| Steve Zeidman
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4357
Office
170D
Steve Zeidman, Professor, Director of the Defender Clinic, has spent the
last 20 years working in the area of criminal defense. A graduate of Duke
University School of Law, he is a highly-respected trial lawyer and former
supervisor at the Legal Aid Society. He began his teaching career with substantive
and clinical courses and has taught at Fordham, Pace, and New York University
(where he won the NYU Alumni Association's Great Teacher Award). Prior to
joining the CUNY faculty in 2002, he was Executive Director of the Fund for
Modern Courts, a nonpartisan court reform organization.. He advocates on behalf
of indigent defendants in many venues, including as a member of the Indigent
Defense Organization Oversight Committee and the Commission on the Future of
Indigent Defense Services, and he also serves on the Board of Directors of
Prisoners’ Legal Services. He has made
numerous presentations on a range of issues, including judicial selection,
hearsay, and the ethical dimensions of the effective assistance of counsel. His published work has been cited in numerous
law reviews and journals, as well as by the New York Court of Appeals.
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