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Features

Nietzsche Comes of Age in America 18 Legal scholars are finding the work of Nietzsche and the questions that he posed to be relevant and perhaps an inspiration for people to rewrite the law 100 years after the great philosopher's death.

BY PETER GOODRICH

PROFESSOR OF LAW

Cardozo; Enjoying a Transformation 20 Departments The Law School is undergoing an extraordinary expansion and renovation. Upon completion Cardozo will boast a new facade and entrances, modem and technologically Around Campus 3 enhanced classrooms, and a larger and more commodious Clinton Receives Advocate for Peace library, Jacob Bums Moot Court Room, and lobby. Award • Cardozo Announces Capital Campaign • Students Raise $40,000 Enjoying the Jobs of Their Lives: • Cardozo Publications Win Honors • Tteleconferencing Facility Opens • Alumni on the Bench 25 Schuck Examines Diversity • Scholars In speaking to several alumni who now sit as judges, Discuss IP • Baseball and the Law • Jeff Storey found that the day-to-day tasks and the ways Moot Court and Ttial Tfeams Win • these grads came to their jobs often are quite different. Ethics Center Fosters Dialogue • Boies However, they did have one thing in common: They all Gives Insider View • Langfan Family agree they are in the job of their lives. Funds Contest • Negotiation Tfeams

BY JEFF STOREY '01 Win • Squadron Program Receives Grants • Divorce, Victorian-Style

Faculty Briefs 13 Thirteen Professors lb Visit • Rosenfeld: Sleepless on Sabbatical

Alumni News & Notes. . . 32 Commencement • Reunions • Alumni Featured in the News • Cardozo Becomes CLE Provider • Alumni in D.C. • 3L Challenge Launched • New Giving Circles Support Capital Campaign COVER ILLUSTRATION; MARIO STASSOLA «i^- !»««= • Cardozdht: From the Editor

Susan L. Davis

EDITOR

Paulette Crowther ASSOCIATE EDITOR A Special Anniversary Judy TUcker ART DIRECTOR Cardozo enjoyed an auspicious beginning 25 years ago. With a mandate

CONTRIBUTORS from Yeshiva University, founding dean Monrad Paulson hired a faculty for Barbara Alper, Norman Goldbei^ a new law school that would offer humanistic studies and practical oppor­ Susan Lemer, Peter Robertson Debra L. Rothenberg tunities. That balance has been achieved beyond all expectation. Tbday the Jeff Storey '01, Dennis Wile Law School boasts nearly 7,000 graduates who are achieving at the highest levels of the legal and business worlds as well as in the public sector. Therefore, it seems appropriate to feature some of our alumni judges and to record the reunions and commencement of last June. Cardozo Life is published twice each year by This anniversary year will be special in many ways. Thirteen professors the Department of Communications and Public Affairs from around the world will visit. A two-day symposium on Nietzsche orga­ Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies nized by Prof. Peter Goodrich will bring to campus some of the leading

Yeshiva University philosophers of our day. lb meet the increasing needs of students and fac­

Brookdale Center, 55 Fifth Avenue ulty, the University has embarked upon a multifaceted building improve­ New York, New York 10003 ment plan, which calls for the renovation and redecoration of the entire Phone (212) 790-0237 Cardozo facility. Highlights, which are outlined in a photo essay inside, FAX (212) 790-0322 include the expansion and renovation of the lobby level of the Law School, the building of a new Jacob Bums Moot Court Room, and the reconfigura­ tion of the building's facade and entrances.

Editorial contributions and submissions We have much to celebrate as we mark a quarter-century and hope that

are welcome. This publication accepts as you read Cardozo Life you will feel some of the excitement being gener­

no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts ated on campus, or photographs. All submissions are —Susan L. Davis

subject to editing and are used

at the editor's discretion.

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

Robert M. Beren

CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Norman Lamm, Ph.D.

PRESIDENT

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Clinton Receives tions for his Mr. Clinton with Melissa Advocate for Peace efforts to promote Stewart '01 and Peggy Award peace in Ireland, Sweeney '01 (right) Bosnia, Korea, and the Middle lb a standing-room-only East. COJCR and audience of more crowd of students and ILSA created the than 300. Dean faculty who roared their award in 1999 to Verkuil closed the enthusiastic greetings, for­ provide recogni­ proceedings by mer president William tion and encour­ thanking Mr. Jefferson Clinton strode agement for the Clinton for "a spell­ onto the stage in the third efforts of those in binding address ... floor lounge, where he was the international what we will to receive the second alternative dispute resolu­ Holbrooke, who also attend­ remember from this after­ annual Advocate for Peace tion community. And as ed this year's event with noon's talk is not your Award given by the Cardozo explained by the students his son. grasp of the facts, as daz­ Online Journal of Conflict during the ceremony, the In bestowing the en­ zling as that is, hut your Resolution (COJCR) and the award is for those who "by graved crystal plate to Mr. humanity, your sense of International Law Students their deeds and efforts Clinton, Melissa Stewart, purpose, your understand­ Association (ILSA). Mr. sought peace." The inaugur­ president of ILSA, and ing that redemption on Clinton was selected by the al recipient was former Peggy Sweeney, editor of earth is possible." students in these organiza­ ambassador Richard COJCR, quoted Abraham Mr. Clinton started by Lincoln, who once said, quoting Justice Cardozo, "The best way to destroy an who "once wrote that pros­ CARDOZO ANNOUNCES $25 MILLION enemy is to make him a perity is in union, not divi­ CAPITAL CAMPAIGN friend." They continued, sion." He tied that theme "We believe this describes together with several oth­ Cardozo launched its first capital campaign with a phase Mr. Clinton's approach to ers: the idea that we are all one goal of $25 million. This is a small but significant conflict resolution within created equal and that no part of Yeshiva University's overall campaign, which has the international arena. He one has a monopoly on a $400 million goal. At the time of the announcement in brings people together. He truth, emphasizing that June, 10 donors had committed gifts of $10 million or puts people first." peace requires letting go of more, propelling the University's campaign well over the In his remarks. Dean old hatreds and requires the halfway mark. As of the same date, Cardozo had Verkuil noted that the ability to visualize a future received gifts and pledges totaling about $13 million- event drew criticism and different from the past. just a little more than half of the Law 5chool's goal. The protests as well as praise for He told personal stories of monies are earmarked for scholarships, faculty support, the former president. How­ people from whom he and the renovation and expansion of the facility, includ­ ever, he said, a law school learned important lessons ing a new Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, expanded "thrives on activism, contro­ in negotiating peace, lobby and library, and renovated classrooms. versy and scholarship ... it including Nelson Mandela, (5ee pp 20 to 24.) makes better lawyers." King Hussein of Jordan, Mr. Clinton's speech was and Yitzak Rabin of Israel. very well received by the In discussing the Middle CARDOZO BEGINS 25TH ANNIVERSARY East conflict, he noted espe­ and work together and live CELEBRATION cially that he was "deeply together. And the Tbrah Twenty-five years ago this September, Cardozo welcomed its disappointed" that he was says that he who turns first students. To begin the yearlong celebration of the 25th unable in the end to con­ aside from a stranger might anniversary, a kickoff party for the entire Cardozo community vince the Palestinians and as well turn aside from is scheduled for September 6. The anniversary theme is taken Israelis to make peace. Tb God. In the name of these from Justice Cardozo's famous quote, "The cause of law is the close his remarks, Mr. faiths, people have fought welfare of society," emblazoned on the wall sculpture that Clinton drew on the teach­ each other over that tiny, graces the school's lobby. A series of conferences, galas, ings of the three monothe­ sanctified, and sullied piece dinners, and other events, including the conferring of the istic religions that were of land." However, he con­ Democracy Award, is planned to commemorate the Law horn in the Middle East, tinued, if you believe that School's founding and achievements. All members of the saying, "When Christ was "we are all children of God, Cardozo community are invited to participate and share in the asked what is the greatest created equal... then celebration and special activities. commandment, he said to everyone has a role to play love God with all your [working for peace] and we heart, and the second is wUl all be better when we wisdom, to let go? Tb real­ Office of Communications like it, to love your neigh­ help each other." ize that you are never going and Public Affairs and used bor as yourself. The Koran He challenged the stu­ to get even and that every by the Admissions Office in says that Allah put on earth dents and asked, "Do you day you remain in the grip recruiting students, won a different peoples, not that believe that no one, even of a hatred is a day that you Bronze Award for excep­ they might despise each you, has the monopoly on give up to your demons, tional quality, creativity, other but that they might truth? Do you have the giving them permission to and message effectiveness come to know each other strength of character, the steal your life away from from the Admissions you day by day by day? Marketing Report Adver­ Can you imagine that to­ tising Awards Competition. morrow could be different? Students Raise $40,000 Towards The degree to which young New Teleconferencing Public Interest Stipends people like you, blessed Facility Expands Reach with good minds, good for­ Auction items ranged from Broadway tickets to dinners tunes, and good education, of "Wrongful with members of the faculty, to two Cardozo sweatshirts believe those things will Convictions" Course signed by former president Bill Clinton. Auctioneers were determine the shape of the drawn from the faculty and administration, bidding was world we live in." Last February, as students lively, and more than $15,000 was raised at the 9th Annual began to enter the newly Goods and Services Auction presented by the Student Bar Cardozo Publications operational video confer­ Association. In addi­ encing classroom at Win Honors tion, an anonymous Cardozo, they could see $25,000 donation was second- and third-year law given, making a total The student newspaper. students at Duke, North­ of $40,000 raised for The Cardozo Insider, western, Cooley, and the Cardozo Public received an Honorable Tbnnessee beginning to Interest Summer Mention in the best news­ take seats in classrooms on Stipend Program, paper Web site their respec­ which allowed 30 category by the tive campus­ students to take sum­ New York Press es. These mer positions in the Association's other students public sector. annual Better were live on a College News­ screen at the Vivien Nairn '88 shows paper Contest. front of the off one of the auction's The Cardozo lecture hall. hot items—a Clinton- bulletin, pre­ Hie occasion signed Cardozo pared by the was the first sweatshirt. Law School's meeting of

CARDOZO LIFE Prof. Barry Scheck's class Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies. When the clock read 4 p.m. exactly, Professor Scheck went to the podium and said to the audiences, "If you can hear us, wave The Cardozo Arts & enthusiastically." The stu­ Entertainment Law dents on the various cam­ Journal (AELI) was puses began to wave. The awarded the contract months of planning by to publish the winning Professor Scheck and the papers associated with Innocence Project staff in the Recording concert with YU's facilities Academy's 3rd Annual management team, MCI technicians, Prof. Lynn Entertainment Law Wishart of the Chutick Law Initiative Legal Writing Contest. The Library, and Cardozo event, which is administrators were bearing cosponsored by the real fruit. American Bar Professor Scheck intro­ Association, is part of the 43rd Annual GRAMMY® Week. As a result of this honor, AELJ duced the semester's first editors Sarah Warren '01 and Paulette Fox '01, shown here on the proverbial "red lecturer, Richard A. Leo, carpet," attended the GRAMMY® Awards in Los Angeles. professor of criminology, law & society and psych­ ology and social behavior at the University of California, Irvine, and, according to Professor Scheck, the world's leading expert on false confessions. At the end of Professor Leo's talk, students on every campus i had the opportunity to ask him questions. Each week, a world-class expert pre­ sented a live lecture at Cardozo, and students at the four other schools participated through video­ conferencing technology. This distance learning course, an interdisciplinary examination of the princi­ pal problems that lead to the conviction of the inno­ Many Cardozo students say that one of the most rewarding and practical experiences of cent and the leading pro­ law school is participation in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP). Each year, posals for social and judicial more than 100 third-year students learn how to do opening statements, cross- reform, is open to graduate examinations, closing arguments, and all phases of criminal and civil trials. About 200 students of law, journalism, visiting faculty give demonstrations and student critiques. Students are also videotaped psychology, and other to learn how to improve their courtroom style. The two-week program ends with a related disciplines. It is a bench and jury trial before a practicing judge.

