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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

Alessandro Cocco

Managing Director, Associate General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, graduate degree in law 1992; Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, graduate degree in law 1994; College of Law, London, England, postgraduate degree in law 1995

Michael Considine

Co-Chair of Government Enforcement and Internal Investigation Practice Group, Seward & Kissel
Boston College B.A. 1980 magna cum laude; Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 1984

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

Charles Gelinas

Counsel, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Dartmouth College, B.A. 1998; Harvard Law School, J.D. 2001

Christopher P. Giordano ’93

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

David L. Glass

Associate Director, 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

Jonathan Gupta

Lead Editor, Commodities & Derivatives Law Report, Bloomberg LP

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)

Randy Henrick

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

Jeff Horvath

Managing Director, Deutsche Bank
Lehigh University, B.S. 1992; Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 1995

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,
JPMorgan 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

Sara Kelsey

Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. 1973; New York University School of Law, J.D. 1976

Lawrence Lederman

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

Garry Lischin '79

Managing Director and General Counsel, Pershing
American University, B.A. 1975; New York Law School, J.D. 1979

Steven D. Lofchie

Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Sarah Lawrence College, B.A. 1979; Columbia Business School, M.B.A. 1984; Yale Law School, J.D. 1989

Tim O'Neal Lorah ’96

Managing 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

Kevin McGrath

Senior Trial Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, NY Regional Office

Columbia College, B.A. 1976 magna cum laude; Harvard Law School, J.D. 1980

David Moldenhauer

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

Catherine Napolitano

Director and Associate General Counsel, Bank of America

St. John’s University, B.S. 1984; M.B.A. 1991; Brooklyn Law School, J.D. 2000

Russell J. Pinilis

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

William Renahan

Associate General Counsel, Legg Mason
Hobart College, B.A. 1991; Albany Law School, J.D. 1994, New York University Law School, LL.M. 1995<

Jeffrey L. Robbins

Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Stanford University, B.A. with distinction 1989, M.A. 1989; Harvard Law School, J.D. 2001 magna cum laude

Alisa L. Ruvinsky

Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase
McGill University, B.A. 1996; York University School of Law, J.D., M.B.A 2000

Kathleen Scott

Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP
Villanova University, B.A. 1979; American University, Washington College of Law, J.D. 1982

Julian Swearengin

General Counsel, Bessemer Trust
University of Michigan, B.A. 1993; Wayne State University Law School, J.D. 1996; Harvard Business School, M.B.A. 2003

Lauren Teigland-Hunt

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

Peter von Maur ‘86

Senior Counsel, RBC Capital Markets Corporation
Franklin & Marshall College, B.A.; New York Law School, J.D. 1986

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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