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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. Noting that "Norman Dorsen was a good friend to Cardozo Law School," the Dean recalled Dorsen's work with Prof. Michel Rosenfeld in creating the International Journal of Constitutional Law and in producing two major international confer­ ences at Cardozo over the past 25 years. Breyer engaged in a lively discussion with the 0 Left to right: Dean Melanie Leslie, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Professor Deborah Hon. Brenda Hale, president Pearlstein and Professor Michel Rosenfeld at Cardozo's civil liberties conference. of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Justice Susanne Baer of Baer offered an opposing a U.K. case similar to last marriage case but also the Constitutional Court of view: "The question that year's U.S. Supreme Court discussed his dissent in Germany and the Hon. some rights matter more ruling in favor of a baker other cases. He made an Andras Sajo, past vice than others... that's a who refused to sell a impassioned call for president of the European dangerous path to travel." wedding cake to a same-sex deciding cases with an eye Court of Human Rights. She added that as a woman couple. to administrative law, saying Breyer and Baer held up and a member of the LGBT In the U.K. case, Hale that he favored Archibald pocket-sized versions of community, she often felt said a "chap comes into a Cox's idea of using "the law their constitutions and the that her own interests did bakery and wants a bespoke and its compass when Declaration of Human not matter. cake" with a slogan support­ reviewing cases." Rights while offering their Rosenfeld moderated the ing gay marriage. The Baer said that attacks on approaches to panel and asked questions Christian bakers won based courts and on the rule of law constitutionalism. that focused on issues of on an argument of "freedom are dangers that constitu-

4 CARDOZO LIFE tional democracies are American Civil Liberties facing. "Why the attacks on Union and co-director of the courts or constitutional Arthur Garfield Hays Civil structures? Why do cakes Liberties Program at NYU matter?" School ofLaw. CARDOZO LAUNCHES ONLINE She stressed that courts "Norman had a very soft MASTER OF STUDIES IN LAW (MSL) have to make sense of spot for this school," IN DATA AND PRIVACY LAW competing claims in a world Neuborne said. He described Cardozo announced in April 2019 the launch of an where there are many of NYU and Cardozo as two online Master of Studies in Law (MSL) in Data and them. "From a German intellectual institutions that Privacy Law. perspective, my court is share "an intense commit­ The MSL in Data and Privacy Law is a program for about working together for ment to social justice." non-lawyers whose careers require an understanding a consensus." Neuborne said freedom of the evolving laws and standards that govern the She disagreed with of association was Dorsen's collection, use and protection of sensitive data. Breyer's assertion that favorite right, since it Cardozo's program is one of the first online MSLs religious rights take a top celebrated the idea of society to focus on data and privacy. It provides tools for data place in constitutional agreeing and coming and information security professionals, small-business systems. together. owners and tech startup entrepreneurs who are Sajo took an opposing "Norman would have a looking to lead their companies in a rapidly changing view. "Other people have the council of hope today, not a regulatory environment. right to secularism," he said. council of despair," Neu­ When approaching cases, borne said. Sajo said toleration is a In the judges' panel, Hale fundamental value: "Which said she was happy to be at party was willing to behave Cardozo and that she is fond in a tolerant manner?" of quoting Supreme Court CARDOZO ALUMNI NAMED ON He said that proportion­ Justice Benjamin N. BILLBOARD'S TOP MUSIC LAWYERS LIST ality may help move toward Cardozo, who wrote: "The Billboard named Cardozo School of Law one of the top a fundamental value of eccentricities of judges law schools in the country for training lawyers in the promoting toleration. balance one another. One music industry. Cardozo is ranked among law schools Sajo remembered the judge looks at problems _,.__ around the nation, including Harvard and the spirit of Dorsen as an from the point of view of University of California, Berkley. empathetic legal mind and history, another from that of Billboard also recognized six Cardozo alumni on its honored him as part of the philosophy, another from top music lawyers list: panel. "Indeed, Norman is that of social utility, one is Jason Boyarski '00 Julie Swidler '82 with us in a sense." a formalist, another a Michael Reinert '82 Monika Tashman '00 In an earlier panel also latitudinarian, one is Michael Seltzer '92 Kenneth Weinrib '83 moderated by Rosenfeld, timorous of change, another New York University (NYU) dissatisfiedwith the present; Law School Dean Emeritus out of the attrition of diverse John Sexton and NYU Law minds there is beaten School professor Burt something which has a Neuborne also paid homage constancy and uniformity to Dorsen. and average value greater Sexton, who wore a than its component • • • • Yankees baseball cap in elements." • • •• " Ii,\, reference to a personal joke The event was co­ -• •••••••• ,!! 1• ••••• ii) •• "' with Dorsen, described him sponsored by the Floer­ J:t:�� ··•�·-{ as a "protector and hero of sheimer Center for Constitu­ lf' c; the First Amendment." tional Democracy and the Dorsen was the founding IACL and organized in president of the U.S. conjunction with the U.S. Association of Constitu­ Association of Constitu­ tional Law, president of the tional Law.

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ment in the workplace. Speakers examined laws THE JACOB BURNS that deal with sexual ha­ rassment and how lawyers CENTER FOR can serve as counselors and ETHICS IN THE advocates of change. PRACTICE OF LAW Profs. Jessica Roth and Anthony Sebok were moder­ ators. Panelists included Cara Greene, Outten & #MeToo and the Legal Golden; Stephen Gillers, Profession, Re-Defining NYU School of Law; the Sexual Harassment Hon. Lorna G. Schofield, and Replacing Old Southern District; Ally Coll 0 The Hon. Lorna G. Schofieldand Professor Jessica Roth at The Power Dynamics Steele, president and Burns Center's #MeToo panel. The Cardozo Women affinity co-founder of the Purple group and the Jacob Burns Campaign; Gabrielle Tenzer, Center for Ethics in the Kaplan Hecker & Fink; and when they see harassment place," she said. Practice of Law sponsored a Bradley Wendel, Cornell happening." Schofield echoed the conference analyzing sexual Law School. Public pressure, she said, sentiment that much has harassment in the work­ "The event helped raise is achieving what legislative changed in the time she's place to a packed audience awareness and provided pressure could not when it been in the legal profession. on Nov. 13. new perspectives on comes to employees re­ In the early 1980s, "it wasn't Two expert panels questions which lawyers moving forced arbitration the dawn of the women's examined the #MeToo face with increasing provisions. Greene also movement, but it was the movement, its effects on the frequency," Sebok said. noted a change over the last early morning," she said. legal profession and its Greene noted that 15 years in how the victim is "Sexual harassment hadn't evolution. The event also "there's a movement to treated-in the past, he or been identified as a trend focused on how those in the adopt meaningful policy she would have been forced yet back in the early '80s, legal profession can serve as and practices in line with out of the workplace. and the abuse of power advocates and enforce the law, to train people on "People are taking responsi­ dy namics was a constant policies to prevent harass- how third parties can report bility to improve the work- reality at law firms."

BURNS CENTER EVENTS FALL 2018 SPRING 2019 Unpacking the Mueller Report Abacus: Small Enough to Jail: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in (with the Floersheimer Center Film Screening and Panel a Complicated Business for Constitutional DemocracyJ (with the Heyman Center) Environment April 30 October 24 (annual legal ethics and business symposium with Heyman Center Litigation Funding and Legal #MeToo and the Legal Profession and Stein Center for Law and Finance: Does A New World Symposium Ethics at Fordham Law) Require New Rules? November 13 February 27 May 1

The New York Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct: Back­ 1 ground and Next Steps Panel April 18

6 CARDOZO LIFE original design. The man paid said. "And they don't even know Weitzman said that thinking him about $400, and Weitzman they're the focus group. That's creatively also leads to advanta­ INTELLECTUAL decided that if he could sell the best kind!" geous partnerships. He high­ those sketches so easily, he By this outside-of-the-box lighted strategic collaborations PROPERTY might as well do it for a living. thinking, he could pinpoint that helped the business grow, AND INFORMATION Weitzman was always creative which new shoes would be the eyeing partners who could help LAW PROGRAM in his marketing. Before the bestsellers and adapt his focus the brand in the long term. He season's shoes were released to accordingly. used model Kate Moss and actor stores, he would send "preview He was also innovative in James Franco for advertising gifts" to media editors, sending a streamlining the business campaigns, architect Zaha Hadid SHOE DESIGNER STUART for brick-and-mortar innovation WEITZMAN HELPS CARDOZO and numerous celebrities for STUDENTS UNDERSTAND charitable contributions. Model BUILDING AND Gigi Hadid, for instance, PROTECTING A BRAND promoted Pencils of Promise. Stuart Weitzman, founder of the Partnerships, he said, are eponymous footwear company, what make a good business entertained and inspired law great. students, anecdote after anecdote by sharing his life lessons in business. His top Fashion Law advice: learn and grow from Symposium: challenges; think outside the Sustainability and box; and collaborate through E-commerce "advantageous partnerships." From posture-correcting The November event was leggings to vegan fabric, organized by Rachel Zilberfarb Cardozo's Fashion Law '19, Clara Chasles '19, Simone Symposium explored the Dvoskin '20 and Hallie Cohen array of innovations and '20, through the Cardozo issues shaping fashion law Fashion Law Society and the 0 Designer Stuart Weitzman speaks on protecting a brand at in the modern world. FAME Center. FAME'S event. The FAME Center and When Weitzman was in Fashion Law Society hosted school in the early 1960s, he random pair to each editor. Most through analyzing data from the Feb. 26 daylong event, sketched 20 shoe designs and often, the previews were not online shoe sales. Before shoes which included speaker brought them to his friend's worn. To ensure the shoes were were sold online in the main­ panels on topics such as father, a shoemaker, to sell. The being used, he asked them to stream, he partnered with a Instagram influencers of man looked at the first sketch, pick the shoe of the season they small online retailer. The fashion and artificial tore it up and called it a copy. wanted and discovered that experimenting venture was intelligence in e-commerce. He grabbed a second sketch, nearly all of the editors wanted inventive, successful and a good "Is sustainable fashion turned it over, and told Weitzman the same shoe season after indicator of which shoes were only for people who can to redraw the torn-up sketch. season. This became his market popular. By experimenting with afford it?" Barbara Kolsun, Recreating it from memory, research. the right partners, he was able to FAME Center co-director Weitzman proved it was an "That's the focus group," he grow the business. and fashion industry attorney, asked the first panel, which focused on the challenges of ecofriendly Stuart Weitzman's top advice: learn and grow fashion practices. "We want people to think ,· from challenges; think outside the box; and of their clothing as invest­ ments," said Amy Hall, vice collaborate through "advantageous partnerships." president of social con­ sciousness at Eileen Fisher. Hall said the clothing brand

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buys back customers' old counsel for Crowell & faculty members when she Estate in the Digital Age of garments at $5 each. Moring and member of the presented a harsh reality of Shopping," both of which Michael Neuman '99 firm's IP group, helps clients today's industry: designers echoed Tahari's predictions echoed this sentiment, in applying for trademarks. setting their own supply for the modern fashion saying fashion law is about Chakrabarti discussed on fire. industry: "Consumers are "doing more with less." As how the tech and fashion "They're burning their more and more comfortable the head of the legal team at industries are starting to extra product in order to not with living in a shared Marquee Brands, Neuman overlap and need the law to dilute their brand value," economy." focuseson intellectual catch up. ''All theseworlds Tahari said. Brands like Eileen Fisher property (IP) challenges are coming together," she She shared a vision for are already on this path. such as protecting the said. "Hermes and Apple are "the future of fashion, Hall said that instead of brand's 18 clients from coming together." which would demand that disposing of its excess counterfeiting and increas- Rory Tahari, former brands create a unique clothing, Eileen Fisher cuts ing their brand-name president ofluxury brand experience for consumers up pieces that do not sell recognition. Elie Tahari, delivered the and that designers produce and turns them into art. The innovations ofIP law keynote address. materials locally in a Hall said this is to encour- steered panel discussions, With 20 years of experi- sustainable way." age consumers to stop particularly surrounding ence, Tahari has seen the Other symposium panels buying unnecessary wearable technology such as fashion world evolve. included "The Influencers of clothing, which produces smart watches and baby She elicited a few gasps Fashion: From Magazines to more waste. Hall's tip for the ankle sensors. from the audience of about Instagram" and "The Retail audience: "Just buy what Preetha Chakrabarti, 200 attorneys, students and Revolution: Utilizing Real you love."

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KENNETH COLE TA LKS ABOUT FASHION WITH A CONSCIENCE AT FAME CENTER EVENT

Design legend Kenneth Cole visited Cardozo on April 17 as part of the FAM E Center's and Fashion Law Society's "Being an Accessory to Change" event. Cole was interviewed by his daughter Emily Cole, an attorney and Columbia Law graduate. He spoke about the beginning of his career in fashion, his work in the community and running a creative brand in the modern age. "Law is a set of rules ...with fashion there is no book," said Cole, who initially wanted to become a lawyer but fell in love with fashion when he started working at his dad's company. Cole saw fashion as an outlet for creativity and a way to help others. He said he still believes business and philanthropy are interdependent. Cole's vision has turned the brand into a platform for social change. Prof. Barbara Kolsun, co-director of the FA ME Center, spoke of Cole's public-service programs and the millions of dollars he has raised for amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. Cole is also passionate about ending homelessness. The company famous for designing shoes launched a campaign asking customers to donate their own old or unused pairs. Kenneth Cole Over 10 to 15 years, the company has collected millions of pairs of shoes for those in need. Cole said the initiative was a reminder that "people would love to be in your shoes." He also urged students to embrace their creativity. "You're a blank canvas ... you can be whoever you want to be on a given day," Cole said. "Just because you're going in a different direction doesn't mean it's the wrong direction."

8 CARDOZO LIFE Sports Law Symposium Keeps Score on Legalized NY Betting, the Brooklyn Nets and WNBA Salaries

Elected officials, an Olympic athlete, prominent sports law attorneys and high-profile agents rounded out the speaker panels at Cardozo's Seventh Annual Sports Law Symposium on March 1. The event was sponsored by the FA ME Center and Cardozo's Sports Law Society. The firstpanel discussed the legality of sports betting. New York State Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. and Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow have been strong proponents of mobile sports betting as a potential source of revenue for the state. "It's low-hanging fruit," Pretlow said. "It's something we 0 Lyor Cohen and Waleed Diab '04 discuss the music indu try. can do." Many panelists supported legalization as a way to keep GLOBAL HEAD OF MUSIC When asked whether the residents from traveling to New Jersey to place bets. AT YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE traditional idea of the music "This is New York," Addabbo said. "We're gonna do it better. TALKS MUSIC, album is dead, he said: "I know And bigger." PAST AND FUTURE this is unpopular, but, you know, Audience members expressed concern for the mental The FAME Center welcomed Lyor this business started as a singles health implications and potential litigation from disabled Cohen, the global head of music business. And then someone gamers. Addabbo stressed that protecting the consumer is a for YouTube and Google in said, man, if we could pour a focus of the legislation. December 2018 for an interview little more oil and get a bigger Another local-themed panel at the event centered on "The with Waleed Diab '04, director of platter, we could sell more. It Barclays, Basketball & Brooklyn" and included Kari Cohen '09, North America record label was a business move." vice president and deputy general counsel at the Barclays business development for Dean Melanie Leslie said, Center and Brooklyn Nets, and Matthew Eisler '07, a partner YouTube and Google. "The FAME Center at Cardozo is at Hogan Lovells and outside counsel to the Barclays Center Cohen's remarks focused on the place for law students to and Brooklyn Nets. the future of music, including understand creative industries Protecting excluded parties was also a theme in the next the rise of streaming services in where decisions related to panel, as Oly mpic luge athlete and New York University the music industry as well as brand and intellectual property sports law professor Cameron Myler stressed the need for fair "democraticizing" music. are made in real-time with salaries in the WNBA. Cohen also commented on enormous consequences to the "You play your sport because you love it," Myler said. "You the idea of the traditional album. bottom line." want to know that you can train and compete and would not have to work otherwise."

0 NY State Senator Joseph Addabbo (4th from right) and Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (4th from left) joined Dean Leslie and prominent sports attorneys and others at the Sport Law Symposium.

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Dean's Speaker Series

WOMEN ON THE RISE "To be a really good lawyer, IN REAL ESTATE you have to understand the Three alumnae real estate business side," Swidler said. She attorneys offered a penthouse encouraged students to mention view of their field, from specific deals in interviews. brokering high-end Las Vegas Leslie discussed the deals to navigating a male­ difference between in-house and dominated practice. firm with the panelists. Dean Melanie Leslie Swidler said that at a firm moderated the March 18 panel, there's a larger range of clients. which was co-sponsored by the "It's really a matter of are you Center for Real Estate Law & the client, or are you servicing Policy and the Cardozo Real clients?" Estate law Association. Her projects have included Risa C. Letowsky '02, Partner Columbia University and the at Duval & Stachenfeld, MTA. developed her passion for real Leslie agreed that "starting estate by watching her father out in government doesn't work on construction sites. She preclude you from going to the 0 American Federation of Teachers President Randi We ingarten said she turned down offers in private sector." seen during the Capitol •swamp" to unveil college affordability other areas of law until she got laura Mehl Sugarman '09, bills, in Wa shington, DC. her top choice of real estate. Partner at Holland & Knight, "I knew where I wanted to took the public-to-private path. Randi Weingarten '83, President of the end up," she said. Her previous projects include the American Federation of Teachers: A Passion for letowsky deals with many NYC Department of Parks & Public Service aspects of real estate law, Recreation and co-op Dean Melanie Leslie interviewed Randi Weingarten '83, representing tenants and conversions. President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in landlords. She has taken on a Sugarman participated in the front ofan audience of students, faculty and staff on March 20. variety of clients, including Wynn Bet Tzedek Clinic while she was "Having a law degree is an opportunity that opens a bunch Resorts in Las Vegas. at Cardozo and said many of her of doors," Weingarten said. letowsky said she has friends from the clinic became Weingarten was elected president of the AFT in 2008. noticed some gender bias in real clients. Under her leadership, the union has grown to 1.7 million estate law. She said that since "I fell in love with this group teachers, educational professionals and nurses. She's tackled the more senior positions are of people, and I fell in love with issues such as increasing teacher salaries, improving student held by men, they are often more real estate," she said. "If a test scores and ensuring that students have the chance to comfortable taking the junior person is in a position to help graduate "without having a debt sentence." men to lunch and becoming their you, don't be afraid to use it." Weingarten told Dean Leslie that it was the combination of mentors or "sponsors." classes and relying on classmates in teamwork that made "I really had to fight," Cardozo unique. Letowsky said. "Back then it was Before law school, Weingarten's work ethic was shaped by very male-dominated." her mother, who was a public school teacher in Nyack, New Pam Swidler '07, the global York. As a girl, Weingarten watched her mother go on a head of real estate trans­ 14-week strike. She said teachers lost two days of pay for actions and special counsel every day on strike. at WeWork, New York City's "People that we love ...are going bye-bye because of budget largest private tenant, also cuts," Weingarten said. "The only way you create power for offered advice on how to navi­ regular folks.. .is through unionization." gate the field.

