Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school
of Yeshiva University
, located in the New York City
borough
of Manhattan
. The school is named for Supreme Court
Justice
Benjamin N. Cardozo
. Cardozo's success as a young school has been remarkable, leading some to characterize Cardozo as a "rising star" among law schools. Among the top 100 law schools, only two schools are younger than Cardozo, which graduated its first class in 1979. Cardozo is currently ranked 50th by U.S. News and World Report, which is the most widely read ranking of law schools.
While Cardozo is noted for its academic strengths in numerous areas of study, its Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution programs are particularly well-reputed and consistently ranked within the top ten in the country by U.S. News. The school is also home to the Innocence Project
, run by Cardozo Professor Barry Scheck
, known for using DNA profiling to help free innocent prisoners. The project is frequently reported on in the national news, and its work has been instrumental in some high-profile cases. Signifying its recognition by long-established law schools, in 1999 Cardozo became a member of the Order of the Coif
, an honor society for law scholars. Cardozo also recently had its second graduate chosen to Clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court. Many of Cardozo's 12,000 alumni reside in the New York metropolitan area
, and they have a considerable presence in New York City
, although many Cardozo graduates pursue their careers internationally and can be found across the country in 50 states.
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
. Cardozo, who was born in 1870 in New York City, was renowned for his integrity, social consciousness, and important opinions. Cardozo rose to prominence during 23 years of private practice, becoming known as a lawyer’s lawyer before appointment to the New York State Court of Appeals in 1914. His tenure was marked by a number of original rulings, in tort and contract law in particular. This is partly due to timing; rapid industrialization was forcing courts to look anew at old common law components to adapt to new settings. He became the nation’s best known and most admired state court judge. He added to his reputation through highly acclaimed off-the-bench writings, of which the most important is The Nature of the Judicial Process
(1921). Shortly thereafter, Cardozo became a member of the group that founded the American Law Institute
, which crafted a Restatement of the Law
of Torts, Contracts, and a host of other private law subjects. He wrote three other books that also became standards in the legal world. By asking, and answering, the monumentally simple question, “What is it that I do when I decide a case?”, he helped many see the judicial role with greater clarity. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover
appointed Cardozo to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on the Supreme Court. In his six years as an Associate Justice, he handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of modern life. The New York Times said of Cardozo's appointment that "seldom, if ever, in the history of the Court has an appointment been so universally commended." Democratic Cardozo's appointment by a Republican president has been referred to as one of the few Supreme Court appointments in history not motivated by partisanship or politics, but strictly based on the nominee's contribution to law.
General rankings
Specialty rankings
Miscellaneous rankings
Bar examination passage rates
In 2007, Cardozo had the third-highest bar-exam passage rate among the fifteen law schools in New York State, becoming the first school in recent memory other than Columbia Law School
, New York University School of Law
, and Cornell Law School
to place in the top three. Cardozo's bar passage rate was 93.2% in 2008.
scores of entering students are consistently higher than schools with similar rankings.
The class entering in Fall 2009 had a 3.73 median GPA and a 164 median LSAT score. The top quarter of LSAT
scores were 169 or higher, and the top 25% of the incoming class had a 3.79 GPA or higher.
The top undergraduate feeder schools for Cardozo have been Cornell University
, New York University
, University of Pennsylvania
, Columbia University
, and the University of California
Schools. Approximately 20% of incoming students hail from the Ivy League
.
, Cardozo's urban campus is in a large building, known as the Brookdale Center. Over the course of the last several years, Cardozo has enjoyed a physical transformation, undergoing renovation, expansion, and redesign. The multimillion dollar capital improvement plan also included the acquisition of a residence hall just one block away. The addition of more space at the Brookdale Center also allowed for a larger and significantly enhanced library, new offices and clinic spaces, as well as a new and larger lobby, moot court room, and ground-floor seminar room. In addition, older classrooms were renovated and now include state-of-the-art audio visual equipment. In fall 2006, the Greenberg Center for Student Life, given in honor of Dean David Rudenstine, opened and immediately became the most popular place for students to spend time with friends and to study. This addition to Cardozo includes a completely new student lounge and a cafe on the third floor. Also completed recently were several new seminar rooms, new internal stairways between floors, new windows were installed on every floor, and the elevator cabs were redesigned.