SUMMER 2001 core offering for students covered were eyewitness addition, readings for those makes it available on the participating in Innocence identification. Habeas and interested in pursuing top­ Web, where it can be down­ Projects that have heen post-conviction remedies, ics further, links to relevant loaded. From these files, spawned at schools DNA evidence, snitches, Weh sites, a national discus­ professors are able to hum throughout the country. At junk science, ineffective sion forum for students, a a high-quality CD to show least one faculty member counsel, police and prose­ discussion forum for profes­ in class. Ultimately the lec­ supervises the class on cutorial misconduct, sors involved in the course, tures, complete with tran­ each campus and leads in- innocence and the death and an area where students scripts translated into sever­ class discussions, assigns penalty, media and inves­ can ask lecturers questions al languages, will be offered and grades homework, and tigative journalism, and were available. The course online to the global com­ provides other professorial innocence and race. will be offered again this munity for CLE credit or functions. The substance of The class calendar, syl­ semester. general interest. the course, including read­ labus, and all required A company that designs More than 20 schools ings, lectures, and online readings were posted in and builds educational Weh located throughout the discussion, is provided by electronic format on a sites for the legal communi­ United States offered all or Cardozo. Among the topics password-protected site. In ty films each lecture and part of the course.

Schuck Examines Diversity

History offers few examples of cultures that value diversi­ that private and public institutions should foster. In part, ty, Peter Schuck, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale this may be explained by the fact that Americans have Law School, told an audience at Cardozo. come to accept diversity as a demographic fact of life that Schuck, who delivered the annual Bauer Memorial cannot he reversed. They may wish there was less immi­ Lecture, said that although "mongrel cultures" based on gration but admire the immigrants they know personally. trade are among history's most dynamic and most success­ Labor unions that once fought the admission of people ful, the spread of diversity usually has heen marked by who would compete for a limited number of jobs now see "countless blood-soaked battle monuments and endless immigrants as potential new members in a growing econo­ graveyards." my. And there is a collective guUt about past wrongs done But there is one notable exception to this trend: today's to minority groups such as Jews, Native Americans, United States. African Americans, and Asian Americans. "The abstract ideal of diversity, almost always ignored "Many Americans believe we can have it both ways, and opposed throughout human history, has now reached that the study, celebration, and maintenance of diverse an apotheosis in the United States," he said. traditions is compatible to assimilation to core American Schuck, whose lecture values," Schuck said. A represented a "preface" to "mosaic" or a "lumpy chefs an ongoing study of law and salad" has replaced the diversity, conceded that "melting pot" as the favored large-scale immigration in metaphor in describing the the nineteenth and early relationship of ethnic twentieth centuries sparked groups to American society. debate about ethnic diversi­ The struggle of African ty in this country. Also, Americans for equal treat­ minority groups have fre­ ment has provided a tem­ quently suffered repression, plate for the political strug­ while "assimilationists" have gles of other ethnic groups. sought to dissolve differ­ Meanwhile, new technolo­ ences in favor of 100- gies have familiarized peo­ percent Americanism. ple with diversity in its Nevertheless, many most attractive forms. This Americans have come to Dean Paul Verkull, Prof. Peter Schuck of Yale Law School, and is "diversity on the cheap value diversity as an end New York Law School Dean Harry Wellington and without risk."

6 CARDOZO LIFE

Baseball and the Law, Followed by Baseball

Prof. Robert Jarvis, An unusual conference Nova Southeastern attracted youngsters wear­ University, surprised ing baseball caps as well as the audience when the usual academics and he appeared as the practicing lawyers on a conference mascot, baseball-perfect spring day. "Oliver Wendell The event gave fans of Wolf." baseball and the law— described by Prof. Charles M. Yablon as the two most popular games in America —a rare opportunity to discussed liability issues by the Cardozo Law Review Eugene D. Orza, associate indulge their twin passions created by the proliferation and received support from general counsel for the while earning a few contin­ of team mascots. For exam­ Fred Wilpon and the New Major League Players uing education credits in ple, "Oriole Bird" has been York Mets organization. It Association; David P. the bargain. accused of hitting a fan was organized by Dave Samson '93, executive vice The conference even with his taU, and "Phillie Feuerstein '01, who was a president of the Montreal had its own mascot, "Oliver Phanatic" was hauled into minor league ballplayer Expos; New York Times Wendell Wolf," in the per­ court for assaulting a cus­ prior to coming to Cardozo. baseball writer Murray son of Nova Southeastern tomer during an appear­ After a day of academic Chass; Steve Greenberg, for­ University Professor of Law ance at a local paint store. presentations and policy mer deputy commissioner Robert M. Jarvis. After "Batter Up! From the debates, participants of Major League Baseball cavorting through the Baseball Field to the happily adjourned to Shea and cofounder of the crowd, the costumed Jarvis Courthouse" was sponsored Stadium for dinner and to Classic Sports Network; and watch the Mets defeat the former baseball commis­ Houston Astros, 8-2. sioner Fay Vincent lent MOOT COURT AND TRIAL TEAMS In addition to exploring validity and star quality to HAVE WINNING YEAR baseball as a metaphor, the day's event. speakers discussed in great Mr. Vincent said that The Moot Court Honor Society has compiled an impressive detail the legal and eco­ intangible performance record this year. At the Irving R. Kaufman Memorial nomic challenges facing rights have opened up the Securities Law Competition sponsored by Fordham Law hasehall as a business, prospect of "a spectacular School, the team of Shannon Boettjer '02 and Nick including changes wrought future" for Major League Lagemann '02 advanced to the "Sweet Sixteen" round. In by the Internet, which Jack Baseball, but "the baseball the Tuiane Invitational National Sports Law Competition, F. WUliams of Georgia State owners don't believe in the Tyler Lenane '02 and Jessica Prunell '02 advanced to the University School of Law future of their own game "Great Eight" round. Mary Alestra '01 and Alan Gotthelf said have raised the issue of technologically or economi­ '01 advanced to the semifinal round and won runner-up "who owns the back of the cally." He suggested that for Best Brief at the Ruby R. Vale Corporate Moot Court baseball card?" the owners discuss the Competition. Another session featured whole issue of revenue The Cardozo Trial Team won the American Trial a panel of well-known sharing with the players. Lawyers Association Regional Competition, beating 21 hasehall executives who dis­ "The history of other schools. Team members were Mary Alestra '01, John cussed contract negotia­ American business has Coyle '01, Alydra Kelly '02, and Jennifer Loyd '01. At the tions, stadium construction, heen that there has to be a National Trial Competition in New Orleans, Cardozo and other current issues sharing of ownership with ranked ninth. It was the first Cardozo team to reach the facing baseball. Thomas J. the employees," he said. national competition. Ostertag, senior vice presi­ "Down the road, the players dent and general counsel of will own a big piece of Major League Baseball; baseball."

8 CARDOZO LIFE Burns Ethics Center Professor Yaroshefsky. the most significant issues the Center is scheduling Fosters Dialogue on Recently the Center has in the criminal justice sys­ conferences on DNA and Critical Legal Issues become more active in tem—the use of cooperating privacy and lessons from sponsoring programs, witnesses and informants. the South African TLuth and lectures, and conferences, That symposium will be Reconciliation Commission Unless the voices of the covering topics that range published and was solicited for the 2001-02 academic poor are heard in the from lawyer's use of the for online presentation for year, and is working with American legal system, media to DNA in the court­ continuing legal education Fordham's Louis Stein "we cannot pretend to our­ room. This past fall, the courses. According to Pro­ Center for Ethics to develop selves that we have an ethi­ Center held its first sympo­ fessor Yaroshefsky, ongoing a manual for legal services cal system of justice," the sium, drawing together work in this area will he the attorneys. Professor noted lawyer and activist prosecutors, defense subject of occasional papers Yaroshefsky sees Cardozo Burt Neubome told an audi­ lawyers, judges, and social of the Ethics Center. Con­ becoming a center for ence of more than a hun­ scientists to examine one of tinuing its heavier agenda. discussion and scholarship dred at the Third Annual Jacob Bums Ethics Center Lecture. Neuhome called In April, the Burns Ethics Center for "a cmsade" to improve convened a "Forum on Faith-Based the access of the poor to Services and Charitable Choice." the system. (From left) Ellen Willis, director, NYU That message has been Cultural Journalism Program and taken to heart at Cardozo, fellow. Nation Institute; Prof. Ellen where the Jacob Bums Yaroshefsky, director, Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Ethics Center; and Prof. David Cole, Practice of Law honored Georgetown University Law Center, Neubome with its first author of No Equal Justice. Other Access to Justice Award. panelists were Rev. Cheryl Anthony, The Center was estab­ senior pastor and CEO, Judah lished with the support of International Christian Center, and Jacob M. Bums, a lawyer vice chair. Board of Central Brooklyn and longtime chairman Churches, and Steven Sheinberg, of Cardozo's Board of assistant director, legal affairs, Directors. Ellen Yaro- Anti-Defamation League. shefsky, the director of the innovative Center, said that Burt Neubome (below), John Norton Mr. Bums was impressed Pomeroy Professor of Law and legal direc­ by the success of the ctfacetf tor, the Brennan Center for Justice at New school's trial advocacy pro­ Harris death York University School of Law, delivered the gram and wanted to apply Jacob Bums Ethics Center Lecture "Access its lessons to the teaching to Justice: the Courtroom as Forum." of ethics. Utilizing video simulations and drawing upon the expertise of lawyers and judges who are teaching fellows in the ethics program, the Bums At an event heavily attended by legal aid attorneys Center has taught hundreds and defense lawyers, Saul Kassin (above), professor of of students who become psychology, Williams College, and Prof. Jonathan engaged in practice-based Oberman spoke on "Police Interrogations and settings. "We grapple with Confessions: Evaluation of a Defendant's Statement some of the most difficult and the Limitations of the Law." ethical and moral issues lawyers have to face," said

SUMMER 200 1 in the integrity of the sys­ pay homage to this celebri­ George W. Bush elected judged out of context, tem. They wanted to see it ty lawyer. President of the United added Prof. Jay Rosen of resolved and, he reminded Other speakers con­ States." Nelson Lund of George Washington the crowd, there will he versed on the electoral col­ George Mason University University School of Law. another election in four lege and the popular vote, School of Law disagreed. However, the noted First years. He also commended with some using baseball He thought Gore had engi­ Amendment lawyer Floyd the canvassers, both Demo­ analogies to explain the neered a biased recount. Ahrams said that he lives in crats and Republicans, for relationships between the "The fact that the Court has a world where people are "stepping up to their demo­ two. Prof. Michael Herz been attacked so viciously not engaged with public cratic duty to see that those noted that the winning tells us more about the issues. "I wish people votes were counted." team in the World Series is Court's critics than about would raise their voices. When an audience mem­ not the team that receives the merits of its decision." I haven't heard much ber asked him if he would the most runs hut the one The day's third panel debate since Bush became have done anything differ­ that wins the most games. attempted to place the elec­ President." ently with hindsight, Boies Alan Dershowitz of tion dispute in the context The conference was grinned and said he still Harvard Law School insist­ of larger cultural and legal organized by Professors has no idea what he could ed that the Court's "corrupt" developments. Prof. Michael Herz and Richard have done to change the decision was motivated by Richard Weisberg spoke Weisberg and was cospon- justices' minds. After his partisan concerns. He said, particularly of "Monicatalk," sored by the Floersheimer talk, Boies signed auto­ "The only relevant fact in or the privatization of pub­ Center for Constitutional graphs and chatted with this case was the names of lic discourse. In a public Democracy and the Jacob students and practitioners the litigants. The justices opinion culture, private fig­ Bums Institute for who thronged the stage to were determined to see ures run the risk of being Advanced Legal Studies.

