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

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Arthur I. Iacobson lili- 1' Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, J.D., 1974, Ph.D. 1978, Harvard University. Professor Jacobson was an associate with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen 8: Hamilton, New York City, from 1975 to 1977. He holds a Ph.D. in government, on the political philoso- phy of Hegel. His scholarly work has focused on fiduciary obligation and the law of associa- tions. Professor Jacobson's areas of teaching are civil procedure, jurisprudence, and corpo- rate law. He served as associate dean of aca- demic affairs during 1982-83. as f MJ' 1-.aa--M Richard M. joel Associate Dean. B.A., 1972, ,l.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 Of- fice in 1975. After serving as deputy chief of the Appeals Bureau, he came to Yeshiva University as Director of Uni- versity Alumni Affairs. In 1980 he became assistant dean at Cardozo School of Law, and has been associate dean since 1982. ln addition to his de- canal duties, Dean joel teach- es professional responsibility and has taught legal writing and moot court. Claude-Roland Klein Visiting Professor of Law. Licence en Droit, 1961, M.A., 1963, Docteur d'Etat, 1965, University of Strasbourg. Professor Klein was born and educated in Strasbourg, France. He taught in France until 1968 at which time he went to Israel. He has been a professor at He- brew University Law School since 1968 and Dean of the Law School, 1978-81. He was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, and at the Uni- versity of Southern California in 1986. ' . .pam ln-. james B. Lewis Visiting Professor of Law. LL.B., 1940, Catholic University of America. Professor Lewis was, from 1955 to 1982, a partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 811 Garrison, New York City, specializing in tax- ation. He has taught on the adjunct faculties of New York Universi- ty and Rutgers law schools. He has served on the legal staffs of the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service. Professor Lewis has been a consultant to the American Law Institute's federal estate and gift tax and federal income tax projects. He was chairman of the Section of Taxation, American Bar Association, 1984-85. He was a member of the Advisory Group to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1977 and 1987. He is the author of The Estate Tax, now in its fourth edition, and of The Marital Deduction. He has been on the Cardozo faculty since 1983. FAC U LTY! 101

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N h- ' l nr ' - ------ Malvina Halberstam fGuggenheim1 Professor of Law. B.A., 1957, Brooklyn Col- legep ID., 1961, M.I.A., 1964, Columbia University. Professor Halberstam is a member of the orig- inal faculty of the Law School. Previously she was a professor at Loyola University, and a visiting professor at a number of institutions. She has held a number of positions in the public and private sectors, including that of assistant district attorney in the Office of Frank S. Hogan and senior attorney for the National Legal Program on Health Problems of the Poor. Articles and book reviews editor of the Columbia Law Review, she is now an associate in the Columbia University Seminar on Human Rights and a member of the ABA Working Group on Terrorismg the Interna- tional Law Association, American Branch QEX- ecutive Committee1g the American Society on International Law, American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, and Continuing Seminar on Zionist Thought. Her book fwith Elizabeth Defeis1, Legal Rights of Women in the U.S.: International Agreements as an Al- ternative to the E.R.A.? is due to be published shortly. Professor Halberstam spent the 1984- 85 academic year as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of jerusalem and the 1985- 86 academic year in Washington, D.C., as counselor on international law in the U.S. De- partment of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, where she is continuing as a consultant. 1001 FACULTY Eva H. Hanks Professor of law. Referendar, 1951, Preie Universitat Berlin, Faculty of Lawg LLB., 1960, Uni- versity of California at Los An- gelesg LL.M., 19625 1.S.D., 1969, Columbia University. Professor Hanks began her teaching career as an associate in law at Columbia University dur- ing 1960-62. From 1962 to 1976, she taught at Rutgers University School of Law and twice served as associate dean, in 1975 she was named Distinguished Pro- fessor. She has been a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wil- son School, Princeton Universi- ty 119721, Indiana University School of Law 11973-741, and New York University School of Law 11974-751. While a student at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Pro- fessor Hanks was notes and comments editor of the UCLA Law Review. She served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools for terms in 1975 and 1976. She is the au- thor of numerous articles on wa- ter law and co-author twith Tar- lock and 1. Hanks1 of Environmental Law and Policy. She served as associate dean of academic affairs at Cardozo from 1977 to 1981. John L. Hanks Professor of Law. B.S., 1966, JD., 1968, Rutgers Universityp M.A., LL.M., 1972, Columbia University. Professor Hanks began his teaching career as an associate in law at Colum- bia Law School 11968-721. Subsequent- ly he was director of admissions 11971-731 and assistant professor of law 41972-741 at Rutgers University School of Law, and visiting assistant professor at Indiana University School of Law C1973-741. He was an associate professor of law at Cleveland State University during 1975-76. While a student at Rutgers Law School, Professor Hanks was research editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He was appointed special master by Unit- ed States District Court judge Robert L. Carter in 1980 to implement a court decree ordering the City of New York to construct certain sewage treatment plants. He served as associate dean of academic affairs at Cardozo during 1981-82.

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Wesley Liebeler Professor Liebeler is a Visiting Professor from UCLA where he has been a Professor of Law since 1965. From 1973-1975 he was Director of the Office of Planning 8: Evaluation of the Federal Trade Commission and Con- sultant to the Federal Trade Commis 1984. He is the author of many article beler teaches Antitrust Law. 102! FAC ULTY Peter Lushing Professor of Law. B.A., 1962, l.L.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 119740. He has also been an associate with a New York City law firm H973-74j, and individual practitioner specializing in appellate litigation C1975-76j. 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 District Court for the Southern District of New York 119651 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 11966-67J. Currently he is re- porter, Eastern District, New York, Criminal Procedure Commit- tee, and Executive Director of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers. sion from 1981- Q . 1 ,g.riF1'N t H wwf, s. Professor Lie- gif? tsl? ' Pl i Steven S. Nemerson Professor of Law and Associate Dean. B.A., 1968, Brooklyn Collegep Ph.D., 1973, City University of New York, J.D., 1976, Columbia University. ' Professor Nemerson was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia and notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review. While in law school he was a lecturer in the Departments of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and Herbert H. Lehman College. Upon graduation he clerked for judge jack B. Weinstein, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. Before joining the Cardozo faculty 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.