The Cardozo News 2024 collection serves as a comprehensive digital archive preserving key updates and milestones from the law school's vibrant community. It covers a wide range of categories, including Alumni achievements, Campus News, Career Services opportunities, Programs and Centers highlights, Clinics and Externships, Faculty News, Students' accomplishments, and Cardozo’s presence In the Media. This collection captures the ongoing growth and development of the law school, ensuring that its dynamic contributions to legal education and society are recorded for future generations.
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Evelyn Konrad ’05 Shares Story of Resilience After Surviving Holocaust and Establishing a New Life in America
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Evelyn Konrad ’05 shared her powerful story of surviving the Holocaust and finding a new life in America during a discussion with the Cardozo community on October 10.
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Immigration Justice Clinic Graduates Help Win Motion to Overturn Deportation Order
Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic
Norberto Peets, who spent years in prison due to a wrongful conviction overturned by the Innocence Project, faced deportation before Cardozo's Immigration Justice Clinic (IJC) fought for him.
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Cardozo Law Ranked #7 for Racial Justice
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
In the fall 2024 issue of preLaw Magazine, Cardozo School of Law earned the No. 7 ranking for Top Law Schools for Racial Justice. The National Jurist/preLaw selected Cardozo Law as one of the national leaders in creating “educational environments that foster change and prepare students to tackle the legal challenges associated with racial justice.”
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Immigration Justice Clinic Releases New Report that Exposes Failures of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Provide Language Access to Detained People
Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic
In early September, the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic (IJC) released Held Incommunicado: The Failed Promise of Language Access in Immigration Detention, the first report of its kind, focusing on how language access was denied to those who have limited English proficiency being held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. The denial of language access the report uncovered includes multiple instances of ICE not providing translators and interpreters, impeding detained peoples' ability to request medical care and legal assistance, and demonstrates that the agency failed to meet its own guidelines.
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The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law Expands its Team
Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law
The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law announced it has expanded its team through the hiring of Benjamin Burger ’05 and Karena Rahall as Senior Staff Attorneys. The expansion of the team is a result of the $1M in funding the Perlmutter Center received from international law firm Milbank LLP earlier this year which also established the Milbank Exoneration and Resentencing Review Unit at the Perlmutter Center.
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Cardozo Marks New School Year by Welcoming Newest Class of JD, LL.M. Students
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo welcomed its newest members of the JD and LL.M. community during orientation this week.
Approximately 260 students in the fall JD class began their law school journey. Many are native New Yorkers, while others traveled from other countries to study at Cardozo. About half have already worked in the legal field with various law firms or in different professional careers.
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Cardozo Welcomes Forum for Jewish Leadership for a Discussion about Immigration Law with Adjunct Professor Michael Wildes ’89
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo welcomed students with the Forum for Jewish Leadership (FJL) on July 23 to hear from Adjunct Professor Michael Wildes ’89 about immigration law.
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NALP Names Sherry-Ann Smith-Gomez as Recipient of Service Excellence Award
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) announced on Tuesday that Sherry-Ann Smith-Gomez, senior director of Career Services and coordinator of Diversity Initiatives at Cardozo, has received a NALP Service Excellence Award.
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Cardozo Cheers on NYC Pride March at Ninth Annual Pride Brunch
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The lobby of Cardozo’s Ruth & H. Bert Mack Pavilion was bursting with rainbow colors on June 30 as students and alumni gathered to celebrate the school’s LGBTQIA+ community while cheering on the NYC Pride March during the ninth annual Pride Brunch.
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Cardozo Professor Emeritus Eva Hanks, Pioneer in Legal Education, Dies at 95
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Eva Hanks, a pioneer in legal education and founding member of the Cardozo Law School faculty, died on Wednesday June 12th at the age of 95. Among other firsts, she was a founder in the field of environmental law and Cardozo’s first woman associate dean. During her 38-year tenure at Cardozo she taught Property, Torts and Elements of Law to generations of Cardozo students, before retiring in 2014.
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Class of 2024 Graduates Elected to Order of the Coif
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo School of Law is proud to recognize 31 members of the Class of 2024 who have been elected to membership in the Order of the Coif. The Order of the Coif is an honorary scholastic society, which encourages excellence in legal education by fostering a spirit of careful study, recognizing those who as law students attained a high grade of scholarship, and honoring those who as lawyers, judges and teachers attained high distinction for their scholarly or professional accomplishments.
