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

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Thomas I. Aquilino, Ir. Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1962, Drew University, J.D., 1969, Rutgers University. Professor Aquilino also studied at Cornell University, University of Mu- nich, and Freie Universitat Berlin. From 1969 to 1971, he was a law clerk to Judge John M. Cannella of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Thereafter he was in private practice with the firm of Davis Polk 8: Wardwell until 1985, when he became one of the nine judges of the United States Court of International Trade. Vivienne Bath Vivienne Bath graduated from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia in 1978, with ma- jors in Modern and Classical Chinese. She received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Australian National Univer- sity in 1981 and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1984, specializing in Chinese law. In 1976, she studied at the Beijing Language Institute, Beijing and Fu Dan Univer- sity, Shanghai, and in 1979, she stud- ied Classical Chinese at the Universi- ties of Bonn and Heidelberg. She has been employed as a legislative drafts- man and as a corporate associate in Sydney, Australia and is now em- ployed in New York as an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton 8: Garrison, working on corporate and Chinese matters. lutta F. Bertram-Nothnagel Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. Referendar, 1968, Assessor, 1972, Uni- versity of Wurzburg, LL.M., 1982, New York University. Professor Bertram-Nothnagel has been educated in both the Roman and Common Law systems. During her clerkship at various judicial and ad- ministrative agencies, she has also been an assistant in legal history and civil law to Professor Merzbacher at the University of Wurzburg. At Car- dozo she has coached students for the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. She teaches spe- cial areas of international law. 112! FACULTY Stephen F. Breitstone Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.S., 1979, New York University, I.D., 1982, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Professor Breitstone, after graduating from NYU College of Business and Public Administration, went on to earn his J.D. from Cardozo School of Law, where he was a member of Law Review. He is currently a tax associate with Morgan, Lewis 8: Bockius, where he specializes in structuring various tax-oriented project financing tech- niques for activities such as real estate development, manufacturing, com- munications, shipping, and power production. Elliot H. Brown Adjunct Professor of Law. B.S.J., 1971, Northwestern University, J.D., 1975, Yale University. Senior Partner with Brown 8: Dobson, Professor Brown has published Secu- rities Regulations: Federal Laws Gov- erning Theatrical Offerings and served on the Executive Committee of Legitimate Theatre Division of the Fo- rum Community of the Entertain- ment and Sports Industry of the American Bar Association. A former reporter for United Press Internation- al, he is a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Michael A. Cardozo Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, Brown University, LL.B., 1966, Co- lumbia University. Professor Cardozo is a partner at Pros- kauer, Rose, Goetz 8: Mendelsohn, New York City. He concentrates on civil litigation and in that capacity has represented the National Basketball Association in a variety of actions. He has also served as counsel to the New York Rangers and the World Hockey Association. He joined the firm in 1967 after serving for a year as a law clerk to Judge Edward C. McClean of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Cardozo is an honors gradu- ate of Columbia University Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He is currently chairman of the New York State Joint Commit- tee on judicial Administration and has been an active committee member of several bar associations, especially in the areas of judicial administration and court reform. Katharine T. Cobb Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, Brown University, J.D., 1976, University of Virginia. Since graduating from law school, Professor Cobb has worked exclusive- ly for the Office of the District Attor- ney, New York County, as an assis- tant district attorney. In September 1982 she became deputy chief of the Special Projects Bureau. In April 1983 she served as deputy chief of a trial bureau. In August 1984 she became acting bureau chief, and since March 1985, Professor Cobb has been bureau chief. Robert Z. Dobrish Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1962, Columbia University, j.D., 1965, New York University. Professor Dobrish is a partner with the firm of Hoffinger Friedland Do- brish Bernfeld 8: Hasen. He is a fellow with the American Academy of Matri- monial Lawyers, and a member of the Matrimonial Law Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and New York County Lawyers Association. I oe Tom Easley Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1963, Texas, A8:M University, J.D., 1971, University of Texas. Professor Easley practices law in New York City and is currently completing a graduate degree in epidemiology and public health at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a former law clerk to Chief judge Baily. Aldrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Easley is a lec- turer for a national bar review course and is a member of the New York City and State bar associations.

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Jeffrey A. Lowin .djunct Professor of Law, B.A., 1964, L.B., 1967, Harvard University. 'rofessor Lowin graduated from college nagna cum laude and was editor-in- :hief of the Harvard Journal on Legisla- tion. He is a member of the firm of Gug- genheimer 8: Untermyer, New York City. His practice encompasses estate taxation, planning, and administration, and he is the author of articles on the special problems of estate planning for art collectors. Michael S. Ross Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Rutgers University, j.D., 1974, New York University. Professor Ross graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University, where he won over 65 intercolle- giate debate awards, and was note and comment editor of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change and a member of the International Moot Court Team of New York University Law School. Currently a partner in the firm of I.aRossa, Cooper, Axenfeld, Mitchell and Mitchell, from 1974 to 1978 Professor Ross was an assis- tant district attorney in Kings County, and from 1978 through 1982 he was an Assistant United State Attorney in the Southern Dis- trict of New York, Criminal Divi- sion. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, United States Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, and other state-wide trial advocacy training programs. Professor Ross is a frequent lecturer on trial prac- tice and criminal law at various le- gal continuing education programs and has published a number of ar- ticles on these subjects. He current- ly serves as a member of the Asso- ciation of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on Crimi- nal Advocacy. William A. Volckhausen Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1959, Princeton University, M.A., 1963, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1966, Harvard Universityq From 1966 to 1968, Professor Volckhausen served with the Asia Foundation as program officer for programs in legal development in Asia. He was staff and managing attorney for Mobilization for Youth Legal Services 11969-731. Until 1979 he worked for the New York State Banking Depart- ment, serving as deputy superintendent and gen- eral counsel to the department for the last three of those years. He was special counsel to Hughes, Hubbard and Reed before becoming executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary to the Dime Savings Bank of' New York, FSB, in 1981. FACULTY! 111

