Stewart E. SterkH. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law and Acting Director of the Intellectual Property Law ProgramB.A., 1973, J.D., 1976, Columbia University
SSRNTeaching at Cardozo since: 1979
Specialties: Trusts and estates, property, copyright, conflict of laws, land use regulation
Recent Courses:
Property,
Land Use Regulation,
Real Estate Reporter,
Trusts & EstatesProfessor Sterk’s publications span a wide variety of areas, ranging from property and land use regulation to trusts and estates, copyright, and the conflict of laws. A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Sterk served as an advisor in the preparation of the Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes). He has co–authored a leading casebook on trusts and estates, and he also edits the New York Real Estate Law Reporter, a monthly newsletter published with the assistance of Cardozo students. The winner of a number of teaching awards at Cardozo, Professor Sterk has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia and at the University of Pennsylvania. While in law school, he served as managing editor of the Columbia Law Review, and he subsequently clerked for Chief Judge Charles D. Breitel of the New York Court of Appeals.