Langfan Family Funds Oratorical Contest

(From left) Michelle Ricardo '02; Bonnie Steingart '79; Hon. David A. Gross '87, Nassau County District Court; Evan Rosen '02; Bruce Lederman '79; David Lorretto '01; Pery Krinsky '01; Erica Sieschinger '02; Lisa Tuntigian '01; Jason Halper '01; Benjamin Manteli '03; Robin Langfan Hammer '86; William K. Langfan; Gordon Novad '01; Dayna Langfan '87; David Foox '01 (LL.M.); The Moot Court Honor Society hosted the First Annual Hon. John Garrett Marks Langfan Family Constitutional Oratorical Prize Contest—an '79; Nassau County District intramural competition open to all Cardozo students. The Court; Mark Langfan, Esq. topic was the meaning of the Second Amendment in contem­ porary America. Erica Sieschinger '02 (at left) won first place ($3,000) for best orator; Jason Halper '01 won second place ($1,000); and third place ($500) went to David Foox '01. Four alumni were judges. The Langfan Prize Fund was established by William K. Langfan and his family, including Robin Langfan Hammer '86 and Dayna Langfan '87.

SUMMER 2001 CERTIFICATE IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION Squadron Program TO BE OFFERED Receives Grants

Both J.D. and LLM. students will be able to receive a Certificate in This past fall, the Howard Dispute Resolution after partici­ M. Squadron Program in pating in a newly approved Media, Law and Society program that integrates the received two grants from study of theory and policy with the Ford Foundation. The performance and practical skills first grant of $45,000 fund­ around conflict resolution ed a new seminar, Admini­ processes. Students will have to strative Litigation and the satisfy competency requirements FCC, as well as summer in five categories of Alternative placements in media law. Dispute Resolution {ADR)-related The second grant of skills: ADR Processes, Interview­ $75,000 is for strengthening ing and Counseling, Negotia­ ties and encouraging fur­ tion, Mediation, and Arbitration, ther collaboration between Stanley and Gloria Plesent with Prof. Monroe Price (right). and satisfy a writing and clinical Cardozo and the Pro­ or externship requirement. The gramme in Comparative program is supported by a gen­ Media Law and Policy at Divorce, Victorian-Style Examined and erous grant from the Kukin the University of Oxford. Family Law Seminars Established Family Foundation. The Squadron Program, again in conjunction with Literature huffs and family law attorneys gathered at the the Oxford Programme, New York Bar Association to discuss divorce law and relig­ Negotiation Teams received an award from ious and domestic attitudes depicted in the novels of Win Regionals USAID to evaluate media Anthony Ifollope, whose books are famous for their accu­ developments in the rate and vivid portrayals of society in Victorian England. Ukraine. A three-person The lecture, delivered by Valentine Cunningham of Oxford David Koenig '02 and team spent one month in University, "He Knew He Was Right: Family Law in Melissa Stewart '02 won the the Ukraine, assessing the Tfollope and Victorian Fiction," was also an occasion to ABA Regional Client structure of media institu­ honor Adjunct Prof. Stanley Plesent on the establishment Counseling Competition at tions, relationships to gov­ of the Stanley and Gloria Plesent Seminars in Family Law Pace University School of ernment, and economic at Cardozo. Law. They went on to rep­ sustainability. resent Cardozo at the National Finals in Sacra­ mento, CA. In February, the Law School hosted the third annual ABA Regional Representation in Media­ tion Competition. Out of 12 competing teams from Alumni came back to Buffalo, CUNY, Seton Hall, campus to perform; Syracuse, and Tburo, the students parodied winners of the competition their teachers and were two Cardozo teams: the Law School; and Darian Thylor '01 and faculty gave it back Sheree Gootzeit '01 and at the fun-filled Cynthia DeVasia '02 and annual Law Revue Jonas Karp '02. They repre­ Show. sented Cardozo in the finals held in Washington, D.C.

2 CARDOZO LIFE FACULl^,^

Thirteen Professors porations, and Law and Gunther was an associate at fessor of philosophy at Duke Visit During Culture; Professor Beebe Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly University and will visit for 2001-02 win teach Tiademarks and and Hamilton for three the full year. He holds a Advanced Trademarks. years and then was a pro­ B.A. summa cum laude Also joining Cardozo for fessor at Columbia Univer­ from Brandeis University, A record number of visiting the fall term is Gerald sity for six years. He was a a J.D. from Yale University, faculty from around the Gunther, William Nelson Guggenheim Fellow and a B.Phn. from University of nation and Israel will bring Cromwell Professor of Law, an NEH Senior Fellow, and Oxford, and a Ph.D. in new faces to the Law emeritus, from Stanford is a fellow of the American philosophy from Harvard School for 2001-02. Both Law School, where he has Academy of Arts and University. He also has a Uriel Procaccia and taught since 1962. His areas Sciences. He has been a background in music and Barton Beebe, who visited of interest are constitutional visiting professor at many studied piano at the Cali­ last year and were featured law, federal jurisdiction, and universities in this country fornia Institute of the Arts in the previous issue of legal history. He is author and in China, Austria, and the Tdnglewood Music Cardozo Life, will return in of several books, including Ghana, and Israel. Professor Festival. Professor Stone has the fall semester. Professor the leading constitutional Gunther holds an A.B. from received numerous academ­ Procaccia wUl teach Cor- law casebook and an award- Brooklyn College, an M.A. ic fellowships and honors winning biography of Judge from Columbia University, throughout his career, in­ EDiTOR'S NOTE: After going to Learned Hand, for whom and an LL.B. from Harvard cluding the George Plimpton press, Cardozo Life learned he clerked from 1953 to University. He will teach Adams Prize from Harvard that Professor Gunther is 1954. A year later, he also Constitutional Law. University. His teaching unable to teach in the fall clerked for Chief Justice Martin Stone is profes­ interests include torts, semester. Earl Warren. Professor sor of law and associate pro­ jurisprudence, philosophy of law, criminallaw, con­ University, and a J.D. from Froessel Award from the tracts, and moral and politi­ Yale University. After New York Law School Law cal philosophy. He speaks graduating from law school. Review and the Journal of frequently on philosophy Professor Dolgin practiced International and Compara­ and legal theory and pub­ at Davis Polk & Wardwell. tive Law. Among his many lishes extensively on these She lectured as a Fulbright speaking engagements, subjects as well. At Cardozo, Scholar in Israel and was Scheck appeared on a panel he will teach Ibrts, Ele­ a visiting professor at at a Brooklyn Law School ments, and Jurisprudence. Cornell University. In the conference, "DNA: Lessons fall, she will teach Family Cardozo for the full year, he from the Past—Problems for Law and Child, Parent &' will teach International the Future." State; in the spring, Consti­ Business Transactions, Law tutional Law and Repro­ of Cyberspace, and Con­ Scott Shapiro was awarded ductive Tfechnologies. tracts. He holds an LL.B. the Gregory Kavka award Aviva Orenstein is visit­ from Ibl Aviv University by the American Philoso­ ing from Indiana University and an LL.M. and an S. J.D. phical Association. The School of Law—Blooming- from Harvard University. Kavka award is presented ton. After graduating with He was senior legal adviso­ every two years for the best an A.B. and J.D. from ry officer for the Israeli published article in political Cornell University, she Defense Forces and Min­ philosophy. The essay for clerked for Hon. Edward R. istry of Defense from 1986 which he received the Becker, US Court of Appeals, to 1991. Professor Gross was prize, "On Hart's Way Out," Third Circuit. Professor an associate for one year was published in Legal Janet Dolgin, the Orenstein writes and teach­ at Sullivan & Cromwell, Theory in 1998 and has Maurice A. Deane Distin­ es in the area of evidence, a Guberman Fellow at since been reprinted guished Professor of Consti­ legal profession, and chil­ Brandeis University, and several times. In March, tutional Law at Hofstra dren and the law, and is a Fulbright Scholar at he presented this paper in University School of Law, is coauthoring the hearsay Harvard. He frequently San Francisco at the an anthropologist as well as exceptions volume of the writes and lectures about American Philosophical a lawyer. Since joining the evidence treatise The New human rights and interna­ Association, Pacific Hofstra faculty in 1984, she Wigmore. At Indiana, she tional law. Division. In January, he has written widely on the founded the Children and Another six professors gave a paper entitled transformation of the the Law Discussion Group will visit Cardozo during "Authority" at the vVmerican American family and of and coordinates Outreach the spring semester only; Association of Law Schools, American family law. Her for Legal Literacy. She also Stephen J. Morse, Univer­ Section on Jurisprudence, most recent book. Defining participates in the Bloom- sity of Pennsylvania Law and in May gave one the Family (NYU Press, ington Court-Appointed School; Richard Delgado, entitled "Ulysses Unbound" 1997), reviews the law's Special Advocate Program University of Colorado Law at a conference on Deli­ response to surrogacy and for abused and neglected School; Mark Movsesian, beration and Reason at reproductive technology to children and serves on the Hofstra University Law Bowling Green State analyze the shifting mean­ board of the Victim- School; Lewis H. LaRue, University in Ohio. ing of the American family. Offender Reconciliation Washington and Lee Law She also writes about the Project. She will teach School; Jeffrey Haas, New At a farewell party for implications of new genet­ Evidence and Civil York Law School; and Hal Dean Paul Verkuil, ics. Previously, she taught Procedure in the fall and Ahramson, Tburo Law Cardozo Board Member anthropology at Columbia Professional Responsibility School. Thomas H. Lee announced University and The Hebrew in the spring. that when the dean steps University of Jerusalem, Oren Gross is a profes­ down, Mr. Lee would PROFESSIONAL HONORS and has published books sor at Tfel Aviv Law School, like the chair in public and articles on the subject. where he teaches interna­ Barry Scheck and Peter law that he has endowed She holds a B.A. from tional law, international Neufeld, cofounders of the to be renamed the Paul Barnard College, an M.A. business transactions, and Innocence Project, received R. Verkuil Chair in and Ph.D. from Princeton international trade law. At the 2001 Charles W. Public Law.