Brookdale Center – 55 Fifth Avenue
Cardozo is located in the 18 story Brookdale Center. The law school occupies the first 11 floors. The top floors are used as office space and are accessed through a separate entrance.
The Alabama – 15 East 11th Street
The Alabama is Cardozo's nine-story residence hall and is just around the corner from Brookdale Center. The Alabama has over 100 units.
The Innocence Project
– 100 Fifth Avenue
The Innocence Project recently moved from the 11th floor of Brookdale Center to a new office space three blocks from the law school. The move allowed the Innocence Project to hire more staff and significantly increase the number of cases it takes.
Fogelman Library of The New School
– 65 Fifth Avenue
The Cooper Union
Library – 7 East 7th Street
Both the Fogelman Library and the Cooper Union library serve as Cardozo's secondary libraries when the main library is closed on the Sabbath or on holidays.
For J.D.
students, Cardozo offers a selection of over 130 courses in addition to the eight courses required during the first year. Students may choose to graduate with a concentration in one of the following areas:
Cardozo also offers "pathways" in both Public Law and Regulation and Jurisprudence and Legal History, which are not formal concentrations. Students may also earn a Certificate in Dispute Resolution.
Master of Laws
For those who already have a law degree, Cardozo offers LL.M. degrees in General Studies, Comparative Legal Thought, and Intellectual Property. LL.M. students can take almost any of the courses offered to J.D. students. The LL.M. program may be entered in the Spring Term or in the Fall Term.
Study abroad
Cardozo students may study abroad through the following programs:
Students may apply for individual study abroad programs to study abroad at other institutions.
Alternative Entry Plan (AEP)
While most Cardozo students begin their legal studies in September, some students are allowed the flexibility to begin in January or May AEP students are able to take classes part-time and during the summer, which gives AEP students the option of graduating in three years or a semester early.
The law journals are:
Former faculty
Law school in the United States
In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.Law schools in the U.S...
of Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...
, located in the New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
borough
Borough (New York City)
New York City, one of the largest cities in the world, is composed of five boroughs. Each borough now has the same boundaries as the county it is in. County governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county...
of Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
. The school is named for Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
Justice
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States...
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his modesty, philosophy, and vivid prose style...
. Cardozo's success as a young school has been remarkable, leading some to characterize Cardozo as a "rising star" among law schools. Among the top 100 law schools, only two schools are younger than Cardozo, which graduated its first class in 1979. Cardozo is currently ranked 50th by U.S. News and World Report, which is the most widely read ranking of law schools.
While Cardozo is noted for its academic strengths in numerous areas of study, its Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution programs are particularly well-reputed and consistently ranked within the top ten in the country by U.S. News. The school is also home to the Innocence Project
Innocence Project
An Innocence Project is one of a number of non-profit legal organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice systems to...
, run by Cardozo Professor Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck
Barry C. Scheck is an American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York...
, known for using DNA profiling to help free innocent prisoners. The project is frequently reported on in the national news, and its work has been instrumental in some high-profile cases. Signifying its recognition by long-established law schools, in 1999 Cardozo became a member of the Order of the Coif
Order of the Coif
The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...
, an honor society for law scholars. Cardozo also recently had its second graduate chosen to Clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court. Many of Cardozo's 12,000 alumni reside in the New York metropolitan area
New York metropolitan area
The New York metropolitan area, also known as Greater New York, or the Tri-State area, is the region that composes of New York City and the surrounding region...
, and they have a considerable presence in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, although many Cardozo graduates pursue their careers internationally and can be found across the country in 50 states.
Namesake
Founded in 1976, the Law School is named for Supreme CourtSupreme court
A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his modesty, philosophy, and vivid prose style...
. Cardozo, who was born in 1870 in New York City, was renowned for his integrity, social consciousness, and important opinions. Cardozo rose to prominence during 23 years of private practice, becoming known as a lawyer’s lawyer before appointment to the New York State Court of Appeals in 1914. His tenure was marked by a number of original rulings, in tort and contract law in particular. This is partly due to timing; rapid industrialization was forcing courts to look anew at old common law components to adapt to new settings. He became the nation’s best known and most admired state court judge. He added to his reputation through highly acclaimed off-the-bench writings, of which the most important is The Nature of the Judicial Process
The Nature of the Judicial Process
The Nature of the Judicial Process was written by Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo in 1921. It was compiled from The Storrs Lectures delivered at Yale Law School....
