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The following remarks were made by Dean Joan G. Wexler at the November 3, 1997 Memorial Service for Professor Zaretsky. Barry Lewis Zaretsky personified all that it means to be a teacher, a scholar, a lawyer, and a good citizen. Born and raised in Brooklyn, and educated at New York University and the University of Michigan Law School, from which he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1994, Barry made an indelible mark on the worlds of teaching, scholarship, and community service. Immediately after graduating from law school, Barry joined the faculty of Wayne State University Law School. Four years later he returned to New York and joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty where in very short order he established himself as a world class teacher and scholar. In the classroom, he quickly earned a reputation as a warm and effective teacher who took his work and his student’s concerns – but not himself – very seriously. Barry was also a teacher’s teacher. He was a friend and mentor to younger colleagues, and as member of the Committee on Professional Development of the Association of American Law Schools he was involved in planning its workshops for new law teachers. Barry’s legacy as a scholar is enormous and diverse, and reflects his desire that his writing translate theory into practice. He wrote many cutting-edge articles on bankruptcy and commercial law and was a frequent lecturer on those topics. Perhaps the best evidence of his ability to integrate theory and practice was his service in 1990 as court-appointed examiner in the Revco Chapter 11 case. His mandate was to determine whether the $1.25 billion leveraged buyout of the drug store chain was a fraudulent conveyance. His report, issued in 1991, involved the application of ancient legal principles to modern financing techniques. Barry’s New York Law Journal column was read avidly by practitioners, and he was a member of the Editorial Board of Collier on Bankruptcy and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Commercial Law Report and the Commercial Law and Practice Guide. In 1996, he was named the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Visiting Professor at Georgia State University. He served as Co-Reporter for the American Bar Association Securitized Asset Task Force and as a consultant on Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code to the New York State Law Revision Commission. He was a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and a director of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Although teaching and scholarship were his main professional enterprises, Professor Zaretsky’s counsel was also sought by the nation’s leading practitioners. He served as counsel to the law firm of Arnold & Porter and, prior to that, to the law firm of Kelley, Drye & Warren. To the members of the Brooklyn Law School community, Professor Zaretsky was more than a distinguished scholar and lawyer. He was a beloved colleague, esteemed teacher, and great friend. His legacy as an educator exceeds the sum of the books and articles he wrote, the classes he taught and the law reforms he urged. Over the past two decades he has touched thousands of lives, and although his presence will be missed, it will long be felt. Barry is survived by his wife, Joan Glatman; three children, Arielle, Joseph, and Tamar; his parents, Harold and Edythe Zaretsky; and his sister and brother-in-law, Sandy and Robert Kanin. We hope that the knowledge that their loss is shared by so many others makes it in some way easier to bear.
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