Faculty

Full-time Faculty

Ronald H. Filler (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Director, Center on Financial Services Law
Program Director, LL.M. in Financial Services Law
University of Illinois, B.A. 1970
George Washington University Law School, J.D. 1973 with honors
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. in Taxation 1976

Richard C.E. Beck (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Co-director, Graduate Tax Program
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

Lenni B. Benson (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Arizona State, B.S. 1980 cum laude, J.D. 1983 cum laude (Law Review, Managing Editor)

Andrew R. Berman (visit profile page)

Associate Professor of Law
Director, Center for Real Estate Studies
Princeton, A.B. 1984
New York University, J.D. 1988 cum laude (Journal of International Law and Politics, Editorial Staff)

Michael Botein (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Director, Media Center
Wesleyan, B.A. 1966
Cornell, J.D. 1969, Order of the Coif (Law Review)
Columbia, LL.M. 1972, J.S.D. 1979
Fulbright Fellowship, 1991

Lung-chu Chen (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Founder and President of the New Century Institute
National Taiwan University, LL.B. 1958 summa cum laude
Northwestern, LL.M. 1961
Yale, LL.M. 1962, J.S.D. 1964; Yale Fellowship, 1961–64
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1960–61

Tai-Heng Cheng (visit profile page)

Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center for International Law
Oxford University, B.A. Law 1999 (First Class Hons.) (Oxford University Scholar); M.A. 2004
Yale Law School, LL.M. 2000; J.S.D. 2004 (Howard M. Holtzman Fellow for International Law)

Sydney M. Cone III (visit profile page)

C.V. Starr Professor of Law
Director, Center for International Law
Haverford, B.A. 1952 summa cum laude
Yale, LL.B. 1959 (Law Journal, Editor in Chief)

Aleta G. Estreicher (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Bryn Mawr, A.B. 1970 cum laude praeter morem
Columbia, J.D. 1981 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (Law Review, Articles Editor)

Jeffrey J. Haas (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Florida State, B.S. 1984, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
University of Pennsylvania, J.D. 1988 cum laude (Law Review, Comment Editor)

Gerald Korngold (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
The College, University of Pennsylvania, B.A. 1974 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. 1977 cum laude (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Editor)

Peter C. Kostant (visit profile page)

Visiting Professor of Law
Yale College, B.A. 1968
Washington University in St. Louis, M.A. 1971
Fordham, J.D. 1978, cum laude (Law Review)

Molly Beutz Land (visit profile page)

Associate Professor of Law
Hamline University, B.A. 1996 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Yale, J.D. 2001 (Yale Law Journal, Editor and Admissions Committee; Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Editor)

Howard S. Meyers (visit profile page)

Visiting Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center on Business Law & Policy
Franklin & Marshall College, A.B. 1989 Phi Beta Kappa
Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, J.D. 1994 cum laude

Frank W. Munger (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Co-chair, Law and Society Colloquium
Kenyon College, B.A. 1964 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Legal Services Corporation Fulbright Fellow (1964–65)
University of Michigan, J.D. 1968, Ph.D. (Sociology) 1977

Beth Simone Noveck (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy
Director, Democracy Design Workshop and the “Do Tank”
Founder, State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds Annual Conference
Harvard, A.B. 1991 magna cum laude, A.M. 1992
Oxford, Rotary Foundation Doctoral Fellow 1993-94
University of Innsbruck, Ph.D. 1994, Fulbright Scholar
Yale Law School, J.D. 1997
Founding Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project

Sadiq Reza (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Editor, Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Research Paper Series (SSRN Journal)
2008 Carnegie Scholar
2009 Chair-Elect, Section on Islamic Law, Association of American Law Schools
Princeton, A.B. 1986 cum laude
Harvard, J.D. 1991 cum laude (Harvard International Law Journal, Articles Editor)

David Schoenbrod (visit profile page)

Trustee Professor of Law, New York Law School
Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise
Yale, B.A. 1963 magna cum laude; LL.B. 1968 (Law Journal)
Oxford, B. Phil. 1965, Marshall Scholar

Houman B. Shadab (visit profile page)

Associate Professor of Law
University of California at Berkeley, B.A. 1998 with high honors
University of Southern California School of Law, J.D. 2002 (Law Review, Executive Editor)

Michael B.W. Sinclair (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, B.A. 1968, B.A. Hons. (First Class in Philosophy) 1970, Ph.D. 1974
University of Michigan, Fulbright Fellow (Linguistics) 1973, J.D. 1978 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

Faith Stevelman (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Director, Center on Business Law & Policy
Yale, B.A. 1982, M.Phil. 1985
New York University, J.D. 1989

Marshall Tracht (visit profile page)

Professor of Law
Director, LL.M. in Real Estate
Yale University, B.A. 1983 cum laude
University of Pennsylvania, J.D. 1990 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif; M.B.A. 1990 with distinction 
 

