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Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law LARC @ Cardozo Law Cardozo Life Publications Fall 1991 1991 CSLife (Fall) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozo-life Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, "1991 CSLife (Fall)" (1991). Cardozo Life. 38. https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozo-life/38 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at LARC @ Cardozo Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cardozo Life by an authorized administrator of LARC @ Cardozo Law. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Fall News From Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law/Yeshiva University 1991 Cardozo's New Dean: FrankJ. Macchiarola Frank Macchiarola, who has a consisting of a board of 120 reputation around New York for leaders in N~wYork City, dedicated turning around institutions in to improving economic and social trouble, says the deanship at ~onditions in the city. He served as Cardozo is "the first time I have chancellor of the New York City ever been given anything that Public School System from 1978- wasn't broken." 1983, supervising the educational His mission at Cardozo is "to program of almost one million give our students a level of com students from kindergarten through petence and to help them contrib high school. He was also director ute to society." He doesn't see of the New York State Emergency Cardozo offering "law like a trade Financial Control Board for New school, but rather as eptre to a York City during the city's fiscal wealth of professions." Educators crisis. are "transformers," he explains, In the public service arena, Dean and that is how he apprnaches his Macchiaro!a was chairman of the new position. "We need to examine New York City Districting Commis our values, as a school and as a sion, which recently completed the society. We need to understand drawing of new City Council Dis where our students are going, and trict lines for the 1991 election. He help to point the way." served on the New York City These are times of change, both Charter Revision Commission, the for the legal profession, and for bia University's Graduate School of New York City Campaign Finance society as a whole. Our new dean Business with teaching and research Board, New York City Water Board, sees a common thread - "the interests in business law, govern and New York City Tax Study underdevelopment of human capi ment regulation of business, and Commission. He has been presi tal. Our objective is to enable our not-for-profit management, he earl dent and executive director of The students to change to meet the ier served as assistant vice president Academy of Political Science, circumstances they confront." for academic affairs for Columbia. founded in 1880 at Columbia Beyond its student body, Cardozo He was chairman of the Advisory University to promote objective, itself will become increasingly a Committee of the Columbia Busi scholarly investigation of political, part of the solution as society's ness School Community Collabor social, and economic problems. needs change. "Our clinics will be ation, and served on doctoral Described by the New York Law stretched," says Macchiarola. panels in political science and Journal as a "man of a thousand "Cardozo is part of the redefined education. A faculty member at the hats," Cardozo's new dean seems 'safety net'. We will encourage City University of New York from pleased to be heading an organiza scholarship, and seek philanthropic 1964 to 1985, he held professor tion not in crisis. "This school is support so that Cardozo can dis ships in law, business, and political running, and running well," he says. tinguish itself in areas where our science at both Baruch College and "It has a strong academic program scho9l can really make a the CUNY Graduate School. He . a faculty that has distinguished difference." served as vice president of the itself, and a strong economic base." Dean Macchiarola earned his Graduate School, and as director of As dean, he will concentrate on B.A. at St. Francis College, and his the Top 40 Program of the CUNY "strengthening Cardozo's ties with LLB. and Ph.D. at Columbia Univer Urban Academy for Management. its alumni and getting the school's sity. His interests and expertise Dean Macchiarola was president name more recognized in the city SfJan the academic, executive man and chief executive officer of The as a first-class legal enterprise. As a agement, and public service arenas. New York City Partnership, Inc., a young school, Cardozo has a reputa A professor of business in Col um- business and civic organization tion to build." Associate Deans Named CSLife is published by Benjamin N. Cardozo School of law, Yeshiva University, Brookdale Center, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (212) 790-0310. Cardozo Board of