10 CAR DOZO LIFE P*LAW Week 2019 Cardozo's annual Public Law Advocacy Week was held Jan. 28 to 31 at Cardozo. THE SAMUEL AND Judy Dahl, a 2L student, organized the programming on RONNIE HEYMAN behalf of the Center for Public Service Law. Topics included CENTER ON efforts to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy, education, repro­ CORPORATE LAW ductive rights and changes in immigration. AND GOVERNANCE Speakers included elected officials, housing advocates and other public service representatives. Kelsey Repka, lL student, said that "all of the events I attended during P*Law Week were amazing! The students HEYMAN CENTER EVENTS who put the panels together did such an incredible job of FALL 2018 SPRING 2019 having representatives from organizations that are addressing some of the most pressing issues in public-interest law. It was Reforming Governance and Conversation with a really inspiring to see how attorneys were working together Culture in the Financial Startup Lawyer and with other community organizations, such as the New Services Industry February 4 Sanctuary Coalition or the September 17 1tbornperfectcampaign, to "It was really Cryptocurrency: Regulation make meaningful changes Mergers & Acquisitions 101 and Enforcement Actions inspiring to see how within the law, and beyond, for October 15 February 11 attorneys were the people they work with." New York City leaders and working together ... Regulating the Securities Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in activists held key roles at to make meaningful Industry and the Supporting a Complicated Business P*LAW's events. Role of Compliance Environment changes within the Carlina Rivera, council­ October 17 February 27 law, and beyond, woman of the New York City Council, 2nd District, partici­ for the people they Abacus: Small Enough to Jail­ Playing by the Rules: pated on a New York City work with." Film Screening and Panel The Relationship Between housing panel, along with Cea October 24 Compliance and Antitrust Laws Weaver, policy and research March 13 director of New York Communities for Change. Compliance: A Former Dr. Louis J. Braun, a former civil-rights activist, local Prosecutor's Perspective, Pathways: A Conversation coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery Oversight at the NYPD, and with Adam Amsterdam March and national chairman of Americans for Democratic Regulatory Monitorships April 4 Action, Campus Division spoke on a panel comparing voting October 31 rights during the 1960s civil rights movement and today. The Controlling Foreign Hon. Adetokunbo Fasanya of New York County Family Court The ABCs of IPOs Investments: and the Hon. Evelyn Laporte of New York State Supreme November 7 A Comparative Analysis Court, Kings County addressed juvenile justice. April 9 The executive directors ofSurvJustice and of Law for Black Annual Compliance Lives, Katherine McGerald and Marbre Stahly-Butts, respec­ Roundtable tively, also participated in P*LAW programming. November 8 The Kathryn 0. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic and Cardozo OUTlaw sponsored a screening of the AT&T Original Corporate Loans and the Series "REFUGE: Hombres Nuevos," followed by an interview US Loan Market moderated by Prof. Kate Shaw with Luis Mancheno, who was November 19 the subject of the episode. Mancheno survived anti-gay conversion therapy and a murder attempt in his native Ecuador before receiving asylum in the United States. He is a former Cardozo Law teaching fellow and an award-winning attorney who advo­ cates for immigrants' rights.

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-.-""'.J * * * THE FLOERSHEIMER �/ * * * FLOERSHEIMER CENTER EVENTS 5fi * * * FALL 2018 CENTER FOR �,;; * * * CONSTITUTIONAL � * * * Streaming Video Event: Finding Home in America: DEMOCRACY � * * * Judge Brett Kavanaugh's A Screening and Discussion ;* * * Confirmation Hearings of REFUGE: Hombres Nuevos September 27 with Luis Mancheno (co-sponsored with the Unpacking the Mueller Report First Monday: Supreme Ka thryn 0. Greenberg The Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy and Court Preview Immigra tion Justice Clinic and the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law September 28 Cardozo OUTLaw) (P*Law) hosted a panel titled "Unpacking the Mueller Report" with January 28 Cardozo professors offering their analysis on the investigation Hustle G0TV Text-Banking and aftermath. November 5 Evaluating the Non-Partisan Prof. Jessica Roth offered her perspective on the criminal Movement for Supreme Election Protection in angle of the report, focusing on the possible presidential Court Reform Philadelphia: Volunteer (co-sponsored by the Cardozo conspiracy with the Russian government and obstruction of Opportunity for Students ACS and Fe deralist Society justice. Although she said Mueller didn't findsufficient November 6 chapters) evidence, Roth acknowledged what she called the "remarkable February 13 coincidences noted in the report." The Future of the Fourth Floersheimer Center co-director Deborah Pearlstein also Amendment: Carpenter v. Duncan Hollis Talk discussed the uncertainty of criminal findings. "Why did they United States and Law (co-sponsored by the Cardozo share all that campaign data?" she asked. "The report doesn't Enforcement's Use of Emerging Data Law Initiative and the answer those questions at all." Technologies (co-sponsored students of the Cardozo Data Profs. Anthony Sebok and Kate Shaw also weighed in. with the Cardozo Data Law Law Society) Sebok explored the role of ethical conduct among lawyers and Initiative and the students of March 7 Shaw brought up the question of the constitutionality of the Cardozo Data Law Society) indicting a sitting president. November 12 Ten Years of Iqbal Conference The professors fielded questions from the packed room of (sponsored with/for the students. To End a Presidency: Cardozo Law Review) "We're all very much still digesting," Shaw said of the Book Talk and Discussion March 15 report. "What next, what now?" November 13 The Democratic Courthouse with Prof. Linda Mulcahy and SPRING 2019 the Hon. Dennis G. Jacobs March 28 Spring 2019 Visiting Scholar: Prof. Saul Cornell, the Paul Lawyers, Guns and Money: and Diane Guenther Chair The State of the Second in American History at Amendment with Visiting Fordham University Scholar Saul Cornell April 15

NEW YORK Spring 2019 Pop-Up Course: JESSICA ROTH Power, Constraint and the Fourth Annual International FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR. SOUTH ERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 45th President Law/National Security Roundtable Title IX and Due Process July 0 Professor Jessica Roth discussed the Mueller Report as an expert (P*Law event) guest on several major news outlets, including PBS and CNN. January 28

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12 CARDOZO LIFE crew agreements and local to the Bronx and others Clinics News distribution. who travelled from Washing­ The Indie Film Clinic ton, D.C. Student clinicians Cardozo's lndie Film chose GFS as a pop-up included 2Ls looking to Clinic Teams Up with event site because of their expand their transactional Tribeca Film Institute shared mission to support skills and 3Ls who had and Ghetto Film School aspiring artists from diverse previously worked in theater Cardozo's Indie Film backgrounds. Past films production companies. Clinic-the only legal film produced by GFS include Barbara Bruni, a 2L clinic of its kind-hosted a student, said her previous DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND pop-up event at Ghetto Film on-set experience as a film HUMAN RIG HTS CLINICS School (GFS) in the Bronx producer gives her a unique TRAIN BRAZILIAN on May 2, offering free legal perspective when helping PROSECUTORS IN EFFORT services to independent clinic clients. "It's tricky TO PROTECT INDIGENOUS filmmakers as part of a because you kind of want to LANDS IN THE AMAZON partnership with Tribeca jump into your old role," Professor Jocelyn Getgen Film Institute. said Bruni. "You see where Kestenbaum, director of the Clinic Director Michelle they're coming from." Benjamin 8. Ferencz Human Greenberg-Kobrin said the Amanda Sewanan, 2L, Rights and Atrocity Prevention new partnership with GFS is said her interest in intellec­ Clinic, and Professor Lela Love, another example of the Charley Horse, which follows tual property prompted her director of the Kukin Program for clinic's dual commitment to an 18-year-old punk rock to apply for the clinic but Conflict Resolution, traveled to serving the wide range of girl in modern-day Tel Aviv she has also enjoyed working Amazonas, Brazil in February New York City filmmakers who is encouraged to directly with filmmakers. 2019 to train federal prosecu­ while allowing Cardozo reconcile her identity and "You get to help them with tors. Cardozo LL.M. students students to get hands-on values on the evening of her the art that they're creating," Medea Matiashvili and Ahdieh transactional experience military conscription. Sewanan said. (Ati) Alipour Herisi also joined in working in the filmindus­ The event at GFS The clinic is supported the program. They conducted an try. Students advise film­ attracted a variety of film­ by the Laurie M. Tisch intensive two-day training on makers on topics such as makers, some of whom were Illumination Fund. strategic advocacy and mediation in social-environmental conflicts, with one day focused on litigation and one on dispute resolution. The Brazilian federal prose­ cutors protect the Amazon lands as well as its indigenous people. Kestenbaum noted that the Bolsonaro government has stepped up pressure against this community. The Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic will write an amicus to assist in the international law on genocide and reparations for genocide. After two days of training, Kestenbaum and Love accompa­ nied the federal prosecutors to a genocide reparations court hearing in the Amazon, which was followed the next day by a 0 The Indie Film Clinic students advise aspiring filmmakers at the Ghetto Film School in the Bronx. legal strategy session on controlling illegal mining and lumber operations.

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Bet Tzedek Clinic Wins Settlement for Marine who was Rejected by FDNY Because of PTSD Diagnosis The Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic won a $105,000 settle­ ment on behalf of Marine Corps veteran Vincent Acevedo, Jr., in an employment discrimination action against the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Acevedo alleged in his 2017 federal complaint that the FDNY improperly rejected his application for a firefightingposition because of his diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Acevedo has been represented over the last two years by Bet Tzedek clinic law 0 Professor and Immigration Justice Clinic Co-Director student interns Melissa Olivo '19, Mendel Forta '19 and rising Lindsay Nash and Clinical Teaching Fellow Hannah 3Ls Corey Hirsch and Keith Belfield, under the supervision of Robbins '15 supervised students as they represented Professor Leslie Salzman. asylum-seeking families in Texas. "Veterans face numerous barriers in obtaining employ­ ment after returning from service, and for those with PTSD, IMMIGRATION JUSTICE supported financially by indivi­ misinformation and stigma can be particularly harmful, CLINIC RETURNS TO TEXAS duals in the Cardozo community. especially after years of intensive medical treatment," said TO REPRESENT ASYLUM­ "It is wonderful that our Melissa Olivo. "We were proud to win a significantsettlement SEEKING FAMILIES students will be able to bring for Mr. Acevedo and hope that the FDNY will reassess its In November 2018, a group of their passion and legal skills to hiring practices and approach cases like this one in a way eight students in Cardozo's advocate for these families who that is more consistent with the requirements of the Ameri­ Kathryn 0. Greenberg Immigra­ have fled extreme violence, cans with Disabilities Act." tion Justice Clinic, supervised by particularly at a time when Acevedo may be the first FDNY Exam 2000applicant to Professor Lindsay Nash and federal policies are making it reach a settlement in a lawsuit alleging PTSD-related Teaching Fellow Hannah Robbins increasingly difficult for these employment discrimination, but he is not alone in his efforts. '15, traveled to Dilley, Texas, to families to obtain much-needed Other veterans with a service-connected PTSD history have represent asylum-seeking women protection," said Nash. also filedcharges with the Equal Employment Opportunity and children being detained in Most of the detained asylum­ Commission and asked it to investigate the FDNY's hiring the city's 2,400-bed family seeking families represented by practices. detention center. This is the clinic students are in summary "It was devastating to be judged by four letters on a piece of third such trip made by members removal proceedings in which paper rather than on my abilities," said Acevedo. "I brought of the Cardozo clinic since they must pass a cursory this lawsuit to help smooth the path for veterans in the future February 2017, and is part of an screening to determine if they as much as for myself, and I hope that, as a result of this ongoing effort galvanized and have a threshold level of fear of settlement, veterans will be evaluated forfirefighting positions based on their actual abilities to work on a team and fightfires." Acevedo served in the Marine Corps from February 2004 to March 2009 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After two blast injuries, he was diagnosed with PTSD in 2008, at which point he was honorably discharged and returned home. In 2012, following extensive treatment and recovery, he began pursuing his dream of becoming a New York City firefighter, placing at the top of the firefighter civil service list and passing the FDNY's rigorous physical endurance test. But in late 2014, before he could participate in the FDNY Fire Academy, he was disqualifiedfrom the hiring process. Acevedo began seeking legal recourse immediately, and in 2017 he was referred to Cardozo's Bet Tzedek clinic for representation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The finalsettlement agreement with the FDNY was executed in January 2019.

14 CARDOZO LIFE persecution or torture-a pre­ tial areas of improvement in requisite for them to even get this procedure and provide a hearing in immigration court. guidance to litigants. Students engage in a range of Lindsay Nash, assistant representation work, including clinical professor oflaw and helping to prepare mothers and co-director of the clinic, said children for credible fear the current administration's interviews and representing them practices have created an in connection with the screening increasingly urgent need to process and in seeking release. correct these systematic problems. "The ability to prevent Immigration Justice quick deportations based on Clinic Files Suit to old removal orders is Correct NY State especially critical in the Deportation System Trump era because the Students in the Kathryn 0. administration is now information related to stays of jailing up to 2,000 New Greenberg Immigration targeting so many people of removal filedwith Yorkers each year without Justice Clinic, together with with old removal orders requests to reopen deporta­ providing them access to the co-counsel at the American even though many of these tion orders. Students say judges who have the power to Immigration Council people have now lived here they have been attempting rerelease them. (Council), fileda suit in New for a very long time and to obtain such records for Under current ICE practices, York federal court in March often with the government's months, but the EOIR has immigrants in New York are held 2019 to prevent the deporta­ permission," Nash stated. largely refused to disclose for months before they are finally tion of immigrants with the requested records or brought in front of a judge who pending cases. failed to respond. can assess whether they should "Our case is challenging "Our case is "We think [the EOIR is] be detained and what options for the government's attempts depriving these people of relief they might have. In many to withhold information challenging the the protections they're en­ cases, this day in court is also about these systemic government's titled to get," said Lundgren. when the defendants meet their deficiencies," said Geroline "But, when the government lawyers for the first time. Castillo '19, a student in the attempts to is violating its transparency The time between when immigration clinic who filed obligations, it is difficult to people are detained and when the suit. "These problems withhold infor­ know what's going on they see a judge for the first deny litigants due process." mation about behind closed doors." time has gone from under two The suit is part of the weeks in 2014 to well over two clinic and the Council's these systemic months today. These unprec­ yearlong investigation into IMMIGRATION JUSTICE edented delays in access to the way the Board of Immi­ deficiencies." CLINIC, NY CIVIL LIBERTIES judges unlawfully extend the gration Appeals, which is UNION & THE BRONX detention of all ICE detainees in part of the Executive Office DEFENDERS FILE PUTATIVE the New York area. for Immigration Review Castillo agreed: "They've CLASS ACTION AGAINST "People arrested by ICE and (EOIR), handles requests really built their communi­ ICE AND DHS detained in criminal jails in New for stays of removal filedin ties. They're Americans at The Kathryn 0. Greenberg York and New Jersey are conjunction with requests this point, they just don't Immigration Justice Clinic, along detained for months, simply to reopen old deportation have the status," she said. with The Bronx Defenders and waiting for a first hearing before orders. Stays ofremoval are Clinic students Castillo, the New York Civil Liberties a judge who can determine intended to protect immi­ Emily Lundgren '19 and 2Ls Union, filed a putative class whether or not they should even grants from deporation Rikke Bukh and Yael Ben action lawsuit in November 2018 be locked up," said Jessica Kulig while their requests to Tov filed suitwith the against the U.S. Immigration and '19, who was a clinic student. reopen their cases are Council in February 2019 Customs Enforcement and the "This practice violates the penr:ling.The clinic's goal is under the Freedom of Department of Homeland fundamental due process rights to obtain hard data and Information Act, to compel Security. The suit challenges of more than a thousand people records to highlight paten- the government to provide ICE's unconstitutional practice every year."

