Professor Steven Zeidman is the Founder and Co-Director of the Second Look Project: Beyond Guilt (secondlookprojectny.org) and the Defenders Clinic, has spent his entire career 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 in Manhattan. He began his teaching career with substantive and clinical courses and has taught at Fordham, Pace, and New York University. Professor Zeidman was awarded the NYU Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award and CUNY’s Outstanding Professor of the Year honor. Prior to joining the CUNY faculty, he was Executive Director of the Fund for Modern Courts, a nonpartisan, statewide court reform organization.
September 21, 2010 |