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

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Melvin Kraft Melvin Kraft is a Counsel to Summit Rovins 8: Feldesman. He is the author of The Presentation of Evidence in Arbitration , Trial Evidence in Civil Cases, Rev. Ed., 1969, Using Experts in Civil Cases , 2nd Ed., 1982 and has completed a chapter entitled Strate- gies in Preparing and Proving the Case for a book to be published by American Arbitration Association, entitled: Arbitration of Real Estate Valuation Disputes . He is a member of the Practice Committee of the American Arbitration Association. Robert M. Levy Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1971, Harvard University, l.D., 1975, New York University. Professor Levy is a staff attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union. He was the director of the NYCLU's mental disability law project and has litigated widely on behalf of mentally disabled persons in community and institutional settings. He is currently the NYCLU's chief counsel in the Willowbrook case. Lela Porter Love Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1973, Harvard University, M.Ed., 1975, Virginia Commonwealth University, l.D., 1979, Georgetown University. Professor Love earned her master's de- gree while serving in the Teacher Corps. As a member of George Wash- ington University's clinical law facul- ty, she organized and directed a Small Business Clinic. She has practiced as an arbitrator in New York City's Civil Court and as a mediator for the Brooklyn Mediation Center, in addi- tion to her private practice as an advocate. 114fFACUl.TY Gerard E. Lynch Gerard E. Lynch is a Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. He was law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to justice William J. Brennan, lr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and served as As- sistant U.S. Attorney, Southern Dis- trict of New York, 1980-1983. He has also served as consultant to the New York Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and as a member of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar of the Associa- tion of the Bar of the City of New York. Gertrud Mainzer Adjunct Professor of Law. Abitur, 1933, University of Frankfurt am Main, M.L.S., 1956, Pratt Institute, ID., 1965, New York University. After graduating from New York University School of Law cum laude, Professor Mainzer, while associated with the Law School's Project on So- cial Welfare Law, brought In re Gault before the United States Supreme Court, establishing due process rights for juvenile delinquents. Thereafter she was in private practice with Herz- feld and Rubin, specializing in family law, social welfare law, and the rights of the elderly. She was a cooperating attorney for the American and New York Civil Liberties Union. From 1979 until her retirement in 1984, she was a judge on the Family Court of the State of New York. She has returned to pri- vate practice and is presently chair of the Committee on Children and the Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Edwin Earl McAmis Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1956, LL.B., 1959, Harvard University Professor McAmis has been a partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Kr Flom since 1977. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Aston Magna Foundation for Mu- sic, Inc., and has been an active com- mittee member of several bar associa- tions in the areas of ethics and litigation. I. Ezra Merkin Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1976, Columbia University, JD., 1979, Harvard University. Professor Merkin graduated from Harvard cum laude. Following an as- sociation with the law firm of Mil- bank, Tweed, Hadley Sz McCloy, he joined Halcyon Investments, an in- vestment management firm in New York City. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mark S. Nadel Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1978, Amherst College, LD., 1981, Harvard University. Professor Nadel is a research associate at the Columbia University Business School Research Program in Telecom- munications and Information Policy. His publications have focused on mass media law and economics, par- ticularly the First Amendment, cable television, and media ownership. Mitchell I. Nelson Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law. B.A., 1970, Brandeis University, J.D., 1973, University of Chicago. Professor Nelson graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with hon- ors in philosophy from Brandeis. On graduation from law school, he joined the firm of Wien, Malkin 8: Bettex, New York City, becoming a member in 1979. He is currently a director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, the 92nd Street Y, and a member of: the Real Estate Board of New York Legal Committee, City Bar Association Committee on Housing and Urban Development, and Adviso- ry Board, Security Title and Guaranty Co. Dennis Rapps Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1964, M.A., 1967, Brooklyn College, JD., 1971, New York University. Professor Rapps is currently executive director of the National Jewish Com- mission on Law and Public Affairs KCOLPAD, a voluntary association of attorneys seeking to facilitate the rea- sonable accommodation of religious needs when those needs conflict with standard societal practices.