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Meet Cardozo's Newest Faculty Members

Levine Miller Okidegbe Wa nsley

KATE LEVINE joins Cardozo KATHRYN MILLER will teach NGOZI OKIDEGBE will hold MATTHEW WANSLEY comes as an associate professor of in Cardozo's Criminal the Harold A. Stevens to Cardozo as an assistant law and will teach Criminal Defense Clinic, as a clinical Visiting Assistant Professor­ professor oflaw, bringing Law and Criminal Proce­ assistant professor of law on ship. She will teach Evi­ a business background that dure this fall. the tenure track. dence and Critical Race includes serving as general Levine has been a Miller recently com­ Theory. counsel of nuTonomy, a visiting assistant professor pleted a three-year clinical Okidegbe received an self-driving car company. at UC Irvine School of Law, fellowship at UC Berkeley Honors B.A. with Distinc­ The company was has taught in the lawyering School of Law where she tion from Concordia acquired by Delphi Auto­ program at NYU School of taught in the law school's University, a B.C.L./L.L.B. motive (now Aptiv) in Law, and most recently was Death Penalty Clinic. Pre­ from McGill Un iversity's November 2017. an assistant professor of law viously, Miller represented Faculty of Law and an LL.M. Wansley received his J.D. at St. John's Law School. individuals convicted of from Columbia Law School. from Harvard Law School Levine earned her B.A. capital crimes at the Equal In 2013, Okidegbe clerked and his B.A. with Distinc­ magna cum laude from Justice Initiative and served for then-Attorney General tion from Yale University. Harvard College and her as a supervising attorney at of Nigeria Mohammed He clerked for the Hon. Scott J.D. cum laude from Harvard The Bronx Defenders. Bello Adoke, where she M. Matheson, Jr., on the U.S. Law School. She clerked for Miller earned a B.A. researched barriers to the Court of Appeals for the the Honorable Robert P. summa cum laude from the legal redress of HIV Tenth Circuit and the Hon. Patterson, Jr., of the U.S. College of William & Mary discrimination. She has Edgardo Ramos on the U.S. District Court for the and a J.D. from UC Berkeley clerked for Justice Madlanga District Court for the South­ Southern District of New School of Law, where she par­ of the Constitutional Court ern District of New York. York and was an appellate ticipated in the Death Penalty of South Africa and forthe After law school, Wansley public defender at Appellate Clinic and was elected to Justices of the Court of practiced at Shapiro Arato, Advocates. Prior to that, she the Order of the Coif. Appeal for Ontario. She also an appellate litigation was an associate at Cravath, practiced labor law in boutique in New York. From Swaine & Moore. Toronto. 2013-2016, he was a Cli­ menko Fellow and lecturer at Harvard Law School.

16 CARDOZO LIFE Professor Lela Love Honored as Global Thought Leader in Mediation Lela Love, director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, was selected by Who's WhoLegal as a global thought leader in mediation. She was listed as the num­ ber three mediator in North Love Roth Ginsberg America on the 2018 list. This prestigious publication identifies the foremost BBC Radio. She covered a power outages exemplifies the attention generated by practitioners, private prac­ range of topics including poor conditions plaguing Paul Manafort's potential tice lawyers and consulting in-depth analysis of the prisons across the nation. transfer to Rikers obscures experts in their areas. Mueller investigation as it They also co-wrote a second the conditions experienced unfolded, the criminal trials op-ed about poor conditions every day by far less of Paul Manafort and at Rikers Island that came to privileged people held there. Professor Jessica Roth Michael Cohen, and attention during the "Every day, people held on Ta pped by News Media President Trump's cam­ Manafort sentencing. Rikers Island, mostly poor, for Prosecutorial paign conduct. Ginsberg and Reinert are black and brown, will Expertise in Mueller active in a wide range of confront brutality, neglect Investigation prisoners' rights cases and material deprivations Jessica Roth, co-director of Professor Betsy Ginsberg around the country. that betray the Constitu­ the Jacob Burns Center for and Professor Alex "We are heartened that tion's admonition that Ethics in the Practice of Reinert Pen Op-Eds on some elected officialshave punishment cannot precede Law, appeared frequently in Conditions in NYC raised their voices in conviction." news media during the Detention Facilities recognition of the dignity of 2018-2019 school year. Roth, Betsy Ginsberg, director of every human being confined a former federal prosecutor the Civil Rights Clinic, and at the MDC," they wrote. Professor Betsy Ginsberg with the U.S. District Court Alex Reinert, director of the "But as two people who, Testifies on Women for the Southern District of Center for Rights and Jus­ collectively, have spent in Prison New York, provided legal tice, co-authored an op-ed in nearly 40 years working on Speaking before the U.S. expertise for a variety of the Daily News on the behalf of people confinedin Commission on Civil Rights media outlets including the deplorable living conditions prisons and jails in the at a public briefing called PBS NewsHour, TheNew at Metropolitan Detention United States and have rep­ "Women in Prison: Seeking Yo rk Times, MSNBC, CNN, Center in Brooklyn and how resented clients in federal, Justice Behind Bars," Betsy Bloomberg TV, WNYC and the national story about its state and local facilities who Ginsberg said prisoners have died fromlack of are frequently denied medical treatment, whose medical care. bones have been broken The Commission is in the from assaults by guards, process of evaluating the who have been raped in civil rights of women in custody and who have spent prison, including how medi­ decades in solitary confine­ cal needs are met; the imple­ ment, we are keenly aware mentation of the Prison that the conditions docu­ Rape Elimination Act; and mented there are endemic the sufficiencyof programs to the everyday experience designed to prepare women of people held in this for life after release. country as pretrial detain­ At the February hearing, ees or convicted prisoners." Ginsberg said, "Despite Reinert Weinstein In June, they wrote that formal legal protections ...

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both practical and doctrinal barriers make it difficult for [women in prison] to access SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS the legal system in order to bring claims alleging MYRIAM GILLES WITH G . FRIEDMAN RICHARD WEISBERG unlawful deprivation of TheNew Qui Tam : A Model TheFa ilure of the Wo rd: TheProtag onist medical care. Transwomen fo r the Enforcement of Group Rights as Lawyer in ModernFiction are regularly housed in what in a Hostile Era (French Translation) Ya le University Press is termed protective Texas Law Review Richard Weisberg, who has written extensively on custody, but which is often "The 'new qui tam'-a term we use to distinguish both literature and law, explores the role of indistinct from solitary this emerging model from other statutory legalism and its abuses in eight major novels of confinement. The severe variants-aims to fill the enforcement gap the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Begin­ psychological and physical created by current federal policies. For one, using ning with Dostoyevsky and moving by way of impact of long-term solitary private actors as frontline enforcers of state law trenchant analyses of Flaubert and Camus, confinement is well­ violations shifts the costs of investigation and Weisberg culminates his argument in a brilliantly documented and is com­ litigation onto those parties." revisionist reading of Melville's Billy Budd. pounded when an individual is placed in that setting on ALEX REINERT WITH J. PFANDER KATE LEVINE the heels of a traumatic AND C. SCHWARTZ Discipline and Policing experience, such as a sexual TheMy th of Personal Liability: Who Duke Law Journal assault in prison." Pays When Bivens Claims Succeed "Attempting to punish the police the way we do Stanford Law Review citizens accused of bad or criminal acts is "Aside from casting doubt on bedrock judicial problematic in two important ways: First, it does Professor Sam Weinstein assumptions about the incidence of liability, our not solve, and may in fact exacerbate, the Quoted on Sprint/ study has important implications for the future systemic and organizational problems that have T- Mobile Merger of constitutional tort litigation. The data reported led to the current state of over-policing and The Wall Street Journal relied here call into serious doubt the Court's reliance under-accountability from police departments." on Sam Weinstein for on an almost nonexistent threat of personal antitrust expertise regarding liability as a justification for constricting the ANTHONY SEBOK the Sprint/T-Mobile merger. scope of Bivens remedies." An Empirical Investigation of Third Before coming to Cardozo, Party Consumer Litigation Funding he served in the Legal Policy SAM WEINSTEIN Cornell Law Review section of the Antitrust Financial Regulation in the (Receding) "This is the first large-scale empirical study of Division of the U.S. Depart­ Shadow of Antitrust consumer third-party litigation funding in the ment of Justice, and as Temple Law Review United States. Despite being part of the counsel to the assistant "Structural regulation of potential competitive American legal system for more than two attorney general in charge bottlenecks can adequately preserve competition decades there has been almost no real data­ of the division. while allowing sector regulators to focus on their driven empirical study to date." Weinstein was also core missions. When executed properly, this interviewed by KCBS radio approach may be superior to active sector­ FELIX WU in San Francisco in March, regulator competition enforcement and even to Commercial Speech about the antitrust and traditional antitrust enforcement." Protection as Consumer Protection competition implications of University of ColoradoLaw Review the Facebook/Instagram/ DEBORAH PEARLSTEIN "Taking an exclusively consumer-oriented per­ WhatsApp/Messenger Getting Past the Imperial Presidency spective demonstrates why certain laws that do integration. He said, Harvard National Security Journal not restrict the information available to consumers, "Facebook has a big chunk of "Understanding whether and how law influences such as no-surcharge laws, merit far less scrutiny social media market share, decision-making even at the outer limits of under the First Amendment than an unreflective so you worry that their big executive power requires looking less at decision­ application of precedent would give them." natural competitor is making outcomes, and more at the way in which already owned by them. law informs the beliefs and shapes the environ­ Regulators are reluctant to ment in which officials arrive at their decision." break up companies that are already merged."

18 CARDOZO LIFE Professor Edward Zelinsky's Book Cited by Seventh Circuit Edward Zelinsky's book Taxing the Church was cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in its decision upholding the constitutionality of the parsonage allowance. The Court ruled that Code Section 107(2) is Zelinsky Gilles Pearlstein constitutional, overturning the Hon. Barbara Crabb's 2017 ruling that the section May 16, Myriam Gilles Professor Deborah bill to prohibit the use of violated the Establishment challenged forced arbitra­ Pearlstein Testifies Before unauthorized military force Clause. tion clauses that are Congress on Trump's in Venezuela. increasingly required in the Threats of Military H.R. 1004, the Prohibiting workplace. Intervention in Venezuela Unauthorized Military Professor Myriam Gilles "Secrecy is terrible," she Deborah Pearlstein, co­ Action in Venezuela Act, Testifies Before Congress told the Committee mem­ director of the Floersheimer prevents the Trump Against Mandatory bers, "because you can be Center for Constitutional administration from taking Arbitration working in a place and Democracy, testifiedin front any military action related Testifying before the U.S. surrounded by people who of the U.S. House Commit­ to Venezuela without the Senate Judiciary Committee have been victims of the tee on Foreign Affairs on approval of Congress on April 2 and before the same things that you have, March 13 regarding Con­ required by law. House Judiciary Committee but not know it." gressman David N. Cicillin's "The President is in a different Constitutional position when Congress has affirmatively said 'not yet' or 'no,' and that's the gear shift PROFESSOR KATE SHAW CO-EDITS BOOK ON REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, that this legislation would TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS AND WRITES NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED make," she said during her As the issue of abortion heated up in 2019 with a number of states passing restrictions on access, Kate testimony. Shaw co-edited Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories with Melissa Murray and Reva B. Siegel. The book connects stories and case histories to recent developments in American life and law and expands common understandings about reproductive rights with evolving legal thought on reproductive justice. Professor Stewart Sterk Shaw spoke about her the book at the June 4 launch of Cardozo's celebration of the 19th Amend­ Cited by Supreme Court ment: Women's Votes, Women's Voices. Stewart Sterk's work was Shaw, who co-directs the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, testified at a House cited by the majority and Judiciary Committee hearing on May 15 titled "Executive Privilege and Congressional Oversight." the dissent in the U.S. "My view as a scholar and a former White House lawyer is that blanket invocations of executive Supreme Court's opinion on privilege of the sort the White House has made here are without substantial support in either case law or Knick v. To wnship of Scott, executive branch practice," Shaw said. Pennsylvania, that deals with Shaw also wrote a New York Timesop-ed about the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. compensation for private Supreme Court, highlighting issues surrounding the accusations of his accuser, as well as the impor­ property owners when the tance of the confirmation process itself. use of that property is taken Asking what standard the Senate uses to determine Kavanaugh's merit, Shaw wrote, "The Senate's from them by state or local approach to its constitutional 'advice and consent' obligation has always depended on context. A number governments, under the of factors matter: the timing of the vacancy; the justice being replaced ; the nominee's likely impact on due process clause of the the ideological makeup of the court; even the popularity of the president (very popular presidents have Fifth Amendment. Sterk is always had more leeway when it comes to picking justices). Then, of course, there's the nominee." the director of Cardozo's Center for Real Estate Law and Policy.

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Professor Monroe Price, Cardozo Celebrates Former Cardozo Dean, Professor Arthur Jacobson's Leaves Lasting Impact 42 Years of Service Professor Monroe Price, who served as Professor Arthur Jacobson stepped down Cardozo's dean from 1982 until 1991 from teaching this year after 42 years of and continued teaching at Cardozo for distinguished service to Cardozo. more than two decades, announced his As the Max Freund Professor of retirement at the end of 2018. Litigation & Advocacy, he specialized in dynamic jurisprudence. Under his leadership, the law school Jacobson came to Cardozo in 1977 when the law school was in its underwent a critical period of growth infancy. He has had an enormous impact on the law school and on that spawned many of the programs that generations of students. have been definitional in enhancing Cardozo's reputation. His Cardozo colleagues celebrated his career as a distinguished After he stepped down as dean, he became the Joseph and Sadie scholar, litigator and a dedicated classroom teacher. Danciger Professor of Law as well as the director of the Howard M. "Arthur champions the idea that we as legal educators must always Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society. strive to marry legal theory to legal practice," Dean Melanie Leslie said. As dean, Price earned a reputation for being entrepreneurial and "He's more than a scholarly lawyer, he's a real-world lawyer." creative, starting initiatives and building aspects of the Cardozo In a written statement, former student Martina Cucullu Lim '06 community that continue today. reflected on his career. "I remember when I took his contracts class just "I can think of no single professor or leader at the law school who has how much I looked forward to it every day. I felt like I was in my living had more influence in leading Cardozo in the direction of legal innova­ room ...That all of us students could discuss and learn from each other. tion," Dean Melanie Leslie said at a tribute to Price in Fa ll 2018. "We But I also felt like he was willing to learn from us and that we had within continually aspire to keep hold of his ideals and to build on them." us the power to show him a new approach to a case or a problem. It is One sees Price's hand in many of the most innovative programs that that openness to learning and understanding each other's perspectives shaped Cardozo, including: the Intellectual Property Program; the Kukin that I most cherished." Program for Conflict Resolution; the Bet Tzedek Clinic; the Alexander Jacobson brought an intellectually rigorous approach to his teaching Fellows Program; and the Cardozo Arts & En tertainment Law Journal. and emphasized the philosophical underpinnings of the law and of ethics. He set a vision for a law school that was aspirational, and he was "When I cold-call a student, the student has a chance to practice with ambitious to be in the forefront of legal education. me on the spot, doing analysis and making arguments, and to practice His was "an idea factory" said Leslie, who credits her decision to this in a public setting," Jacobson said in a 2012 Cardozo Life article come to Cardozo as a student to a conversation with Price. "We were all about teaching law. "What I hope is that I help my students cultivate their beneficiaries of his vision and his exuberant embracing of all things own legal imaginations and thus become great lawyers." possible," she said. Jacobson received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1969 and went Price started the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and on to earn his J.D there in 1974 and his Ph.D. in government in 1978, Society. In partnership with Oxford University, he created the interna­ with a thesis on the political philosophy of Hegel. tional Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, which has brought He was an associate with the firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. students from around the world to Cardozo to argue some of the most His scholarly work has focused on dynamic jurisprudence. His most prescient legal issues of the day. recent book, Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues, was co-authored by He served as director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Professor J. David Bleich. Jacobson taught classes in employment law Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communica­ and litigation. tion at the University of Pennsylvania. Cardozo honored Jacobson with a tribute and festschrift on Oct. 11, A graduate of Yale Law School, Price was also a law clerk to Associate 2018. Professor Richard Weisberg organized the daylong event. Cardozo Justice of the United States Supreme Court Potter Stewart. He was faculty members, including Professor Ekow Yankah and Former Deans assistant to the secretary of labor, W. Willard Wirtz, 1965-1966. He was Paul Verkuil and Monroe Price, spoke about Jacobson's work. a researcher for the Warren Commission (The President's Commission on Speaking at the event Dean Leslie said, "A great law school is built on the Assassination of President Kennedy). the shoulders of a great faculty. Arthur's legacy at Cardozo places him Generations of Cardozo faculty members and students remember among those professors who shaped and built this law school." Price as a deeply committed friend and mentor.

20 CARDOZO LIFE CL: When you took on the role of dean, what were the biggest I'm also proud of the work my team has done to make Car­ challenges you fa ced? dozo a place at which every single student feels at home. My ML: Law schools were hit hard by the 2008 recession, which experience as a Cardozo student was transformational, and I dramatically affected the law school economy by 2010. By 2015, am dedicated to creating an environment where every student applications to law schools declined to a forty-yearlow. Compe­ has the opportunity to grow in ways he or she cannot imagine tition for qualifiedstudents was fierce, andthe legal job market on the first day of class. Today we stress the importance of was soft. community; of collaboration over competition, generosity over Although Cardozo's faculty and curricular offerings re­ isolation. mained excellent and dynamic, there was a clear need to "right And of course, I'm happy about the gains in U.S. News. But size" the student body to adapt to a changing market. My team that's icing on the cake. The real rewards are seeing students and I constructed a five-year strategic plan that reduced the thrive and advancing the work of our absolutely outstanding class size and charted a path forward. The plan required the faculty. university to make a financial investment in the law school, and I am so grateful that the university administration part­ CL: What are your goals fo r the future of the law school? nered with me. It was a team effort, and our recent successes ML: I am looking forward to 2026-Cardozo's 50th birthday. We would not have been possible without the support of the are in the process of developing our second strategic plan, and university. we're asking "who do we want to be at 50?" "What are our key priorities?" and "How do we defineexcellence?" CL: What are the biggest advances the law school has seen in recent years? CL: As a woman in a leadership role in the legal profession, ML: Well, I am extremely proud of the gains we have made in what advice do you give to students from your own personal the career services area. We have a very strong team of coun­ journey? selors who are all passionately committed to helping every ML: Grow or die. Those are the choices. If you lie still, you at­ student find the job that is the right fit.Students are coached so rophy. So, fling yourself forward. Do something scary. Learn they can succeed when opportunities are presented, and our from failure. Keep going. Embrace chaos and uncertainty­ reinvigorated mentoring program connects students with that's where opportunity lies. Don't shy away from conflict­ alumni who can help them succeed. Our employer outreach conflict helps you grow. And I share with my female students department has strengthened our connections with employers something I've learned. Refuse to rein in your instinct to lead and greatly increased the number of new employers with in order to be liked. Of course, it's important to listen care­ whom we have relationships. fully to other people's opinions-but not so that they will like We have also strengthened the median credentials of each you. Do it because they deserve to be listened to and because successive class over the last four years. Our students are out­ you're more effective in partnering with people when they standing; they're extremely bright, and they exhibit that Car­ know you understand their point of view, even if you disagree dozo grit that makes them engaged learners and great lawyers. with it. But lead.

