The Kukin Program was established in 1990 through a generous gift from the late Ira and Doris Kukin. With deep appreciation, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law acknowledges the leadership, financial support and friendship extended to the Kukin Program by the Kukin family.
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About the Kukin Family
Dr. Ira Kukin was an honorary member and his son, Jonathan Kukin (CSL ‘87), was a member of the Board of Overseers of Cardozo School of Law. Dr. Kukin was the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University and the former chairman of its Committee on Academic Affairs. Dr. Kukin was a founder of Apollo Technologies International Corporation, a leading company in the field of air pollution control and energy conservation in Livingston, New Jersey.
In creating the Kukin Program, the Kukin family also sought to honor the late Frank J. Scardilli, the Chief Circuit Mediator of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the longest-serving appellate court mediator in the nation. As part of the Kukin Program, the Frank J. Scardilli Lectureship in Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution ensures in perpetuity that students at Cardozo are offered a course in the theory and skills of conflict resolution. Frank Scardilli was the first appointed lecturer, teaching a course on negotiation at Cardozo from 1989 until 2003.
As part of the Kukin Program, the Frank J. Scardilli Lectureship in Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution ensures in perpetuity that students at Cardozo are offered a course in the theory and skills of conflict resolution. With deep appreciation, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law acknowledges the leadership, financial support and friendship extended to the Kukin Program by the Kukin family.
About Kukin Program Founding Director Lela Love
Professor Love joined the Cardozo Law School faculty in 1985 and founded the Cardozo Mediation Clinic —one of the first clinical programs to train law students to serve as mediators.
Professor Love is a mediator, arbitrator and dispute resolution consultant in community, employment, family, human rights, school-based and commercial cases. An active educator and participant in dispute-resolution activities, she regularly conducts mediation training programs and courses both domestic and international. Her mediation of a public policy dispute in Glen Cove, NY, brought widespread publicity to the use of mediation in resolving complex litigation.
In 1999, Professor Love helped to establish the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution and through her extensive work as a trainer, scholar, and leader in the dispute resolution field elevated the status of the program throughout the globe.
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