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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

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Eric Rayman Professor Rayman is vice president and senior counsel of Simon 81 Schus- ter. He began his legal career as an associate in the entertainment depart- ment at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Whar- ton 8r Garrison. From there he moved to Time, Inc. where he was initially Home Box Office's chief counsel for studio and network operations and later counsel to the New York City Bar Association Committee on Enter- tainment and Sports Law. He has par- ticipated in PLI and other legal educa- tion seminars and has published articles in the New York Law journal and elsewhere on such topics as elec- tronic publishing, teletext, and hu- man rights in the Soviet Union. Daniel Riesel Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1958, Union College, LL.B., 1961, Columbia University. Professor Riesel is a member of Sive, Paget 8: Riesel, P.C., engaging in gen- eral litigation, criminal defense and environmental law. He represents such regional environmental public interest groups as the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., as well as rep- resenting numerous industries and developers. Martin David Schechter Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., 1955, Brooklyn College, LL.B., 1957, New York University. Professor Schechter is an active prac- titioner specializing in all aspects of real estate law in the metropolitan New York area and throughout the Country. He has had substantial expe- rience in the field, and has written and lectured on his practical approach to solving problems relating to real es- tate transactions. He has been a mem- ber ofthe firm of Brodsky, Linett, Alt- man, Schechter 8z Reicher since 1972. Andrew Schepard Adjunct Professor of Law. j.D., 1972, Harvard University. Professor Schepard was formerly an associate professor at Columbia Law School where he taught family law, professional responsibility and nego- tiation theory. He was a consultant to the New York State Law Revision Resolution Commission's recent Re- port on the Child Custody Dispute Resolution Process, which recom- mended a program of child custody mediation for the State, and has writ- ten several articles about child custo- dy law, procedure, and mediation of child custody disputes. He is current- ly associated with Pollack 81 Kaminsky. Steven L. Schwarcz Adjunct Professor of Law. B.S., 1971, New York University, j.D., 1974, Co- lumbia University. After receiving his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in aeronautical en- gineering tgraduating first in his classj, Professor Schwarcz entered law school, where he was a teaching fellow in property law and served on the Leg- islative Drafting Research Fund, working on projects concerned with regulating the automobiles effect on the environment and financial protec- tion for catastrophic nuclear liability. He has worked at Shearman 8: Ster- ling since graduating from law school, and was elected a partner in 1982. He concentrates on international corpo- rate finance with an emphasis on cor- porate reorganization of troubled companies. Professor Schwarcz also has maintained his interest in science, serving on the City Bar Association's Special Committee on Science and Law. He has been active for some years as counsel for the historic pres- ervation of the national landmark El- dridge Street Synagogue. Hugh T. Scogin Adjunct Professor of Law. A.M. 1975, University of Chicago fFar Eastern Languages and Civilizationsj, J.D., 1982, Harvard Law School, Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, et. al. tN.Y., Beijing, Hong Kongj. Herbert Semmel Adjunct Research Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and Health. B.S., 1950, New York Univer- sity, LLB., 1953, Harvard University. Professor Semmel was director of the Health Law Project at the Center for Law and Social Policy 1974-80 and was director of the center itself 1977-80. He was professor of law at the Univer- sity of Illinois from 1965 to 1972 and has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and Univer- sity of Texas. He is director of Cardo- zo's Center for Law and Health, chair of the Legal Action Committee of the American Public Health Association, and has served on the District of Co- lumbia Medicaid Advisory Commit- tee and Statewide Health Coordinat- ing Council. He is author of Social justice Through Law: New Approach- es in the Law of Civil Procedure. Marla Simpson Marla Simpson, a graduate of Michi- gan Law School, is presently a public interest lawyer with Lawyers for the Public Interest. She was previously in private practice specializing in litiga- tion regarding intellectual property including cases involving video game trademarks and the suit brought by the Pasteur Institute against the U.S. government regarding French scien- tific research on AIDS. Jonathan L. Sulds Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. B.A., M.A., 1971, Colgate University, ID., 1974, Harvard University. Professor Sulds is a member of the firm of Gibson, Dunn 8: Crutcher, where he specializes in labor and em- ployment law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University and cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was articles editor of the Harvard Civil Rights!Civil Liberties Law Review. He is a member of the Labor and Em- ployment Law Committee, Associa- tion of the Bar of the City of New York. Leon Wildes Adjunct Professor of Law. B.A., 1954, Yeshiva University, I.D., 1957, LL.M., 1959, New York University. Senior partner of Wildes 8z Weinberg, a leading New York City immigration law firm, Professor Wildes is widely known for his representation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their cele- brated immigration case. He is the former national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Asso- ciation, and a member of its Board of Governors. Having published and lec- tured extensively in his field, Profes- sor Wildes inaugurated Cardozo's course on immigration law. FACULTY! 115