CARDOZO LIFE PAPERS PANELS SPEECHES New York. LSNY published Self-interest in the Gover­ Israeli-Arab conflicts, his training materials in nance and Operation of the appearing on Israel Update, Paris Baldacci was a dis­ booklet form as part of its Legal Profession and its a cable television program, cussion leader at the annu­ Continuing Legal Education Effect on Society." Earlier and presenting a mini- al American Association of series. He presented the in the spring, he spoke on course at tbe Fifth Avenue Law Schools Clinical Legal training again for the "Lawyer Abuse of Mass Ibrt Synagogue. Education Conference in Volunteer Lawyers Program and Other Aggregative Montreal. He conducted an of the Civil Court of the Mechanisms" at The Kyron Huigens delivered annual training for Legal City of New York. William and Mary School of two papers last winter at Services of New York Law conference on "Tbxic the University of North (LSNY) on apartment suc­ Lester Brlckman was the Tbrts: Issues of Mass Carolina Law School: cession rights of nontradi- keynote speaker in April at Litigation, Case Manage­ "Solving the Apprendi tional famUy members, the Minnesota State Bar ment, and Ethics." Puzzle," and "Law, Econom­ which was attended by over Association's Business Law ics, and the Skeleton of 50 attorneys from legal Institute, where his subject Malvina Halberstam con­ Value Fallacy." A paper on services offices throughout was "The Role of Financial tinued to speak out on the latter subject was

Rosenfeld: Sleepless on Sabbatical

After working for years in the relatively small field of com­ Cardozo at one point to speak at the Faculty Speakers parative constitutional law, Michel Rosenfeld, who is presi­ Series on "Reconstructing Constitutional Quality." dent of the International Association of Constitutional Law Rosenfeld's book Just Interpretations was translated and (lACL), spent his sabbatical year finding that the field is published in French and Italian. His article "The Rule of growing and flourishing, not only in Europe, where it has Law and the Legitimacy of Constitutional Democracy" was been stronger than in the United States, but stateside and published this summer in the Southern California Law even in non-Western countries such as China. For two Review and will be published soon in both Chinese and weeks, he traveled and lectured in China, visiting Spanish translations. A French translation of Shanghai, Beijing, and Sian and was fascinated to see that "Constitutional Decisions of the US Supreme Court's there was a growing Western-style society and a great 1998-99 Tferm: Redefining the Boundaries of Federalism to interest in the field, especially among younger people who the Detriment of Individual Rights" was published in Revue are trying to effect governmental changes. He said, "I was du Droit Puhlic. "American Constitutionalism Confronts surprised at the very open discussions and that certain Denninger's New Constitutional Paradigm Based on members of the audience criticized the Chinese govern­ Material Security, Diversity and Solidarity" appeared in ment in front of their own officials." At Remnin University Constellations. "Le Point de vue du droit Americain" was in Law School in Beijing, he was presented with the honorary Michel Tfoper's Interventionisme Economique etpouvoir heal title of Guest Professor. en Europe, published in Paris by Economica. "Tfeaching Rosenfeld also garnered another honor: he was appoint­ Constitutional Law in the United States" was published in ed editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Lenseignement du droit constituthnnel, edited by Jean Constitutional Law, a faculty-run journal published by Frangois Flauss and published in Brussels by Fruylant. Oxford University Press and sponsored by the NYU Global "Bilinguismo, identidad nacional y Law School Program, which will begin publication in 2002. diversidad en los Estados Unidos" Coincidentally, last year was also the 20th anniversary of appeared in Lenguas, Politica, the founding of LACL, which was recognized at a Paris Derechos, edited by Jose Maria roundtable at which he presided and was a speaker. Sauca and published by University He lectured and was a panelist and commentator at of Carlos III. And "Igualdad y many international conferences, traveling to Aix-en accion afirmativa para las mujeres Provence, Montpellier, Nancy, Rennes, and Paris, France; en la Constitucion de los Estados Budapest, Hungary; Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; Sao Unidos" was published by Centro Paulo, Brazil; and Palermo, Italy. Nationally, he spoke at de Estudios Politicos y Constitu- conferences held at NYU, Harvard, Dartmouth, and cionales in Mujer y Constitucion University of Maryland Law School. He even returued to en Espaha.

SUMMER 2 001 Larry Cunningham (right) published in the California signed copies of his book Law Review, whUe the for­ How to Think Like Benjamin mer wUl he published in Graham and Invest Like the Georgetown Law Journal Warren Buffett (McGraw-Hill) at the end of the year. for Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard. Arthur Jacobson and A student looks on. Michel Rosenfeld are edit­ ing a new book on Election 2000, which will be pub­ lished by the University of California Press.

Monroe Price's book Ttlevision, Public Sphere and Richard Weisberg (right) was among the National Identity was pub­ many well-wishers at the reception lished in Russian. In June, marking the publication of Weimar: he gave a paper, "National A Jurisprudence of Crisis (University of Responses to Media California Press) by Arthur Jacobson (left) Globalization: Tbward an and Bernhard Schlink of Humboldt Analjdic Framework," at University zu Berlin. the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, NJ, where he spent the year as a visiting fellow. His publi­ cation Enabling Environment Paul Verkuil hosted a for a Free and Independent book party for Visiting Media (with Peter Krug) is Professor George being translated into Fletcher, shown here Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, signing Our Secret Russian, Spanish, and Constitution: How French and will be distrib­ Lincoln Redefined uted by USAID. American Democracy, published by Oxford David Rudenstine gave University Press. the 10th annual Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture, sponsored by the Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University. His topic was "Who Owns the Past? Greece, England, Lord Elgin At the request of the State and the Parthenon Sculp­ Department, Malvina tures." While at Princeton, Halberstam discussed the where he spent the year as International Criminal Court a visiting fellow, he also with the foreign policy commented on a paper pre­ delegation, a group of foreign sented at the Princeton Law diplomats and media represen­ and Public Affairs seminar. tatives, when they visited His paper was entitled: in February. "Civic Virtue, the Supreme Court and the Limits of Sociology: A Brief Comment

CARDOZO LIFE held in St. Louis in conjunc­ She and Barry Scheck tion with the Eighth gave a presentation on International Conference "Wrongful Convictions: on Artificial Intelligence Causes and Remedies" at and Law. He inaugurated the AALS Clinical the workshop proceedings Tfeachers Conference. with an overview of the subject from a "jurispruden­ Peter Yu was named the tial perspective." He also editor of a new book series Price Schroeder spoke at a National on intellectual property and Research Council Workshop technology law to be pub­ on Christopher Eisgruber's out in 2002. In addition, she in Washington, D.C. on lished by Kluwer Law Paper." In February he had three law review arti­ "Science, Evidence, and International. He was also lectured on "Bush v. Gore: cles published recently: Inference in Education." named to the editorial Judicial Statesmanship or "The Four Discourses of board of Gigalaw.com, Partisan Politics?" at four Law: A Lacanian Analysis Richard Weisberg was a which provides legal infor­ British law schools: Leices­ of Legal Practice and Schol­ distinguished guest speaker mation for Internet profes­ ter, Nottingham, Birming­ arship" in the Tkxas Law at the Anti-Defamation sionals. He had two articles ham, and De Montfort. His Review, "Rationality in Law League symposium on the published: "From Pirates to article "The Rightness and and Economics Scholar­ role of lawyers and judges Partners: Protecting Intel­ Utility of Voluntary Repatri­ ship" in the Oregon Law in the Holocaust, held in lectual Property in China in ation" will he published in Review, and "Just So Stories: Los Angeles. He spoke on the TWenty-first Century" in the AELJ, and "A Tdle of Posnerian Methodology" in "Vichy Law and the Holo­ the American University Three Documents: Lord Cardozo Law Review. caust in France." He was Law Review and "Piracy, Elgin and the Historic 1801 also a featured speaker at a Prejudice, and Perspectives: Ottoman Document" will Paul Shupack served as special symposium held hy jYn Attempt to Use be published by the Cardozo the consultant to the New the National Actors Theatre Shakespeare to Reconfigure Law Review. His hook York Law Revision and American Society for the US-China Intellectual review of Our Vietnam: The Commission on its report to Yad Vashem following a Property Debate" in the War 1954-1975 hy A. J. the New York Legislature performance of the Broad­ Boston University Inter­ Langguth was published in on UCC Article 9. He was way production of Judgment national Law Journal. He the March 5 issue of The chair of the Association of at Nuremberg. was a panelist on "Current Nation. In June, he partici­ the Bar of the City of New Tirends in E-Commerce and pated in two panels com­ York's intercommittee Ellen Yaroshefsky spent Intellectual Property" at the memorating the 30th anni­ working group, preparing the summer working with National Asian Pacific versary of the Pentagon that organization's report Bruce Green of Fordham's American Bar Association Papers Case, one sponsored on UCC Article 9. He was Louis Stein Ethics Center Regional Conference, and by the Vietnam Veterans appointed the American on an ethics manual for coorganized "The Napster Association at the National Law Institute's representa­ legal services lawyers and Litigation: What's Next for Press Club, Washington, tive to the drafting commit­ editing a hook with Julie Peer-to-Peer Distribution?" D.C., and the other spon­ tee charged with revising Blackman, Battered Women: for the New York State sored hy the Federal Bar UCC Articles 3, 4, and 4A. 25 Years of Reflection. Bar Association. Committee at the Cere­ monial Courtroom, United Peter Tillers was appoint­ Rudenstine Shupack States Courthouse in ed visiting professor of law Manhattan. at Harvard Law School for the spring semester of Jeanne Schroeder's new 2002. He wUl teach book, The Triumph of Venus: Evidence and Fact Investi­ The Erotics of the Market, gation. In the spring, he has been accepted for publi­ was a panelist at a work­

cation by the University of shop on "2\rtifrcial Intelli­ California Press and is due gence and Legal Evidence,"

SUMMER 2001 NIETZSC COMES OF AGE

Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law

here is an apocryphal stoiy associat­ had to experience the excitement of ideas and had to be,, ed with James Hogg, a nineteenth- prepared to engage actively in overthrowing their histo­ ® century Scottish man of letters, that ry or biography and its various filiations. Most were not, captures some of the excitement of and are not, such good or attentive readers. Nietzsche Nietzsche's reception among his Euro­ himself predicted that it would he a century or more pean contemporaries. Hogg grew up in before his works acquired an audience patient and rural Scotland and hegan his working life thoughtful enough to understand the radicalism, the as a shepherd. He acquired a taste for poetry, and particularly the orientation of his thought— books while working for a landowning novelist, hut had not to the past hut the future. little time for literary pursuits. One of his tasks as a shep­ Nietzsche wrote in the future tense about a being and herd was to take his sheep to market in Edinburgh. On a community that were yet to come. The future, howev­ one such occasion, he sold his flock and then purchased er, has not always been kind to his ideas. Adopting a very a copy of Nietzsche's newly published Thus Spoke loose set of stereotypes, the English saw him as a threat Zarathustra. He took the book hack to his lodgings and to the faith, as a heretic and a challenge to the monar­ read it overnight in one uninterrupted sitting. The next chical order of common law. The French flirted with his day, abandoning his career as a shepherd forever, he set aesthetic theory hut took his philosophy less than seri­ out on foot for London. He walked the 450 miles to the ously, while in Germany fascism made brief use of his British capital and there embarked upon a successful ideas of racial purity, a future aristocracy, and a higher career as a novelist and poet. order of being that was yet to come. His most serious It is possible to fall in love with a hook. Nietzsche reception was in Scandinavia where the bleakness of his once asked the question, "Of what use is a hook that does metaphysics was appealing and where, appropriately not lead beyond all hooks?" He meant it was possible for enough, his death mask came to rest in Stockholm. More hooks to change lives; a book could influence a lifestyle recently, feminists have rightly attacked Nietzsche's or become a visceral part of how a reader lives, thinks, misogyny, and liberals have worried about his scorn for and acts. For such to he possible, readers had to he atten­ the hitherto-existing forms of democracy and law. Par­ tive, open, and ethical in the sense of embodying the ticularly in the legal academy in the United States, his ideas that they encountered. Like James Hogg, readers work has been inaccurately dismissed as a source of