Adjunct Faculty

Pamela Arnsten '97

Director, Prime Services, Credit Suisse
State University of New York at Albany, B.A. 1994;
New York Law School, J.D. 1997

Lee Augsburger

Senior Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer,
Prudential Financial
Wheaton College, B.A. 1981; Chicago-Kent College of Law,
J.D. 1987

Barbara Bishop

Former General Counsel of Pali Holdings Inc.
Former Senior Managing Director, Legal and Compliance
Department, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
Stanford University, B.A. 1972; New York University, J.D. 1976

Myles Edwards

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer,
AIA Capital Markets
Syracuse University, B.A. 1985; Catholic University
of America, J.D. 2002

Peter Feeley

Vice President, Compliance, Prudential Financial
Rutgers University, B.A. 1983; Seton Hall University, J.D.
1986; New Jersey Institute of Technology, M.S. 1998

Carl Felsenfeld

Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Dartmouth College, A.B. 1949; Columbia University School of
Business, M.S. 1950; Columbia University School of Law, J.D.
1954

Christopher P. Giordano’93

Partner, DLA Piper
Drew University, B.A. 1989; New York Law School, J.D. 1993

David L. Glass

Associate Director of the Center on Financial Services Law,
New York Law School
Head of RMD Legal Affairs Americas, Macquarie Group Ltd.
(Sydney, Australia)
Amherst College, B.A. 1968; Stanford University, M.B.A. 1972;
Fordham University, J.D. 1979

Kathleen Grimm ’80

Deputy Chancellor for Finance and Administration, New York
City Degpartment of Education
Manhattanville College, B.A. 1967; New York Law School, J.D.
1980; New York University, LL.M. (Tax) 1984

Jonathan Gupta

Senior Associate, Sidley Austin LLP
University of Alberta, B.A. 1998; University of Toronto,
Bachelor of Laws 2001

James Hagy

Founder and Managing Director, Rooftops Group LLC;
Former Partner, Jones Day Chicago
Case Western Reserve University, B.A. 1975 magna cum laude;
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D. 1978
Order of the Coif (Editor, Law Review)

Roseanne Harvey

Smith College, B.A. 1979; Brooklyn Law School, J.D. 1984

Randy Henrick

Associate General Counsel, Dealertrack Inc.
Fordham College, B.A. 1975; Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 1978 

Michael Huber

Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs
University of Berne (Switzerland) School of Law, J.D. equivalent 1997;
New York University School of Law, LL.M., 2000

Alex Hunt

Managing Director and Associate General Counsel,
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
London School of Economics, J.D.

William Jannace ’92

Managing Director, FINRA
New York University, B.A. 1981; New York Law School, J.D.
1992; Fordham Law School, LL.M. 1996
18 New York Law School
LL.M. in Financial Services Law 19

Lawrence Lederman

Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law Of Counsel, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Brooklyn College, B.A. 1957; NYU Law School, LL.B. 1966,
Order of the Coif (Law Review)

Beverly Loew ’94

Assistant General Counsel, U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission
Wheaton College, B.A. 1986; New York Law School, J.D. 1994

Tim Lorah ’96

Executive Director and Global Head, Anti-Money Laundering
Compliance Group, Morgan Stanley
Penn State University, B.A. 1982; Florida State University, M.A.
1984; New York Law School, J.D. 1996

Peter Marchetti

Director and Counsel, WestLB AG, New York Branch
Northeastern University, B.S. 1995; Suffolk University
Law School, J.D. 1999 magna cum laude

Zuhayr A. Moghrabi ’67

Partner, Moghrabi & Larkin
University of Tulsa (Petroleum Engineering), B.Sc. 1953;
Columbia University (Industrial Chemistry & Chemical
Engineering), M.A. 1956; New York Law School, J.D. 1967

David Moldenhauer

Partner, Clifford Chance
Princeton University, A.B. 1981; New York University, J.D.
1986

Catherine Napolitano

Counsel and Associate Director, CME Group
St. John’s University, B.S. 1984; St. John’s University, M.B.A.
1991; Brooklyn Law School, J.D. 2000

F. Peter Phillips ’87

Arbitrator, Mediator, and Consultant, Business
Conflict Management LLC
Dartmouth College, A.B. 1971 cum laude;
New York Law School, J.D. 1987 magna cum laude

Russell J. Pinilis

Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP
Franklin & Marshall College, B.A. 1991; New York University, J.D.
1996, LL.M. 2000

Lawrence P. Schnapf ’84

Associate, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Rutgers University, B.A. 1976; New York Law School, J.D.
1984

Lauren Teigland-Hunt

Managing Partner, Teigland-Hunt LLP
Georgetown University, B.A. 1986; Stanford Law School, J.D.
1996

Robert W. Wien ’76

President & CEO, Mid-Market Securities, LLC
State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A. 1972; New York
University, M.B.A. 1975; New York Law School, J.D. 1976

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