Personnel

Faculty and Senior Fellows

Eric J. Pan is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Washington, DC. Prof. Pan conducts research on financial regulation, capital markets, corporate governance and international law. Among his many professional activities, Prof. Pan directs the Chatham House City Series, serves as a member of the International Bar Association’s Securities Law Task Force on Extraterritorial Regulation and frequently speaks about international financial and corporate law issues across North America, Europe and Asia. Before joining Cardozo, Prof. Pan was an attorney in the Washington, DC office of Covington & Burling, where he worked in Covington’s corporate, securities, and international practice groups. His practice consisted of mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, securities regulation, general corporate advisory work, and public and private international law matters. Before his time at Covington, he was a Jean Monnet Lecturer in Law at Warwick University, England, and served as director of Warwick’s Programme in Law and Business. He was also a visiting fellow in international law at Cambridge University, England. Prof. Pan received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College, a M.Sc. in European and International Politics from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Email: epan@yu.edu
Bio (Chatham House)


Charles Yablon is Director Emeritus of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and Professor of Law at Cardozo.  He brings to Cardozo experience as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and was clerk to Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles on corporate law, jurisprudence and civil procedure and teaches Corporations, Mergers and Acquisitions and Comparative Corporate Governance at Cardozo.  Professor Yablon has taught corporate law at Columbia University, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BA from Columbia University and a JD from Yale University.
Email: yablon@yu.edu 


Michael H. Stone is a Senior Fellow of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo. He formerly was a Managing Director and General Counsel of Morgan Stanley Individual Investment Group (formerly Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) and interim Chief Legal Officer of Morgan Stanley & Co. Prior to joining Dean Witter in April 1982, Professor Stone was Chief Attorney, Branch of Enforcement at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1973 to 1977, Professor Stone served as a law clerk in the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Mr. Stone is a Past President of the Compliance and Legal Division, Executive Committee of the Securities Industry Association (SIA) and served on the SIA’s Federal Regulation Committee. He presently serves on the Mediation Panel for the Federal District Court in the Eastern District of New York. He is a member of the ABCNY Committee on Professional & Judicial Ethics, the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. Previously, he served on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Business Conduct Committee. Professor Stone teaches Ethics for the Business Attorney at Cardozo. Professor Stone holds a BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton, JD from Brooklyn Law School and LLM from New York University.


Andrea M. Corcoran is a Senior Fellow of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City and a Principal of Align International, LLC, a regulatory consulting firm, specializing in public sector solutions, in Washington, DC. Ms. Corcoran served as the first head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Office of International Affairs from July 1997 through February 2006. In this position, she represented CFTC at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), where she chaired the Implementation Committee that developed benchmarks for assessing implementation of the Principles and Objectives of Securities Regulation and designed the strategy for the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)/CFTC Transatlantic Dialogue.  She also has served as the Chairman of the Securities Advisory Committee of the Toronto Centre for several years. Ms. Corcoran previously was Director of the CFTC’s former Division of Trading and Markets (now the Divisions of Market Oversight, Clearing and Intermediary Oversight, and Office of International Affairs), receiving 2 Presidential Executive Rank awards (1988, 1996) in recognition of her outstanding contribution to government service. Among these were the policy responses to the collapse of Barings Bank and the Sumitomo Copper manipulation, known respectively, as the Windsor Accord, the Tokyo Communiqué and the “Boca Declaration,” and other cross border initiatives. Ms. Corcoran was CFTC staff representative to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets from 1987 to 1997. She received her BA with honors from Stanford University and an LLB from Harvard Law School where she held a teaching fellowship at Harvard University. From 1999 to present Ms. Corcoran has taught a class in commodity futures regulation as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center.