C ARDOZO LIFE nihilism or as a threat to belief in law. His work has been Nietzschean reading of positive law is concerned with received in the main negatively. A law professor, Edgar overthrowing an archaic legalism and methodology in Bodenheimer, even thought it worthwhile to write a favor not of ending the law hut of knowing it better. hook disproving nihilism by arguing that 'in sum' law If the anecdote about James Hogg shows that read­ has done more good than harm. The excitement of ing Zarathustra can change a life, the contemporary Nietzsche's work, his radically positive view of the future scholarly reconsideration can show that reading and of our abilities as future readers, has yet to he Nietzsche can potentially inspire people to rewrite embraced. the law. Perhaps uniquely, Nietzsche offers an Nietzsche died in 1900. A century on, as he foresaw, anthropology of legalism and of lawyers. In the it is time to look to the future of his ideas and so address future tense, he wanted to know what colors their contemporary relevance. For sure, Nietzsche was a law will add to existence. He wanted to know threat. Zarathustra announced the death of God and how laws attach to places, characters, and smashed the commandments, the tables of the law. peoples. Most of all, he was keen to move Elsewhere in his writings, Nietzsche argued that truth beyond a legal scholarship based upon was a metaphor distinguished only by the fact that we emulation, repetition, and the closure of had forgotten that it was a metaphor. He argued that imagination, towards new laws or law European culture, and particularly the Pauline creed, tables for the community yet to come. was antihumanist, repressive of both sensuality and Just as Nietzsche argued that an pleasure, and profoundly nihilistic. He wished, in other understanding of the classics required words, to overturn the law, to rethink it from a material­ "a head for the symbolic," an under­ ist or even hedonistic perspective. He wanted to wake standing of law requires an appre­ the lawyers up and at the same time arouse their slum­ ciation of law as a form of life, as bering cousins, the scholars or philologists who spelled an embodied practice, an ethic out and uselessly preserved the sources but not the or, in Nietzsche's idiom, aesthet­ inspirations of the law. ic and lifestyle. In the end (and Where better than in the legal academy to return to here James Hogg's abandon­ the questions that Nietzsche posed to scholars as law­ ment of his earlier life is per­ yers, and lawyers as scholars? Where better than the haps too extreme an United States—Europe without brakes—to address the emblem) Nietzsche does future tense of his work? not recommend giving Nietzsche was not a nihilist. In The Will to Power, he up or abandoning the described a certain nihilism, a life-denjdng quality, a law. His work may hostility to the body and to pleasure that was intrinsic offer criticism of the to St. Paul's interpretation of Christian doctrine. In archaic tone and Nietzsche's account, nihilism was a stage in the trajecto­ backward-looking ry of metaphysics. With the slow realization and incor­ style of much poration of the death of God, it would become possible legal practice, but to move beyond nihilism towards an affirmation of the his thesis is that body and an attention to the pleasures, rhythms, tones, we need to un­ and modulations of a 'this-worldly' existence. Nietzsche's derstand the nihilism was specific and temporary. It smashed the law better so idols of a paternity and law that had outlived their geo­ as to write graphical and historical sources. By the same token, a it anew. •

EDITOR'S NOTE: Professor Goodrich and Cardozo taw ffewew have organized a two-day conference "Nietzsche and Legal Theory" that will be held at Cardozo October 14-15, 2001. For more information call 212-790-0324 or e-mail: [email protected].

SUMMER 2001 Nietzsche's death mask l«» *«% * cccricdl««-. jsm^ !««>* «» I#*, ,j»% Ummad L»mw4 l-»««=i I ^_,

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nrinnr. ^ ^ As Cardozo begins its 25th anniversary year, " A the Law School is in the midst of a multi- lo^onn year, multifacility renovation and expansion! ilnoTi' Yeshiva University's Brookdale Center has been home to the Law School since "ighT'' aCardozo's founding in 1976. At the end of the 1990s, the Cardozo Board and

administration, working with the University administration, developed a major J„U^ capital improvement plan, which has been in process since 1998. First, the

School acquired housing for approximately 130 students and purchased an

additional two floors—making a total of 11 floors—at the Brookdale Center. . -rrApj: is? Then, through a careful sequencing of projects, the renovation, redecorating, and upgrading of all the facilities began. Progress has been swift, with little dis- ' ' l-Sc.d.3ly

ruption to students and classes as 55 Fifth Avenue undergoes a transformation,

: which includes technological enhancements and new heating, ventilation, and l3 air conditioning systems.

The University is working with two major architectural firms—Davis Brody

Bond and Schuman Lichtenstein Claman Efron—under the guidance of a

Cardozo Board committee chaired first by Sheldon Solow and now by Stephen Siegel, both of whom are major figures in New York real estate. til • The centerpiece of the renovation is a larger and reconfigured first floor, < which will include a new Jacob Bums Moot Court Room, a larger lobby, a new

facade, and a 59-seat seminar room. Work on the first floor began in the sum­

mer of 2001 and should be completed before the beginning of the 2002 acade­ mic year. Davis Brody Bond has designed this floor and supplied the renderings

that follow. The financing for the capital project will in part be raised through

Cardozo's $25 million capital campaign, which was announced in spring 2001. Cardozo's lobby will grow to According to Lewis Davis of accommodate the space that Davis Brody Bond, the design is now rented by Metro will "provide the school with Drugs, which is moving in a strong academic identity, a October. The main entrance sense of university life, and a to the Law School will move welcoming public space." The towards 12th Street. New name of the school will be windows will be placed on carved into the exterior stone the first and second floors of pediment that separates the the building, both on Fifth 1st and 2nd floors. Avenue and 12th Street.

SUMMER 2001

I1TH FLOOR

The Law School has grown library space houses addi­ and been consolidated onto tional book stacks and 10 II contiguous floors, giving new comfortable student its vertical campus an orderly study rooms and areas. An layout and making floors interior staircase leads to the accessible by stairs and ele­ three other floors of the vators. To accomplish this, library. The 9th floor will be the University first purchased fully open in fall 2001. and renovated the 11th floor The 10th floor, which is ^ of the Brookdale Center, home to the dean's % which now accommodates office, student services the Law School's clinics, the including financial aid admissions office, and the and the registrar, public Center for Professional relations, and develop­ Development. Then, it took ment, was renovated over the 9th floor, which has during the spring and been renovated to increase summer and will be ^ the size of the library and to reoccupied in the fall. provide offices for faculty and student journals. The

RESIDENCE HALL

As Cardozo grew to accom­ Today the Law School is able modate its growing roster of to offer housing on one of faculty, larger curriculum, and the most attractive residen­ new programs, it was decid­ tial streets in Manhattan to 4 ed that housing was also approximately 130 students needed, especially for first- each year. As a result, stu­ year students. In 1998, YU dents from across the country •-1 purchased the majority of find it easier to attend .' - IrfS".:' L-J i shares in a co-op building Cardozo and no longer have \ located less than a block to tackle New York's from the Cardozo campus. residential housing maze. i*".

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Igniini SfflfBi Enjoying the Jobs of Their Lives: ALUMNI ON THE BENCH

Jeff Storey '01

Many of Cardozo's graduates are making a significant impact on society as interpreters of the law. Considering that Cardozo is such a young school, there are a remarkable number of alumni sitting as judges in Housing Court, the Civil Court, Family and County Court, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, and federal Immigration Court. They are appointed or elected and come to these positions with solid legal training, superior research and writing ability, and with a "judicial temperament" and "people skills." Among the judges from Cardozo there are those who encourage litigants to settle disputes in ways that provide a measure of justice to both sides and those who act as gatekeepers for busy courts, determining which issues should go to the jury. Some decide whether foreign nationals should be allowed to enter the United States or forced to leave the country. Others shield children from neglect and abuse and work to ensure that defendants receive the process that is their due. All feel they have the jobs of their lives.

IN A MANHATTAN EXHIBIT SHOWCASING WOMEN LAWYERS, THERE IS A photo of Immigration Judge Annette Elstein swearing in her daughter Sandra J. Feuerstein 79 as a justice of the state Supreme Court. They are thought to he the first mother-daughter judicial team in the nation. The fact that women could become attorneys never seemed unusual to Feuerstein. After all, her mother worked at Legal Aid for more than 30 years before becoming an immigration judge. However, Feuerstein never ALUMNI ON THE BENCH gave much thought to hecoming a lawyer when she was judge. Meanwhile, she had become politically active in growing up. After graduating from college, she married, her community. She was elected to the District Court as moved to Long Island, and taught school for six years. a Republican and served from 1987 to 1993. She was She stayed home while her children were young. elected a state Supreme Court Justice in 1993 and When their two sons were five and six years old, appointed to the Appellate Division in the Second Feuerstein's husband, who also is an attorney, asked her Department in 1999, the first woman from the lOth judi­ what she planned to do when the children started cial district. school. He showed her an advertisement for a new law As a District Court judge, Feuerstein was close to liti­ gants, giving her "this tremen­ dous feeling" that she was accom­ plishing something on a one-to- one basis. She liked the give-and-take of trials in the Supreme Court—she had loved Evidence in law school—and was gratified that jurors took their role so seriously. Even though she has moved up to the Appellate Division, she would like to preside over a trial from time to time. "After a while, I fear that you lose your perspective about what it's like to he a trial judge and a practicing attorney," she says. "I don't want that to happen." The Appellate Division court­ house is located in Brooklyn. Feuerstein and her colleagues- school Yeshiva University was starting. Feuerstein joined including the justice she worked for as a law clerk- Cardozo's first graduating class and now is its highest- review lower court decisions in all kinds of cases that ranking judicial alumna. originate in a geographic region stretching from the Feuerstein loved law school from the moment she Hudson Valley to Long Island. The court has a heavy started, although some adjustments were necessary. She caseload, and justices must comb through precedents recalls sitting at the kitchen table for seven hours, read­ and written records. ing and rereading her first Property assignment. She "We are reading day and night, seven days a week," eventually unlocked the legal code, however, graduating Feuerstein says. "Thank goodness for the computer." It with honors. And she was inspired by professors like allows her to do legal research at home. Malvina Halberstam, "a most brilliant person," from Feuerstein is sometimes frustrated by lawyers who do whom she took Criminal Procedure and several other not argue their cases in person. She advises attorneys courses. Feuerstein herself is the co-author of a treatise who do appear not to waste time with opening state­ on New York criminal practice. ments. "We're a hot bench," Feuerstein says. 'We're not a The hardest part of going to law school was the guilt jury. We know your case pretty, pretty well." she felt about spending so much time away from her She is concerned that the reputation of the courts in family. In retrospect, "it was probably a wonderful thing general has suffered from attorneys who are not polite to I did for them," she says. "It gave them an understanding their adversaries. Also, their dignity has been compro­ of how hard you have to work to achieve your goals." mised by the inaccurate portrayal of judges on televi­ Feuerstein, who always knew she wanted to go into sion. Feuerstein is appalled that the judges of dajhime government, was hired as a law clerk for the justices in television shows spend so much of their time "screaming Nassau County Supreme Court and then as a matrimo­ at everybody." She says that young people should be nial referee, and then as a law clerk to the administrative taught that the law "can he used hut also can be abused."

C ARDOZO LIFE ALUMNI ON THE BENCH

CIVIL COURT JUDGE MARTIN SHULMAN '81 SAYS HE IS IN extension of his previous career. "the service business." Shulman says that judges must have a good tempera­ The judge's customers, the litigants who appear ment, the ability to listen carefully, and good people before him, want a disposition of their cases. He tries to skills. As he told the New York Law Journal, "I like attor­ maximize what he can do for each one. Litigants may neys who are not 'form over substance' oriented and are not be totally happy—after all, the customers are not open-minded and pragmatic about resolving disputes. I always right in this arena—but they do receive due dislike attorneys who are arrogant and ill-humored." process and the opportunity to he heard on something In brokering a settlement, Shulman familiarizes him­ that matters a great deal to them. self with the issues of the case before him and tries to In short, "you're performing justice," Shulman says. focus quickly on what the parties are seeking. As a go- Frequently, the court's service is to broker a compro­ between, he follows a few simple rules: Never recom­ mise that avoids needless expense and gives the parties mend a particular disposition, never betray a confi­ a piece of what they want. dence, and never force a side to hid against themselves. Some judges are known as scholars. Others are "It's a dance. Sometimes a dance works quickly. regarded as excellent trial managers. In fact, a good Sometimes it takes a little longer.... When it's settled, it's judge has to do many things well, and Shulman says his rewarding," he says. performance demonstrates the needed versatili­ ty. However, working with litigants is his strong Martin Shulman '81 suit. "I'm told that I am very good at settling cases," he says. Shulman, who is also a graduate of Yeshiva College, says that his decision to become a lawyer was a natural progression from the Thlmudic education he received. His personal and academic life "constantly involved an appli­ cation of law." His religion makes him sensitive to moral issues, although it does not water down his obligation to be impartial. At Cardozo, he received "a very good legal education" from professors who made dry cours­ es very exciting and "forced you to think." After graduation, he honed his skills as an advocate, first working in the public sector and then for a private firm. He worked hard for his clients but sometimes found himself telling colleagues, "I think we're wrong." He eventually decided that his personality was more suited to disposing of cases than for advocacy. Shulman, who has four daughters and is active in community affairs, also grew tired of the unpredictable and lengthy hours of private practice. "I had no life," he says. The judge still works from around 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., but now the stress comes from making the right decision. In 1994, Shulman, a Democrat, was elected to a lO-year term in the New York City Civil Court. He was appointed an acting New York State Supreme Court Justice in 1999 and supervising judge of the I3-judge Manhattan Civil Court early this year. He did not regard his selection as a judge as the pinnacle of his career, but as an

