Teaching at Cardozo since: 2000
Specialties: Jurisprudence, legal history
Professor Goodrich was the founding dean of the department of law, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in the areas of law and literature and semiotics and has authored 10 books. He is Managing Editor of Law and Literature and on the editorial board of Law and Critique.

Marci A. Hamilton, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law
B.A., 1979, Vanderbilt University;
M.A., 1982, 1984, Pennsylvania State University;
J.D., 1988, University of Pennsylvania
Phone: 212-790-0215
E-mail: hamilton02@aol.com

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1990
Specialties: Constitutional law, First Amendment, law & religion, intellectual property law
Professor Hamilton is an internationally recognized constitutional expert specializing in church/state relations, federalism, and representation. Her most recent work is God vs. The Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (Cambridge UP, 2005).She has been a visiting professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary, New York University School of Law, and Emory University School of Law, and a Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry.

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1977
Specialties: Jurisprudence, contracts
Professor Jacobson was an associate with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He holds a Ph.D. in government; his thesis was on the political philosophy of Hegel. His scholarly work has focused on the idea of dynamic jurisprudence. In addition to his specialities, Professor Jacobson teaches classes in employment law and litigation.

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1985
Specialties: Lawyering skills and legal writing; legal process
Prior to teaching at Cardozo, Professor Newman was managing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services. While there, she also held the position of senior attorney for housing, responsible for housing law reform litigation. She was lead counsel to the plaintiff class of more than 50,000 public housing tenants in a major institutional litigation case against the Boston Housing Authority. Professor Newman also teaches writing to honors rabbinical students at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights B.A., 1969, M.A., 1971, M.Phil., 1978, Ph.D., 1991, Columbia University;
J.D., 1974, Northwestern University
Phone: 212-790-0234
E-mail: mrosnfld@yu.edu

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1988
Specialties: Constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, jurisprudence
Professor Rosenfeld is the author of several books, including Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics and Affirmative Action and Justice: A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry, which in 1992 was named outstanding book on the subject of human rights in the U.S. by the Gustave Meyers Center, and most recently a coauthor of Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials (with Baer, Dorsen, and Sajo). He is the coeditor of The Longest Night:Perspectives and Polemics on Election 2000; Hegel and Legal Theory; Habermas on Law and Democracy: Critical Exchanges, Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice; and editor of Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference and Legitimacy: Theoretical Perspectives. Professor Rosenfeld is an affiliated member of the graduate faculty of the New School University. He was president of the International Association of Constitutional Law (1999-2004), is a founding member and president of the United States Association of Constitutional Law (2004- ), and is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Among his many honors, he received the French government's highest and most prestigious award, the Legion of Honor.

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1979
Specialties: Constitutional law, federal courts, cultural property
Dean Rudenstine is the first dean appointed from the ranks of the Cardozo faculty. He is the author of the widely acclaimed The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case and is completing Trophies for the Empire: The Tale of the Parthenon Marbles, a history of the famous dispute between Greece and Britain. In 2000-01, he was an inaugural fellow in Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, he was a project director, associate director, and acting executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union; counsel to the National News Council; a staff attorney in the New York City Legal Services Program; and director of the Citizen's Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice, Inc., a not-for-profit research corporation. He is the primary author of Prison Without Walls: Report on New York Parole and author of Rights of Ex-Offenders. He was a fellow in the New York University Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program and spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda.

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1989
Specialties: Jurisprudence, commercial law, securities regulation
Professor Schroeder's scholarly interests range from commercial law doctrine to feminist jurisprudential theory. Her current work is on recent amendments to Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code and in developing a feminist theory of law and economics incorporating the political philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel and the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan. Her book on this subject, The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine, was published in 1998, and her second, The Triumph of Venus: The Erotics of the Market, was published in 2004.

Teaching at Cardozo since: 2001
Specialties: Jurisprudence, torts
Professor Stone joined the Cardozo faculty after 10 years at Duke University, where he held a joint appointment in the law school and the philosophy department and was an adjunct professor in the literature program. He has taught at Cornell University and the University of Michigan and is currently an adjunct professor of philosophy at the New School University. Among his many honors, he graduated from Brandeis summa cum laude with highest departmental honors, was a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, was a fellow at the National Humanities Center, and won the George Plimpton Adams Prize for his doctoral dissertation. One of the nation's leading scholars of the philosophy of law, Professor Stone has written widely on Wittgenstein, formalism, and interpretation.

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1977
Specialties: Law and literature, constitutional law, trusts and estates Professor Weisberg is involved in theoretical and litigation-oriented approaches to the subject of his book Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France. He also has pioneered the worldwide "Law and Literature" movement and is the author of The Failure of the Word: When Lawyers Write and Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law and Literature. Professor Weisberg was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for the Humanities of Cornell University, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1998, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for his study of the privatization of public discourse. From 1979 to 1986, he was president of the Law and Humanities Institute and has been its chair since 1987. In 1983, he became chair of the law and humanities section of the American Association of Law Schools. Professor Weisberg is founding editor of Law and Literature.