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Arthur Eizenberg Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1964, Johns Hopkins University, I.D., 1968, Cornell University. Professor Eisenberg is a staff counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union and has served in that capacity since 1972. He has extensive litigation experience with respect to voting rights, race discrimination and First Amendment cases. Among the lead- ing cases in which he has been in- volved are Island Trees School Dis- trict v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 119821, Belle Terre v. Borass, 416 U.S. 1 119741, and Anderson v. Celebrezze, 460 U.S. 780 119831. He is co-author of The Rights of Candidates and Voters 1Avon Books, 2d edition, 19803. Daniel C. Fish Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1968, State University at Stony Brook, J.D., 1976, University of Texas. Professor Fish is the senior staff attor- ney with the Institute on Law and Rights of Older Adults, Hunter Col- lege Brookdale Center on Aging. He was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow for two years and served with the Dal- las Legal Services Foundation. He has written extensively on topics involv- ing health care for the elderly. James H. Fogel Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Harvard University, J.D., 1975, Yale University. Professor Fogel joined the New York County District Attorney's Office as assistant district attorney in 1977 after two years with Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen, Kamin 8: Soll. He is senior trial counsel, director of Trial Advocacy Program, and deputy chief, Major Offense! Career Criminal Bureau. Janice Goodman Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1957, University of Pennsylva- nia, I.D., 1971, New York University. Professor Goodman is a practicing at- torney in New York City, specializing in employment discrimination, litiga- tion, and matrimonial matters. She has successfully litigated many large class action cases alleging sex-based discrimination, including the Wire Service Guild v. The Associated Press, Women's Committee for Equal Em- ployment Opportunity v. National Broadcasting Company, and Newman v. General Motors. In 1972-73 she was associated with the Center for Consti- tutional Rights in the areas of wom- en's rights and reproductive freedom. She was a founding partner of the first feminist law firm in New York City: Bellamy, Blank, Goodman, Ross and Stanley, and a founder of the Women and the Law Conference. She is pres- ently representing the 911 Operators of New York City in a suit demanding pay equity with Fire Alarm Dispatch- ers and is representing some of the class members in Berkman v. City of New York, a suit brought by female firefighters. john Hazard Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1930, Yale University, LL.B., 1934, Harvard University, Certificate, 1937, Moscow Juridical Institute, I.S.D., 1939, Uni- versity of Chicago. LL.D., 1969, Uni- versity of Freiburg, 1970, Lehigh Uni- versity, 1975, University of Leiden, 1977, University of Paris, 1979, Uni- versity of Louvain. Professor Hazard was an associate at Baldwin Todd Kc Young in New York City, 1939-41, Foreign Economic Ad- ministrator, 1941-46, professor at Co- lumbia University, 1946-76, Nash Professor, 1976-77, and has been Nash Professor Emeritus at Columbia since 1977. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of Com- parative Law. He is the author of Law 8: Social Change in the USSR, 1953, Settling Disputes in Soviet Society, 1960, Communists 8: Their Law, 1969, and Managing Change in the USSR, 1983. Seymour Hertz Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1954, LL.B., 1956, Columbia University. Professor Hertz was a Harlan Fiske Stone and James Kent Scholar at Co- lumbia Law School. He has been a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Sr Garrison since 1967, spe- cializing in corporate securities mat- ters and business combinations. He is a past member of the Securities Regu- lation Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and of the New York County Lawyers Asso- ciation, has participated in a number of PLI seminars dealing with securi- ties regulation and business combina- tions, and is the author of a chapter, Corporate Action, in Business Combinations, published by PLI. joy V. jones joy V. Jones received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her l.D. from NYU and is currently a trustee of Sarah Lawrence College. She is a partner at Rogers 8: Wells and spe- cializes in real estate syndication and finance. Barry L. Katz Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.S., 1973, J.D., 1976, Georgetown University. A member of the firm of Shereff Friedman Hoffman 8: Goodman, Pro- fessor Katz was formerly associated with the firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher 8: Flom and served as law clerk to Judge Robert W. Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A cer- tified public accountant, he was an in- structor in financial accounting at Georgetown University. At law school he was editor of the Law Review. FACULTY! 113