Professor of Law
BOOKS
Publications by Professor
Brook
Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions, 2nd ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2012).
Sales and Leases: Examples & Explanations, 6th ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2012).
Secured Transactions: Examples & Explanations, 5th ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2011).
Payment Systems: Examples & Explanations, 4th ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2010).
A Lawyer’s Guide to
Probability and Statistics. (Carswell, 1990.)
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“The Blue Bus Stop: On Professors’ Stories and
the Stories Plaintiffs Tell (Symposium: Decision and Inference in
Litigation).” 13 Cardozo Law Review 621–627
(1991).
“A Comment on Style: The Elevator as Metaphor (Symposium on Legal Education).” 30 New York Law School Law Review 547–560 (1985).
“The Use of Statistical Evidence of Identification in Civil Litigation: Well-Worn Hypotheticals, Real Cases, and Controversy.” 29 St. Louis University Law Journal 293–352 (1985).
“Contractual Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability Under the Law of New York.” 49 Brooklyn Law Review 1–29 (1982).
“Inevitable Errors: The Preponderance of the Evidence Standard in Civil Litigation.” 18 Tulsa Law Journal 79–109 (1982).
“Conditions of Personal Satisfaction in the Law of Contracts.” 27 New York Law School Law Review 103–167 (1981).
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Harvard, B.A. 1968 magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa, J.D. 1972 cum laude
Columbia, LL.M. 1983, Finkelstein Fellow, 1981-82.
Expert in commercial transactions, contracts, and credit.
At New York Law School since 1976.