Directors Jacob Burns Chairman Charles Ballon Honorary Chairman William A. Shea Vice Chairman Blanche G. Etra Secretary University Administration Norman Lamm President Israel Miller Senior Vice President Egon Brenner Executive Vice President Dominick P. Purpura Stephen Bogart has been named Cardozo Professor Steven Nem Vice President f or associate dean for administration, a erson has been named associate Medical Affairs new position at Cardozo. Dean dean for academic affairs. "Profes Sheldon E. Socol Bogart is a former colleague of sor Nemerson," says Dean Macchia Vice President f or Business Affairs Dean Macchiarola's, having worked rola, "is an outstanding classroom David H. Zysman with him at the City University teacher and has served previously, Vice President f or Development Urban Academy and at the New with distinction, as associate dean Herbert C. Dobrinsky York City Board of Education. He for academic affairs." Dean Vice President f or comes to Cardozo from Newsday, Nemerson replaced Professor Peter University Aff airs where he served as manager of Lushing, who will be returning Sam Hartstein circulation administration. fu ll -time to the classroom. Director of Public Relations Martin H. Bockstein General Counsel Faculty News Cardozo Administration FrankJ.Macchiarola Professor John Beckerman Law in Law School Curricula," held Dean attended the tenth British Legal in London this summer. He de Steven Nemerson History Conference, held in Oxford, livered a paper titled "Fundamental Associate Dean England in mid-July. His article, Principles of Family Law. " The Stephen Bogart "Procedural Innovation and Institu conference was sponsored by the Associate Dean tional Change in Medieval English Israeli government with the co Dorrit Cowan Associate Dean Manorial Courts" has been accepted operation of Israeli Law schools. Arlene Eager for publication by the Law and Professor Malvina Halberstam Associate Dean History Review. During February participated in a conference on Anita Walton and March 1991 , he1 participated in "The Crisis in the Gulf: Enforcing Director, Admissions several sessions of a program the Rule of Law", sponsored by the Lynn Wishart entitled "Constitution Workers," American Bar Association Standing Director teaching selected New York City Committee on Law and National Chutick Law Library high school students about the Security in Washington, D.C. She Marti Michael Fourth Amendment, sponsored by presented a paper entitled "The Editor The Constitution Works. Myth that Israel's Presence in Judea On the Cover: Monroe E. Price, Professor David Bleich has and Sumaria is Comparable to who resigned as dean of Cardozo been named the first chairman of Iraq's Presence in Kuwait. " Profes in June after nine years, will spend the 1991-92 academic year the newly-formed Jewish Law Sec sor Halberstam was a member of doing research at Oxford Univer tion of the American Association of the Faculty of the National Security sity before returning to Cardozo Law Schools. Rabbi Bleich partic Law Institute, sponsored by the to teach. ipated in a conference, "Jewish (Continued on page 4) 2 LEX - Innovation The Legal Experience Program (LEX) , now in its second year, is Cardozo's innovative way to assist minority law students to overcome the economic burden of the first year of law school and to obtain an important practical legal experience early on in their academic studies. In the first year of the program five students participated and were placed at firms and agencies in cluding Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and the Corporation Counsel. Based upon last year's experience This year's LEX students meet with Dean Macchiarola. and the comments of participating first semester of law school this program, after completing their students and work placements, the summer. They will spend the next second semester next summer, the LEX program expanded this year. nine months working as paralegals LEX participants will all join their In a cooperative effort of the Office in participating firms at salaries Class of 1994 colleagues as second of Admissions and the Center for which are commensurate with their year students in the fall of 1992. Professional Development, a dozen experience and the standard pay The 1991 LEX students come 1991 LEX students completed their scale of each office. Under the (Continued on page 6) Faculty could not have been more timely U.S . Supreme Court decision reject (Continued from page 2) - Affirmative Action and Justice: ing the Nixon Administration's National Security Law Center at the A Philosophical and Constitutional attempt to stop The Times from University of Virginia. The Institute Inquiry, published by Yale Univer publishing parts of the Pentagon was attended by members of the sity Press, offers an interdisciplinary Papers. "Today," wrote Rudenstine, faculties of a number of law analysis of this hotly-debated issue.