(1921). Shortly thereafter, Cardozo became a member of the group that founded the American Law Institute
American Law Institute
The American Law Institute was established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of American common law and its adaptation to changing social needs. The ALI drafts, approves, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, model codes, and other proposals for law...
, which crafted a Restatement of the Law
Restatement of the Law
In American jurisprudence, the Restatements of the Law are a set of treatises on legal subjects that seek to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of common law...
of Torts, Contracts, and a host of other private law subjects. He wrote three other books that also became standards in the legal world. By asking, and answering, the monumentally simple question, “What is it that I do when I decide a case?”, he helped many see the judicial role with greater clarity. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
appointed Cardozo to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on the Supreme Court. In his six years as an Associate Justice, he handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of modern life. The New York Times said of Cardozo's appointment that "seldom, if ever, in the history of the Court has an appointment been so universally commended." Democratic Cardozo's appointment by a Republican president has been referred to as one of the few Supreme Court appointments in history not motivated by partisanship or politics, but strictly based on the nominee's contribution to law.
Rankings
- U.S. News ranked Cardozo 50th out of 194 law schools in a four-way tie. By other measures, the law school ranks:
- 13th - Faculty Quality
- 17th - Highest Percentage of Grads Hired by the 250 Largest Firms
- 31st - Princeton Review
- 34th - Student Quality
Specialty rankings
- Top 3 - Law and Literature
- 4th - Critical Theories
- 5th - Law & Philosophy
- 7th - Dispute Resolution
- 5th - Intellectual Property
- 10th - LL.M./Masters of Law
- Top-20 Runner-Up - International & Comparative Law
Miscellaneous rankings
- 2nd - Most Cited Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (1st in Scholarly Impact and Cites by Courts)
- 2nd - Per Capita Publication For Law Schools Ranked Below 50 by U.S. News (2008)
- 3rd - New York State Bar Pass Rate (2007)
- 15th - Most Prolific Faculty
- 23rd - Most Cited Law Review
- 31st - Most SSRN Downloads
- Most Competitive Students
Bar examination passage rates
In 2007, Cardozo had the third-highest bar-exam passage rate among the fifteen law schools in New York State, becoming the first school in recent memory other than Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, is one of the oldest and most prestigious law schools in the United States. A member of the Ivy League, Columbia Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Columbia University in New York City. It offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in...
, New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
, and Cornell Law School
Cornell Law School
Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University and one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees...
to place in the top three. Cardozo's bar passage rate was 93.2% in 2008.
Admission
Admission to Cardozo has become increasingly competitive. The GPA and LSATLaw School Admission Test
The Law School Admission Test is a half-day standardized test administered four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world. Administered by the Law School Admission Council for prospective law school candidates, the LSAT is designed to assess Reading Comprehension,...
scores of entering students are consistently higher than schools with similar rankings.
The class entering in Fall 2009 had a 3.73 median GPA and a 164 median LSAT score. The top quarter of LSAT
Law School Admission Test
The Law School Admission Test is a half-day standardized test administered four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world. Administered by the Law School Admission Council for prospective law school candidates, the LSAT is designed to assess Reading Comprehension,...
scores were 169 or higher, and the top 25% of the incoming class had a 3.79 GPA or higher.
The top undergraduate feeder schools for Cardozo have been Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, and the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
Schools. Approximately 20% of incoming students hail from the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
.
Location and facilities
Located on lower Fifth Avenue at the corner of 12th Street in New York City’s Greenwich VillageGreenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
, Cardozo's urban campus is in a large building, known as the Brookdale Center. Over the course of the last several years, Cardozo has enjoyed a physical transformation, undergoing renovation, expansion, and redesign. The multimillion dollar capital improvement plan also included the acquisition of a residence hall just one block away. The addition of more space at the Brookdale Center also allowed for a larger and significantly enhanced library, new offices and clinic spaces, as well as a new and larger lobby, moot court room, and ground-floor seminar room. In addition, older classrooms were renovated and now include state-of-the-art audio visual equipment. In fall 2006, the Greenberg Center for Student Life, given in honor of Dean David Rudenstine, opened and immediately became the most popular place for students to spend time with friends and to study. This addition to Cardozo includes a completely new student lounge and a cafe on the third floor. Also completed recently were several new seminar rooms, new internal stairways between floors, new windows were installed on every floor, and the elevator cabs were redesigned.
