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FIELDS OF RESEARCH     AWARDS     GRANTS

EDUCATION
Cornell University, 1956-59 (mathematics, Russian); B.A. 1960, University of California,
Berkeley; J.D. 1964, University of Chicago; University of Freiburg, West Germany 1964-
65; Masters in Comparative Law, 1965, University of Chicago.

PROFESSIONAL
Tenured positions: Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University, since 1994;
Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia University, 1989-93; Professor of Law,
Columbia University, 1983-89; Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969-1983.

Visiting and non-tenured appointments in law: Cardozo 2001;  Brussels 1992;  Jerusalem 1993; Budapest 1990; Frankfurt 1980; Yale 1977; Harvard 1977; Boston College 1968; Washington (Seattle) 1966-68; Florida (Gainesville) 1964-1965.

Member of California Bar; Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County, 1971.

Founder and Editor, S'vara. A Journal of Philosophy and Judaism, 1990-93

Professional Television Moderator, 1993 to 1996.

Administrator, Summer Workshops for Eastern European Lawyers, Budapest, 1990-93.

Co-Director, Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia Law School, 1987 to present.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Criminal Law, Torts, Comparative Law, Legal Philosophy. Constitutional Law

Languages: Fluent in English, German, French, Russian, Hebrew, Spanish. Working
knowledge of Hungarian, Italian, and Japanese.

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Awards
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Books honored:
Our Secret Constitution designed as best book of 2001 by American Association of Publishers; A Crime of Self Defense selected for Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association (1989); Rethinking Criminal Law received Order of the Coif award from American Association of Law Schools as one of the best books on law published in the period 1976-78.
Numerous endowed lectures in the U.S. and abroad, including the Storrs Lectures at Yale in November 2001; Holtz Lecture at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2001; Litowitz Lecture at Yale 1998, and the Cardozo Lectures in Trento, Italy 1992.
Recognition in Germany:
Invited to represent foreign community of criminal law scholar at major national conference on criminal law in the 20th Century, Berlin, October 1999; recipient of the German Humboldt Forschungspreis (research prize) for law, 1996; first foreign scholar invited as keynote speaker to the German Society of Criminal Law Professors, Trier, 1989.  
Boards of Editors:
Criminal Justice Ethics, Ratio Juris, Law and Philosophy, Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Revista Penal, and the Oxford Journal of International Criminal Justice.    

Entry included in Who's Who in America (beginning with the 43rd edition in 1985).

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Grants
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2001:
 Grant from la Maison des science de l’homme for scholarly residence in Paris
1996:
 Humboldt Forschungspreis
1993:
 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Budapest, Hungary
1991-93:
 Ford Foundation grants to run workshop "Raising Rights Consciousness" in Budapest, Hungary
1990-91:
 National Endowment for Democracy to develop programs furthering the Rule of Law in Central Europe
1986-87:
 Guggenheim fellowship
1985-86:
Liberty Fund Grant to conduct workshop on Kantian Legal Theory
1983-84:
 Dana Foundation Grant to sponsor a workshop on comparative criminal law in Freiburg, W.
Germany, July 1984
1983-82:
Two grants from the Japanese-American Friendship Commission to support Japanese legal studies
1976-80:
 Grant from the German Marshall Fund to support comparative legal research
1979-80:
 Grants from the Dana Foundation to support post-doctoral fellows under my supervision
1976-77:
American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship

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