Word: cardozo
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They established the Innocence Project in 1991 as a clinic for students at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Scheck has taught for more than 20 years. The clinic is a low-key place, hidden away on the 11th floor of an office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society...
...other visiting fellows are Richard T. Foltin, a lawyer for the American Jewish Committee who also teaches at Cardozo Law School; William H. Kenety, a Department of Justice trial attorney; Katherine Kennedy, an environmental attorney with expertise in energy-related issues; Amy Schwartz, a New York district attorney; and Shavi F. Shrink, the founder and executive director of the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center...
...page book, which was published last year by the Harvard University Press, has been widely praised as the definitive biography on Cardozo, a progressive justice who voted to affirm the New Deal programs on which the court was deeply divided...
...knew I was interested in judicial biography and he asked me if I was interested in writing about Cardozo, because he thought it was time," Kaufman said. Kaufman had been working as a legal clerk to Frankfurter at the time...
Kaufman had written essays and law review articles--including some on Cardozo--in the past, but Cardozo was his first full-scale biography, and Kaufman said the genre posed new challenges...