Emeriti
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Founding Director, Graduate Tax Program
Education: University of Chicago, B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1973; Yale, J.D. 1980; New York University, LL.M. (Taxation) 1984; Fulbright Fellowships, University of Paris 1965-66, University of Calcutta Sanskrit College 1967-68.
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Harvard Law School, J.D. 1974 cum laude; Tufts University, B.A. 1969
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: University of Cambridge, Ph.D. 1978, Fulbright Scholar 1975–1977; University of Iowa, M.A. 1974, J.D. 1975; University of Massachusetts, B.A. 1971
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: St. John’s University, J.D. 1972; New York University, B.A. 1969
James Brook
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Columbia University, LL.M. 1983; Harvard University, J.D. 1972 cum laude; Harvard University, B.A. 1968 magna cum laude
Expert in commercial transactions, contracts, and credit.
Professor of Law, Emerita
Education: Yale, B.A. 1978 cum laude; Harvard, J.D. 1982 cum laude
Eugene Cerruti
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: University of Pennsylvania, J.D. 1970; Harvard, B.A. 1966
Expert on trial practice and strategy. Prior practice includes service as a public defender with New York Legal Aid Society and as a federal prosecutor with U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Lung-chu Chen
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Yale, LL.M. 1962, J.S.D. 1964; Northwestern, LL.M. 1961; National Taiwan University, LL.B. 1958 summa cum laude; Yale Fellowship, 1961–64; Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1960–61
Authority on international law and human rights with special interest in Taiwan. Founder and chairman, Taiwan New Century Foundation, a think tank dedicated to the advancement of human dignity.
Theodore Dwight 125th Anniversary Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Yale, J.D. 1982; Haverford, B.A. 1979 magna cum laude
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. 1976; George Washington University Law School, J.D. 1973; University of Illinois, B.A. 1970
B. James George Jr.
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: New York Theological Seminary, M.Div. 1993; Michigan, J.D. 1951; B.A. 1949
Taught at Michigan, Wayne State, and NYLS. Former president, Southwestern Legal Foundation. Member, American Law Institute and Japanese-American Society for Legal Studies. Authority on comparative law, criminal law, criminal procedure, domestic relations, evidence, and international law.
Professor of Law, Emerita
Education: Brown, A.B. 1976 magna cum laude; Georgetown, J.D. 1979
Sandra K. Janin ’75
Professor of Law, Emerita
Education:
New York Law School, J.D. 1975 cum laude; Brooklyn College, B.A. 1971 cum laude
Former appellate counsel to major litigation firms, then ran her own practice before joining the NYLS faculty. Co-author of the book The New York Law of Medical Malpractice, with published articles in journals including the Journal of Insurance, New York Law Journal, and Trial Lawyers Quarterly. Recipient of service award as chair of the Women’s Law Forum from the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
Randolph N. Jonakait
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education:
New York University, LL.M. 1971, Arthur Garfield Hays Graduate Civil Liberties Fellow, 1970-71
University of Chicago, J.D. 1970
Princeton, A.B. 1967 cum laude
Former attorney at the Criminal Defense Division of the NYC Legal Aid Society. Spent several years working on a full range of felony cases. A former Garfield Graduate Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, NYC Human Rights Commission. Professor of Law, NYLS.
Kim M. Lang
Professor of Law, Emerita
Education: Harvard, Ph.D. 1972; Georgetown, J.D. 1960; Radcliffe, M.A. 1950; Ohio State University, B.A. 1948
Former Foreign Service Officer and U.S. Vice Consul. Served as Attorney for U.S. Department of Justice and worked five years in private practice.
Robert F. Wagner Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Emeritus; Editor, LGBT Law Notes
Education: Harvard, J.D. 1977 cum laude; Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, B.S. 1974
Martin Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Columbia University, M.Phil. 1994, Ph.D. 1995; Harvard University, J.D. 1967 cum laude; Yale University, B.A. 1964 cum laude
Richard A. Matasar
Dean Emeritus
Education: University of Pennsylvania, J.D. 1977 magna cum laude; B.A. 1974 magna cum laude
Former Law Clerk, Hon. Max Rosenn, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. President and Dean, NYLS, 2000–2011. Levin Mabie & Levin Professor of Law, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, where he also served as Dean from 1996 to 1999. Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law (1991–96). Professor of Law (1980–1991) and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1989 to 1991), University of Iowa College of Law.
