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

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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.

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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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Leslie S. Newman Director of Legal Writing, B.A., M.A., 1975, Brown University, j.D., 1978, Boston University. Ms. Newman was managing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, where she supervised senior staff work until 1985, in addition to holding the position of senior attorney for housing, responsible for housing law reform litigation. From 1980 to 1985, Ms. Newman was lead counsel for the plaintiff class of over 50,000 public housing tenants in Boston in a major insitu- tional litigation case against the Boston Housing Authority. She came to Cardozo in 1985 and has served as Summer Insti- tute Administrator and now directs Special Projects, as well as the Legal Writing and Moot Court programs. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Ms. Newman teaches legal writing, moot court, and supplementary writing. 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 Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart and was an assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. In 1968 he was appointed professor of law at the School of Law of the University of California at Los Angeles. Dean Price has served as deputy director of California Indian Legal Services, was one of the founders of the Native American Rights Fund, and is the author of Law and the American Indian. In the field of communications law, Dean Price was president of California's Foundation for Community Service Cable Television, deputy direc- tor 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 deseg- regation plan and is on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts. He is a member of the Mayor's Tax Study Committee. Author of numerous scholarly law articles on communications policy, Native American land and water rights, copyright and the arts, and other fields, he was apppointed dean of Cardozo in 1982. FACULTY! 103