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IMMIGRATION JUDGE NOEL ANNE FERRIS '80 WON'T EVER was a little scared, but was stimulated and challenged by forget the man from Albania who recently appeared in "an incredible faculty" of professors like Tblford Thylor, her small courtroom to seek asylum in the United States. Stewart Sterk, and Peter Lushing. Within two weeks, He was about the same age as the judge, 50, but he Ferris discovered that she loved litigation. looked like he was in his late 70s. However, his deterio­ TTie Law School did not teach Immigration Law when rating physical condition was not caused by political per­ Ferris was a student. She took up the field later because secution. Instead, it stemmed from working for decades she wanted to work for the United States Attorney's as a coal miner in a poor country. Office, and that's where the opening was. After leaving That did not meet any of the narrow grounds Con­ the office, she practiced immigration law at a private gress has approved for political asylum. Humanitarian firm before being appointed an immigration judge. concerns are not enough to admit all foreign nationals Last year, a California newspaper rated Ferris the who seek refuge in the United States. "I could not find a eighth toughest of more than 200 immigration judges in way of granting that case," Ferris said of the Albanian. granting asylum requests. Ferris says that such compar­ Ferris has worked as a judge in Manhattan's Immigra­ isons ignore differences among immigration courts. The tion Court for seven years. The court is part of the Manhattan branch is the busiest in the nation, draws United States Justice Department, but it is independent petitioners from an unusually large number of coun- of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ferris and her colleagues interpret a body of law that is "one step worse" than the infamously complex Internal Revenue Code. Itvo other Cardozo graduates also work as immigration judges in Manhattan: Sarah Burr '80 and Matthew Adrian '87. "This is a real court," says Ferris, who wears a black robe when she is sitting. Judges are presiding "almost all the time," so there is little time for research or reflec­ tion. They ask questions and are expected to make oral rulings. However, there is no clerk and no stenographer. The proceedings are recorded on a tape recorder operated by the judge. At the hearings, "everybody has a differ­ ent story to tell." This variety helps keep the work "fresh and interesting;" Ferris expects to spend the rest of her career on the court. The stories also have given her a unique perspective on current international affairs. The testimony has convinced her that "it is shocking and immoral" to ignore human rights abuses around the world. "We have a responsibility to prevent people from mur­ dering each other." Ferris was one of many students at Cardozo seeking a second career. She had worked as an assistant to the fashion direc­ tor of B. Altman for four years after gradu­ ating from college. She enrolled in law school because she wanted to work as the administrator of a charity and was tired of being asked how fast she typed. At first, she tries, and has a large asylum caseload. It calls on interpreters who speak more than 60 languages. In a given week, Ferris may hear cases from nine or more countries. Chinese and Albanians are the most common petitioners, but on a single day recently, Ferris heard cases involving nation­ als of both Outer and Inner Mongolia. Attempts at fraud are common, and Ferris works hard to detect it. "I take my oath of office very seriously," she says. However, she cannot blame people who have had "awful lives" and try to get into the United States. "There's nothing so wonderful as being able to tell people they can stay here for the rest of their lives, especially when terrible things have happened to them in their home countries."

WAITING FOR HER CASES TO BE CALLED AS A FED- eral defender, Dianne T. Renwick '86 used to pass the time pondering "what the judge should do" in response to the various legal issues before the court. "Not only was I analyzing the judges' deci­ sions, but 1 was enjoying the process," she says. When she got the opportunity, Renwick was delighted to make the judicial calls for real. Renwick, bom and raised in the Bronx, says she enrolled in law school because "1 was always interested in fairness, in civil rights and human rights and law seemed like the perfect avenue through which to pursue these interests." She was impressed by what Cardozo had achieved in a short period of time and by the faculty, hut says, "I sometimes miss the excitement of trying cases. How­ don't think 1 appreciated the Socratic method as much ever, I do not miss the long hours during trials or the then as I do now." time away from my family." She participated in the law school's Criminal Appeals In March 1997, she was appointed a Housing Court Clinic and the Criminal Law Clinic, experiences that she judge. Less than a year later, she was elected to the Civil found rewarding, if a little intimidating at times. "I en­ Court. She would like to someday move on and become joyed exploring what the work of a lawyer entailed," she a justice of the State Supreme Court, but says, "Being a says. However, becoming a judge was not in the fore­ judge is a constant learning experience and I'm still front of her mind. "There was too much I felt I needed learning." to accomplish. At that time, becoming a good lawyer was Renwick, who is 40, was the youngest African- my primary goal." American woman elected to the CivU Court in Bronx After law school, Renwick worked in the Bronx office County. Civil Court judges handle a broad range of of the Legal Aid Society for two and a half years. She issues that she finds very interesting. "You have an then spent eight years in Brooklyn as a trial attorney in opportunity to really see the community and assist peo­ the Society's Federal Defender Division, representing ple," she says. A Bronx criminal court judgeship was not clients charged with dmg importation and other major an option because Renwick is married to Robert federal offenses in the United States District Court for Johnson, the Bronx County District Attorney. Although the Eastern District. "I loved the work. It was challeng­ she could have sat in another borough, she preferred to ing and stimulating," she says, adding that "even now I remain close to her two young children.

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Among the most important qualities for a judge is judge, was elected in 1996.) "patience," Renwick says. The Civil Court sometimes is When the Democrats approached her to run, the first called the "People's Court" because litigants use its Small reaction of the previously nonpolitical Berkowitz was, Claims Court to press their claims without the assistance "Why should 1 do that? 1 can't win." She was more than of counsel. This is gratifying to Renwick, who finds that surprised by her victory. "I was shocked." "people want someone to listen to their case." She con­ Berkowitz grew up on the South Shore of Long Island, tinues, "Not surprisingly, they feel good when the judge only four miles from where she now lives. At Cardozo, and court personnel treat them with respect." she signed up for what was then the recently established Criminal Law Clinic, an experience that helped get her a job at Nassau County Legal Aid, where she worked for THE REACTION OF MERYL BERKOWITZ TO THE Q.UES- 16 years, rising to a supervisor's position. With three tion was what you might expect from a veteran trial young daughters at home, she eventually left the agency attorney. "I screamed out 'objection'" says Berkowitz '81. and was in private practice when she ran for judge. But Berkowitz was not acting as one of the lawyers in Many judges come from a background as prosecutors, the case. She was the judge. but Berkowitz said that defense attorneys also make "I guess the objection is sustained," one of the lawyers good judges. For one thing, after years of dealing with noted wiyly. defendants, "1 know all the stories." More important, as a Berkowitz's momentary disorientation was under­ defense attorney, "you try very hard to be fair," she says. standable. In 1999, she was one of the first Democratic Ironically, given her professional background, Berk­ candidates in 60 years to he elected a county judge in owitz initially was not assigned to hear criminal cases. Nassau County, a Republican stronghold until the col­ With crime rates falling recently, there is a greater need lapse of the county's finances. (David Gross '87 was forjudges in the civil arena. Berkowitz found herself pre­ elected a District Court judge in the same election. Dana siding over accident and divorce cases as an acting state Mitchell Jaffe '86, also a Nassau County District Court Supreme Court justice. Her cases have called into play ALUMNI ON THE BENCH

Other aspects of her experience. "Anybody who is mar­ any joh that I would like more," she says. ried can identify with the problems in a marriage," she Pearl came to Cardozo already interested in family says. It has been an advantage to work with people who and juvenile delinquency issues. She had a doctorate in haven't already formed an opinion of her. "I started out psychology and thought that a legal degree "would be an my career as a judge in front of people who didn't know excellent addition for helping people." The school me as a lawyer." seemed sympathetic to people starting a second career. All in all, "it's been a real learning experience." She wishes that "every lawyer could sit on the bench and watch things from that van­ tage point." Berkowitz, who was elect­ ed for a 10-year term, adds, "I'd like to have this joh for a very long time."

FAMILY COURT JUDGE JANE PEARL '87 sat behind a vase brimming over with purple flowers and listened as the attorney for a mother with a temper said she did not want to go to anger management therapy. "My client doesn't want to go to any more pro­ grams," the attorney said. Pearl said that the woman could attend family counsel­ ing. The counselor would decide whether any addition­ and she was attracted to "the wonderful program in law al therapy was needed to repair the woman's relation­ and literature" taught by Prof. Richard Weisberg. ship with her daughter. While at Cardozo, Pearl participated in a summer TTie Cardozo graduate has heen deciding such issues seminar on judicial ethics that included an internship at since she was appointed last year as one of a dozen New Family Court. After graduation, she worked as a law sec­ York City Family Court judges in the Bronx. Her princi­ retary for two years and in the family law department of pal role is to hear cases involving the abuse and neglect a private firm before going on maternity leave. She of children. The work "interests me in ways that are both returned to Manhattan Family Court as a hearing exam­ legal and deeply emotional," she says. iner and referee before becoming a judge herself. Pearl seeks to marshal the resources of the legal and Pearl says that she does not act as a therapist on the the therapeutic communities in a pro-active, yet flexible bench, but her psychology training helps her assess the effort to protect children and preserve families. Outside evidence in the cases before her. As a judge, she must her small courtroom, dozens of adults and children mill pay attention to immediate detail—what's happening in around a large, noisy waiting room, waiting their turn to a child's daily life—and to "global constructs"—what appear before Pearl and her colleagues. needs to happen as the child grows and develops. The Some judges are demoralized hy the confusion and court is husy, and Pearl must he very careful that she what they regard as the futility of their efforts. Pearl says does not miss something important in a rush to move that it is important to guard against judicial burnout, but cases through the system. "it is possible to judge without heing judgmental." She Caseload delays cause pain to parents and children, says she has no plans to use her current position as a Pearl says, "but you can move cases along in a way that's stepping-stone to another judgeship. "I cannot think of attentive to the needs of the parties." •

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Alan Dershowitz Commencement honored as well. The Law Delivers Commence­ speaker Alan School gave Dean Stewart ment Address Dershowitz, Felix Sterk the Monrad G. Frankfurter Professor, Paulsen Award for devoted Harvard Law School service to the vitality, The Class of 2001 celebrat­ ideals, and purposes of ed Cardozo's 23rd com­ legal education. Each year, mencement in Avery the graduates select their Fisher Hall of Lincoln LL.M. graduate favorite members of the Center for the Performing Andreas Karl faculty and administration. Arts. Alan Dershowitz, Felix Aschenbrenner Andrew Leftt, SBA presi­ Frankfurter Professor at received the Louis dent, presented the awards Harvard Law School, deliv­ Many students were hon­ Henkin Award, also for to this year's winners: Larry ered the keynote address, ored for distinction in acad­ superior scholarship. Cunningham '88, Eva urging graduates to be wary emics and contributions to Melissa M. Mathis was Hanks, and Gaiy Galperin of the treacherous ethical journals, the community, given the Felix Frankfurter '80, adjunct professor. Lynn conflicts they will face as and various fields of law. Award for outstanding Wishart was recognized for lawyers. He asked them to Jocelyn Laura Santo, academic maturity, respon­ the most outstanding assis­ deliberately choose a moral who was the only member sibility, diligence, and tance to students. The system for guidance. of the class to graduate judgment; the Samuel Anita Walton Award for best A festive mood prevailed summa cum laude, received Belkin Award for scholastic administrator was given to as 298 men and women the Louis D. Brandeis achievement coupled with Isabel Balson, registrar. received J.D. degrees and Award for best academic exceptional contributions to 46 received LL.M. degrees. record over three years; the Law School was given to Alan Gotthelf. Several professors were Andrew Leftt, SBA president, presented the faculty awards. Gary Galperin, best adjunct professor

Eva Hanks, best first-year professor

Cardozo Chairman Larry Cunningham, Earle 1. Mack best professor 30 Named to Order of the Coif

In a ceremony that took place just before com­ mencement, 30 J.D. stu­ dents received the Order of the Coif, the legal honor that is bestowed on those who finish in the top 10 percent of the class. Bonnie Steingart 79, a member of the Cardozo Board of Directors, received an hon­ orary Order of the Coif.