University Faculty

Yeshiva University, Cardozo Law School's parent institution, boasts a faculty comprised of some of today's leading scholars in the study of Jewish texts. Faculty members at Yeshiva University's undergraduate department of Jewish studies, its graduate school of Jewish studies, and its rabbinical school are valuable resources for CJL. The following list contains biographical profiles of Yeshiva University professors with expertise in Jewish texts from various time periods.

David Berger is Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Chair of the American Section of the International Association of Societies for the Study of Jewish History, co-chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and former President of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is the author of The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages, which was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize by the Medieval Academy of America, and co-author of Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures: Rejection or Integration?, a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought. His most recent book is The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, which has received the 2003-2004 Samuel Belkin Literary Award. He has written numerous studies on medieval Jewish history, Jewish-Christian relations, antisemitism, and the intellectual history of the Jews. He has been a Fellow of the Annenberg Research Institute and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale University and Harvard University, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, the Council of the World Union of Jewish Studies, and the editorial board of Tradition.

Shalom Carmy, Associate Professor of Bible at Yeshiva University, holds a B.A. and M.S. from Yeshiva University and rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Professor Carmy is an expert on the interface between halakha and philosophy, biblical thought, modern Jewish thought (with an emphasis on Rabbis Soloveitchik and Kook), and Religious Zionism. His most recent books include Worship of the Heart, Rabbi Soloveitchik's posthumous volume on prayer, The Religious Thought of Hasidism, Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, and Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah.

Yaakov Elman is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, where he teaches courses in Bible and Talmud. He received his M.A. in Assyriology from Columbia University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Talmud from New York University in 1986. Professor Elman is the author of Authority and Tradition: Toseftan Baraitot in Talmudic Babylonia and co-editor of Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion. Professor Elman has published widely in the field of Talmud, and his research interests include rabbinic theology, unfolding systems of rabbinic legal exegesis, and the cultural context of classical rabbinic texts.

Ephraim Kanarfogel is the E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, and Director of the Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the Bernard Revel Graduate School in 1987.

Professor Kanarfogel is the author of three books: Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages (winner of the 1993 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship); ‘Peering through the Lattices': Mystical, Magical and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period (finalist for the 2002 Koret Foundation Award in History), and The Intellectual History of Medieval Ashkenazic Jewry. He is also the author of more than fifty articles in the areas of medieval Jewish intellectual history and rabbinic literature. Among his most recent publications are “Halakhah and Realia in Medieval Ashkenaz: Surveying the Parameters and Defining the Limits,” Jewish Law Annual; “Mysticism and Asceticism in Italian Rabbinic Literature of the Thirteenth Century,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts; and “Medieval Conceptions of the Messianic Age: The View of the Tosafists,” Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky.

Professor Kanarfogel is also Vice President of the Association for Jewish Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

David Shatz is Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University and editor of The Torah U-Madda Journal, a journal devoted to the interaction between Judaism and general culture. He has published ten books and over fifty articles and reviews, dealing with both general and Jewish philosophy. His work in general philosophy focuses on the theory of knowledge, free will, ethics, and the philosophy of religion, while his work in Jewish philosophy focuses on Jewish ethics and law, Maimonides, and twentieth- century rabbinic figures. Dr. Shatz's most recent books are Philosophy and Faith (McGraw-Hill), Questions About God (Oxford University Press) and Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry (Rowman & Littlefield). He also is editor of the MeOtzar HoRav series, which is devoted to publishing manuscripts by the Jewish philosopher Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Dr. Shatz was named a winner in the 1997 John Templeton Foundation Course Competition in Science and Religion.

Professor Soloveitchik, an internationally renowned scholar of Jewish History who received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University in 1972, is University Professor of Jewish History and Literature. He teaches at Bernard Revel Graduate School and Stern College for Women, and directs the School of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University's Institute for Advanced Studies. He has authored numerous articles on the history of halakha, medieval religious organization, and medieval communal organization. Dr. Soloveitchik's most recent book is entitled Principle and Pressures: Jewish Trade in Gentile Wine in the Middle Ages.

Jeremy Wieder is Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Professor of Talmud at the Mazer Yeshiva Program of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Wieder received his ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies at NYU's Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies in 2006. Rabbi Wieder served as editor of volume 22 of Beit Yitzchak, Yeshiva University's journal of Talmudic studies, and Zikhron HaRav, the memorial volume for Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. His publications include articles in Tradition on annulment as it relates to the contemporary problem of agunot and a forthcoming article on International law in the Jewish tradition in the proceedings of the 2004 Orthodox Forum.