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The Sparer Fellowship Committee, under the leadership of its founder and Director, Professor Elizabeth M. Schneider, is an outstanding group of faculty with a strong commitment to public interest law. Their prior work experience, and their scholarly and teaching interests reflect a diverse range of public interest work. The Committee members serve as advisors and mentors to the Sparer Fellows.
Elizabeth M. Schneider Professor Schneider is a leading expert on gender and law. She teaches Civil Procedure, Women and the Law, and Battered Women and the Law. She is author of the prize-winning book Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking, co-author of the casebook Battered Women and the Law, author of many articles on civil rights, civil procedure, and gender and law, and has lectured around the world on these issues. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, was Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers Law School-Newark, and clerked for Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York.
Stacy Caplow Professor Caplow, Director of Clinical Education at the Law School, is a national leader in clinical legal education. She teaches Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, Immigration Law, the Safe Harbor Clinic (immigration/asylum) and a variety of other clinical courses. She was formerly a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division, Chief of the Criminal Court Bureau and Director of Training at the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, and served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Civil Division) in the Eastern District of New York.
Eve Cary Professor Cary was a Senior Supervising Attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau, a prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, and staff counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union. She teaches Appellate Advocacy, Legal Writing, and criminal law courses. She is the general editor of the ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” handbooks, and has co-authored books on Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice and New York Criminal Law.
Mary Jo Eyster Professor Eyster teaches the Consumer Counseling and Bankruptcy Clinic, the Civil Practice Externship, and the Judicial Clerkship Externship. Her background includes work as an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae, where she coordinated the firm’s pro bono activities. She is also a trained mediator, and has been active in mediating disputes in the Civil Court and the Safe Horizons Community Mediation Center.
Mary R. Falk Professor Falk served as Associate Appellate Counsel at the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau for seven years prior to joining the faculty. She is co-author of the texts Scholarly Writing for Students and Writing for Law Practice and of numerous articles on language and the law. She teaches Legal Writing and Writing for Law Practice.
Linda B. Feldman Professor Feldman is the Law School’s Director of Educational Services. She formerly taught in the New York City public schools and served on the staff of former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman. She serves on the Executive Committee of a supportive housing organization for the recently homeless and works with Legal Outreach Summer Law Institute, which provides law-related education to junior high students in Brooklyn.
Lara N. Gelbwasser Instructor of Law Professor Godsoe was a Skadden Fellow at the Child Care Law Center in San Francisco, following a clerkship with Judge Edward Korman in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She then advocated for children’s rights as a trial and appellate attorney and through class action litigation at organizations including the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division, Advocates for Children and the Children’s Law Center. She teaches Legal Writing. She is also the Secretary of the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Association of the Bar of New York City and is involved in several pro bono projects serving children with disabilities. Susan N. Herman Centennial Professor of Law Professor Herman teaches Constitutional Law, Terrorism and Civil Liberties, criminal law and procedure courses, and Law and Literature. She is a highly regarded expert on Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the area of constitutional criminal procedure, and lectures to judges and lawyers around the country. She serves as General Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She was a staff attorney and Associate Director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, and Pro Se Law Clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Elizabeth Kane Elizabeth Kane is the Law School’s Director of Public Service Programs. She was formerly Director of the West Side SRO Law Project at Goddard Riverside Community Center running a homeless prevention project. She provided legal representation to thousands of low-income tenants, as well as organizing, policy, and legislative support to those concerned about the adequacy of low-income housing.
Aliza B. Kaplan Professor of Law Professor Kotkin teaches the Workers' Rights Clinic and New York Civil Practice, and has taught the Federal Litigation Clinic, Civil Rights, and Interviewing and Counseling. She has extensive litigation experience handling a range of civil rights law reform and class action suits. She served as Litigation Director for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and was an associate with Proskauer Rose in its Litigation Department. She is on the boards of MFY Legal Services and Disability Advocates, Inc.
Michael P. Madow Professor Madow clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was in private practice in Washington, D.C., and taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has done pro bono work in employment discrimination and death penalty cases and is a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Pro Se Litigation and the Due Process Committee of the ACLU. He teaches Criminal Law, Civil Liberties, and media law courses.
David Reiss Professor Reiss teaches Property, Real Estate Practice, and the Community Development Clinic. His scholarship concentrates on real estate issues in the non-profit, government and community sectors. His background includes clinical teaching at Seton Hall Law School, clerking for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and serving as an associate with the firms of Morrison & Foerster and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Prior to entering law school, Professor Reiss worked at a not-for-profit agency that provided housing for people with AIDS, the mentally ill and the homeless.
Dan R. Smulian Professor Reiss teaches Property, Real Estate Practice, and the Community Development Clinic. His scholarship concentrates on real estate issues in the non-profit, government and community sectors. His background includes clinical teaching at Seton Hall Law School, clerking for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and serving as an associate with the firms of Morrison & Foerster and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Prior to entering law school, Professor Reiss worked at a not-for-profit agency that provided housing for people with AIDS, the mentally ill and the homeless.
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