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Cardozo Celebrates The Class of 2024 at 46th Annual Commencement
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo School of Law celebrated the Class of 2024 during their graduation ceremony at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on June 3.
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The Class of 2024’s Achievements Celebrated at Pre-Commencement Awards Ceremony
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Excellence, dedication, and stellar were just a few of the words used to describe the outstanding students who were recognized at this year’s Commencement Awards Ceremony. The awards ceremony, which takes place before the Commencement Ceremony, highlights students' hard work inside and outside of the classroom.
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Cardozo Law Mourns the Loss of Gail Cohen ’83
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University mourn the passing of Gail Cohen, a member of Cardozo’s graduating class of 1983 and a pillar of the Cardozo community.
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Cardozo Celebrates Public Service at 32nd Annual Inspire! Awards
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo’s Center for Public Service Law celebrated the Inspire! Awards on May 28, a yearly event that honors students, alumni and community leaders who have made strides in public service over the past year.
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Dean Melanie Leslie Announces Six New Faculty Appointments
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
We welcome these six new members to the Cardozo faculty with great joy. Below are brief biographic sketches of each with links to full details of their academic and career achievements, which are too numerous to list here.
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Cardozo Welcomes More than 200 Alumni For Homecoming & Reunion
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
More than 200 Cardozo alumni, from the first graduating class of 1979 to the class of 2024, were welcomed back to to the school for this year’s Homecoming & Reunion celebration, held on May 23.
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2L Rob Cook Awarded Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Congratulations to Cardozo Law 2L Rob Cook on being awarded a Peggy Browning Fund fellowship in workplace justice advocacy. Securing a Peggy Browning Fellowship is challenging, with over 3,950 applications for the 2024 program.
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Cardozo Celebrates Annual Donors & Scholars Reception
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo’s annual Donors & Scholars event, where students meet those who finance their scholarships and stipends, was held April 15.
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Zoe Sheppard ’24 and Gowri Cheepurupalli ’24 Selected as 2024 Recipients of Mark Whitlock Scholarship
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The Whitlock Scholarship was established by the friends and family of Mark Whitlock ‘10, who passed away from brain cancer while a student at Cardozo. It is designed to recognize an outstanding, third-year J.D. student each year who, through the force of individual effort, energy, spirit, and initiative, contributes to and/or expands and strengthens student life and community at Cardozo. This is the second year that the scholarship has been awarded to two Cardozo students.
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Cardozo Welcomes 53 Top Firms for Employer Forum
Cardozo Office of Career Services
The Cardozo School of Law lobby was abuzz on Wednesday night as the Office of Career Services welcomed some of the most prestigious law firms to the school for its annual employer forum.
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Cardozo’s Civil Rights Clinic Wins Fifth Circuit Appeal for Client in Police Misconduct Case
Cardozo Civil Rights Clinic
Civil Rights Clinic students Zoe Burke ’23 and 3L Rahni Stewart recently won an appeal for their client in a police misconduct case in Kenner, LA.
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Kwanza Jones, Class of 1999, Honored at 14th Annual BALLSA Celebration
Black, Asian & Latino Law Students Association (BALLSA)
Warmly lit trees and the Yeshiva Jazz Ensemble set the scene for the 14th annual BALLSA Celebration that honored philanthropist Kwanza Jones, Class of 1999, on February 28. The event brought in a record $60,000, which went toward funding four merit-based scholarships, while the law firm Morrison Cohen presented the $5,000 Morrison Cohen Summer Award to a fifth student.
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Cardozo Moot Court Honor Society Wins Championship at John J. Gibbons Moot Court Competition
Cardozo Moot Court Honor Society
The Cardozo Moot Court Honor Society took home the championship at the John J. Gibbons Moot Court Competition on March 15-16.
Cardozo competed in the annual competition at Seton Hall Law School and earned top honors against a field of 46 teams. Coached by Zoe Cebulash, the team's two oralists were Linzy Dineen and Matt Scaptura.
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Cardozo’s Entertainment Law Week Showcases Alumni Who Have Made it in the Industry
Cardozo FAME Center
The FAME Center hosted a series of panels and information sessions throughout the week of March 4 for students interested in pursuing careers in entertainment law. FAME alumni spoke about their experiences and how they got where they are now, while current students were able to ask questions, engage and network with them. The panels touched on a variety of topics, including art, theatre and breaking into entertainment law.