Richard H. Weisberg
Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
B.A., 1965, Brandeis University;
Ph.D., 1970, Cornell University;
J.D., 1974, Columbia University
Teaching at Cardozo since 1977
Specialties: Law and literature, constitutional law, trusts and estates
Professor Weisberg is involved in theoretical and litigation-oriented approaches to the subject of his book Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France. Since 2001, Professor Weisberg has been the representative of former plaintiffs in Vichy-related litigation to an oversight committee, consisting of American State Department and French governmental officials, which has responsibility for the day-to-day restitution of stolen banking assets to victims or their heirs. He also has pioneered the worldwide "Law and Literature" movement and is the author of The Failure of the Word; When Lawyers Write and Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law and Literature. An editor of the Columbia Law Review, he was associated with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Professor Weisberg was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for the Humanities of Cornell University, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1998, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for his study of the privatization of public discourse. In fall 2002, Professor Weisberg was on the visiting faculty at the Johns Hopkins program in Nanjing, China. From 1979 to 1986, he was president of the Law and Humanities Institute and has been its chair since 1987. In 1983, he became chair of the law and humanities section of the American Association of Law Schools. Professor Weisberg is founding editor of Law and Literature.