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

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l Richard H. Weisberg Professor of Law. B.A., 1965, Brandeis University, I.D., 1974, Columbia University, Ph.D., 1970, Cornell University. Professor Weisberg, formerly on the graduate faculty of the University of Chicago in French and comparative literature l1971-751, has continued his work in literary theory since join- ing the Cardozo faculty in 1977. He is the author of The Failure of the Word fYale, 19841, and of articles in the field of law and literature. An editor of the Columbia Law Review, he has been associated with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen Sr Hamilton, New York City. Professor Weisberg was a fellow of the National Endow- ment for the Humanities C1972-730. He is an adviser on law- related education to the New York State Education Depart- ment, and a consultant on legal writing skills. Since 1979 Professor Weisberg has been president of the Law and Hu- manities lnstituteg in 1983 he became chair of the Law and Humanities Section of the American Association of Law Schools. Peter L. Berger Adjunct Professor of Law. B.E.E., 1961, City Col- lege of New York, J.D., 1966, George Washing- ton University. Professor Berger majored in electrical engineer- ing at City College, completed two years of grad- uate work in engineering, and went on to earn his I.D. with honors at George Washington Uni- versity, where he served as patent editor of The Law Review. He has held positions as patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent attorney with Bell Laboratories, and was a member of the adjunct faculty at Se- ton Hall Law School 11977 to 19835. A member of the firm of Levisohn, Lerner, and Berger, he spe- cializes in patent, trademark, and copyright law. Charles M. Yablon Assistant Professor ofLaw. B.A.,1972,Co- lumbia Universityp j.D., 1975, Yale University. Professor Yablon is a graduate of Yale Law School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Columbia University. He served as a law clerk to Chief judge Irving R. Kaufman, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Yablon was an associate at Cravath, Swaine 8: Moore in New York City and then at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Sr Flom, also in New York City. He is teaching at Cardozo in the areas of civil procedure and corporate law. i Edward A. Zelinsky Professor of Law. B.A., 1972, M.A., ,l.D., 1975, lVl.Pl1il., 1978, Yale University. Professor Zelinsky was an editor of the Yale Law journal. He also served as a teaching fellow in the Yale Uni- versity Department of Economics. Professor Zelinsky served as law clerk to Judge I. Joseph Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1975-76. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is serving his sixth term as an alder- man of New Haven. 93

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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

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Harrison J. Goldin Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1957, Princeton University, LL.B., 1961, Yale University. Professor Goldin is Comptroller of the City of New York. from 1966 to 1973, he served as a member of the New York State Senate. He was an associate at Davis Polk Sz Wardwell, New York City 11963-691, after spending two years as a trial lawyer in the U.5. Department of justice. At Yale Law School he was awarded the Order of the Coif and served as articles editor of the Yale Law Jour- nal. Prior to that he spent a year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the De- partment of Government at Harvard University, after his summa cum laude graduation from Princeton University. Randolph M. Scott-McLaughlin Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1975, Columbia University, j.D., 1978, Harvard University. Professor Scott-McLaughlin has been a staff attorney at the Center for Constitu- tional Rights in New York City since his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1978. In addition to his active federal litigation docket throughout the country, Professor Scott-McLaughlin has lectured frequently at law schools and confer- ences on civil rights issues. He is a member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, board member of the Affirmative Action Coordination Center, and coordinator of the Legal Task Force of the National Anti-Klan Network. He has published a book entitled Racially Motivated Violence: Litigation Strategies. Michael S. Ross Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Rutgers University, l.D., 1974, New York University. Professor Ross graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University, where he won over 65 intercollegiate debate awards, and was note and comment editor of the New York Universi- ty Review of Law and Social Change and a member of the International Moot Court Team of New York University Law School. Currently a partner in the firm of LaRossa, Cooper, Axenfeld, Mitchell and Mitchell, from 1974 to 1978 Professor Ross was an assistant district attorney in Kings County, and from 1978 through 1982. he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, Criminal Division. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacyg United States Attorney General's Advocacy Institite, and other state-wide trial advocacy training programs. Professor Ross is a frequent lecturer on trial practice and criminal law at various legal continuing education programs and has published a number of articles on these subjects. He currently serves as a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on Criminal Advocacy. 94