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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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.
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Miriam Lacroix Joins Cardozo as Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Dean Melanie Leslie and Associate Dean Jenn Kim are pleased to welcome Miriam Lacroix as the law school’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion.
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Morrison Cohen Presents Award to Student at 14th Annual BALLSA Celebration
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Morrison Cohen presented Sydney Clarke 3L with the inaugural Morrison Cohen Summer Award at the 14th Annual BALLSA Celebration on February 28. Representing the firm were Steven Cooperman, Chair and Co-Managing Partner, Jenni Eastman, Chief Operating Officer, and Bobby Codjoe, Director of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and former Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Cardozo Law School.
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Cardozo’s Race and the Law Course Offerings Give Students a Unique Chance to Learn About How to be an Anti-Racist Future Lawyer
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
In fall of 2021, Cardozo Law announced new initiatives and expanded course offerings to acknowledge and work to eradicate systemic racism by ensuring that Cardozo graduates are culturally competent and well-educated on issues of discrimination. Since then, the law school has remained steadfast in its commitment to educating students in ways that center black, indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC).
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Designer Steve Madden Visits Cardozo To Discuss The Intersection Between Fashion and the Law With His General Counsel Lisa Keith
Cardozo FAME Center and Cardozo Fashion Law Society
On January 29, iconic designer Steve Madden spoke to a packed Jacob Burns Moot Court Room to share advice to young lawyers and discuss how he got started in the shoe business.
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Dr. Richard Haass to Receive 23rd International Advocate for Peace Award
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution (CJCR) of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Haass, international relations scholar and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, will receive the 23rd International Advocate for Peace Award (IAP) this year on March 27, 2024. Each year, this award recognizes an individual, organization, or group that is exemplary in the field of conflict resolution. Dr. Haass, who has led a distinguished career in international relations, joins an illustrious group of past recipients including former presidents, cultural icons, and business leaders whose profound impact has helped influence global peace efforts and advocacy.
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Professor Rebecca Ingber Appointed to Serve on Venice Commission
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Professor Rebecca Ingber has been appointed by the U.S. government to serve as one of two U.S. members to the Council of Europe’s European Commission for Democracy through Law. The "Venice Commission," as it is better known, serves as an advisory commission on constitutional matters, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law for the Council of Europe and states around the world.
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Milbank and Cardozo’s Perlmutter Center Announce Partnership to Advance Criminal Justice Reform
Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law
Milbank pledges $1M to establish the Milbank Exoneration and Resentencing Review Unit at the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law
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Cardozo Holds Two-Week January Intensive Courses Teaching Students Courtroom Litigation and Transactional Skills
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
This month, Cardozo once again hosted its renowned January intensive courses, bootcamps for future lawyers that promote experiential learning and provide students with career connections to the real world.
These simulation courses are a cornerstone of our practical experience curriculum, including the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP) and the Intensive Transactional Lawyering Program (ITRANS). These programs offer students the chance to gain real-world casework and courtroom experience under supervision from top legal practitioners, who then give them one-on-one feedback on their performances.
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U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams To Be Keynote Speaker at Cardozo’s 46th Commencement
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The Hon. Ronnie Abrams, U.S. District judge for the Southern District of New York, will deliver the commencement address for the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law's 46th graduation ceremony at Lincoln Center in June.
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Cardozo Mourns the Loss of Leon Wildes
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
It is with deep sadness that we report the death of Leon Wildes, a distinguished immigration attorney and adjunct professor who taught immigration law at Cardozo for 33 years and was a member of the Yeshiva College Board of Overseers. He was 90 years old.