Sophie L'Helias is a Senior Fellow of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and Principal of L'Helias LLC. Ms. L'Helias has extensive experience advising companies and investors about corporate governance practices and initiatives. She founded the first French consulting firm focused on corporate governance and proxy solicitation strategies and campaigns and has served as a managing director of a New York-based hedge fund, developing corporate governance campaigns in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Germany. Ms. L'Helias was a founding member of the International Corporate Governance Network and has authored over one hundred articles and a book on corporate governance practices in Europe and the United States. Ms. L'Helias has an MBA from INSEAD and law degrees from the University of Pantheon Sorbonne Law School, the European Institute of Comparative Law of Saarbrücken and the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Cardozo Faculty In Related Areas

Several other members of Cardozo's full-time faculty specialize in corporate business and securities law and related fields.

Richard A. Bierschbach. A former attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the US Department of Justice, as well as a Bristow Fellow in the Department’s Office of the Solicitor General, Professor Bierschbach was an associate in the New York office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before coming to Cardozo.  He was articles editor of the Michigan Law Review and the recipient of the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship, the law school’s highest honor.  Professor Bierschbach clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and for US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Email: bierschb@yu.edu

David Carlson is the author of more than 50 articles on the subjects of debtor-creditor law and legal philosophy. He was editor-in-chief of the Hastings Law Journal and an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He recently published a revision of Gilmore's classic treatise, now titled Gilmore and Carlson on Secured Lending: Claims in Bankruptcy.Courses: Hegel's Logic, Debtor/Creditor Law.
Email: dcarlson@yu.edu

Daniel A. Crane was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where his practice focused on antitrust litigation and merger and joint venture antitrust counseling. After graduating with honors from the University of Chicago, he clerked for Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and then was a litigation associate at the Miami office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Courses: Contracts, Antitrust.
Email: dcrane@yu.edu

Laura E. Cunningham. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Cunningham was a member of the San Francisco law firm of Janin, Morgan & Brenner, where her practice focused on tax and estate planning. From 1988 to 1991, she was acting assistant professor of law at New York University. From 2001 to 2006, she was Cardozo's vice dean. She has written on income tax, partnership tax, estate tax, and trusts and estates, and is a coauthor of The Logic of Subchapter K: A Conceptual Guide to the Taxation of Partnerships and Partners.
Email: cunningh@yu.edu

Mitchell L. Engler was an acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law from 1997 to 1999 and holds a B.A., J.D., and LL.M. from New York University. He was an editor of the New York University Law Review and the Tax Law Review. For five years he was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. His scholarship focuses on income tax. Courses: Corporations, Federal Taxation.
Email: engler@yu.edu

Paul M. Shupack is a representative of the American Law Institute to the Uniform Commercial Code Drafting Committee for revision of Articles 3, 4, and 4a. He also served as the co-reporter for the ABA Task Force on asset securitization and the co-reporter for the ABA Task Force on electronic negotiable instruments. He is the consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission for Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He also did graduate work and was a teaching fellow in government at Harvard University. Courses: Commercial Law, Contracts.
Email: Shupack@yu.edu

Jeanne L. Schroeder practiced in corporate finance for 12 years as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and as a partner at Milgrim Thomajan & Lee. She is a prolific author of articles and books on commercial law and feminist jurisprudence. Her current work is on recent amendments to Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code and in developing a feminist theory of property incorporating the political philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel and the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan. Her book on this subject, The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine, was published in 1998. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Washington and Lee University, and The George Washington University. She holds a B.A. from Williams College and a J.D. from Stanford University. Courses: Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance, Commercial Law, Corporations.
Email: schroedr@yu.edu

Paul R. Verkuil was dean of Cardozo from 1997 to 2001. After practicing at two leading law firms in New York, he served on the law faculties of University of North Carolina, Tulane University, and the College of William and Mary, and as dean of Tulane Law School and president of the College of William and Mary. From 1992 to 1995 he was president and CEO of the American Automobile Association. He served as Special Master in the case of New Jersey v. New York, involving the sovereignty of Ellis Island. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and of the American Law Institute. He holds an A.B. from College of William and Mary, an LL.B. from University of Virginia, an LL.M. and J.S.D. from New York University, and an M.A. from New School for Social Research. Courses: Regulation and Deregulation, Administrative Law.
Email: verkuil@yu.edu

