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

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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

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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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Ieffrey A. Lowin Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1964, LL.B., 1967, Harvard University. Professor Lowin graduated from college magna cum laude and was editor-in-chief of the Harvard journal on Legislation. He is a member of the firm of Guggenheimer 8: Untermyer, New York City. His prac- tice encompasses estate taxation, plan- ning, and administration, and he is the author of articles on the special problems of estate planning for art collectors. Martin P. Levin Adjunct Professor of Law. B.S., 1946, Temple University, JD., 1983, New York Law School. Counsel to Cowan, Leibowitz and Latman, Professor Levin served as president of the Book Group, Times Mirror Company, 1966- 83, and is currently a consultant to the com- pany. His prior publishing experience was with Grosset Sc Dunlap, 1950-66, where he reached the position of senior vice president and served on the Board of Directors. He is a former chairman of the American Associa- tion of Publishers, currently serves on a number of boards, and is a member of the Library of Congress Center for the Book Ex- ecutive Committee, and core faculty of the Stanford University Publishing Institute. Jonathan A. Weiss Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1959, Princeton University, M.A., 1963, Uni- versity of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1966, Harvard University. From 1966 to 1968, Professor Volck- hausen served with the Asia Founda- tion as program officer for programs in legal development in Asia. He was staff and managing attorney for Mobiliza- tion for Youth Legal Services C1969-731. Until 1979 he worked for the New York State Banking Department, serving as deputy superintendent and general counsel to the department for the last three of those years. He was special counsel to Hughes, Hubbard and Reed before becoming executive vice presi- dent, general counsel, and secretary to the Dime Savings Bank of New York, FSB, in 1981. William A. Volckhausen Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1960, LL.B., 1963, Yale University. Professor Weiss has been director of legal services for the elderly poor in New York City since 1969. Prior to that he served as managing attorney at two legal services offices and as an attorney at the Center on Social Policy and Law at Columbia University. Professor Weiss is an honors graduate of Yale College, was elected to the Law Review at Chicago Law School, then graduated in the top 10? from Yale Law School, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in ltaly. He has served as a consultant to numerous public interest and government organi- zations, including the Office of Economic Opportunity, National Institute for Mental Health of Children, and President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Professor Weiss has appeared as a guest speaker at many educational institu- tions and professional organizations, and on several radio and television pro- grams. He has published over 35 articles and two books on law and philosophy.