Professor Weisbard has written and lectured widely on biomedical ethics and law and participated in scholarly projects and collo- quia in association with the Hastings Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, and numerous other groups. His other areas of interest include legal issues affecting children and the elderly, torts, and professional responsibility. 92 Professor of Law. B,A., 1961, Dartmouth Col- legeg LLB., 1964, Yale University. Professor Weiss was note and comment editor of the Yale Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif, He was law clerk to Judge Walter Pope of the United States Court of Ap- peals for the Ninth Circuit, and an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 8: Garri- son, New York City, until becoming attorney- adviser, Agency for International Develop- ment. From 196B to 1970 he served as regional legal adviser, U.S. Aid, Pakistang and from 1970 to 1972 as its assistant director, policy implementation. After a brief tour of duty as acting director, Policy Planning Division, EPA, he became executive director of the In- vestor Responsibility Research Center. In 1976-77 he was writer-in-residence at the Con- servation Foundation. He was also a member of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Corpo- rate Disclosure. -H . jk ' Z e'.f 1 5 Q a1s.,33gS bggkajgg J i.. 5 AF, J 3 . , ,. V gipi'u.. i T- . ' A -riezzk 2 I ff ' 1 F '- QL v.- t 3'? n.s,Y , -iy'., . :iT:.. !.if I-Q 'S t -f'sr-. va.i: . anew .. ESQ 4? .. X :ff-we 59 '17-. X' .j'2'f-e 1 14