Ari Mermelstein, Assistant Director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, is a doctoral candidate in Jewish studies at New York University’s Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and a Lecturer in the Jewish studies department at Yeshiva College. He is a graduate of Yeshiva College and New York University School of Law. Ozer (Anthony) Glickman, Senior Resident Rabbinical Scholar at CJL, is a Rosh Yeshiva in the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary division of Yeshiva University, where he teaches a seminar in Jewish law and Talmud to advanced rabbinical students. Rabbi Glickman received his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University and pursued doctoral studies in religion and philosophy at University of Toronto's Centre for the Study of Religion. He also holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern Graduate School of Business at NYU, where he was a University Fellow.
Suzanne Last Stone is a Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law and Director of its Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization. During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, holding the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Chair in Talmudic Civil Law. During the Fall 2007 semester, she will again hold the Gruss Visiting Chair in Talmudic Civil Law, this time at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and in Spring 2008, she will be a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, where she will teach "Jewish Law and American Legal Theory." Professor Stone has taught Jewish law at Hebrew University Law School, Haifa University Law School, Tel-Aviv University Law School, and Columbia University Law School, and she spent the 2006-2007 academic year as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University Law School. In addition to teaching courses on Jewish law, Professor Stone teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Law, Religion, and the State.
Professor Stone, an alumnus of Princeton University and Columbia University Law School, was a Danforth Fellow in Jewish History and Classical Religions at Yale University. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, she clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then practiced litigation at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison.
Professor Stone writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to the intersection of Jewish legal thought and contemporary legal theory. Her publications include "In Pursuit of the Countertext: The Turn to the Jewish Legal Model in Contemporary American Legal Theory," (Harvard Law Review), and she currently has two books in progress: Jewish Law and Legal Theory: A New American Perspective, based on her collected essays, and Jewish Law and the Irrational, a study of the talmudic transformation of formally irrational modes of gaining knowledge into a system of legal rationality.
Professor Stone is the co-editor-in-chief of Diné Israel, a peer review journal of Jewish law, co-edited with Tel Aviv Law School, and is on the editorial board of the Jewish Quarterly Review. She is co-curator of the Jews and Justice Series at the Center for Jewish History; a former vice president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, American Section; former chair of the Section on Jewish Law of the American Association of Law Schools; and a member of the board of the American Jewish Historical Society.
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