Procedure

Oscar Chase regularly teaches courses on various aspects of civil procedure, including the basic first-year course, a specialized course on New York practice, and a seminar on comparative procedure. Another of his courses is Professional Responsibility, a survey of legal ethics. His books on procedure include Civil Litigation in New York (fifth edition, 2007), the CPLR Manual (1997), and Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007). In recent years, Chase has advocated for increasing the interdisciplinary and comparative aspects of law teaching and scholarship. He offers a popular colloquium, Culture and the Law, in which the tools of anthropology and sociology are used to add understanding of disputing systems. His book Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context (2005) explores how culture and disputing institutions interrelate. His work has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Chase is currently a vice president of the International Association of Procedural Law. Chase began his legal career as an attorney in the legal services program and was involved in establishing the law reform orientation of the first federally funded program in New York. He then taught at Brooklyn Law School before joining the NYU School of Law faculty, where he served as vice dean from 1994 to 1999.

Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in chemistry and was a research chemist before entering Columbia Law School, where she served as articles and book review editor of the Law Review. She is a member of the American Law Institute and served as a reporter for its Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes project. She also sits on the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. She has been a member of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society, and a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee, the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and the Federal Trade Commission. She is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. In addition to writing articles in her specialty areas, she has co-edited several books on intellectual property, and co-authored A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System (2012, with Graeme Dinwoodie) and an intellectual property casebook.

Samuel Estreicher has published more than a dozen books, including casebooks on labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; treatises on employment law and labor law, as well as a series on global issues in workplace law; and authored more than 150 articles in professional and academic journals. After clerking for Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, practicing with a union-side law firm, then clerking for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, Estreicher joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1978. He is the former secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and chief reporter of the Restatement (Third) of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute. He is also of counsel to Paul Hastings in its labor and employment and appellate practice groups. In recent years, Estreicher has published work in public international law, authored several briefs in the Supreme Court and U.S. courts of appeals on international issues, and has taught International Arbitration, International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and International Litigation in the Federal Courts. He also maintains an active mediation and arbitration practice. Estreicher received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.S. in industrial relations from Cornell University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review.

Helen Hershkoff’s teaching and scholarship involve civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, and constitutional law. She currently is a co-author of Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton, and Hershkoff’s Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, the leading casebook in the field, co-editor/co-author of Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007), and a member of the author team of the “Wright & Miller” treatise on federal procedure, focusing on the United States as a party. Hershkoff also writes about state constitutions, on such topics as social and economic rights, constitutional interpretation, and the relation between constitutional norms and the common law. With Stephen Loffredo she is author of The Rights of the Poor (1997). Hershkoff graduated from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. Until 1995, Hershkoff was a litigation associate at a New York–based firm, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, and an associate legal director at the ACLU. From 2006-09, Hershkoff was the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law.

Samuel Issacharoff’s wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, American and comparative constitutional law, and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process; his Law of Democracy casebook (co-authored with Stanford Law School’s Pam Karlan and NYU School of Law’s Richard Pildes) and dozens of articles have helped create this vibrant new area of constitutional law. In addition to ongoing involvement in some of the front-burner cases involving mass harms, he served as the reporter for the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute. Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of Yale Law School. He began his teaching career in 1989 at the University of Texas, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. In 1999, Issacharoff moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor in Procedural Jurisprudence. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Troy McKenzie ’00 joined the faculty of NYU School of Law in 2007. His scholarly interests include bankruptcy, civil procedure, complex litigation, and the federal courts. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and his law degree from NYU Law, where he was an executive editor of the NYU Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty, McKenzie was an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton. At the end of his first year of teaching at the Law School, McKenzie was honored with the Albert Podell Distinguished Teaching Award for outstanding achievement in the classroom.

Arthur Miller, CBE, is one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright, unfair competition, and privacy. Miller joined NYU Law from Harvard Law School, where he not only earned his law degree but also taught for 36 years. A renowned commentator on law and society, he won an Emmy for his work on PBS’s The Constitution: That Delicate Balance and served for two decades as the legal editor for ABC’s Good Morning America. Miller has argued cases in all of the U.S. circuit courts of appeals as well as several before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked in the public interest in the areas of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts. Miller has served as a member and reporter of the Advisory Committee of Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States by appointment of two chief justices of the United States, as reporter and adviser to the American Law Institute, and as a member of a special advisory group to the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Miller is the recipient of numerous awards, including five honorary doctorates, three American Bar Association Gavel Awards and a Special Recognition Gavel Award for promoting public understanding of the law. He recently was honored by the Queen of England for his charitable and media work by being named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Geoffrey Miller is author or editor of seven books and more than 200 articles in the fields of financial institutions, corporate and securities law, constitutional law, civil procedure, legal history, jurisprudence, and ancient law. He has taught a wide range of subjects including property, federal regulation of banking, land development, securities, financial institutions, the legal profession, and legal theory. Miller received his B.A. magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1973 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1978, where he was a Stone Scholar and editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He then clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court. After two years as an attorney adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice and one year with a Washington, D.C., law firm, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1983 and NYU Law in 1995. Miller has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of Basel, University of Genoa, University of St. Gallen, University of Frankfurt, University of Sydney, University of Auckland, University of Turin, and the Bank of Japan. Miller is a founder of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and co-convener of the Global Economic Policy Forum. He serves on the board of directors and audit committee of State Farm Bank. Miller was a 2011 inductee in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Burt Neuborne is one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers, teachers, and scholars. He is the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Neuborne has served as national legal director of the ACLU, special counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. He challenged the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, worked on the Pentagon Papers case, worked with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she headed the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, and anchored the ACLU’s legal program during the Reagan years. At the Brennan Center, he has concentrated on campaign finance reform and efforts to reform the democratic process. In recent years, Neuborne has served as principal counsel in cases that have resulted in the payment of $7.5 billion to Holocaust victims. He has received the University-wide Dis-tinguished Teaching Award and been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his best-known scholarly works is the two-volume Political and Civil Rights in the United States, which he co-authored with NYU colleagues Norman Dorsen and Sylvia Law, and Paul Bender. In 1996, Neuborne appeared as Jerry Falwell’s lawyer in the Milos Forman movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.