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

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Michel Rosenfeld Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, M.A., 1971, M.Phil., 1978, Columbia University, j,D., 1974, Northwestern University. Professor Rosenfeld was an associate with the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher 8: Flom, 1977-1980, and an associate with Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis 8: Cohen, 1980-1982. He joined the faculty of New York Law School in 1982. His primary teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of civil procedure, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. David Rudenstine Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, M.A.T., 1965, Yale University, I.D., 1969, New York University. Professor Rudenstine, who teaches con- stitutional law and federal courts, was a fellow in the New York University Ar- thur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Pro- gram, having spent the two years preced- ing his entry into law school in Uganda as a Peace Corps volunteer. Professor Rudenstine was a staff attorney 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 di- rector, associate director, and acting ex- ecutive director. He has written articles on judicial reform of social institutions, parole, sentencing, and the First Amend- ment, and is the primary author of Pris- on Without Walls: Report on New York Parole and sole author of Rights of Ex- Offenders. He has also been a Guggen- heim Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School and a participant in a National Endow- ment for the Humanities Seminar. 104! FACULTY Barry C. Scheck Assistant Professor of Law and Di- rector of Clinical Legal Education. B.S., 1971, Yale Universityg JD., M.C.P., 1974, University of Califor- nia at Berkeley. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Yale and with honors from University of California Law School at Berkeley, Professor 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 Coun- cil, and is co-author of Raising and Litigating Claims of Electronic Sur- veillance. Professor Scheck is a member of the Committee on the Criminal Courts, Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Tami'

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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

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P. Shectman Professor Shechtman was an Assis- tant Professor of Law at the Universi- ty of Pennsylvania until June, 1987 when he was appointed Special Assis- tant to the District Attorney, County of New York. He had served in the United States Attorney's Office for the southern District of New York from March 1981 to july 1985 as Chief Appellate Attorney and Chief of the General Crimes Unit. l Paul M. Shupak Jonathan LP. Silver Professor of Law. B.A., 1969, Yale Universityp 1.D., 1973, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Professor Silver received his law degree cum laude, was a member of the Order of the Coif, andre- ceived the Jefferson B. Fordham Award. He was chairman of the Prison Research Council, a stu- dent group aiding indigent pris- oners. Following graduation, Professor 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 11974-75J, served with the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 119751, and has done consulting work for the National Academy of Sci- ences. Professor Silver joined Cardozo's original faculty in 1976. Professor of Law. B.A., 1961, Co- lumbia University, j.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 Mentschikoff in a course in ju- risprudence. ln 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 Uni- versity of Connecticut Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and has served as a member of the Com- mittee on Bankruptcy and Cor- porate Reorganization of the As- sociation of the Bar of the City of New York, and now serves on that association's Committee on Uniform State Laws. Stewart E. Sterk Professor of law. B.A., 1973, J.D., 1976, Co- lumbia University. Professor Sterk joined the faculty in 1979 after serving for two years as law clerk to Chief judge Charles D. Breitel of the New York Court of Appeals. While in law school, Profes- sor Sterk was managing editor of the Colum- bia Law Review. He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. His prima- ry areas of interest are conflict of laws, land use, and trusts and estates. N FACULTY! 105