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

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Suzanne Last Stone Katherine Van Wezel Stone Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1970, Radcliffe College, J.D., 1979, Harvard University. Professor Stone has published, practiced, and lectured extensively in the field of labor law. She was associated with the firms of Cohen, Weiss and Simon f1979-81J and Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky 81: Lieberman 11981-841, both in New York City. She was a legislative assistant for the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, Washington, D.C. 11970-721, a labor analyst for Urban Planning Aid, Cambridge, Mass. 11973- 74J, and directed an unemployment compensation clinic, Somerville, Mass. C1974-76J. She has also written several major articles in the field of labor history and labor relations. Her most recent publications include The Structure of Postwar Labor Relations, 11 Review of Law and Social Change 125 11982-83J, and The Postwar Paradigm in American Labor Law, 90 Yale Law Journal 1509 Uune 1981J. Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1974, Princeton University, J.D., 1978, Columbia University. Professor Stone graduated from Princeton summa cum laude. Before entering law school, she did graduate work and was a Danforth Fellow in Jewish history and classical religions at Yale University. While in law school, Professor Stone was writing and research editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Stone Scholar. She was law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1978-79 and was associated with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Whar- ton 8r Garrison, New York City, from 1979 to 1983. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Federal Courts. Her prima- ry scholarly interests are in the areas of procedure, federal courts, and conflict of laws. i 1061 FACULTY Telford Taylor Dr. Herman George and Kate Kaiser Professor of Constitutional Law. B.A., 1928, M.A., 1932, LL.D., 1949, Williams College, LL.B., 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 11933-341, senior attorney, U.S. Department of Agriculture 11934-35Jg asso- ciate counsel, Senate Interstate Commerce Commission 11935-39J, special assistant to the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice 11939-40J, general counsel, Federal Communications Commission 11940-42J, and administrator, Small Defense Plants Administration t1951-521. He achieved international renown as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials 11946-49J. As general counsel for the Joint Committee on Educational TV 11952-62J, 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 mili- tary subjects are his books Grand inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations l1955J, Courts of Terror t1976J, and the acclaimed Munich: The Price of Peace t1979J. A major legal figure of our era, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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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

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Peter Tillers Professor Peter Tillers, along with David Shum of George Ma- son University, has been award- ed a National Science Founda- tion Grant. His research will involve an effort to use diagrams and other symbols to represent the logical structure of eviden- tiary decision making and proof processes in litigation. Tillers and Schum will publish a series of articles on this subject. The first paper, Charting New Ter- ritory in judicial Proof: Beyond Wigmore, will be published this December in the Cardozo Law Review. Professor Tillers is organizing a series of evidence workshops at Cardozo during the 1987-88 aca- demic year. They are designed to promote interdisciplinary re- search on evidentiary processes in litigation. Forthcoming speakers include David Kaye, Reid, Hastie, and Lofti Zadeh. His lecture at Queen's Universi- ty of Belfast will be published in the Northern Ireland Law Quar- terly this year. He and Eric Green are co-editors of a book, Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence: The Uses and Limits of Bayesianism , to be published early next year by D. Reidel Publishing Company. His preface, as well as his article Mapping Inferential Domains will be part of the book. Professor Tillers has been invit- ed to be a Visiting Fellow at Uni- versity College Oxford during the summer of 1988. He will also be a visiting member of the Law Faculty of Oxford and he will present a paper on theories of proof. He is helping organize an honors seminar at Oxford. Lawrence A. Vogelman Assistant Director, Clinical Legal Education. B.A., 1970, Brooklyn Col- legeg j.D., 1973, Brooklyn Law School. Professor Vogelman was a member of the Brooklyn Law Review and editor of the Moot Court Honor Society. He worked for four years C1973-775 as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Soci- ety Criminal Defense Division and from 1977 to 1979 as associate appel- late counsel with the Society's Ap- peals Bureau. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Tom C. Clark Insti- tute of Trial Advocacy, Hofstra Uni- versity. He is a faculty team leader at the Emory University Trial Advocacy Program, and has been a frequent writer and lecturer on various aspects of the criminal justice system, parti- culary plea bargaining, sentence re- form, eyewitness identification, and effective assistance of counsel. He is responsible for the yearly updates to Sobel's book on eyewitness identifica- tion fClark Boardmanj. X.. x,v Richard H. Weisberg Professor of Law. B.A., 1965, Brandeis University, j.D., 1974, Columbia Universityg Ph.D., 1970, Cor- nell University. Professor Weisberg, formerly on the graduate facul- ty of the University of Chicago in French and com- parative literature 11971-751, has continued his work in literary theory since joining the Cardozo faculty in 1977. He is the author of The Failure of the Word fYale, 19841 and When Lawyers Write CLittle, Brown, 19871, and of articles in the field of lawvand litera- ture. An editor of the Columbia Law Review, he has been associated with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen Sz. Hamilton, New York City. Professor Weisberg was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Hu- manities f1972-73J. From 1979 to 1986, Professor Weisberg was president of the Law and Humanities Institute and since 1987 is its chair. In 1983 he became chair of the Law and Humanities Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He has consulted on legal writing skills with private law firms, judges, and government agencies. FACULTY! 107