FALL 2019 2 I From its inception, Cardozo has had a legacy of advancing the careers of women in law. In 1979, when women were vastly underrepresented at U.S. law schools, Cardozo's inaugural class was 46 percent female. Over the last 40 years, Cardozo has kept up that momentum-launching the careers of countless alumnae leaders and changing the face of the legal landscape. Today, Cardozo's alumnae network is larger and more diverse than ever before. Cardozo women have made their mark everywhere : from the federal courthouse to the corporate boardroom; as partners of large firms and as members of Congress; in public service and in private prac­ tice; and as creative thinkers in industries including art, music and entertainment. F IP

Join us as we celebrate the accomplishments and diversity of Cardozo women.

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"Hard work brings results regardless of gender."

Vered Adoni '99 Uncovering and Prosecuting Crimes of Bias

During her 20-year career in public service, Vered Adoni '99, assistant prosecutor for Bergen County, has seen improve­ ments in diversity. "Women have leading roles more than men," she said. "That is a testament to the times." Adoni is leading the unit on bias crimes, educating police officerson bias intimidation laws that target people because of their ethnicity or sexual orientation. She's also developing a course on how to investigate bias crimes. "That has been a very rewarding experience," Adoni said. "Especially now that we see anti-Semitism on the rise." Adoni has wanted to be a prosecutor since she was a child. At Cardozo, she took all of the criminal law classes and worked in the Criminal Defense Clinic. But she said participating in moot court and mock trial gave her the most hands-on experi­ ence in speaking and arguing cases on all topics. Adoni also credits Cardozo's Prosecutor Practicum for helping her land her firstjob. "Cardozo was instrumental in helping me get my dream," she said. As a woman in law, Adoni said she has never felt inferior to anyone. "Hard work brings results regardless of gender," she said. "I'm surrounded by women in the courtroom, by women judges ... I feel we have equal power to men." Public-service careers can be less lucrative than those in the private sector, but Adoni said the rewards are priceless. She considers trying cases in the courtroom "exhilarating" and is passionate about her quest for the truth. "I pride myself on not working hard to convict or working hard to win.. .I 'm working hard for justice to occur," she said. ll"l

Milestones in July 19-20, 1848 May 29, 1851 Women's Leadership Hundreds attend the Seneca Falls women's Sojourner Truth, a former slave and wom­ rights convention in New York, led by en's rights activist, delivers her famous Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women's Some attendees sign the Declaration of Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Sentiments, which inspires protests, "And ain't I a woman? I could work as activism and, eventually, the passage of much and eat as much as a man-when the 19th Amendment. I could get it-and bear the lash as well!"

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Aminolroaya said the challenge, particularly as a young lawyer, oflitigating cases with such dif fering subject matters is not only researching them thoroughly but also speaking and writing about them authoritatively. "(Make) sure that whatever you're dealing with, you can ex­ plain it to someone else," she said. Aminolroaya developed her research skills on Cardozo's Securities Arbitration Clinic and at various competitions while she was a member of Cardozo's Moot Court Honor Society. But her love for litigation is what made her stand out. "I definitely enjoy... the adrenaline rush you get before you present a witness for examination in the courtroom," she said. Last year the Black Asian Latino Law Students Association (BALLSA) honored Aminolroaya as a "Cardozo Game Changer." Aminolroaya has noticed positive strides in diversity, recogniz­ ing Seeger Weiss for its commitment to improving diversity in law. She said the firm is always looking for opportunities for junior attorneys such as herself to take the lead. "They're defi­ nitely supportive of me," Aminolroaya said. Aminolroaya is also the co-chair of the Cardozo Women group, which provides resources for the advancement of fe­ male lawyers. She encourages new attorneys to go above and beyond. "A lways asking how can I move the ball forward ... that's incredibly valuable," she said. P'1 Parvin Aminolroaya '08 Game Changer Makes Partner "I definitely enjoy ... Parvin Aminolroaya '08 has always been curious to learn ex­ actly how things work. This curiosity, along with a commit­ the adrenaline rush ment to excellence, led to her promotion to partner at the Car­ dozo-led plaintiffs' law firm Seeger Weiss. you get before "The cases that we handle are cases of national scope against you present a witness large corporations," said Aminolroaya, who has worked on tort cases ranging from the pharmaceutical to automotive for examination industries. She is involved with the national litigation against manufac­ in the courtroom." turers and distributors of prescription opioids. She was also a member of the trial teams that obtained jury verdicts totaling nearly $300 million in a case against the manufacturer of a testosterone drug.

1861-1865 During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort.

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FALL 2019 25 Sitting in a viewing room of Christie's auction floor, where Sandra Cobden '90 a piece recently sold for $1.3 billion, Cobden explained how Artful Counsel at Christie's archeologists and academics can often focus on the market side of auction houses and view them as "enemies." She aims to dispel those beliefs and build relationships with those who In the office of Sandra Cobden '90, hanging alongside a shelf of wouldn't normally view Christie's as an ally. framed family photos and art law books, is one of her most "We're often able to form a relationship because we turn out prized possessions: a certificate from the Kingdom of Cambo­ to have many areas of overlap," Cobden said. "Where we come dia honoring her work with Christie's in returning three an­ together is through our appreciation and respect for these cient statues. objects." Cobden is an adjunct art law professor at Cardozo and se­ Before joining Christie's in 2009, Cobden was as a litigator nior vice president and general counsel at Christie's, the New for 10 years at Debevoise & Plimpton. She said being a litigator York City auction house. Part of Cobden's job is dealing with taught her to present her thoughts clearly. legal and political issues for Christie's with respect to return­ Cobden also gained leadership experience at Cardozo by ing pieces of art to their rightful owners. Her role is to lobby for becoming editor-in-chief of Law Review. She was part of the the importance of art and uphold Christie's strict vetting pro­ journal's board that selected Dean Melanie Leslie '91 for Law cesses and standards. Review. Some of Cobden's memorable professors include David Cobden's team researches everything Christie's sells for Rudenstine and Malvina Halberstam. The cases from Halbers­ restitution issues-ensuring against theft and fraud. If they tam's International Law class really resonated with her. come across any thing potentially fraudulent, it is pulled im­ Cobden works with Cardozo alumna Monica Dugot '90, who mediately, and the team works on negotiating a settlement. has recently gained prominence as an expert in restitution.

Dec. 10, 1869 1878 1866 Wyoming is the first territory A Woman Suffrage Amendment to grant women the right Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan is proposed in the U.S. Congress. to vote and hold office. B. Anthony form the American Equal When the 19th Amendment passes May 15, 1869 Rights Association, an organization 41 years later, it is worded exactly dedicated to the goal of suffrage for Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady the same as this 1878 Amendment. all regardless of gender or race. Stanton found the National Woman �r < Suffrage Association, which sparked the :; I national suffrage movement. :I •

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Nevertheless, she said that women still face challenges in the DiCanio said diversity has improved in the last five years workplace. and it has inspired her to support recent female Cardozo "Women in particular need to know they're not alone," said graduates. Cobden, adding that a helpful skill is learning "how to say no As co-chairs of the Cardozo Women alumnae group, Di­ creatively in managing time and managing work-life balance." Canio and fellow '08 alumna Parvin Aminolroaya have pro­ Looking back on her career, Cobden advised others to "think moted professional development opportunities by hosting about the skills you want to learn" when approaching a job and networking breakfasts. DiCanio's next goal is to involve women expand on the aspects that appeal to you. from different age groups. "Learn consciously and adapt freely," Cobden said. "Adopt "One of the keys is developing mentorships with experi­ what you like and learn from what you don't like." l"'.I enced attorneys,'' she said, adding that Cardozo Women has around 30 active members. "Although we have a long way to go, we're really focused on it." DiCanio's most memorable Cardozo moments include her work on Law Review, which she credits with teaching her time CarrieDi Canio '08 management skills. Managing Shareholder and She also remembers taking Property with then-professor Cardozo Mentor now-Dean Melanie Leslie '91, who shares her small New Jersey hometown. "I'm so excited she's the dean," DiCanio said. "She's good at The commute from Maplewood, New Jersey to Manhattan is connecting with people." l"'.I where Carrie DiCanio '08 plans out her cases. "A lot of my time is spent thinking about strategy," said Di­ Canio, an insurance attorney and shareholder at Anderson Kill. DiCanio started at the firmas a summer associate 11 years ago while a student at Cardozo. Anderson Kill is where Di­ Canio earned several accolades, including Law360's 2018 Ris­ ing Star award and Business Insurance's 2018 Break Out Award. She has gained prominence in the insurance law industry, presenting on topics such as representation and warranties policies. The firm is also where DiCanio met her husband. She said Anderson Kill's flexible hours and generous work-from-home policy have allowed her to balance her family life and succeed in her career. "I think that says a lot about the firm's ability to accommo­ date attorneys," DiCanio said. "That was a benefitfor me when my kids were younger." DiCanio's 42nd-floor office is lined with family photos and drawings by her two young sons. She acknowledges that re­ taining female attorneys has been a challenge for Anderson Kill but adds that offering a generous work-life balance is a good start. Three of the Anderson Kill's six offices (including those in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.) have female managing shareholders.

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The first vote on woman 1888 suffrage is taken in the Senate and is defeated. The National Council of Women in the United States is established to promote the advancement of women in society.

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"When people can't pay, they're punished," Dindial said. "My work is trying to eliminate that type of poverty penalty." Dindial's work seeks to end "a cycle of debt and criminaliza­ tion." Small, everyday infractions such as traffic tickets can lead to high fines and fees, and when people, particularly re­ cently exonerated individuals, can't afford them, they face ad­ ditional fees, extended probation or even incarceration. Other nonprofits, such as the Vera Institute of Justice, have begun to research the fines and fees that land people in jail in hopes of reducing the use of jails. As Dindial pointed out, "The Supreme Court has held that you can't incarcerate a person for nonpayment because they don't have money." Dindial's passion for upholding civil liberties started when she was a 2L in Cardozo's Innocence Project. It was her first time working directly with clients in the criminal legal sys­ tems and seeing how real-life law dif fered from the black-letter law she was learning in textbooks. "In practice, our system values convictions at any cost over truth and justice," Dindial said. Dindial also enjoyed her work in the criminal defense clinic, where she became interested in how systemic bias in the criminal legal system, from how the laws are written to how they're enforced, targets people of color. Emily Dindial '15 "To me, a wrongful conviction is more than just a person Fighting for Civil Liberties who is scientifically innocent [via forensics]," she said. Nationwide She even saw a conviction overturned on one of her cases when it turned out to be based on unvalidated hair forensics. Dindial said her work in the clinic and the Innocence Proj­ Emily Dindial '15 is fighting against discrimination across 50 ect were formative to her career. But she advised Cardozo stu­ states. As economic justice advocacy and policy counsel at the dents not to be distracted by the "shoulds" oflaw school - feel­ American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Dindial focuses on ing like they "should" join a journal or have certain grades or issues related to the criminalization of poverty through court­ apply for a clerkship. Instead, she suggested that students imposed fines and fees. She works toward eliminating laws pursue issues they care about and realize that there are alter­ and policies designed to keep the formerly incarcerated at a native career paths, such as policy or organizing, available. disadvantage in society. For example, she is researching states "What I'm doing is my dream job," Dindial said. "That is the that require those released from prison to pay fees to restore unique thing about New York. There's a lot of opportunities to their right to vote. get involved." !'1

"What I'm doing is my dream job."

1894 1899 600,000 signatures are presented to the New York : , Women Lawyers' Club is founded by State Constitutional 18 female lawyers in New York Convention in a failed 1896 (subsequently renamed National Association of Women Lawyers). effort to bring a woman Utah joins the Union suffrage amendment to with full suffrage for women. the voters. • •

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28 CARDOZO LIFE The Hon. Sandra "When you do appellate work, that really makes law," she said. Feuerstein '79 A dedication to the law runs in Feuerstein's family. Her mother was appointed an immigration judge in 1986 after Breaking Barriers graduating law school in 1940. Feuerstein noted the difference on the Bench in time that it took her mother to become a judge after gradua­ tion compared with her own timeline. "I was on the cusp of that time when women were firstbeing As a member ofCardozo's firstgraduating class, Sandra Feuer­ accepted," Feuerstein said. stein '79, senior United States district court judge for the East­ She attributes being accepted into law quicker with the ern District of New York, was aware that she was entering a changing attitudes toward women and said she always felt re­ profession dominated by men. But she never felt deterred by it. spected by male and female colleagues. "I came from a background where women were expected to "You should never have to rely on someone else for support do their best," Feuerstein said. "There was no question." or intellectual stimulation," she said. Feuerstein started out in the District Court in Nassau Feuerstein's advice for new lawyers is to keep in mind all of County, where one of her most proud accomplishments was those whom your actions reflect, including your alma mater, starting a volunteer landlord-tenant project with fellow alumna your family and your employer, when making decisions. Miriam Pismeny '82. The project trained volunteer lawyers to She continues to give back to the Cardozo community by hir­ represent tenants who wouldn't normally receive adequate ing student law clerks, some forwarded to her by Professor representation. Stewart Sterk. That experience sparked Feuerstein's appreciation for pub­ "Be a great representative of everyone you represent," she lic service, as she went on to the appellate division in the New said. "You never know who is taking notice of what you're York Supreme Court. doing." l!"'.l

1913 March 25, 1911 Ida B. Wells' role in i Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills the Women's March on � April 2, 1917 � hundreds of laborers, a majority of them Washington highlights Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a longtime female immigrants. The industrial disaster the friction between � activist with the National Woman Suffrage leads to protests and eventually major black and white Association, is sworn in as the first woman reforms for workers. As a result, the Inter­ women in the women's elected to Congress as a member of the national Ladies Garment Workers Union rights movement. House of Representatives. gains prominence and power.

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FALL 2019 29 deals, supervises paralegals, oversees the real estate portfolio Sheryl Gold '89 and looks out for artists. She said ensuring that artists get paid Going Gold in is becoming more challenging in today's minefield of online piracy and content leaks. the Music Business "Music is everywhere ... it wasn't like that at one time," Gold said. "You can get it really easily at your fingertips." From cassettes to CDs to streaming services, Sheryl Gold '89 She remembers Napster and song ringtones arriving on the has had a front-row seat to the evolution of music. scene. Now her team has to consider streaming services such Gold is the senior vice president, business and legal affairs as Spotify and iTunes. "We have to be much more aware ofhow at Universal Music Group (UMG) in Los Angeles. Gold's 32-year our recordings are secured," Gold said. career has spanned various professional roles and artists of In addition to changes to the industry, Gold has seen the diverse genres-including jazz and country. staff-and the voices representing musical artists-become "When I first started, it was the beginning of CDs," said more diverse. At MCA, Gold was the only female attorney. Gold, who joined UMG (then called MCA Records) in 1992. "Over the years it has changed and now has become pre­ Gold started at GRP Records, where she was placed through dominantly female," she said. a summer institute at Cardozo. She completed six weeks of an She said making herself valuable at a small firmwas crucial unpaid internship before she was hired full time. She then to her success. But her interest in music started well before moved to Los Angeles to get back to her entertainment roots. that. Gold was a self-described "theater kid" before becoming a As senior vice president at UMG, Gold negotiates record theater major in college. She then worked in the L.A. enter-

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June 4, 1919 , Ratification of the 19th · Amendment to the U.S. Nov. 7. 1922 Congress 1927 j Constitution is completed, ' Florence Ellinwood Allen Mabel Raimey graduates from passes the 19th j declaring "the right of is elected Justice of the Marquette University Law School, Amendment, citizens of the United States Supreme Court of Ohio, � the first African American woman granting women to vote sh al I not be denied the first woman on a VOTE to practice law in Wisconsin. the right to vote. I or abridged by the United state high court. 'W : States or by any State · on account of sex."