Class of 2001:

Brooke Robyn Bass

Martin Earl Beeler

Karen Bekker Theresa Marie Bevilacqua Jennifer Nicole Deitch David Todd Feuerstein

Aaron Edward Fredrickson Daniel Steven Gordon Alan Gotthelf Adam Keith Grant

Jonathan E. Gross Daniel Jeremy Hales

Jason Elliot Halper Steven J. Horowitz

Rachel Brooke Jaffe Albert N. Lung Neeli Berger Margolis

Melissa M. Mathis Julia Louise Mattson

Scott Daniel McCoy Michelle Monique Miciotto- Kostun

Michael J. Parrish Scott Jonathan Posner Dennis Rimkunas

Michael Howard Rogers

Jocelyn Laura Santo Kara Blair Schissler Dmitriy Shieymovich

Marc H. Simon Julie C. Young Alumni Featured Duffy and Moore, where he in New York Law became known for such Journal stunts as bringing a piano into a courtroom. Tbday, after 11 years as a solo prac­ Proud to Practice titioner, Chuck has the lux­ Personal injury Law ury of choosing his cases People always told Chuck carefully, accepting only a Silverstein '84 he would be few per year. a good lawyer. It appears How does Chuck that after 17 years of prac­ Silverstein select a case? He tice he has proved them says it has to be something (From left) Ron Geffner '91, Martin Stanklewicz '00, Dennis Hirsch '97, right. A former musician significant, either in magni­ and Jeffrey Goldberg '95, all of Sadis & Goldberg. and bartender, Chuck is tude, in a point of law, or now a successful medical where some injustice clear­ negative public image of veteran of numerous con­ malpractice plaintiffs attor­ ly has been done. Chuck personal injury attorneys troversial cases. Jay, along ney, with more than a has represented some every day. He found that with his partner and fellow dozen seven-figure settle­ unlikely clients including a the best response is to Cardozo graduate Deborah ments and verdicts under heroin abuser and a man establish yourself as a credi­ Kahn '83, recently won his belt. He obtained his who lost his winning lottery ble attorney and to not Gindy v. Gindy, in which a first part-time job during ticket, as well as other accept frivolous cases. Brooklyn judge ruled that a law school through the newsworthy cases that Chuck is clearly proud of husband who refused to placement office, and after appeared on the cover of the practice he's built, and give his wife a Jewish reli­ graduation joined the law the New York Law Journal. proud to know that some of gious divorce (Get) must firm of Kramer Dillof Ibssel Chuck thinks about the his cases have been used as provide lifetime support for examples at seminars dis­ his ex-wife. The decision, cussing issues such as how reported on the front page Cardozo Gains to handle liens and the use of the New York Law CLE Provider Status of expert witnesses. After Journal on May 3, has a sig­ years of solo practice. nificant impact on the A record number of alumni came back to Cardozo to Chuck will soon have a Orthodox Jewish communi­ obtain some needed continuing legal education credits; partner, Michael Bast, who ty. Mr. Gindy will have to they found themselves experiencing nostalgia as they sat has been working with him provide permanent mainte­ in a classroom to leam once again about New York Civil for about seven years. nance payments to his ex- Procedure from Prof. Burt Lipshie. For the 100-plus attor­ Chuck reminisces about wife despite their short, neys, the event also turned into a minireunion. Now that Cardozo, particularly with childless marriage based on Cardozo has been approved as a New York State CLE regard to his number one the fact that as a member provider, many more programs will be offered by the Law status at the old pinball of the Sjnian Orthodox School and the Alumni Association. The next event will machine and number two Jewish community in be an ethics course taught in the fall. status in Ms. Pac Man. He Brooklyn, she would never also remembers well a be able to remarry within number of faculty mem­ her community without the bers, including Professors Get. Jay hopes that this ml- Jacobson, Shupack, and ing will help Mrs. Gindy to Zelinksy. Chuck is a regular obtain the Get, since her participant in Cardozo's getting married again is the ITAP program. only way to end the hus­ band's obligations. Civil Divorce Drives a Jay has had other news­ Wedge for Client's Get worthy cases recently, The world of matrimonial including an important law is an3fthing but routine ruling from the New York Prof. Burt Lipshie teaching CLE course to alumni. to Jay Butterman '89, a Court of Appeals involving

CARDOZO LIFE the rights of children bom Alumni Admitted out of wedlock, which was to Supreme Court reported a day later in the and Attend a AS CARDOZO May 4 New York Law LIKES IT D.C. Reception Journal. The law fimi In February, alumni

Butterman, Kahn & and friends attended

Gardner LLP, which Jay On March 27, a group of Shakespeare's As You founded in 1991, also han­ alumni were admitted to Like It at the Storm dles entertainment law, real the United States Supreme Theatre. The 50-plus f estate, general litigation, Court and then enjoyed a attendees filled the small Off-Broadway theater, making it and business law and has session of oral arguments truly a Cardozo event. After the performance, guests attend­ received the highest rating where they could observe ed a wine and cheese reception with the cast. Lawrence Klein in Martindale-Huhble. the nine justices in action. '94 is shown here with Jennifer Piech, who starred in the Jay "really liked law Prof. Michael Herz, a for­ show and was previously on Broadway in Titanic. school" and acknowledges mer Supreme Court clerk, Cardozo's "extraordinary made the motion for the faculty," especially family group and shared some staff met with alumni at a on the mailing list for law professor Bob Dobvish. inside information about reception at the law firm of either event, please contact the Supreme Court at a Crowell & Moring, thanks Barbara Birch in the Office Alumni Team Scores breakfast that morning. to partner Cliff Elgarten '79, of Alumni Affairs at 212- Consumer Victory Admitted alumni were who is pictured here (cen­ 790-0293, or by e-mail at Soon after Jeffrey C. Gold­ (from left below) David ter) with Paul Epstein '85 birch(g)ymail.yu.edu. Space berg '95 joined forces with Baskind '96, Leslie Berman (left) and Dean Stewart is very limited. solo practitioner Jack Sadis '93, Stephanie Cayden '93, Sterk. Next year, there to form Sadis & Goldberg Averlyn Archer '93, Susan will be a reception for LLC, they extended part­ John '93, Daniel Bernstein D.C. metro alumni on nerships to Cardozo gradu­ '96, and Wayne Halper '79 March 19, 2002, fol­ ate Ron Geffner '91 and (not pictured). lowed the next day by attomey Douglas Hirsch. The evening before the a Supreme Court Ad­ Tbgether, they have built a swearing-in, faculty and mission. Tb he placed thriving general practice in midtown Manhattan. The full-service law firm recent­ ly hired two associates who also are Cardozo graduates: Dennis Hirsch '97 and Martin Stankiewicz '00. Ron attributes the firm's success in part to the Car­ dozo team who "because of the education they received at Cardozo are, by and large, entreprenurial and think outside the box." Sadis & Goldberg's court victories were featured on the front page of the New York Law Journal twice; both articles highlighted the firm's litigation department and its zealous advocacy and victories in the area of consumer warranty law.

SUMMER 200 1 35 Reunion Celebration

The Bear Ballroom at the Russian Itea Room was a glorious setting for the graduates of the Classes of 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, and 1996, who celebrated their reunions on June 7. More than 300 alumni reminisced with classmates, faculty, and administrators while enjoying some Russian-style delicacies. Members of the reunion committee helped ensure the event's success.

The reunion party was held in the Bear Ballroom at the Russian Tea Room.

Alan Eisenstein '90 and Prof. Peter Lushing.

Stacey Richman '91, Deirdre Waldron-Power Frances Kaminer-Pyle '80, Caroi Schneider- '91, and Prof. Barry Scheck Levy '80, and Debbie Insdorf '80

Joan Waks '85, Rosemary Byrne '80, and Ellen Cherrick '80

Attention Classes of 1982, 1987, and 1992!

Committees are now forming to help Prof. Melanie Leslie '91 and organize your class reunions. Get Joseph Fontak '91 involved and ensure a successful event Christopher A. Seeger '90, Stephen for your class. Call 212-790-0293 to join A. Weiss '90, and Odessa Gorman- (small time commitment). Stapleton '90.

CARDOZO LIFE Alumni Support Capital Campaign David Berg Foundation with $100,000 Supports Public Interest Pledges

The newly established David Stephen A. Weiss '90 and Berg Foundation made a grant Cardozo Board member of $50,000 to support public Eric M. Javits launched two interest stipends for Cardozo prestigious giving societies students. Twenty students have in October at a well-attend­ been named David Berg Feilows ed cocktail party hosted hy in Public Interest Law for 2001 Samuel and Ronnie and received $2,000 to $3,200, Heyman and featuring a enabiing them to take unpaid talk by Prof. Richard summer positions. Weisberg. Graduates who They worked at such organi­ pledge gifts of $100,000 zations as Volunteer Lawyers payable within five years Prof. Richard Weisberg spoke in the home of Ronnie and Samuel for the Arts, US Attorney's are invited to join The Heyman on "Recent Events in Holocaust Restitution Litigation." Office for the Eastern District of Jacob Bums Pillars of New York, Asian Pacific Justice Society, named for al pledge to support the '88 and Adam S. Cottbetter American Legal Center, South Cardozo's late chairman of Kukin Center for Conflict '92 are the first alumni to Brooklyn Legal Services the board. Mr. Weiss and his Resolution. join this important initia­ Foreclosure Prevention Project, wife, Debra Weiss '90, were The Scales of Justice tive. (For more information Cardozo's Innocence Project, the first to step forward. Society is designed for on joining either giving the Legal Aid Society, and Others include James those who want to make a society, please call South Brooklyn Legal Services. Schwalhe '93, Evan Berger $100,000 gift but desire a Debbie Niederhoffer, The late David Berg served '92, and Jonathan Kukin more flexible time span to Director of Development, on Cardozo's Board for 10 years '87, who made an addition­ pay it. Mitchel A. Maidman at 212-790-0288.) beginning in the early 1980s. During his lifetime Mr. Berg supported numerous education­ Parents Attend Brunch 3L Challenge Looks al, cultural, and social nonprofit to the Future organizations. The Foundation The first annual Cardozo Parents Day for all J.D. and continues his legacy. LL.M. students and their families was held on a snowy January day. After a champagne branch, The 3L Challenge, inaugu­ guests toured the building and heard about plans for rated last year, is a class class of '01: Catherine Alin, upgrading facilities and then attended miniclasses giving program in which Reuven Falik, Ryon taught hy members of the faculty. students show their intent Fleming, Sara Cershuni, to become active alumni by Melanie Hayes, Kevin making multiyear pledges Heller, Rachel Hirschfeld, to Cardozo. This year, stu­ Alexandra Hochman, dents chose to designate Sharon Beth Kristal, Simmi the gift for a broad spec- Prasad, Dennis Rimkunas, tram of programs, includ­ Lisa Umtigian, and Rob ing the library, loan repay­ Zanetti; Class of '02: ment program. Public Cynthia Devasia, Rachel Interest Summer Stipend, Posner, and Melissa and the Online Journal of Stewart; and from the Class Conflict Resolution. The of '03: Deborah Ginsberg committee, spearheaded hy Jeffrey and Arlene Cohan with their daughters, Stacey '02 and Brian Kidd, and LL.M. Peggy Sweeney '01, and Joanna '04. candidates Shakeel Ahmad includes members of the and Pilar Tbro '02.