Cardozo is located in the 18 story Brookdale Center. The law school occupies the first 11 floors. The top floors are used as office space and are accessed through a separate entrance.
- 1st Floor -- The newly renovated lobby, which occupies most of the first floor, is frequently used as a space for large events. The Jacob Burns Moot Court room and a classroom are also on the first floor.
- 2nd Floor -- The second floor has classrooms and a bookstore. Recently, the school exhibited Sara Lederman's (first-year student) artwork throughout the floor.
- 3rd Floor -- On the third floor, also recently renovated, students enjoy a large student lounge, a cafe, and a cafeteria which offers kosher food.
- 4th Floor -- The fourth floor has classrooms, faculty offices, and offices for student organizations.
- 5th Floor -- The fifth floor contains faculty offices, the faculty lounge, a seminar room, and the offices of the student law journals.
- 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Floors -- The Dr. Lillian and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library is the center of student and faculty research at Cardozo. Encompassing four floors of Cardozo's building, the library holds more than 535,000 volumes, has over 140 computers, and study space for nearly 500 students. The library entrance is on the seventh floor. Faculty offices also occupy part of the ninth floor.
- 10th Floor -- Floor ten houses administrative offices for the law school.
- 11th Floor -- Floor eleven is home to career services, the admissions office, and the clinics.
The Alabama – 15 East 11th Street
The Alabama is Cardozo's nine-story residence hall and is just around the corner from Brookdale Center. The Alabama has over 100 units.
The Innocence Project
Innocence Project
An Innocence Project is one of a number of non-profit legal organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice systems to...
– 100 Fifth Avenue
The Innocence Project recently moved from the 11th floor of Brookdale Center to a new office space three blocks from the law school. The move allowed the Innocence Project to hire more staff and significantly increase the number of cases it takes.
Fogelman Library of The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
– 65 Fifth Avenue
The Cooper Union
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
Library – 7 East 7th Street
Both the Fogelman Library and the Cooper Union library serve as Cardozo's secondary libraries when the main library is closed on the Sabbath or on holidays.
Course and degree offerings
Juris DoctorFor J.D.
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
students, Cardozo offers a selection of over 130 courses in addition to the eight courses required during the first year. Students may choose to graduate with a concentration in one of the following areas:
- Commercial Law
- Constitutional Law and Rights
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Family and Matrimonial Law
- Intellectual Property and Communications Law
- International and Comparative Law
- Litigation (General)
- Property and Real Estate
- Taxation
Cardozo also offers "pathways" in both Public Law and Regulation and Jurisprudence and Legal History, which are not formal concentrations. Students may also earn a Certificate in Dispute Resolution.
Master of Laws
For those who already have a law degree, Cardozo offers LL.M. degrees in General Studies, Comparative Legal Thought, and Intellectual Property. LL.M. students can take almost any of the courses offered to J.D. students. The LL.M. program may be entered in the Spring Term or in the Fall Term.
Study abroad
Cardozo students may study abroad through the following programs:
- International Private Law in HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
- Comparative Media Law in BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
- Alternative Dispute ResolutionAlternative dispute resolutionAlternative Dispute Resolution includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. ADR basically is an alternative to a formal court hearing or litigation...
in BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, BilbaoBilbaoBilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, or RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- Comparative and Transnational Media Law and Policy at OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
- Comparative Corporate Governance at OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
Students may apply for individual study abroad programs to study abroad at other institutions.
Alternative Entry Plan (AEP)
While most Cardozo students begin their legal studies in September, some students are allowed the flexibility to begin in January or May AEP students are able to take classes part-time and during the summer, which gives AEP students the option of graduating in three years or a semester early.