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tainment industry for five years. One of her more memorable experiences was representing the record label in negotiations forthe cast album of the Broadway play "Spring Awakening"­ and getting to hand out CDs at the show. "If I wanted to do entertainment, I needed to do it from a business perspective," she said. "[Music] was the opportunity that came up. I took it and never stopped loving it." Gold's advice for aspiring entertainment lawyers is to find an internship or volunteer. "If you're lucky enough to get in the door, it's up to you to turn it into a career," she said. "Let them see what you have to offer." !"l

Jessica Horani '01 The Defense Rests with Humanity

On a recent bus ride to see clients in New York City's Rikers Island prison complex, Jessica Horani '01 estimated that 90% of her fellow passengers-those visiting incarcerated family members-were people of color. This is an example of the ethnic and gender injustices that Horani has noticed as a senior trial attorney at New York County Defender Services (NYCDS) in the Homicide & Major Case Defense Unit. "I absolutely felt that I had to fight against certain stereo­ types and preconceptions as a young woman doing this work," offered "hands-down" the most practical experience of prepar­ Horani said, although she added that she's seen more diversity ing attorneys for the courtroom. Horani said that as a public in public service than other areas of law. defender, "you need to be as comfortable in the courtroom as "We had the opportunity to create our own unit and decide you are in your living room." from the ground up how we handle these most serious cases," She also credits the assistance of Criminal Defense Clinic Horani said, adding that she's one of two women on her four­ Director Jonathan Oberman with helping her land her first person unit. position in the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office in Horani has always wanted to become a public defender. She Florida. was born in Jordan and lived overseas, including in Saudi Ara­ "The support from professors really helped shape where I bia for several years before immigrating with her family per­ went," she said. "I was going into uncharted waters with my manently to the United States. Her life experiences led her to first position outside of New York, so I relied on input from want to fightfo r the accused who lacked financialprivilege. professors and alumni who had worked at the Miami-Dade "When I came to Cardozo, I already knew I wanted to do the Public Defender's Office to guide my way.". type of work I do now," she said. She came back to New York most recently in 2008. In addi­ She said Cardozo's Intensive Trial Advocacy Program tion to NYCDS, she also previously worked for the Neighbor-

1931 1939 Jane Addams is the first woman Jane Bolin becomes the first to win the Nobel Peace Prize African American female judge for work establishing a juvenile in the United States. court system.

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hood Defender Service of Harlem. serves on the Young Professionals Committee of the Crohn's Horani enjoys being in trial court and thrives on the "adren­ and Colitis Foundation, which honored her with its Woman of aline" that comes along with it. But the most rewarding part for Distinction in Law Award for 2019. her is taking on her clients' perspectives and arguing on their Pozzi also works with Unchained at Last, an organization behalf, despite everyone else viewing them as "terrible" dedicated to ending forced child marriage. Pozzi said Un­ people. chained lets her use some of the matrimonial law skills she "It's a privilege for me to be in that position," Horani said. learned at Cardozo to help young girls. "Being part of Un­ "To always findthe humanity in the person I'm representing... chained is a great way to keep my matrimonial skills sharp, and to be able to try and convey that to 12 other people who while also helping people who really need it," Pozzi said. don't know my client and don't know me." Pozzi draws inspiration from her strong female professors She said including more diversity in public service can shift at Cardozo. She remembers Professors Jessica Roth and Kate the culture of the courtroom. Shaw, and former Professor Marci Hamilton, all pushing her "I think we'll continue to see more and more people in gen­ to explore different issues of the law from a range of eral of different backgrounds coming to this ty pe of work," perspectives. Horani said. "I hope that we continue to see women going all "I just loved sitting in class and learning from them," Pozzi the way towards those more senior positions and towards the said. "It was very inspiring for a young female law student to most difficult cases ... it's important to see that diversity re­ have a professor to look up to in so many different way s. flected." !"'.l They've done it all and they've seen it all." At Cardozo, Pozzi also participated in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program and the Divorce Mediation Clinic and served on the Editorial Board of the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. She said Cardozo helped her develop a stronger voice Nicole Pozzi '16 in her professional life. Building a Celebrity Brand "Nothing is handed to you; you've got to ask for it and you've got to earn it," Pozzi said. "That's really an important lesson I've carried with me." !"I Between starting a career in entertainment law, holding an active role in two nonprofit organizations and getting married this summer, Nicole Pozzi '16 has a few "plates in the air." She credits her Cardozo education (and "lots of coffee") with giving her the ability to juggle it all. "In addition to giving you a great education, law school re­ ally teaches you how to manage your time," Pozzi said. "The beauty of Cardozo is that you have New York City as your train­ ing ground." In her professional life, Pozzi is the director of business de­ velopment and licensing at ED Ellen DeGeneres, where she manages license agreements and joint ventures forDeGeneres' lifestyle brand. Pozzi analyzes and pitches new growth oppor­ tunities that are authentic to the celebrity for products ranging from baby clothing to pet accessories. "There is a wide variety of categories that resonate with her because she is so mass ap­ peal. Everybody loves Ellen," Pozzi said of DeGeneres. Outside of her career with ED Ellen DeGeneres, Pozzi re­ mains committed to public service and nonprofit work. Pozzi

Jan. 3, 1949 1945-1952 Margaret Chase Smith becomes Dec. 1, 1955 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt the first woman to serve in the Rosa Parks refuses to give serves as a delegate to the House and Senate. She is among her seat to a white man on a United Nations General the first senators to criticize bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Assembly and as the first McCarthyism. In 1964 she helping launch the modern chair of the UN Commission became the first woman to have civil rights movement. on Human Rights. her name placed in nomination for president by a major party.

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32 CARDOZO LIFE Labor Relations Board. Jenna Powers '04 Powers started at Amazon in 2011. When Amazon acquired Running the Inside Track Whole Foods Market in 2017, Powers' legal expertise and 10+ years of employee relations experience was an asset. at Amazon Today she leads a global team of 265, managing back-end operations for Amazon recruitment. Soon after Jenna Powers '04 graduated and started her career As a big part of her role, Powers partners with the legal in the labor relations field, she noticed she was the only woman team, using her legal expertise while managing hiring compli­ and only person of color in a meeting room at a firmretreat. ance and assessing potential Amazon employees. "2005 felt very late to me," Powers said of the lack of diver­ "I get to go to work with super smart people every day," Pow­ sity. "It was men all the way up." ers said. "It's an environment that is very tolerant oflearning." Throughout her career, most recently at the Amazon head­ Before Amazon, Powers practiced law for fiveyears, and she quarters in Seattle, Powers has seen many strides and improve­ worked in labor relations for the Coca-Cola Company. ments for women in leadership. As director of recruiting oper­ "I think those in traditional legal careers sometimes view us ations for Amazon, seven of Powers' eight direct reports are skeptically," Powers said of J.D. holders, such as herself, who women. Three positions at Powers' level within her depart­ chose alternative career pathways. "But I felt like I was more ment are held by women. "Even visibly, we can see it chang­ creative and I had more to offer outside of a firm. ...Not all cli­ ing," Powers said. "Inclusivity is really important to me and it's ents want you to be that creative." important to Amazon." Powers credits much of her professional success to her per­ Powers discovered her interest in employment relations sonal passion: running. during her second year at Cardozo, in courses such as Labor She ran her first marathon in 2014 just to check it off her Relations, Employment Law and Administrative Law. Powers bucket list. Since then, Powers has completed more than 55 participated in Cardozo's Mediation Clinic and took on two in­ marathons and ultra-marathons. She believes that each of her ternships in labor relations, including one for the National major career opportunities has coincided with a running

Nov. 5, 1968 June 30, 1966 Shirley Chisholm 1957 Betty Friedan, author of l 963's becomes the first black The Feminine Mystique, helps found the Linda Brown is named plaintiff woman elected to the National Organization for Women, with the in what would be the landmark House of Representatives. school desegregation case goal to, as the organization now states, Brown v. Board of Education. "achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life."

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milestone. For example, in 2018 after the Whole Foods Market acquisition, Powers received a call for a new opportunity with Amazon right as she was completing her first 200-mile race. "I don't think that's a coincidence," she said. Powers said running boosts her confidence in every aspect of her life, offering her an outlet. "You can get comfortable with the prospect of failure," she said. "Running has been a safe place to fail." Powers' advice for women seeking professional success is to find a place where they can learn to take risks-a place where the stakes are low and there is no paycheck or job on the line. "If you're comfortable doing it, it's not a risk," she said. Pow­ ers' own career risks, such as seeking out a position she was minimally qualified for to pivot away from the warehousing business, have broken the stereotype of women as risk-averse. "[It takes] a certain amount of courage to follow what you want to do," Powers said. "We all work too hard to be doing something that we're not super passionate about." I".

Rabia has seen the Innocence Project evolve to the success it is today. Rabia, along with 80 to 100 attorneys each from Skadden and the New York-based firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges Vered Rabia '98 volunteered to take some of the cases piling up at the Inno­ From Innocence Project cence Project. Their pro-bono work significantly reduced the to Big Law nonprofit's backlog. Rabia predicts the backlog will be elimi­ nated next year, resulting in more cases heard and potentially more justice for inmates. From restoring parks in underserved communities to advocat­ Rabia credits her Israeli background with her compassion ing for inmates, pro-bono work has driven Vered Rabia '98. and desire to give back to the community. She said serving in Rabia is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the Israeli army for two years shaped her worldview. Boot where she focuses on the firm'sreal estate practice, represent­ camp in particular helped her understand how to work as part ing projects such as Shed NYC, the culture center in Hudson ofa team. Yards. She is also on the board of the nonprofit New York Res­ "It kind of opens your mind on different aspects of the world toration Project and on the board of directors of the Innocence you don't think of," she said. "It kind of gave me a maturity that Project, the Cardozo-founded program whose mission is to ex­ I would have otherwise not had at so young an age." onerate the wrongly convicted based on DNA testing. Israel was also part of the reason Rabia landed at Skadden, Rabia said the Innocence Project was "still in its infancy" which has an extensive Israeli practice. while she was at Cardozo. By keeping in touch with her former "At the time, I thought that that would be a way to meld my criminal law professor and Innocence Project co-founder past with my future," she said. Barry Scheck, Rabia worked pro-bono with the nonprofit, even Rabia encourages students to embrace Cardozo's entrepre­ getting Skadden colleagues involved. neurial spirit in today 's "world of innovation." Today, Rabia is vice-chair of the board of the Innocence "Just maximize whatever opportunities that come your Project. "For me it was a way of sort of coming full circle," she way," she said. "Work the hardest that you possibly can at it. .. said. "The Innocence Project's work is really God's work in Every ounce of experience you get at a job, you take to the next many ways ... freeing people for crimes they didn't commit." job." l!"1

' 1976 Cardozo's founding class admits March 22, 1972 300 students, 137 women and 163 The Senate passes the Equal men-a46% female student body, July 7, 1981 Rights Amendment to the U.S. • ���- 22, 1973 twice the national average at the time. Sandra Day O'Connor is Constitution, which proposes Malvina Halberstam, Eva Hanks, sworn in by President Ronald banning discrimination based I In its landmark 7-to-2 Roe v. Wade Leslie Ellen Gerwin and Sybil Landau Reagan as the first woman on on sex, but falls short of : decision, the U.S Supreme Court declares : are among Cardozo's 12 founding the U.S. Supreme Court. ratification by the states. j that the const1tut10n protects a woman's faculty members. j legal right to an abortion . • • 1970 1980

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that upholds and improves justice for all," Renwick said. The Hon. Dianne "Where else would I have the opportunity to do that?" Renwick said it is a privilege to serve in the Appellate Divi­ Renwick '86 sion, where she reviews a variety of criminal and commercial Justice for Al I cases. Renwick, who was appointed to the Appellate Division in 2008 and is serving her second term, started her judicial career In her chambers in the landmarked New York City court, Di­ in the New York City Housing Court in 1997, the same year she anne Renwick '86, associate justice of the New York State Su­ was elected to the civil court. preme Court's Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, Before that, she spent a decade as a criminal defense attor­ and a member of Cardozo's Board of Overseers, discussed di­ ney, working for the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal versity in law, Cardozo's growth and the challenges women Aid Society and the Federal Defenders in the Eastern District face in the legal field. of New York. In 2001, she was elected to the New York State "As a justice of this court, I have the unique opportunity to Supreme Court. influence the jurisprudence of New York, hopefully in a way Renwick is the first African-American woman and the

19 85 1995 March 12, 1993 Prof. Toby Golick becomes Prof. Eva Hanks co-authors the first director of the Bet Janet Reno is sworn in as the Elements of Law with first female attorney general of • Tzedek Legal Services Clinic. Profs. Michael Herz and the United States. Steven Nemerson. The case­ July 12, 1984 Aug. 10, 1993 book is read by generations Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn of Cardozo I Ls. female vice-presidential candidate in as the second female running under a major political party. supreme court justice.

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"I don't think any of us can ignore who we are and where we come from, nor should we ... You wear it proudly."

fourth woman to hold her current position since the Appellate attorneys by providing guidance and opportunities that will Division, First Judicial Department's creation in 1894. open doors and allow women to flourish." "My presence on one of the preeminent appellate courts in Renwick said the passion and energy of Cardozo Prof. Barry the country, I hope will serve as an example to women of all Scheck, the co-founder of the Innocence Project, inspired her. backgrounds, particularly young women of color who might "He believed so deeply in the key role lawyers play in pro­ see me and set a goal they might otherwise have thought im­ tecting the important constitutional rights of all people, in­ possible," she said. cluding criminal defendants," she said. Growing up during the civil rights era and in the time of She attributed Cardozo's success to its strong faculty. protests against South African apartheid, Renwick saw how "They have consistently been scholarly, innovative thinkers race and law overlap. She said that despite her parents' humble on the cutting edge of their particular discipline and, most im­ beginnings as immigrants from Grenada, they instilled in her portantly, always interested in the students," she said. the core values of hard work and education. Today, Renwick is Renwick, one of only two African-Americans in her class, proud that women are a majority on the court on which she said that "Cardozo was a very different place when I was there." serves: Ten of the First Judicial Department's 17 associate jus­ Renwick, who has been honored by BALLSA (Black Asian tices are women. Latino Law Students Association), Cardozo Women and the "I don't think any ofus can ignore who we are and where we Cardozo Alumni Association, praised Cardozo for "the in­ come from, nor should we," Renwick said. "It's not something creased diversity they've generated." She said she has seen the that can be hidden, nor should it be. You wear it proudly." law school grow but also retain its sense of community. Renwick said that the high number of women in the First While at Cardozo, Renwick participated in the Criminal Judicial Department has led large law firms to select female Law Clinic, the Appellate Law Clinic, the Intensive Trial Advo­ attorneys to argue their cases. cacy Program and Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography. "I think a diverse bench helps the community to develop "I never thought about being a judge when I was in law confidence in the judiciary," she said. school or in my early years of practice," Renwick said. "I just However, she stressed that women and attorneys of color wanted to be the best lawyer, best litigator I could be." still face challenges in the legal field, especially in the private Renwick's favorite part of being a justice is the satisfaction sector. that comes from preserving the fundamental rights and privi­ "It concerns me that despite women making up nearly half leges of citizens. of graduating law school classes, we make up only a fraction of Renwick advises students to seek opportunities that pro­ large law firms... attrition rates are higher at firms for people vide practical experience through internships, clinics and pro­ of color and women, likelihood of making partner is lower, and bona work. it can be complicated by the minimal allowance for familial "There are unique and wonderful opportunities to be had demands," she said. from the practice of law, in particular public service, if you are "Women have to help one another succeed," she said. "It's willing to make the sacrifice," she said. "The sense of accom­ important that we support each other and mentor young plishment can be tremendous." !"

March 8, 2004 Jan. 4, 2007 Kathryn 0. Greenberg '82 becomes the U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi CD-Calif.) first graduate of Cardozo and the first becomes the first female speaker June 2, 2004 woman to be elected Chair of the Cardozo of the House. In 2019, she Board of Overseers. Greenberg is also the Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks reclaims the title, becoming the founder of the New York Legal Assistance at Cardozo's commencement ceremony first lawmaker to hold the office --�- Group, which provides free legal services and receives an honorary doctor of laws two times in more than 50 years. for low-income New Yorkers. degree. Her advice to students: "Commit yourself to being a bridge builder." •

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Cardozo alumnae Randi for LGBT workers' rights and New York. Recently, Meng Alumni of the Year Award from Weingarten '83, Grace Meng '02 access to medication. co-authored a bipartisan bill Cardozo. and the Hon. Tanya Kennedy '92 Weingarten was the Dean's protecting women and girl Kennedy was elected to New have been trailblazers in public guest at a student forum in refugees. The legislation passed York City Civil Court in 2005. service, giving voices to the March during which she discussed in the House in May. She has presided over the underserved and advocating for how law school shaped her "These conditions create a the same diverse leadership career and how Cardozo classes lack of privacy and dignity and that they exemplify. taught her the value of team­ make women and girls afraid to work. "I really learned a lot here. use the restrooms, fearing that I actually learned to work hard," they may be assaulted and she said. "It takes a community." subjected to violence while using the bathroom," Meng stated in a GRACE MENG '02 House press release. "I'm Grace Meng '02 is a U.S. pleased that the House is now congresswoman representing addressing the issue." New York's 6th district in Meng was honored in 2015 Queens. She is the first by BALLSA (the Black Asian Asian-American elected to Latino Law Students Association) Criminal and Civil Courts of the Congress from New York and the and splits her time between New City of New York, and the Family first female congressmember York City and Washington, D.C. Court of the State of New York. RANDI WEINGARTEN '83 from Queens since 1985. She also served as an adjunct Randi Weingarten '83 is Since 2013, Meng has shown THE HON. professor at Fordham University president of the American her passion for diversity by TANYA KENNEDY '92 School of Law. Federation of Teachers (AFT), fighting for issues such as Tanya Kennedy '92 is a Supreme Kennedy has been honored the 1.7-million-member labor immigrant rights and religious Court Justice of the State of New by organizations that champion union headquartered in freedom. She is also a senior York, Civil Branch and a member diversity, including The National Washington, D.C. whip and regional whip for of Cardozo's Board of Overseers. Association for the Advancement Since Weingarten was elected She is also the former Supervis­ of Colored People (NAACP). In to AFT in 2008, the union has ing Judge of Civil Court, New 2014, the NAACP Mid­ expanded to include teachers, York County and a past president Manhattan Branch honored educational professionals and of the National Association of Kennedy with its Outstanding nurses. She has launched Women Judges (NAWJ). Community Service Award. In initiatives to reform struggling • \'!''4� "You see, an ordinary person addition, Kennedy received the schools and tackled issues such . ,/ can do extraordinary things and I BALLSA Alumni Award in 2010 as increasing teacher salaries am an ordinary person," Kennedy and was recognized by the and eliminating student debt. said at her Supreme Court Cardozo Women's Law Initiative Weingarten has been active l swearing-in ceremony in 2015. as its first Woman of Distinction in the LGBT community, fighting · .. .. In 2015, Kennedy received the awardee.

