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2019 Cardozo Life (Fall) Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law LARC @ Cardozo Law Cardozo Life Publications Fall 2019 2019 Cardozo Life (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, "2019 Cardozo Life (Fall)" (2019). Cardozo Life. 43. https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozo-life/43 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 2019 FALL 2019 The Hon. Dianne Renwick '86 Associate Justice, New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division .Cardozo Womem Ueacl: A Legge� ofi Ach iev�lilile@w FALL 2019 The Hon. Sandra Feuerstein '79 Senior U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of New York Cardozo Women Lead: A Legacy of Achievement Women's Votes, Women's Voices: A Centennial Celebration As we celebrate the achievements of Cardozo women, this special edition of Cardozo Life offers three different covers, each featuring an outstanding Cardozo alumna from a different period in the school's history. Women's Votes, Women's Voices: A Centennial Celebrahon CARDOZOLIFE FALL 2019 Features 38 Q&A With Dean Cardozo Kicks off 21 'Women's Votes, Women's Melanie Leslie Voices: 19 at 100'- A Yearlong Speaker Series Scholars and leaders mark Justice Stevens' Departments the 100th anniversary of 44Interview With Professor Kate Shaw the 19th Amendment and 3 Top News & Events women's right to vote. Professor Kate Shaw Clinics News clerked for Justice John 13 Paul Stevens. She conducted 16 Faculty With Impact Cardozo Women: one of the last interviews Student News A Legacy of Leadership with him before his death 50 From courthouses to 40 this spring. 54 Movers & Shakers boardrooms to Congress, Professor Recognized 56 Alumni News & we celebrate the accom- for His Advocacy on Class Notes plishments and diversity Behalf of Holocaust End Quotes of Cardozo women. Victims in France 61 PLUS Richard Weisberg com- 48 memorates the 20th Human Rights Clinic A Timeline of Moments anniversary of his work Director Pushes in 'Herstory' exposing anti-Semitic laws for Gender Equality Follow along with our during World War II. Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum milestones on notable speaks at UN event on how women from Cardozo and gender justice can prevent American legal history. atrocities. A PUBLICATION OF BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW I JACOB BURNS INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES I YESHIVA UNIVERSITY CARDOZO LIFE FALL 2019 A Message from the Dean IT'S A PLEASURE TO CELEBRATE CARDOZO WOMEN in this edition. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th EDITOR Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Cardozo is ASSOCIATE DEAN. COMMUNICATIONS hosting a yearlong series of talks and events called "Women's AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS Votes, Women's Voices" celebrating women's leadership and JOHN DeNATALE reflecting on issues of equality in our society. CREATIVE DIRECTOR At our kick-off event in May, I was moved to contemplate JUDY TASHJI women's relationship to the law, not only as a historic exercise MANAGING EDITOR but also as a way to frame the dialogue about equality today for JOANNA BLAZ marginalized communities. The fightfor equality for women in NEWS EDITOR the legal profession has important ramifications for the ongo­ JULIE SCHNEYER ing struggle of many underrepresented groups. DESIGN The legal landscape has evolved since Cardozo was founded PHILIPPE CASSAMAJOR, GISEL PINEYRO, in 1976. A 2009 article by Professor Cynthia Grant Bowman in EMILY SCHERER-STEINBERG the Maine Law Review gathered evidence from the 1970s about women's experiences PHOTOGRAPHY at New York law firms. Many firmsrefused to hire, or even interview, women with J.D. SARI GODDFRIEND, NATE GOWDY, degrees. The report quotes some of the hiring partners' statements made to female job GABRIEL SWEET, JORG MEYER applicants, which included: PRODUCTION & TRAFFIC "We don't like to hire women." PATRICIA DALEY, CHRISTOPHER VOLPE "We just hired a woman and couldn't hire another." "Women don't become partners here." "Are you planning on having children?" EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBMIS• The founding faculty of this law school aimed to bring about change and break down SIONS ARE WELCOME THIS PUBLICATION barriers. I'm proud that during this challenging era, Cardozo's inaugural class was com­ ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR UNSOLIC­ prised of 46 percent women, twice the national average at the time. ITED MANUSCRIPTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS. ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE SUBJECT TO EDITING AND The firstgraduates of Cardozo hit the job market in 1979. In this edition we celebrate ARE USED AT THE EDITOR"$ DISCRETION the magnificent diversity of work that my fellow Cardozo alumnae have achieved. But there is more work to be done. According to a nationwide review by the American Bar CARDOZO LIFE IS PUBLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS Association titled "A Current Glance at Women in the Law, April 2019": ANO PUBLIC AFFAIRS 23 percent of private-firm partnersare women BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW 46 percent of private-firmassociates are women JACOB BURNS INSTITUTE FOR 30 percent of Fortune 500 General Counsel are women ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 37 percent of circuit court of appeals judges are women BROOKDALE CENTER, 55 FIFTH AVENUE 34 percent offederal district court judges are women NEW YORK. NEW YORK 10003 These numbers indicate there are still barriers for women in the law. This is particu­ PHONE 212 790.0237 larly true for women of color and members of the LGBTQ community. Today we recognize the work toward equality ahead of us-for women and for all. And we are grateful to those women who exemplify Cardozo's ambition and excellence to MELANIE LESLIE '91 achieve an equal and just society. DEAN With warm regards, OR. SAMUEL BELKIN PROFESSOR OF LAW IRA S. DIZENGOFF '92 CHAIR. BOARD OF OVERSEERS RABBI DR. ARI BERMAN PRESIDENT. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY Dean Dr. Samuel Belkin Professor of Law 2 TOP NEWS&events Former Senator Claire McCaskill and Sir Paul McCartney Inspire 2019 Graduates At Commencement 0 Above, from left: Cardozo Board Chair Ira Dizengoff '92, Yeshiva University President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill and Dean Melanie Leslie at Cardozo's 2019 Commencement. 0 Right: Sir Paul McCartney accepts the International Advocate for Peace Award. A star-studded lineup including former U.S. Senator Claire Journal Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Gliagias '19 said that McCaskill and music legend Paul McCartney kicked off McCartney had used the power of music to bring a message of Cardozo's 41st Commencement Exercises at Lincoln Center's peace and love to people around the world. David Geffen Hall on May 28. "I'm especially proud to receive this award from Cardozo," Dean Melanie Leslie '91 made a passionate case for McCartney said. He praised Cardozo's work for the wrong­ choosing to be an ethical lawyer. She recounted a story froma fully convicted and mentioned his personal connection to the recent alumna who quit her job rather than execute a law school. fraudulent contract. That student's former boss was later "When my mate John Lennon ... had an immigration fight indicted, and the graduate went on to a highly successful on his hands, it was a Cardozo professor that won that fight career. Leslie told graduates to follow that example and "do for him: Leon Wildes," McCartney said, as he gestured to the right thing even if others try to convince you otherwise. Wildes, whose grandchildren Raquel Wildes Genet '19 and You are ready to be ethical leaders. I am sure ofit." Joshua Wildes '19 graduated at the ceremony. Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri, gave the McCartney added that all of his songs "come from the commencement address. "I hope you love the law as much as same place: a love for humanity." ,· I do," she said, as she urged students to find "a job that makes Graduates Rachel Zilberfarb '19 and Ishara Quick '19, you jump out ofbed in the morning." LL.M. and J.D., respectively, delivered the remarks for their Paul McCartney took the stage to receive the International classes. Quick mentioned her challenges as the firstin her Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of family to attend law school and urged audience members to Conflict Resolution. follow their dreams. "The cautious don't live at all," she said. FALL 2019 TOP NEWS & events U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Speaks at Cardozo Conference on Civil Liberties U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer asserted that proportionality in deciding of expression." She ex­ Stephen Breyer and high­ religious rights are particu­ cases that pit religious plained that since the court judges from the larly important and heart­ beliefsagainst other message was the issue, and United Kingdom, Germany felt. "Most of our freedoms individual rights. the man was not being and the European Court of come from religious The judges compared discriminated against, "in Human Rights kicked off a freedoms," he said. "We are high-profileAmerican cases our view the shopkeeper has two-day conference on a country of 50 different to similar ones on their the right not to express that March 31 at Cardozo. They religions, and we have benches that they've faced message." discussed comparative gradually learned to work in times of religious Breyer discussed his vote constitutional approaches to together." challenges. Hale brought up in favor of the same-sex civil liberties. Dean Melanie Leslie welcomed the International Association of Constitu­ tional Law (IACL) in opening remarks on a day dedicated to the memory of the late Norman Dorsen, an innovator in the fieldof comparative constitutions.
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