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Class of 1981 which he defended a suspect advance through a legal Naftel, The Thlecoms Trade Lois Lipton was named the in the murder of a 9-year- career from college gradua­ War: The United States, The first female president of the old boy. tion to retirement. Along the European Union and the WTO Bergen County Bar Association way, the "lawyer" must (Hart Publishing, 2001). Mr. in April. She has a successful Class of 1986 answer humorous questions Spiwak is president and chair­ law practice in Hackensack, on law, street smarts, and man of the hoard of editorial NJ, and also is a prosecutor in Stephanie R. Cooper ethics drawn from real-life advisors at the Phoenix Edgewater and Fair Lawn. opened a NYC law office in court cases. Mary E. Center for Advanced Legal Hon. Martin Shulman, January representing clients WanderPolo led two work­ and Economic Public Policy supervising judge of the Civil in matters of corporate and shops on the legal aspects of Studies. Michael J. Wildes, Court of the City of New York, individual counseling and liti­ caring for a loved one who an Englewood, NJ, council­ was featured in "Profiles from gation, with an emphasis on requires long-term custodial man and a partner at Wildes, the Bench" in the New York art and entertainment law. care for Caregivers' Connec­ Weinberg, Grunhlatt and Law Journal on April 9, 2001. Mary James Courtenay is tions, a new nonprofit out­ Wildes PC in NYC, was fea­ CEO of Mary's Games, LLC, reach program. Ms. Wander- tured at a forum on the law in Seattle, WA, which released Class of 1985 Polo practices elder law at the sponsored by the Interfaith a new board game called Verona, NJ, law firm of Brotherhood-Sisterhood Bruce Koffsky, a defense Disorder in the Court. The McElnea & WanderPolo and is Committee of Bergen County. attorney in Weston, CT, won a object of the game is for the vice chair of the Essex County Mr. Wildes also represented high-profile murder case in "lawyer" to he the first to Bar Association's Elder Law Veronica Hearst, the Dutch- Committee. bom widow of the late Randolph Hearst who became First Class of Heyman Scholars Graduate Class of 1988 a US citizen in May. Geoigeaime Gould Moss Prof. Larry Cunningham, the first graduating class of Heyman joined Prudential Securities as Class of 1990 Scholars, and current Heyman Scholars celebrated at a cocktail party a vice president and financial Eric Fingerhut is a partner held at Alger House in Greenwich Village. In a setting of Persian rugs consultant. She and her moth­ in the northern Virginia office and stained glass windows, some 60 guests toasted Ronnie and er, Audrey Gould, and her sis­ of Shaw Pittman. He special­ Samuel Heyman for their support of The Heyman Scholars Program, ter, Ellen Gould Baher, make izes in trademark, copyright, which provides outstanding students interested in corporate law up the successful Gould and Intemet-related intellec­ with financial aid and academic and practical opportunities in the Group, which manages assets tual property and technology field of corporate governance. for individuals, corporations, issues. and nonprofit organizations. Gregg A. Willinger Class of 1991 announces the formation of Daniel Friedman is a part­ Willinger Thlent Agency, ner at Buchanan Ingersoll in Inc.(WTA), representing tele­ NYC. Bruce H. Newman vision news anchors, hosts, joined the firm of Wilmer, and sports and weather Cutler fit Pickering in NYC. anchors across the country. Previously, he was a senior Class of 1989 Stuart Gold married Leigh CORRECTION: ClassActions Ornstein June 10, 2001, in misidentified Peter Allen Wein- Connecticut. He is a partner mann, who married Amelida at Gold & Boyarsky in NYC. Ortiz on September 3, 2000, as Samuel Heyman with Heyman Scholars Kimberly Mandel '03, Tanja Lawrence J. Spiwak recently from the class of 1986. He is a Santucci '03, and Guy Padula '03. published a book with Mark member of the Class of 1987.

CARDOZO LIFE official at UBS Warburg, Department, advising on PaineWebber, and the US leveraged buyout, venture Grad Leads Securities and Exchange capital, private equity, mer­ the Way to CLE Commission. chant banking, and other On-Line private investment funds. Class of 1992 Ronald A. Spim received his Nathaniel Ginor '00 is a member of the Melinda Fellner-Bramwit certification in elder law from management team became an associate at the the ABA-approved National at the e-leaming Newark, NJ, law firm of Elder Law Foundation. He is company LawyersEd (www.LawyersEd.Gom), the Saiber Schlesinger Satz & an attorney at Vincent J. largest provider of online continuing legal education. Goldstein. She received an Russo and Associates PC in LL.M. in taxation from NYU Westbury, CT, and focuses his "The LawyersEd goal is to allow lawyers to receive School of Law. practice on elder law, estate CLE credit at a time that's convenient, in a subject planning, and real estate. that's relevant, while saving time and money," says Class of 1993 Nathaniel. Seminar offerings include traditional selec­ tions such as "Jury Selection Tfechniques" and "Revised Stephanie Adler and Jeffrey Class of 1994 UCC Article 9," and more current topics such as Regenstreif of Rochester, NY, Gordon Borvick is vice "Discovery and Disclosure of Electronic Mail in Federal announce the birth of their president of NAI Lawrence Court," by Cardozo's own Prof. Charles Yahlon. Semi­ daughter, Sydney Adler. She Group LLC. He heads the nars have been led by other Cardozo faculty members, joins a sister, Julia Eleanor. corporate real estate services Jeffrey B. Shalek is a part­ team. Melissa Feldman and including Stewart Sterk, Kjnron Huigens, David Carlson, ner at the law firm of Gallwey Dean Shalit announce the Myriam Cilles, Marci Hamilton, and Melanie Leslie. Gillman Curtis Vento & Horn hirth of their second son, in Miami, FL. He specializes Logan Grahm. They reside in in litigation and appellate law. Encino, CA. Gregg Menell He married Jennifer Smolkin Class of 1995 Rebecca J. Silberstein is a received an M.B.A. degree in AECOM '95 last August. Lawrence I. Garbuz is an partner at the NYC law firm May from The Wharton Diane (Fink) Rein and her associate at the Morristown, of Debevoise fit Plimpton. She School of Business and is husband, David, announce NJ, law firm Riker, Danzig, is a member of the Invest­ joining Lehman Brothers the birth of their son, Oliver Scherer, Hyland & Perretti ment Management Practice Investment Banking as a sec­ Charles Henry Rein. He joins LLP. He practices in the tax Group in the firm's Corporate ond-year associate in August. a brother, Alexander, 3. and trasts and estates groups.

Class of 1996 Jennifer Bassuk is senior manager of business develop­ ment at StarMedia Network, the leading Internet media company targeting Latin America and other Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking mar­ kets worldwide. Julie Hyman appeared in the award-winning documentary Who's Dancin' Now? that aired on PBS in June. The docu­ mentary is about Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute and highlights stu­

BALLSA Reunion Dinner Alumni returned to the Law School for a special dinner dents who studied there as hosted by BALLSA, at which Loretta Lynch, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, children.

was the featured speaker. (From left) Amy Vargas '02, Noel Williams '87, Arthur Rojas '93, Andrew Leftt '01, Adekunle Bankole '01, Prof. Miriam Gilles, Vivian Walton '01, and Prof. El Gates.

SUMMER 2001 39 Class of 1997 »} Class of 1999 Eric Kuperman and his wife, CARVING UP INFO Richard Chem is an associ­ Heidi, WSSW '94 announce ate at the NYC law firm of the birth of their son, Eliyahu Alumni attended a panel in sports and news media that was Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Aharon. Michael Likosky is convened at the First Amendment Center in midtown and Dina Maslow married Adam a visiting research fellow at cosponsored by Cardozo. "Carving Up Information Rights in Lancer in March. She is an the University of Bonn and is News and Sports" featured Jeffrey Kessler, partner, Weil associate at the law firm of about to complete a D. Phil, Gotshal & Manges; Bill Squadron, chief executive officer, Louis Ginsberg PC. Ikmar in Law at the University of Sportvision; Richard Kurnit, senior partner, Franfurt Garbus Frunia Silton married Oxford. He edited a book of Kurnit Klein & Selz; and Felicity Barringer, reporter. The New Jeremy Epstein in Albany, essays. Transnational Legal York Times. Prof. Monroe Price moderated. NY, in March. She is a Processes that will be pub­ Manhattan assistant district lished in September and dis­ attorney in the office of the tributed in the US by special narcotics prosecutor. Northwestern University Lazard Freres and Co. LLC. ring Danny Glover and Pam Press. Ara Mekhjian is an Marie A. Ryan is an associ­ Grier, which aired on IN MEMORIAM associate in health-care prac­ ate at Reece fir Associates in Showtime July 1. She is tice at the Columbus, OH, law Boston, MA. Previously she engaged to her business part­ Harry Langhorne, Jr. '80 office of Squire, Sanders fir was ADR program manager at ner, director Lee Davis. They passed away May 26, 2001. He Dempsey LLP. Nathan A. the International Trademark have just sold a story based was a criminal justice planner Paul YC '94 is vice president Association. Melanie Tbrres on Melanie's life as the daugh­ and systems analyst for the Depart­ of legal affairs at Lazard Asset worked on and had a small ter of Eddie Tbrres of the City of Philadelphia Management, a division of part in the film "3 A.M." star­ Mambo Kings. Miramax will ment of Criminal Justice start production this fall. Services. Previously, he was a government attorney for New York State. Alumni Association Welcomes Class of 1998 Graduating Students Aran Chandra published an Letter to the Editor article on antitrust liability for in Memory of Judy Abrams '96 On April 25, the Alumni Association welcomed third-year enforcing a patent procured Judy Abrams '96 passed away students to the Association with a party that included through fraud in the US, on December 8, 2000. At alumni speakers offering advice about life after law school. which appeared in the March Cardozo, Judy pursued her Panelists were Jason Goldy '00, associate at Weil Gotshal & 19, 2001 issue of Mealey's studies with exceptional ener­ Manges; Fay Leoussis '79, chief of the tort division. Litigation Report: Intellectual gy and enthusiasm. She was a Corporation Counsel for the City of New York; Elana Property. He is an associate at member of the Cardozo Law Waksal Posner '97, cofounder of iBeauty.com and attorney; Morgan & Finnegan LLP. Review, an Alexander Fellow and Robert Wallack '99, Manhattan assistant district attor­ Phillip Tkvel is creator of in the Chambers of Judge Magi-Nation, a new collectible ney. Other alumni were on hand to mingle with students. Jack Weinstein of the Eastern card game, complete with District of New York, and a video games and comic books. co-winner of the Cardozo-ABA Launched in fall 2000, Magi- Negotiation Competition. She Nation is the fourth-biggest also was an active member of selling game of its tjrpe. Elana her Upper West Side commu­ Waksal Posner announced nity and the Carlbach her candidacy for NYC Synagogue. An inspiration to Council, to replace council us all, she showed that we member Kathryn Freed. Elana should follow our hopes and worked for Paul Weiss Rifkind aspirations, be involved in our Wharton fit Garrison and communities, and fight for founded iBeauty.com, an justice and the rights of chil­ Internet startup. Leah dren. Judy is survived by her Warshawsky married son, Baruch Spier. (From left) Colleen Samuels '00, Jason Goldy '00, Elana Waksal Leonard Silverman in —Joel Schmidt '96 Posner '97, Robert Wallack '99, Tricia Pantzer '98, Fay Leoussis '79, Cedarhurst, NY. She is in Melissa Breitbart Sohn '98, Josh Sohn '97, and Vivien Naim '87. private practice.

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