Oct. 22, 2012 July 1. 2015 2019 Justice Sonia Sotomayor · Melanie Leslie '91 is the visits Cardozo. "The hardest . first Cardozo alum and the 41 percent of Cardozo's thing we have to do as : first woman to become the full-time faculty members : women of color and men dean of the law school. are women. Of 11 in-house clinics, nine have female I Aug. 8, 2009 of color is to deal with our : July 26, 2016 fears-not to let our fears directors or co-directors. ; Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as the Hillary Clinton becomes stop us from reaching : third female supreme court justice and the first woman to receive a presidential further than we imagine." first Hispanic justice. nomination from a major political party. •

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FALL 2019 37 "Women's Votes, Women's Voices: 19 at 100"

Exactly 100 years to the day after the U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment, Cardozo launched a yearlong examination of women's rights, then and now. "Women's Votes, Women's Voices: The 19th Amendment at 100" kicked off on June 4 with dialogues on historic and current battles for women's rights.

Above, from left: New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera, Professor Kate haw and Historian Va lerie Paley, Ph.D. #19AT100

"THE PASSAGE OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT was a watershed mo­ evolution of women's reproductive rights, ranging from deci­ ment in the history of the U.S.," said Dean Melanie Leslie. "A sions around having children to employers providing preg­ century later, we want to examine the pivotal roles of women nancy accommodations. in our society, our evolving definitions of gender and how the Shaw detailed the efforts underway to undermine the right law is adapting to these changes." to abortion and presented her legal analysis of the various Paying homage to the martyrs of the suffrage movement, state challenges the U.S. Supreme Court may be asked to take Dean Leslie noted that many of the early protests for women's up that could erode or overturn Roe v. Wade. voting rights happened within a few blocks of Cardozo's Historian Valerie Paley, Ph.D., offered attendees her histori­ campus and said that the milestone is a measure not only of cal perspective. Paley is senior vice president and chief histo­ how far women have come but also of how much more needs rian of the New-York Historical Society and director of the So­ to be done. ciety's Center for Women's History at the Museum & Library,

New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera presents Cardozo with a proclamation honoring the "Women's Votes, Wo men's Voices" event. From left: Professor Kate Shaw, Yeshiva University Provost Selma Batman, Carlina Rivera, Dean Melanie Leslie and Historian Va lerie Paley, Ph.D.

"The 19th Amendment was a step toward light, but, as we where her mission is "to make women's history integral to will examine throughout this series, there are still many steps American history." we must continue to take as we make our way through the Paley presented a sweeping overview of several important darkness," she said. but lesser-known women who contributed to the suffrage New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera, who repre­ movement. sents Cardozo's East Village neighborhood as well as the Lower She also spoke of women handing out suffragist fliers at East Side, presented Cardozo with a New York City Council nearby Union Square, as well as the political fissures among proclamation honoring "Women's Votes, Women's Voices" and leaders of some of the first major marches, which also hap­ Cardozo's commitment to commemorating this day in history. pened right at Cardozo's doorstep. "Our sisters over time have The proclamation praised Cardozo and Yeshiva, noting that been overlooked in historical record," she said. "Women are as "since its founding in 1886 on the Lower East Side ... Yeshiva emboldened as ever before." University has embodied the values of academic excellence, "Women's Votes, Women's Voices" is bookended by the anni­ community service and the pursuit of social justice for all citi­ versaries of the passage of the amendment in June 1919 and its zens of this great city." ratification in August 1920. In her speech, Rivera praised Cardozo for advancing inclu­ Other events include a gathering of judges from across the sivity in social justice and giving women the opportunity to country; a film series focused on portrayals of women's suf­ help others. Speaking of the state of women's progress, Rivera frage; and talks by trailblazing women in politics, law, labor and said, "We're looking good, but we have a long, long way to go." business. The events are sponsored by the Cardozo Library. The theme of female empowerment continued as Prof. Kate Details on further events in the "Women's Votes, Women's Shaw spoke of interpreting the 19th Amendment as "more Voices" series, which continues through the summer of 2020, than just the ballot." will be released over the next few months. To follow along, join Shaw discussed her research for Reproductive Rights and Cardozo on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and use the Justice Stories, the book she recently co-edited that explores the hashtag #l9atl00. n

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Professor Weisberg Recognized for his Work on Behalf of Holocaust Victims in France

BY JOHN DENATALE

ot many lawyers get to see their work recognized decades after its conclusion. Even fewer receive that recognition fromthe very government they exposed for victimizing its citizens. But Professor Richard Weisberg, who was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2008 from then-President Nicolas Sarkozy, is seeing further international recognition for a lifetime of legal sleuthing and litigation that helped bring a measure of justice to thousands of French Jews who suffered and perished in the Holocaust.

Weisberg's meticulous work exposed the use of more than In the 1980s while historians were beginning to explore the 200 French laws passed by the Vichy government during World role ofVichy France in the victimization of French Jews during War II to persecute French Jews, deprive them of their prop­ the Nazi occupation, Weisberg focused on the behavior oflegal erty and ultimately send 75,000 to death camps out of France. and financial institutions in their persecution. On Nov. 15, he will detail his lifelong work on behalf of vic­ "I entered into the nitty-gritty of everyday anti-Semitism in tims of the Holocaust and their heirs in an address in Paris the courts and the agencies, in the government ministries and commemorating the 20th anniversary of the agency he helped the halls of academia, in private law firms and corporations, oversee in its restitution efforts. and in the public records of French jurisprudence," he told a At the "Between Compensation and Restitution" confer­ congressional banking committee in 1999. ence, Weisberg will review the ef fort to uncover the evidence That work eventually led Weisberg to implicate the upper that led to the creation of a compensation fund for the victims. echelons of French banking in the conspiracy against Jewish The fund was financed primarily by the same banks that con­ citizens. The ensuing litigation resulted in a historic settle­ fiscated Jewish property during the war. In asking Weisberg to ment and the creation of a victim's compensation fund worth speak at the conference, the French are honoring the role he millions of euros. played in uncovering the truth. On the 20th anniversary of the creation of the institution

FA LL 2019 41 Above, We isberg; at right, Weisbergsigns the multilateral agreement that ensured French payment to victims of Vichy bank spoliation. The signing took place in fanuar y 2001 outside Secretary of State Madeline Albright's offices.

earmarked by that settlement to disperse the funds, Weisberg Weisberg detailed how laws were used to bleed the Jews of will re-join French colleagues in telling the story of this dark their assets and then to punish them for non-payment of"legal" chapter in the nation's history. government taxes on Jews. During World War II, those defined The looting of Jewish property was done with the coopera­ as Jews under Vichy law were deported to death camps under tion of the French Vichy government by a consortium of major laws, regulations and decrees from the government. banks in a manner described by Weisberg as "legalistic"-that Despite early resistance from the French government, is following a set of rules and regulations. This financial con­ Weisberg ultimately was awarded the French Legion of Honor spiracy helped institutionalize anti-Semitic policies that al­ for his work exposing the connections between the law, the lowed the confiscation of bank accounts at the same time the government and financialinstitutions in this activity. government was forcing Jews out of their jobs and limiting the Weisberg's research also revealed the French courts' exami­ numbers of Jewish lawyers and law students through quotas. nation of "Jewishness." In his work, he details how the French These regulations "gradually squeezed the lifeblood out of courts were used to ascertain who was a Jew. This involved France's Jews," Weisberg said in his testimony. detailing lineage and marriage records. The second question Weisberg's 1996 book Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France, put before the courts, according to Weisberg, was "how to which has since been translated as Vichy, la Justice, et les Juifs, eliminate Jewish influence from the French economy." details his findings. His earlier work, The Failure of the Wo rd, One of the fatal results of Vichy law was the creation of"spe­ has been translated into German and Italian and recently into cial camps" in unoccupied France into which French adminis­ French as La Parole Defaillante. It is considered a seminal work trators and police herded "foreigners of the Jewish race." Three in the area of law and literature and deals with the corruption thousand died in the camps. of justice through legalese language as depicted in great works Billions of francs were confiscated from French Jews. It was of literature. this money that Weisberg and other lawyers argued should be Many of the big banks of Europe during World War II coop­ reclaimed and returned to the individuals or their heirs. As erated and conspired in the liquidation of Jewish assets to counsel, he played an active role writing briefs based on his­ produce profits. Weisberg and other lawyers brought critical torical data from his research. cases against the banks, which included not only 23 major Later he was a key player in negotiating the Washington French banks but also America's J.P. Morgan Chase and Great Accords of 2001, and was appointed the plaintiffs' representa­ Britain's Barclays. tive in Paris. For nearly a decade, he worked with French offi­ The cases led to a settlement and the creation of a repara­ cials and U.S. State Department personnel to manage restitu­ tion fund for victims and their survivors. Weisberg, part of the tion to claimants. plaintiffs' counsel in the case of Bodner v. Banque Paribas, was In recognition of Weisberg's work, some of the unclaimed a signatory to the multilateral agreement, which resolved the funds from the separately settled suits against J.P. Morgan case and set up the machinery for French payment to victims. Chase and Barclays were granted to Cardozo School of Law and Weisberg's research has focused on the role of laws in cor­ used to establish the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and rupting justice. The banks' effort to block Jews' accounts is a Human Rights, and the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights chilling example of how laws can be used to dismantle human and Atrocity Prevention Clinic. P"l rights to advance a genocidal regime.

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Shaw: Thanks so much fo r agreeing to do this, Justice. Thebook thing like the death penalty, which is just-it cannot possibly is wonderful, and it contains not only great biographical detail, be defended by the law of averages or something like that. You but a lot of new insights for those of us who teach some of the just should not put anybody to death unless you have absolute cases you discuss in the book. certainty on the issue of guilt or innocence. Stevens: Well, anybody who is able to wade through the entire book is entitled to high praise. Shaw: Let me stay with your early life fo r just a fe w more ques­ tions. I hadn't known that you worked on your college newspa­ Shaw: No, it's very readable! So-will you tell me a little bit per at the University of Chicago. Yo u wrote some editorials and about why you decided to write the book? reviews; you served in a leadership position. I was going to ask Stevens: I was just trying to think that through when you whether you think that experience had any long-term impact, called. I really don't know. I started to write about the party, on whether it shaped you at all as a writer, or in terms of your in­ my 94th birthday. The project just grew after I started. teractions with the press over the years. Stevens: It did have an impact, I'm sure. I remember it as an Shaw: Let me ask you a little bit about the process of writing the important part ofmy college life. I don't know ifit affected my book, because it's so detailed: There are descriptions of your views on any particular issue, but it certainly had an impact on first-year constitutional law professor's specific lectures and my general interest in writing and that sort of thing. Whether depositions you took as a young lawyer in Chicago and then of it colored my views on the constitutional rights of free speech course a lot of behind-the-scenes details regarding particular and something like that, I really don't know. opinions while you were on the Supreme Court. What was your methodology ? Did you rely mostly on your memory? Did you Shaw: I was going to ask in a related vein about your general have journals that you kept along the way, or did you rely on view of the press coverage of the court and its opinions. Do you your papers from the court? think the Supreme Court press corps gives the public an accu­ Stevens: It was actually a combination of different things. ra te sense of the work of the court, just on balance? When I got up to the court, it occurred to me that I should ask Stevens: I think they do a remarkably good job-to read Mon­ my law clerks for help, and I wrote a letter to all of the clerks, day's output and summarize it in time for the next edition of asking them for their memories of their own terms. the paper requires some pretty intelligent work. On the whole, I think the regular reporters do a very good job. Shaw: Yo u did! I sent some memories in. Stevens: Of course, some of the memories, the [District of Co­ Shaw: Just a couple of more questions about your early life. The lumbia v. ] He ller case itself, or Bush against Gore, some of those, chapter on your naval service contains a lot of new detail about I had pretty firm memories of. I knew I was going to cover your wartime experience; it's a totally fa scinating part of the them, and I did. book. I was going to ask you to talk fo r a minute on how fo rma­ tive that experience was, how you think your time in the mili­ Shaw: Let me ask you to talk about something else you write tary impacted the kind ofjus tice you would later become and about in the book, which is your early exposure to the criminal your decision to share these details in the book. justice system. When you were 12, your fa ther was charged Stevens: Of course, when !joined the Navy and when I took up with embezzlement fo r transactions involving loans to save the correspondence course in cry ptography, I had to sign an your fa mily hotel, which was in distress after the stock market oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved crash of 1929. The fllinois Supreme Court later unanimously in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a reversed his conviction. Could you talk a little bit about what statute relieving me of that obligation. A lot of that was totally impact that early experience had on your later views on crimi­ secret for a number of years after World War II. I don't think nal justice? the permission to describe it has made all that much differ­ Stevens: It certainly convinced me that every now and then, ence right now. But the service did have an impact on me. I criminal justice can go wrong because my dad was anything think my votes in the flag cases [Texas v. Johnson and United but a criminal. He was a very fine guy and completely honest. States v. Eichman, in which Stevens dissented from decisions My memories of him were teaching me to tell the truth and holding that statutes prohibiting flag-burning violated the First things like that. That was an important event in my early life. Amendment] were no doubt influenced by my military experi­ There's no doubt about it. ences. No doubt about that.

Shaw: Yo u think it instilled a degree of skepticism about the re­ Shaw: In the book, you describe the process by which you go t sults of the criminal justice system? your clerkship with Justice Wiley Rutledge-on the recommen­ Stevens: Yes. It is a system, which is a finesystem, but it makes dation of two professors on the fa culty of Northwestern, with a lot of errors. The fact that it is capable of making errors is no interview, and after you and your co-editor-in-chief ofthe something we should keep in mind when we authorize some- law review flipped a coin to figure out who would get the

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Rutledge clerkship and who would clerk forCh ief Justice Fred­ court, Heller is the one that still keeps you up at night. erick Vinson. The hiring of Supreme Court law clerks is in some Stevens: It's just a recurring problem that confronts us almost­ ways quite different today-anyone can apply; there are in­ if not on a daily basis, then at least on a weekly basis. These person interviews. But of course, professorsstill play an impor­ mass shootings are peculiar to America and are peculiar to a tant gatekeeping role. So I was going to ask whether you think country that has the Second Amendment. So I think that inter­ the process really is very different today-and if so, is today's preting the Second Amendment to protect the individual right process a better one? to own firearms is really just absurd, and it's also terribly im­ Stevens: I am not sure it's quite as diffe rent as it appears to be. portant. It happens over and over and over again. I think I Even today when I hire law clerks, I will pay especially close should have been more forceful in making that point in my attention to the particular person who's recommending some­ Heller dissent. I don't blame you any more than I blame myself one. For example, some judges I have especially high regard for failing to place more emphasis on that point. for, and some law professors also carry more weight than the It's a characteristic of American society that is not shared by average. It still might come down to a very important recom­ any other civilized country. I findit really mind-boggling that mendation, which might actually determine the outcome. So my suggestion that we ought to approach the problem by just I'm not sure the process is really as different as it appears to be. getting rid of the Second Amendment really has not captured more popular support, because it's so obvious that it's an unde­ Shaw: I see. What about the interview? Does the interview make sirable part of our government structure. some difference? Stevens: Yes. I always prided myself on my ability to choose Shaw: When Heller was decided, there were people who argued good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought that whether it was correct or incorrect, it was a victory fo r I would like the person. Ifl got along well with a person in an originalism, because not only Justice Antonin Scalia's majority interview, I was much more likely to hire that person. It's just opinion, but also your dissent engaged very extensively with a question of personal give and take which you develop in your fo unding-era materials. I was going to ask you to explain why interviews. you decided to fightso much of the Heller opinion on original­ ism's terrain. Shaw: Yo u talk in the book about some of the political patronage Stevens: I didn't really think at the time or I don't think now cases, in particular from your time on the U.S. Court of Ap­ that the question of whether originalism is sound constitu­ peals fo r the 7th Circuit, but more recently the partisan-gerry­ tional interpretation had any particular relevance to the out­ mandering cases. One thing that comes through in both of those come of that case. We're trying to understand what the drafts­ lines of cases is your early and consistent view that the Consti­ men of the provision intended, and a lot of the evidence tution imposes a basic duty to govern impartially. Can you depends on the fact that New York and Philadelphia and Boston elaborate a bit on where that constitutional rule comes from, had local laws that would have been unconstitutional under and if you have any comment on the court's recent, and of the amendment as construed today. That's the point that Jus­ course now ongoing consideration of challenges to partisan tice [Stephen] Breyer made so effectively in his dissent. I didn't gerrymanders? think of it in terms of whether we were fightingan originalist Stevens: Of course, I think it's an easy issue, and they should battle or just a common-sense battle. have decided it a long time ago. What they'll do with it, I don't know, but it always seemed to me perfectly obvious that the Shaw: I wanted to ask about Bush v. Gore, which is also a fa sci­ government official has to act impartially. I think the constitu­ nating part of the book. Yo u end your discussion of that case by tional source of that is the equal protection clause of the 14th saying that you "wish that the public confidence that the court Amendment. I think I said that on several occasions. I think if had earned when it ordered Nixon to produce tapes containing you just focus on the importance of governing impartially, you evidence of his wrongdoing could be so easily restored," but can't possibly defend partisan gerrymandering. It is diametri­ that you "remain of the view that the court has not fully recov­ cally opposed to the duty to act impartially. It seems to me that ered from the damage it inflicted on itself in Bush v. Gore." that's a duty that should be shared by every public official. So there's this suggestion that both the Nixon tapes case and Bush v. Gore are particularly important cases when it comes to Shaw: OK, you've mentioned Heller, and I should say it was the public's fa ith in the court as an institution. very kind of you to mention my assistance with your dissent in What in particular makes those cases so important? Both that case. I was going to ask you to talk a little bit about why, of involved presidents or prospective presidents-is that part of it? all of the cases that you participated in during your time on the Is it that the court appears to many people to transcend parti-

"Your early and consistent view [is] that the Constitution imposes a basic duty to govern impartially."

-PROF. SHAW

46 CARDOZO LI FE Professor Kate Shaw clerked fo r Justice John Paul Stevens during the 2007-2008 U. S. Supreme Court term.

sanship in United States v. Nixon, while many people read views about sovereign immunity made the case particularly Bush as representing the court succumbing to partisanship? easy for me. But the reasons given for overruling it don't make Stevens: The other thing that's a significantpoint in both cases a lot of sense at all. Of course, you can't spend a lot of time criti­ is the quality of the majority opinion. The opinion in the Nixon cizing it because its impact on the law-because this happens case made a lot of sense; there was really not much doubt about so rarely, once or twice in 15 or 20 years. But to overrule the the correctness of the decision. But the majority opinion in case? It just doesn't make any sense at all. [Justice Clarence Bush against Gore is even worse than I thought it was at the Thomas'] opinion for the majority really doesn't explain why time. I read it over more carefully working on the book. I found they needed to take a second look at it anyway. that the opinion is internally inconsistent as well as just not making any sense. The quality ofjudicial work in both cases is Shaw: Yes, he has only a very short discussion of stare decisis, a significantaspect of the importance of the cases. and Breyer's dissent seems to suggest that the case's insufficient respect for precedent has significancebeyond just the narrow Shaw: OK, so in the course ofpre paring this book you revisited immunity issue presented in the case. Do you agree with that? nearly fo ur decades of Supreme Court decisions. I was going to Stevens: Yes, indeed. I certainly do. ask whether you came away with any new insights into the court's treatment ofprecede nt. On balance, has the court been Shaw: Your discussion just kind of answered this question. I sufficiently protective of stare decisis or consistent in its treat­ was going to ask how much you keep up with the court these ment of precedent, both historically and, to the extent you wish days. I gather you read most of what they produce? to comment on it, in recent years and today? Stevens: Yes I do. It's a principal source of my reading. I'm a Stevens: I think it's been insufficientlyrespectful of prior deci­ little bit behind right now, but I do keep up with their work. sions through the years, really beginning with Justice Thur­ good Marshall's writing in his dissent-the last dissent that he Shaw: Just one more question. I was going to ask about propos­ wrote [in Payne v. Tennessee]. I also dissented in the case. It's a als to change or reform the Supreme Court. Various proposals victim-impact case. And I really think it's gotten even worse in to change the court by increasing its size, changing selection the lack of respect for that doctrine that the court has devel­ methods, imposing term limits-some of which have been oped over the years. around fo r some time-seem to be attracting more public atten­ To say in the case they decided a couple weeks ago [Fran­ tion these days. I was going to ask if you had any interest in chise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt], overruling a case I wrote, commenting on any of those proposals. for six justices, and fivejustices overruled it. It made me think, Stevens: I think the number nine is right. They should stick to maybe when they overrule they ought to find out whether at that. In time perhaps they'll come back to their senses on some least the majority of the judges who have addressed the issue of the issues. I don't think the remedy is changing the size of agree with it. Because overruling Nevada against Hall-it the court. makes absolutely no sense in terms of-looking into the future. Because states have been sued in the courts of other states so Shaw: OK, Justice, I appreciate your taking the time to do this. rarely, that you might just as well have a rule you can follow Enjoy the rest of the day, and I hope you get some ping-pong or rather than change it 20 years later for a different rule that some swimming in. clearly is not any better than the other one. Of course, my own Stevens: Thank you very much. �

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Human Rights Clinic Director's Call to Action: Preventing Gender-Based Atrocities BY JOANNA BLAZ

In 2008, Getgen Kestenbaum published a paper In communities exposing a forced sterilization program in Peru in the 1990s that targeted more than 200,000 low­ around the world, income, Quechua-speaking women. She called for gender discrimination accountability and transparency from the Peruvian government, as well as reparations for the victims. is a matter of life In October 2018, the Peruvian public prosecutor filed criminal charges against the government officials, or death. including former President Alberto Fujimori, re­ Cardozo's Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights sponsible for the program. and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, led by Professor Joc­ Getgen Kestenbaum said this is the kind of ac­ elyn Getgen Kestenbaum, is examining how gender countability that a gendered, intersectional analysis is not only a main factor in perpetrating genocide, can provide. but also how advancing gender justice and equality "Genocide is a process, not an event," she said. can be used to prevent atrocities. By viewing genocide through a gendered lens, the "Women are valued only for their sexual and re­ psychological damage and manipulation and even productive capabilities," Getgen Kestenbaum said on mass violence could be prevented earlier on. Women a "Gender and Genocide" speaker panel in May at the are traditionally seen as the main victims, but re­ Global Justice Center (GJC) event for the United search shows that men are targeted on the basis of Nations (UN) Security Council debate on the Protec­ gender as well. The cultural responsibilities of men tion of Civilians in Armed Conflict. Other panelists as protectors mobilize terror groups. Many look to included human-rights and UN experts. the men of their communities to uphold their groups' Getgen Kestenbaum said terror groups such as identities. "It's sending these messages of elimina­ ISIS use prescribed gender roles to manipulate popu­ tion," said Getgen Kestenbaum. "The idea is let's lations and gain military advantage. Sexual and gen­ move the lens off the killings only and recognize the der-based violence become a recruitment strategy gendered violence of genocide as part of the process for men and a psychological destructor for women. for better prevention." "It effectively shames and breaks social fabrics," Panelist Juliette Lehner, associate political affairs Getgen Kestenbaum said. officer for the UN Office on Genocide Prevention, Panelist Razia Sultana, founder of the Rohingya stressed the importance of data collection on gender Women Welfare Society, emphasized how women are violence as a preventative measure. traumatized "again and again" by the violence they Getgen Kestenbaum said prevention, accountabil­ suffer. ity and justice, including reparations, are the main Recently, the Atrocity Prevention Clinic has been goals of the Atrocity Prevention Clinic's gender and working on crimes against women in the Rohingya genocide research. and Yazidi ethnic groups. But Getgen Kestenbaum "Reparations are a signal that society recognizes has been researching gender discrimination in indig­ the magnitude and dimensions of the harms," she enous populations for more than a decade. said. "It's extremely important." !'I

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Mediation Students Win out the region. We are so Society and the Kukin Multiple Competitions proud of our competitors Program forConflict and staffmembers for their Resolution. This competition This year, Cardozo's ADR to analyze it, come up with hard work," said Nicholas introduces law students, Competition Honor Society a negotiation plan, and im­ Anselmi, editor-in-chief of primarily lL students, to the (ADRCHS) students made plement it, all in the space ADRCHS. challenges of representing their mark at several of a few hours,'' said Profes­ More than 100 students clients in a negotiation. different competitions, both sor Weisenfeld. "You never competed in the annual First-place prizes went to at home and abroad. know how someone will Cardozo Intraschool lL students Anastasia Noll Two Cardozo teams react to something new, or Negotiation Competition on and Julian Cohen; lLs made it to the semifinals to a tight deadline, and they March 12, hosted by the Jasmine Cooper-Little and round of the 2019 Fordham all rose to the occasion." ADR Competition Honor Nicholas Taltos won second National Basketball Negotia­ On Feb. 24 and 25, tion Competition, an Cardozo 2L students Lauren interscholastic negotiation Cohen and Hannah Katz competition hosted by the won second place at the 2019 Fordham Sports Law Forum, Regional ABA Representa­ on February 22 and 23. The tion in Mediation Competi­ competition consisted of tion, which was hosted by head-to-head negotiations Cardozo. The team was CAMILA LOPEZ '19 AWARDED over problems that are based coached by Derrick Ng '19. 2019 MARK WHITLOCK on real world scenarios The event was organized by SCHOLARSHIP relating to the NBA. the ADRCHS with the help The Whitlock Scholarship was established 2L students Zachary of faculty advisors Media­ in honor of Mark Whitlock '10, who Brooks, Dean Linn, Danielle tion Clinic Director Donna passed away from brain cancer while he Tuluca, and Yarden Sivan Erez-Navot '06 and David was a student at Cardozo. Mark's family represented Cardozo in the Weisenfeld. sought to celebrate his life and honor his spirit with this competition. The team was The competition intro­ scholarship. It is designed to recognize an outstanding third-year coached by faculty advisor duces law student partici­ J.D. student who, through the force of individual effort, energy, Professor David Weisenfeld pants to the challenges of spirit and initiative, contributes to and/or expands and strength­ and Cardozo 3L students representing clients in ens student life and community at Cardozo. Samantha Cooper and mediation. Judges reward Camila Lopez served as a student ambassador to the New Matthew Greenfield. "The those participants who use York City Bar Association, and she was instrumental in bringing competitors and student an effective combination of the National Latina/o Law Student Association Annual Moot coaches were simply advocacy and problem­ Court Competition to Cardozo. Camila is fluent in Spanish and amazing, especially in the solving. Participants must served as the alumni chair for LALSA. She also served as the later rounds, where they got balance their clients' managing editor for the ADR Competition Honor Society and a new fact pattern and had interests with the goal of volunteered with the Courtroom Advocates Project. achieving an effective The selection committee took notice of Camila's efforts to settlement. mentor, encourage and positively impact the student body as a "Hosting this year's ABA whole. To quote her nominators: "It is rare to meet people who Regional RIM competition truly care and Camila truly cares about making Cardozo a better was a tremendous opportu­ place ... Her actions are a true testament to her character. nity for the ADRCHS to Camila cares about people, and she does the work most won't demonstrate its enthusiasm do to show it." for dispute resolution and elevate its visibility through-

50 CARDOZO LIFE place, and Jason Charles and Geena Caporale won third place. Honorable mention awards were given to Andrew Klein, Sean McLaughlin, Michelle Varkey and Brianna Cloud. From March 14 through 17, 2L Krysta Hartley and Deluwara (Dinu) Ahmed '19 and Zoya Mian '19 competed in the 2019 INADR Interna­ tional Law School Mediation Tournament that was held in Athens, Greece. The students were coached by Angela Li '19 with support from ADRCHS faculty advisor Lela Love and ADRCHS alumnus David From left: Leah Murphy, Rebecca Kravitz, Andrea Wrisley, the co-founders of Cardozo's Gherman '18. Wo men in Tech Law group, at a panel event in 2019. Mediators are judged on their ability to work together with their co-mediator as Women in Tech Law Talk Careers well as on their listening in NYC's 'Silicon Alley' skills, their ability to help that advocates and clients New York City attorneys offered strategies for female law students preparing to navigate the tech see the strengths and law industry at Women in Tech Law (WiTL)'s event "Fireside Chat with Women in the Tech World" in weaknesses of their cases, March. Panelists discussed the challenges women face when entering the tech industry. their ability to stay positive "Tech is a place where one point of view dominates," said Shelina Kurwa, technology media and professional, and their associate at Proskauer Rose. She said women often practice taking on others' perspectives, which ability to help guide the can be an asset in the evolving world of technology. parties to a resolution of the Nabilah lrshad, vice president of legal and business at NewsCred, agreed that female attorneys dispute that brought them to bring a unique worldview. mediation. Advocates and "We've always had to be more thoughtful," said lrshad, who works on a variety of facets of the clients are judged on their technology field, including privacy regulation compliance and data protection. ability to present their case, Melissa Moriarty, assistant general counsel at VaynerX, agreed that women shouldn't be to articulate their strengths intimidated in an often male-led workplace: "You deserve to be there. Use your voice." Panelists and weaknesses, and to work also discussed the pitfalls that tech law brings as a fast-paced industry. with the mediators toward a Michele Kern-Rappy, senior settlement coordinator at the New York State Supreme Court, used solution while also meeting the example of defamation on social media. "That very vehicle that caused the problem, if you're their needs and interests. creative, can be used to solve it," she said. Fifty-three teams from The multiple components of technology law sparked the idea of founding WiTL at Cardozo. The around the world competed fireside chat was the student organization's first event as an official group. The flagship chapter is and the Cardozo team was at UC Berkeley; Cardozo's chapter is the first on the East Coast. one of only five teams to "I think we are a good representation of what students are looking for," said lL Rebecca Kravitz, advance to the semifinalsin who, along with lLs Andrea Wrisley and Leah Murphy founded the group. She hopes students can both the Mediation and walk away from WiTL events with new connections. Advocate-Client rounds. Wrisley said the group is an important addition to Cardozo and a reflection of New York's Additionally, Ahmed won growing technology presence. the third-place award for Murphy agreed: "It's pretty cool to be part of a national network like that... Silicon Alley is the Best Individual Mediator next biggest market." Award. "The Cardozo INADR

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contingent had a wonderful to learn about various forms time in Athens!" said and techniques used in Ahmed. "We competed mediation and to practice Another First-Place Prize amongst 53 teams from their mediation skills in in Securities Dispute Resolution across the world. It was an friendly competition with invaluable experience to other students from around Cardozo students made their mark October 13 and 14 learn about perspectives on the world. Teams of three at the 10th Annual Securities Dispute Resolution mediation in different students each go through Triathlon, with the ADR Competition Honor Society nations and to see a global three preliminary rounds team composed of Emily Sappol, Lwam Stefanos, and commitment to mediation serving as mediators, Joshua Roseman winning first place in the Arbitration embodied amongst all the advocates and clients. round, taking a top prize for the second consecutive participants and judges." Mediators work in pairs, year. The same team, including Yarden Sivan, Danielle The tournament provides with a co-mediator from a Tuluca, and Eian Wiener, also captured third place in law students an opportunity different school. Negotiation Excellence. The triathlon is a joint initiative of the Hugh L. 1111111 111111 II 1111111 11111111 111111 111111 11111111 1111111 111111 111111 Ill Carey Center for Dispute Resolution and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. For two days, 19 CARDOZO MEDIATION TEAM WINS student teams from law schools around the country DISTINCTION IN PARIS meet to test their advocacy skills in the negotiation, mediation and arbitration of a securities dispute (this A team of Cardozo Law students Cardozo's ICC team was made year's competition dealt with cybersecurity). The won the "Distinction in Creative up of four student members of teams were given a fact pattern and were assigned to Solution Generator" award at the the ADR Competition Honor represent either an investor or the brokerage firm. International Commercial Medi­ Society (ADRCHS): 3L Courtney According to Professor David Weisenfeld, the team's ation Competition, the world's Kaplar and 2Ls Aaron Slansky, faculty coach, "students first prepare for and conduct. .. top mediation challenge, hosted Eian Weiner and Federico a direct negotiation with representatives ofthe other by the International Chamber of Zepeda. The team was coached party seeking a consensual solution to the dispute. Commerce (ICC) as part of its by faculty advisor Donna Then they conduct a mediation-a negotiation in annual Mediation Week. Erez-Navot '06, assistant which a neutral third party also participates-again The ICC competition is a director of the Kukin Program for seeking a consensual solution. Then, they conduct an globally renowned weeklong Conflict Resolution; ADRCHS arbitration hearing, conducted per FINRA rules and moot held in various locations alumnus David Cherman; and procedures, seeking a favorable award from the throughout Paris. The competi­ current Cardozo student and arbitration panel. It is an extremely difficultevent for tion is open to students of every ADRCHS Editor-in-Chief Nick students in that while the fact pattern stays the same, discipline, though at least one Anselmi. they have to conduct themselves very differently in law student on each team must Professor Lela P. Love, each of the three events." take the role of counsel. Every director of the Kukin Program for year, 66 university teams from Conflict Resolution, served as a across the globe are selected to competition judge. Love also participate. They compete in hosted the Stories Mediators Tell I 1111111 1111111 111111 1111111 111111 111111 111111 111111 111111 11111 111111 almost 150 mock mediation panel featuring professional sessions throughout the global mediators who shared competition. their insights on the impact of mediation on the dispute Cardozo took resolution process. "The ability to handle client's conflicts through mediation is an essential skill of being a lawyer, and being 1st place creative with generating options in Arbitration among 20 teams is key," said Love. "I am so proud of our Cardozo students from law schools around the nation for winning this award."

52 CARDOZO LIFE TRANSACTIONAL BOOT !TRANS with Professor Jillian coaching and feedback not just CAMP TEACHES Gautier, program director of the from us as professors, but also SECURITIES REGULATION, Heyman Center on Corporate from experienced attorneys NEGOTIATIONS, CONTRACT Law and Governance. "Transac­ practicing at top law firms and DRAFTING SKILLS tional lawyers have to integrate in-house." This year, 31 students partici­ law and skills from a number of This year's mock deal focused pated in Cardozo's Intensive disparate subject areas and on a take-private transaction by "ITRANS is so Transactional Skills Program disciplines, and our hands-on a private equity fund of a public (ITRANS), a two-week course in approach is a practical way to tech company with a visionary impactful for our which students gain essential provide students with an founding CEO. After execution of students because transactional skills needed for intensive transactional the Merger Agreement, new effective client representation. experience." regulatory hurdles were the intensive two­ In the program, students are Members of Cardozo's faculty discovered, as well as a data week format divided into teams to work on are joined by experienced security breach. The parties executing a mock deal, utilizing transactional practice lawyers worked through renegotiation of allows us to fully skills including contract drafting, including in-house counsels of some of the key terms of the immerse the class transactional issue analysis, companies such as HBO and deal. Each team consulted with negotiations, client communica­ American Express and partners its respective client and in a mock M&A tion, matter management, due at large law firms, to play the prepared either an amendment transaction and diligence, preparation of closing roles of clients, coaches and to the Merger Agreement to documents and client service, all observers. They meet with address these new developments mimic the fast pace through an interactive-workshop students in groups and one-on­ or an employment agreement. of transactional process that is guided and one to provide detailed Students responded with critiqued by experienced feedback. mark-ups and negotiated to corporate practice." attorneys. "!TRANS is so impactful for finalize the amendment in "!TRANS is a bespoke course our students because the preparation for closing. that uniquely integrates sub­ intensive two-week format allows Eitan Bender '19, an !TRANS stantive topics that are normally us to fully immerse the class in a participant, said, "I was able to taught in a siloed fashion, mock M&A transaction and significantly improve and including Corporations, mimic the fast pace of transac­ enhance my negotiation and Securities Regulation, Negotia­ tional corporate practice," said transactional skills only within tions, and Contract Drafting," Gautier. "The students work 10 days. The knowledge and said Professor Michelle together in deal teams on tight skills I got from it will remain Greenberg-Kobrin, director of the deadlines to produce realistic with me for the remainder of my lndie Film Clinic, who co-teaches work product, and they receive legal career."

