Cameron Stracher, a graduate of Harvard Law School, Amherst College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, teaches Legal Scholarship and Newsgathering and the Law, and conducts workshops and tutorials on writing and editing for law review students. He is the publisher of the New York Law School Law Review and Co-Director of the Program in Law & Journalism. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Information Law & Policy and the Center for Professional Values & Practice.
At Harvard, Professor Stracher was a winner of the Ames Moot Court Competition. Following law school, he worked at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, where he received an M.F.A. in creative writing, taught legal writing at the University of Iowa College of Law, and was a founder of the law school's Writing Resource Center. Upon his return to New York City, he worked as a commercial litigator before becoming litigation counsel at CBS. He spent five years at CBS, where he specialized in First Amendment litigation and other legal issues facing the media. Until August 2004, he was a partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in New York City, where he specialized in media law. Currently, in addition to his teaching responsibilities, he advises various media clients on newsgathering risks.
In 1996, his novel, The Laws of Return, was published by William Morrow & Co., and in 1998 his memoir, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair, was also published by Morrow. His latest book, Dinner with Dad, was published by Random House in May, 2007. His blog can be found at dinnerwithdad.com.
Professor Stracher's essays, opinions, and articles appear regularly in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer, and many other publications.
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