Publications
Students of the Juris Doctor (JD) program are involved in preparing and publishing six law journals and the school newspaper The Cardozo Jurist.The law journals are:
- Cardozo Law Review
- Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
- Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender
- Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law
- Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
- Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal
Clinics
- Alexander Fellows Program
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services Clinic
- Criminal Appeals Clinic
- Criminal Defense Clinic
- Divorce Mediation Clinic
- Family Court Clinic
- Holocaust Claims Restitution Practicum
- Housing Rights Clinic
- Human Rights and Genocide Clinic
- Immigration Justice Clinic
- The Innocence Project
- Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP)
- Labor and Employment Law Clinic
- Mediation Clinic
- Prosecutor Practicum
- Securities Arbitration Clinic
- Tax Clinic
Notable alumni
- Geoffrey BowersGeoffrey BowersGeoffrey F. Bowers was the plaintiff in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases to go to public hearing.-Early life:Bowers was born in 1954 in Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University where he studied political science. He worked in a factory and as a television...
(1954-1987), plaintiff in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases to go to public hearing. - Madeleine CosmanMadeleine CosmanMadeleine Pelner Cosman was a scholar, a policy analyst, an advocate, a prolific author, and a faculty member at City College of New York...
- Lawrence A. CunninghamLawrence A. CunninghamLawrence A. Cunningham is an American author of corporate governance and investing books and is Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University.-Life:...
- Clifton Elgarten (1979), Cardozo's first Supreme Court clerk (1981-82 for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.William J. Brennan, Jr.William Joseph Brennan, Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990...
), now a partner with Crowell & MoringCrowell & MoringCrowell & Moring is an international law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Irvine, New York City, Los Angeles, Anchorage, San Francisco, London and Brussels, and around 450 lawyers....
. - Ed FaganEd FaganEdward Davis "Ed" Fagan is a controversial former American reparations lawyer who was punished by the Supreme Court for his conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation...
- Sandra J. FeuersteinSandra J. FeuersteinSandra Jeanne Feuerstein is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Feuerstein received a B.S. from the University of Vermont in 1966 and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1979. She was nominated to the court by George W....
District Court Judge, Eastern District of New York - John S. HallJohn S. HallJohn S. Hall is an American poet, author, singer and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an avant-garde band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various disparate incarnations....
- Rachel Hirschfeld
- Sara Klein (2005), Cardozo's second Supreme Court clerk (2007-08 for Justice John Paul StevensJohn Paul StevensJohn Paul Stevens served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 19, 1975 until his retirement on June 29, 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court's history...
) - Jeff MarxJeff MarxJeff Marx is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.- Early life :...
- Scott McCoyScott McCoyScott Daniel McCoy is an American politician and attorney from Utah. A Democrat, he is a former member of the Utah State Senate, where he represented the state's 2nd senate district which comprises portions of Salt Lake City...
- Barbara OlsonBarbara OlsonBarbara Olson was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets...
- Juliette PasserJuliette PasserJuliette M. Passer is an American attorney, writer, music director for E.S. Records and founder of Panamanagement Corporation.She was a U.S. Adviser to the Committee of Economic Development of St. Petersburg for the development of free economic zones from 1990-1993 and participated as a U.S...
- Josh SavianoJosh SavianoJoshua David "Josh" Saviano is an American lawyer and former actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Joshua Pfeiffer, in the comedy-drama television show The Wonder Years.-Biography:...
, now a practicing attorney, Saviano played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Pfeiffer, in the The Wonder YearsThe Wonder YearsThe Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII....
. - Laura SydellLaura SydellLaura Sydell reports on Digital Culture for NPR. She was born in New Jersey, and is a former senior technology reporter for Public Radio International's Marketplace, and a regular reporter on for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition...
- David SamsonDavid SamsonRabbi David Samson is an Orthodox rabbi and one of the leading English-speaking Torah scholars in the Religious Zionist movement in Israel. Rabbi Samson has written five books most of which are on the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook and Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook.Rabbi Samson was born in...
, president of the Florida Marlins - Randi WeingartenRandi Weingarten'Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers , a member of the AFL-CIO, and former president of the United Federation of Teachers. New York magazine called her one of the most influential people in education in...
(1957-), president of the American Federation of TeachersAmerican Federation of TeachersThe American Federation of Teachers is an American labor union founded in 1916 that represents teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professionals...
. - Ivan WilzigIvan WilzigIvan L. Wilzig , also known as Sir Ivan or Peaceman, is a musician who is best known for techno remixes of 1960s songs such as "Imagine" and "San Francisco". He is also founder of the nonprofit Peaceman Foundation and appeared as Mr...