0 Professors Jillian Gautier and Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin with the 2019 Intensive Transactional Skills Program students.

FALL 2019 53 MOVERS & shakers

0 Charles Mirotznik '79

Art and family values drive the law practice of Charles Mirotznik '79, a New York City-based alumnus from Cardozo's founding 1976 class, who celebrated his 40th reunion at the school in June. Mirotznik looks back fondly on Cardozo's inaugural year. "It was a challenge: an up-and-coming brand­ new school. I thought it was a good challenge with a good outlook," he said. Mirotznik grew up in New York City, where he has been practicing law since 1981. He has led his own practice for 37 years and represents artists and other individuals on issues ranging from estate litigation to wrongful death. Before law school, Mirotznik studied at Dickinson College and completed an art study-abroad program through Johns Hopkins Bologna in Italy, where he developed an appreciation for art, particularly from the Renaissance. After Cardozo, Mirotznik worked as a theatrical agent representing actors, but his love for paintings and sculp­ tures became the primary focus when Mirotznik keeps ties with the law Mirotznik has seen Cardozo change he started his law practice. He collects school and often employs Cardozo "fabulously" over the years, particularly art; one of his favorites is a piece from students as interns. "I find the interns with the addition of clinics. Keith Haring, who addressed societal very bright, highly motivated. It's great "We've grown exponentially, themes through his graffiti-like works to have kids at the beginning of their academically," he said. "It's an honor to and outline drawings on subways in career. There's a certain modesty," have been a student." !'1 the 1980s. he said. "I'm lucky to associate myself with Mirotznik credits his parents for his art collectors and artists who all need a success. His fathergraduated from Mirotznik recently established the lawyer," Mirotznik said while discuss­ Brooklyn Law and his mother earned Charles M. Mirotznik, Esq. Scholarship ing the symbolic and often serious a master's degree from Hofstra. Fund at Cardozo. The fund honors nature of artwork. "I was fortunate to have that Mirotznik's parents, Bernard and "Most artists have a political agenda, motivation instilled in me at a young Rosalyn. Their commitment to the a reference to be made. And I find that age," he said. education of their children-all of as you mature, you findthe reason. Some of his advice for new attorneys whom became lawyers-was There's no frivolity in some of these includes: "Run from greed. Help others. instrumental in providing a strong artists' works." Share your knowledge." fo undation fo r fu ture generations.

54 CARDOZO LIFE Randall Rothschild '97 e

If you take in a game at Yankee Dean Leslie started off the conversa­ Stadium or check out the recent tion by congratulating Rothschild on additions to the NYC skyline, Randall his 21st wedding anniversary. He met Rothschild '97 might have had a hand his wife, Shira B. Rothschild '97, while in your experience. they were students working in Rothschild is managing director, Cardozo's Bet Tzedek Clinic, which global head of debt at Tishman Speyer, handles cases on behalf of underserved the real estate firmbehind the famous individuals. Back then he thought he baseball field, the Spiral skyscraper in would be a litigator, but now he says, Hudson Yards and other major projects. "real estate was made for me." Rothschild oversees global debt Dean Leslie asked about Rothschild's financing, which he describes as experience working at large and small interacting with lenders all over the law firms. world to obtain debt for Tishman "I started my career at a small law Speyer's global portfolio. firm, which enabled me to be on the Rothschild visited Cardozo in April front lines at a very early stage of my as part of Dean Melanie Leslie's career," Rothschild said adding that it Pathways speaker series, designed to offered more responsibility and as working with different people and help Cardozo students explore various opportunities to learn. "I viewed every being part of a team. "Relationship legal professions and form lasting deal we worked on like a puzzle." This building is very important," he said. connections. Rothschild discussed how experience proved to be a springboard "Be genuine and recognize that you his roles have evolved from law to to a larger law firmwhere he worked don't only want to be surrounded by business to financeand how Cardozo on high-profilereal estate transactions. people who share your views but those prepared him for a career in the real Rothschild credits Cardozo with that bring different ideas and views to estate industry. teaching him hard and soft skills, such the table." As an attorney and a father, Roths­ child shared some of his struggles with work-life balance. He said he once pulled eight all-nighters in a month. Because of Rothschild's hectic schedule, "Be genuine and recognize that he carves out extra time for his family. His view was that ifhe would need you don't only want to be surrounded to do something for work late at night, there's no reason why he wouldn't do it by people who share your views for his family. Rothschild once took his daughter to Times Square at 2 a.m. but those that bring different ideas to see the season premiere of "The Amazing Race." and views to the table." His advice is to keep perspective on every deal and make sure you stay true to yourself. !"'l

FALL 2019 55 ALUMNI news & notes

Reunion Celebrates Cardozo "Now and Then"

Cardozo alumni from the class years ending in 4 and 9 reconnected at the 2019 Reunion, which was held on June 20 and 21. This year was especially significant as the trailblazing Class of 1979, Cardozo's first graduating class, celebrated its milestone 40th anniversary. The celebrating reunion classes also raised over $200,000 to support current students and faculty at Cardozo. The reunion was held over two days and offered a mix of social fun and professional development with CLE courses. The Thursday evening kick-off reception at Union Park featured the band Cool Rulers, an open bar, great food and door prizes. On Friday, alumni returned to Cardozo for a Faculty Talk Series led by Professors Deborah Pearlstein, Alex Reinert, Kate Shaw and Felix Wu. Hannah Robbins '15, Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Kathryn 0. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, discussed the current immigration climate and how the clinic and its students are working tirelessly to create change. The day concluded with a lunch hosted by Dean Melanie Leslie '91, where she and Professor Stewart Sterk looked back on "Cardozo Now and Then" and the transitions the law school has made over the last 40 years. During a time when so many are connected via social media, coming together face-to-face is a cherished experience. The next reunion will be held in June 2020 for classes ending in 0 or 5. If you are interested in joining the Reunion Committee, contact Erin Handler, Associate Director of Alumni Affairs, at [email protected].

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1981 1985 Michael S. Schiff joined Fiduciary Office as bureau chief of the grand Daniel Reingold, president and CEO Lisa Spiegel was named chair of Trust Company International as jury bureau. managing director in its Boca of RiverSpring Health, received the Immigration Division at Juliette M. Passer spoke at the 2018 Raton, Florida office. He will lead the field'shighest award-the Duane Morris LLP. Spiegel NACD Global Leadership Summit, the expansion efforts of the firm Award of Honor-from practices in the areas of immigra­ the largest and most influential in South Florida as well as LeadingAge on Oct. 28 2018, at the tion and nationality Jaw, corporate director forum in the continuing his focus on attracting LeadingAge Annual Conference concentrating on issues related to world in Washington, D.C. and Expo in Philadelphia, the employment of foreign ultra-high-net-worth families to Pennsylvania. nationals. She has been practicing the firmfrom within the U.S. and abroad. 1991 immigration and nationality law Joel B. Rothman was second chair 1982 for more than 30 years and is in his first casebef ore the United Stephen Breitstone, partner at admitted to the California and 1989 States Supreme Court. New Yo rk Law Journal Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & New York bars. The Breitstone, LLP, has been a leader published an article that discusses Peter M. Good has been elected Scott Volkman was appointed by for 35 years in providing tax Kenneth Pinczower's case before the president of the Dauphin County Mayor Robert Rolison as a counsel and advice to high­ Appellate Division First Depart­ Bar Association in Harrisburg, Poughkeepsie City Courtjudge. net-worth individuals and entities. ment, Vasquez-Santos, that broke Pennsylvania. He is a partner at He has taken a special interest in new ground in what is a hot topic, Caldwell & Kearns, and he Opportunity Zones, a community 1988 social media discovery. specializes in commercial Harold Gordon was inducted as a development program offered litigation. fellow in the American College of Michael J. Wildes, immigration through the Tax Cuts and Job Act Trial Lawyers at the college's attorney, professor and 36th of 2017, and represents their mayor of Englewood, published 1993 annual meeting in New Orleans. Debra Burlingame has joined The investors and developers. the book Safe Haven in America. Opportunity Zones were designed Jonathan S. Gould has published National Medal of Honor Museum to spur economic development the book German Anti-Nazi Foundation Board of Directors. 1990 She's the sister of Captain Charles and job creation in distressed Espionage in the Second Wo rld Wa r Sue-Ellen Bienenfeld passed away F. "Chic' Burlingame, III, pilot of communities. with Routledge Focus, a UK at age 50. She worked for the American Airlines flight 77, which academic publisher. Brooklyn District Attorney's

CLASS OF 2019 GIVES BACK Cardozo's 3L Class Gift is an annual tradition at the law school. A dedicated student committee is focused on enhancing engagement and fundraising efforts among classmates, friends and family in our community. Thirty percent of the 2019 class (99 students) donated to the gift, in addition to a handful of parents, alumni, and friends of this year's graduates. As a result, the 2019 Class Gift raised more than $40,000. This was a record-setting year and a tremendous display of both 5/28/2019 financial support and appreciation to the Cardozo community. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law r: Thank you to all the members of the 2019 Class Gift committee _J $�""'�--4,-100- 1iwe �.,:;. 0"' +hou �---.J.3.5]- 50.ncJ On

58 CARDOZO LIFE 0 Graduates celebrate outside Lincoln Center after the 2019 Commencement ceremony in May.

was hijacked and crashed into the Group. He has over 20 years of Philanthropist, investor and artist DisregardStand ard One Decade Pentagon on September 11, 2001. experience representing Kwanza Jones was the guest After Hall Street, was published in Formerly a producer at Court TV, corporations, tax-exempts, speaker at Winston-Salem State the recent issue of the Pe nn State's Burlingame has written articles associations and individuals in University's 2019 commencement Dickinson Law Review. He is an on a variety of national security employment, ERISA and ceremony on May 10. attorney in the New York office of and terrorism issues for The Wa ll employee benefitsJaw. Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP. Street Journal, the New Yo rk Daily 2000 David R. Tawil is a new member of Ne ws and other national 1996 Jason Boyarski, founder and Norris McLaughlin P.A.'s New publications. She has testified Robert J. Sherman, former partner at Boyarski Fritz LLP, was Jersey Matrimonial and Family before the U.S. Senate and the Greenberg Traurig LLP share­ named in the Top 2018 Music Law Department. He joins the House of Representatives and is holder with decades of experience Lawyers by Billboard magazine. firmafter leaving the Short a founding member of the board in representing film,television Erica J. Goldberg was promoted to Hills-based firm of Budd Larner, of directors of the 9/11 Memorial and music producers as well as partner in the Morristown, New PC, where he was Shareholder in & Museum Foundation. financialcompanies in media Jersey office of Fox Rothschild the Family Law Department. transactional work, hasjoined LLP. She focuses on estate 1994 DLA Piper LLP as partner and planning, estate and trust Andrea Lawrence was promoted to will serve as co-chair of the firm's 2003 administration, estate and gift Jacqueline Seidel, partner at King deputy CEO and general counsel entertainment financepractice. taxation, business succession & Spalding LLP in New York, has of HAP Investments. 1999 planning and charitable planning. been named to Law360's 2018 Rising Stars list for product 1995 Evan A. Pilchik has been promoted liability. She's one of only five Jose M. Jara joined Archer & to of counsel in the Banking 2002 Stuart M. Boyarsky's article, The lawyers nationwide selected in Greiner P.C. as a partner in the and Finance Department at Uncertain Status of the Manifest the practice area. Labor & Employment Practice Otterbourg PC.

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Antoinette L. Schindel was security, software development, 2010 2012 promoted to partner at KMK Law. licensing contracts and technol­ Benjamin Margulis was promoted to Lilian Pascone is joining the New She practices in KMK Law's ogy M&A transactions. partner at Boies Schiller Flexner. York City Council as chief counsel Employee Benefits & Executive He is based in the firm'sNew York to the chiefof staff. She will help Compensation Group and is 2008 office and specializes in intellec­ implement Speaker Corey licensed to practice in New York Lindsay R. Pfeffer was promoted to tual property matters. Johnson's agenda and assist Chief and Ohio. partner at the boutique matrimo­ of Staff Jason Goldman. nial and family law firmCohen Stephanie S. Spangler was named Steven P. Nassi joins Goldberg Rabin Stine Schumann LLP in co-chair of Norris McLaughlin Segalla as partner in the Global Cannabis Law Group. Spangler 2013 Manhattan in January 2019. Jenna Cohen married Brian Polivy Insurance Services Practice focuses her practice on trademark '15. The couple met in 2014 when Group, practicing out of the Sean Maraynes, an associate at and copyright litigation, prosecu­ they each volunteered for Polivy's Garden City and NYC offices. Wilson Elser, has been named to tion and enforcement. the foundationboard of Open oldest brother Lance's unsuccess­ Matthew R. Chait, partner in the Door Family Medical Centers, Matthew L. Elkin was promoted to ful campaign for judicial delegate Business Litigation Practice Group which provides services to the partner at Cozen O'Connor. of the 76th Assembly District. at Shutts & Bowen LLP, was people of New York's Westchester chosen by The Florida Bar to Jordan Richards re-branded his Jaw and Putnam Counties regardless 2011 firmas USA Employment Lawyers contribute to the ninth edition of Jesse Ryan Loffler, Pittsburgh-based of their ability to pay. As a (a d/b/a of Jordan Richards PLLC) "Florida Real Property Litigation," commercial litigator at Cozen litigator, he defends physicians, and launched the website www. an essential resource for O'Connor, has been named businesses and nonprofitsin suits USAEmploymentLawyers.com. attorneys practicing real estate president-elect of the National involving medical malpractice, He and his team moved into to an law in Florida. LGBT Bar Foundation's board of catastrophic personal injury and office spacein Ft. Lauderdale, directors after serving two years wrongful death. Florida. 2004 as its Treasurer. Connie L. Chen was promoted to principal at Jackson Lewis PC. 2009 Matthew J. Baione, founding 2016 Ruth Moskowitz was promoted to partner at Pitta & Baione LLP, Zachary S. Beal and Jennifer Edelson partner at Day Pitney LLP. 2006 welcomed a son while advocating (both '16) got married. Matthew W. Grieco, assistant Peter A. Halprin was made for the Never Forget the Heroes solicitor general in the Officeof shareholder at Anderson Kill PC. Act together with his brother 2017 the Attorney General, received Chris. The Baiones have made it Benjamin Dynkin is co-founder and Adam J. Gelardi was promoted to the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award their mission to bring justice to CEO of Atlas Cybersecurity, a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP. from New York State Attorney those still suffering from the cybersecurity services company A member of the Corporate General Barbara D. Underwood in terror attacks of September 11, on Long Island. Department, he represents November 2018. 2001. financialinstitutions and Madeline Stavis Klebanov is a 2018 Amanda K. Greenspon has been domestic and foreign issuers in Louise Carron had her master's partner in the Washington, D.C. named partner at technology/ a variety of public and private thesis published in the spring 2019 office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in intellectual property law firm capital markets transactions issue of the Entertainment, Arts the Employment & Labor Group. Munck Wilson Mandala. including initial public offerings, and Sports Law Jo urnal by the New She previously was an associate at follow-on offerings, block trades York State Bar Association. 2007 and debt offerings. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Alicia R. Ekland became the first and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Jarret S. Meskin has joined Fox Anusree Nair, partner at Klasko female judge appointed to the Meagher & Flom LLP and Rothschild LLP in New York as an Immigration Law Partners LLP, Glenn County Superior Court. affiliates. associate in the Litigation served as key panelist fora Ekland has served as county Department. national event hosted by the Daniel Studin, associate at counsel for Glenn County since Indian American Chamber of Morrison Cohen, has been elected 2016. Commerce in Orlando, Florida. as a member of the Estate & Gift Christopher Gatz is a partner at The topic was "U.S. Immigration Taxation Committee of the New Simmons & Simmons' Munich, and IRS Update," and Nair York City Bar. His three-year term Germany office. He specializes in provided attendees an overview of will run from Aug. 1 through July Information Technology (IT) and the EB-5 Immigrant Investor 31, 2022. Studin is an associate in related intellectual property and Program and spoke on the latest Morrison Cohen's Individual C) Have a personal milestone data protection issues. He focuses developments affecting the Client Services Department and you would like to have included in Class Notes? Send it to Inez on complex IT and outsourcing program. a member of the firm's Family projects, including data and IT OfficeGroup. Lano at [email protected].

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events

SEPTEMBER 16 Second Annual Blockchain Conference

OCTOBER 10 Sports Law Roundtable : Hot Topics Impacting I ntercol leg1ate Athletics

OCTOBER 17 An Evening with Designer Steve Madden

OCTOBER 28 First Amendment in the Age of Trump: A New Book by Professor Stanley Fish

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