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

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muah LIJA .-S X , origin IOBXFACULTY Elliott J. Weiss Professor of Law. B.A., 1961, Dartmouth College, LL.B., 1964, Yale University. Professor Weiss was note and comment editor of the Yale Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif. He was law clerk to Judge Walter Pope of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkincl, Wharton 8: Garrison, New York City, until becoming attorney-adviser, Agency for International Development. From 1968 to 1970 he served as regional legal adviser, U.S. Aid, Pakistan, and from 1970 to 1972 as its assistant director, policy implementation. After a brief tour of duty as acting director, Policy Planning Division, EPA, he became executive director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center. In 1976-77 he was writer-in-residence at the Conser- vation Foundation. He was also a member of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure. Charles M. Yablon Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1972, Columbia University, 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 Ap- peals 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 8: Flom, also in New York City. He is teaching at Cardozo in the areas of civil procedure and corporate law. Edward A Zelinsky Professor of Law. B.A., 1972, M.D., J.D., 1975, M Phil 1978 Yale University Professor Zelinsky was an editor of the Yale Law Journal He also served as a teaching fellow in the Yale University Department of Economics Professor Ze linsky served as law clerk to Judge J. 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 alderman of New Haven

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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

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Jonathan A. Bush Assistant Professor Jonathan A. Bush re- ceived his ID degree from Yale Law School. Before joining the faculty of Car- dozo, Mr. Bush taught at Brooklyn Law School for four years and was concur- rently General Counsel to the U.S. Holo- ' caust Memorial Council? I ,-f' Elizabeth B. Clark Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1976, ID., 1980, University of Michigan, M.A., 1983, Princeton University, LL.M., 1986, University of Wisconsin. Professor Clark received her law degree cum laude and continued studying in her major field of interest, American legal history, re- ceiving an M.A. in American history, an LL.M. in legal history and currently is com- pleting her work for a Ph.D. at Princeton Uni- versity in American legal history. Her primary areas of interest are Anglo-American legal his- tory, family law, property, and women and the law. Frances Pantaleo Assistant Director, Cardozo Bet Tzedek Legal Services Clinic. JD., 1979, New York University. Professor Pantaleo has worked with Ad- vocates for Children of New York and the civil division of the Legal Aid Soci- ety, spending a year in the Brooklyn Of- fice for the Aging. She also teaches a course in law to social workers at NYU.