, a techno musician also known as "Sir Ivan"
Notable faculty
- Richard BierschbachRichard BierschbachRichard A. Bierschbach is a law professor at Yeshiva University'sBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He specializes in alternative sentencing, criminal law, and white-collar crime....
- Lester BrickmanLester BrickmanLester Brickman is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of the Yeshiva University and a widely-regarded legal scholar.Brickman is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University...
- Susan P. CrawfordSusan P. CrawfordSusan P. Crawford was until December 2009 President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy...
- Peter GoodrichPeter GoodrichPeter Goodrich is a Professor of Law and Director of Law and Humanities at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.Goodrich has been at Cardozo since 2000 and teaches courses in Contracts, Jurisprudence, Film and Law and Gender and Law. He obtained his LL.B. in 1975 from the University of Sheffield...
- Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.Joseph Anthony Greenaway, Jr. is a federal judge who sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously sat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey...
- Marci HamiltonMarci HamiltonMarci Hamilton is the Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a widely-regarded scholar in constitutional law. She is an expert on and advocate for the U.S. Constitution's required separation of church and state....
- Justin HughesJustin HughesJustin Hughes is a Professor of Law of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law specializing in intellectual property law.Hughes has been at Cardozo since 2000 and teaches courses in intellectual property law, international trade and internet law...
- Michel RosenfeldMichel RosenfeldMichel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at the Benjamin N...
- Alexander A. ReinertAlexander A. ReinertAlexander A. Reinert is a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York City. Professor Reinert specializes in the areas of civil rights law, rights of prisoners and detainees, constitutional law, employment discrimination, and criminal law.Professor...
- David RudenstineDavid RudenstineDavid Rudenstine is the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law's Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law. He teaches United States constitutional law.Dean Rudenstine has been teaching at Cardozo since 1979 and is the author of The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case. He served as...
- Barry ScheckBarry ScheckBarry C. Scheck is an American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York...
- William Schwartz
- Stewart SterkStewart SterkStewart Sterk is a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York City. He has taught there since 1979....
- Peter TillersPeter TillersPeter Tillers, American scholar of the law of evidence, was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1943 and arrived in the United States in 1950. He was educated at Yale and Harvard Law School...
- Richard WeisbergRichard H. WeisbergRichard H. Weisberg is a professor of constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City, a leading scholar on law and literature.-Biography:...
- Edward Zelinsky
Former faculty
- Barton Beebe - New York University Law School
- Richard FriedmanRichard FriedmanRichard Friedman is the name of:*Richard A. Friedman, American psychiatrist*Richard C. Friedman, a medical doctor who has conducted research on the psychodynamics of male homosexuality*Richard Elliott Friedman, biblical scholar...
- University of Michigan Law SchoolUniversity of Michigan Law SchoolThe University of Michigan Law School is the law school of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Founded in 1859, the school has an enrollment of about 1,200 students, most of whom are seeking Juris Doctor or Master of Laws degrees, although the school also offers a Doctor of Juridical... - David Golove - New York University Law School
- John McGinnisJohn McGinnisJohn Oldham McGinnis is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law and author of over 90 academic and popular articles and essays. His popular writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Policy Review....
- Northwestern University School of LawNorthwestern University School of LawThe Northwestern University School of Law is a private American law school in Chicago, Illinois. The law school was founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. The first law school established in Chicago, it became jointly controlled by Northwestern University in... - William F. PatryWilliam F. PatryWilliam F. Patry is an American lawyer specializing in copyright law. He studied at the San Francisco State University, where he obtained a B.A. in 1974 and an M.A. in 1976, and then at the University of Houston, where he graduated with a J.D. in 1980...
- Scott Shapiro - Yale Law SchoolYale Law SchoolYale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
- Kevin Stack - Vanderbilt University Law SchoolVanderbilt University Law SchoolVanderbilt University Law School is a graduate school of Vanderbilt University. Established in 1874, it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States. Vanderbilt Law has consistently ranked among the top 20 law schools in the nation, and is currently ranked 16th in the 2012...
- Telford TaylorTelford TaylorTelford Taylor was an American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S...
- Katharine van Wezel Stone - Cornell Law SchoolCornell Law SchoolCornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University and one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees...