Teaching and Lecturing Experience

Columbia Law School. Seminar in comparative mass media law. Fall 2002-3

Fordham Law School. Seminar in mass media and Internet law. Spring 2002

PLI Libel Litigation Course. Originated, directed and chaired eleven two-day seminars conducted         biannually  over twenty years; edited eleven PLI course handbooks. 1979-2000

Lectured at annual PLI communications law conferences on media law subjects. 1977-2001

Lectured at USAID- funded workshops in former Yugoslavia, Armenia and Republic

of Georgia on media law subjects. 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001

Lectured at numerous regional and national conferences of media lawyers and

editors on media law issues. 1975-2001

Organized and conducted several domestic training sessions on media law

for foreign judges, lawyers and journalists. 1996-2001

Organized and lectured at Anglo-American defamation law seminars in London. 1998, 2000

Moderated press conferences at the United Nations and National Press Club

for Fund for Peace on disarmament issues. May, July 2001

Taught undergraduate courses at U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, in modern

European history and American diplomatic history. 1957-1959

 

Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP, New York, N.Y. Partner. General

Counsel for the Associated Press. Handled media litigation for Associated

Press and several other media clients. Emphasis on First Amendment

litigation and counseling. Handled civil litigation including antitrust,

employment discrimination, and taxation. 1967-May 2002

Governor’s Committee on Public Employee Relations, Co-counsel. 1968-1969

New York State Public Employment Relations Board, Special Counsel. 1967

Office of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, Albany, N.Y., Assistant Counsel to

the Governor. 1965-1967

Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine, Esqs., New York, N.Y., Litigation associate. 1961-1965

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., History instructor. 1957-1959

U.S. S. Tarawa (CVS-40), Ship’s officer. 1955-1957

 

Georgetown University Law Center, LLB. 1961

Villanova University, B.A. (English). 1955

Chair, Media Law Reform Project, ABA/Central and East European Law Initiative. 1996-Present

ABA Human Rights Trial Observer, Ankara, Turkey 2002

Chair, New York State Bar Association Committee on Media Law. 1988-1992

New York State Bar Association, Editorial Board of The Journal. 1997-Present

New York State Bar Association, Committee on Judicial Selection. 1992-Present

The Fund for Peace, Board of Trustees. 2000-Present

Chair, Board of Consultors, Villanova University School of Law. 2000-Present

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (political asylum litigation). 2000-Present

Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of

Minnesota, Advisory Board. 2000-Present

Forum on Communications Law, American Bar Association. 1980-Present

Chair, Editorial Board, Human Rights (ABA). 1996-1998

New York State Bar Association, Media Awards Committee. 1993-1996

New York State Committee on Audio-Visual Coverage of Court Proceedings. 1993-1994

Board of Visitors, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics,

Washington, D.C. 1987-1992

Chair, Board of Trustees, Convent of the Sacred Heart School, New York, N.Y. 1987-1990

President, Villanova University National Alumni Association 1970

 

Contributed to and edited eleven PLI course handbooks on libel and privacy.

Conceived, organized and edited three ABA/CEELI monographs on media law and freedom of

information law.

Articles on media law published in Communications Lawyer, Presstime, New York State Bar

Journal, Editor & Publisher, and Villanova Law Review.

Contributed assessments to ABA/CEELI of draft media law legislation for Moldova, Slovak

Republic, Romania, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, St. Petersburg, Kazakhstan,

Czech Republic, and Georgia.

Who’s Who in America.

The Best Lawyers in America (First Amendment).

Alumni Medallion, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University.

Loyalty Award, Villanova University.

John Peter Zenger Award, New York Press Association