Carlin Meyer
Professor of Law, Emerita
Education: Yale University, L.L.M. 1988; Rutgers University, J.D. 1974; Radcliffe, B.A. 1970 cum laude
Frequent speaker on issues of sex, sexuality, family, and gender, as well as employment law and practice. Served on NYC Mayor’s Commission on Status of Women and former president of NYC Chapter of National Lawyers Guild. Arbitrator since 1990, NYC Office of Collective Bargaining, and pro bono consultant for nonprofit organizations on employment issues.
Professor of Legal Research, Emeritus
Education: Fordham Law School, J.D. 1982; Columbia University, M.S.L.S. 1978; State University of New York at Stony Brook, B.S. 1971
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education:University of Michigan, J.D. 1968, Ph.D. (Sociology) 1977; Woodrow Wilson Fellow; Fulbright Scholarship (1964–65); Kenyon College, B.A., 1964 summa cum laude
Stephen A. Newman
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Columbia University, J.D. 1970; University of Pennsylvania, B.A. 1967
Addresses personal, often controversial, issues of euthanasia, right to die, cloning, and cases involving children, as well as consumer law. Legal topics columnist, New York magazine, 1980–88.
Michael Perlin
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Columbia University, J.D. 1969; Rutgers University, A.B. 1966 magna cum laude
Award-winning author on mental disability law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, sex offender law, and the insanity defense. Honorary lifetime president of the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and member of the Society’s Board of Trustees. Co-founder of Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates. Lectures frequently on all continents on the relationship between international human rights and mental disability law. Testifies in trials as expert witness on questions of effectiveness of counsel in cases involving criminal defendants with mental disabilities. Previously Deputy Public Defender, Mercer County (Trenton) New Jersey; Director, Division of Mental Health Advocacy, New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate. Reach Professor Perlin at michael.perlin@nyls.edu.
Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Harvard, J.D. 1979 cum laude; University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. 1968; University of Kansas, M.A. 1964; Rockhurst College, B.A. 1962
Joyce D. Saltalamachia
Professor of Law, Emerita
Education: Golden Gate University, J.D. 1976; University of California, Berkeley, A.B. 1969, M.L.S. 1970
The first librarian to serve as deputy director of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in Washington, D.C. Professor Saltalamachia is an expert on the delivery of services in academic law libraries, with extensive experience in the law school accreditation process, and an authority on delivery of services in academic law libraries, as well as on issues of modern legal research. Gavel Awards Screening Committee of the American Bar Association, Member.
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: Yale, LL.B. 1968; B.A. 1963 magna cum laude; Oxford, B. Phil., 1965, Marshall Scholar
Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education:Columbia, LL.M. 1985, J.S.D. 1989; Boston College, J.D. 1981; Brandeis, B.A. 1975 summa cum laude
James F. Simon ’92
Martin Professor of Law, Emeritus
Dean Emeritus
Education: New York Law School, LL.D. 1992; Yale, LL.B. 1964, B.A. 1961; Law and Humanities Fellowship, Harvard, 1974-75; Ford Foundation Africa-Asia Fellowship, India, 1964-65
Dean, NYLS, 1983-92. Award-winning author of books on modern Supreme Court and its justices. Former correspondent and contributing author of Time magazine.
Michael B.W. Sinclair
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Education: University of Michigan, J.D. 1978 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif; Fulbright Fellow (Linguistics) 1973; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Ph.D. 1974; B.A. 1968; B.A. Hons. (First Class in Philosophy) 1970
Expert in statutory interpretation. He has also written in the areas of contracts, commercial law, intellectual property, banking, feminist theory, jurisprudence, common law, legal method, and payment systems. Before joining NYLS, he was an assistant professor at the School of Law at Indiana University. Previously, he was in private practice with Dickinson Wright Moon VanDusen & Freeman, specializing in commercial litigation, finance, and municipal bonds.
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita
Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991–2008
Education: Harvard Law School, J.D. 1975 magna cum laude; Harvard College, A.B. 1972 Phi Beta Kappa
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