Edward A. Zelinsky . Professor Zelinsky was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a teaching fellow in the Yale University Department of Economics, and law clerk to Judge J. Joseph Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He teaches and writes on tax topics including pensions, tax policy, and state and local taxation. His articles have appeared in many publications including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Cardozo Law Review, Tax Notes and State Tax Notes. Professor Zelinsky frequently lectures before professional groups on tax issues and has testified before Congress, most recently, before subcommittees of the House Judiciary Committee. Among his public service activities, Professor Zelinsky, who lives in New Haven, served seven terms on that community's Board of Alderman and for three and one-half years on New Haven's Board of Finance.
Email: zelinsky@yu.edu

The Heyman Center Advisory Committee         

A team of leading law and business practitioners serve as members of The Heyman Center Advisory Committee. These individuals, known as Advisory Fellows, generously devote time and expertise to the planning and development of The Heyman Center’s programs and the mentoring of Heyman Scholars. The current Advisory Fellows are:

Jonathan S. Henes
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and Chair of The Heyman Center Advisory Committee
Jon Henes is a partner in the Restructuring Group of Kirkland & Ellis. His practice involves representing debtors, creditors' committees and distressed investors in acquisitions, restructurings and bankruptcy cases, and providing advice to boards of directors, senior managers and investors. Jon was recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding young restructuring lawyers of 2005 by Turnarounds & Workouts.

Tammy P. Bieber
Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Tammy Bieber is a partner in the Litigation Group of Shearman & Sterling.  Her practice primarily involves securities litigation and accountants’ liability. Tammy also has served as a Senior Legal Advisor to the Chief Accountant of the US Securities and Exchange Commission where she consulted on various policy issues affecting the audit and accounting professions and participated in rulemaking and enforcement proceedings.  
Adam W. Glucksman
Managing Director, BNP Paribas
Adam Glucksman is Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance and Merchant Banking Group. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Adam was in Corporate Development at Pitney Bowes, leading the deal sourcing, negotiation and execution effort, and a corporate lawyer with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

Harold K. Gordon
Partner, Jones Day
Harold Gordon practices corporate and commercial litigation and products liability, and represents entities and individuals in SEC and stock exchange investigations. Prior to joining Jones Day, Harold was a Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement at the SEC. He also served as a law clerk to a federal district judge. Harold was the Career Development columnist for the New York Law Journal for 2004 and 2005.

Gary T. Holtzer
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Adjunct Professor Law
Gary Holtzer is a partner in the Finance & Restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.  His practice focuses on the representation of creditors and debtors undergoing restructurings in and out of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.  Gary serves as the chairperson of the Mega-Case Subcommittee of the City Bar Association’s Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization. 

Jason M. Pantzer
Managing Director, Pantzer Properties
Jason Pantzer works with Pantzer Properties, Inc., a 35-year old real estate investment and management company in New York, and also serves as Managing Director for The Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group LLC. Previously, Jason worked in the real estate and/or mortgage groups of ING Barings, Lehman Brothers Inc. and Salomon Brothers.

Jeffrey G. Stein
Portfolio Manager, Neuberger Berman LLC
Jeff Stein is a portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman.  Prior to joining Neuberger Berman, Jeff worked in the Private Wealth Groups at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. He began his career at Proskauer Rose LLP in the Sports Law Group, and after this became Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey under Governors Whitman and Pataki.

Michael H. Stone
Senior Fellow of The Heyman Center and Adjunct Professor of Law
Mike Stone was previously Managing Director and General Counsel of Morgan Stanley Individual Investment Group (formerly Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) and interim Chief Legal Officer of Morgan Stanley & Co. Mike is a Past President of the Compliance and Legal Division, Executive Committee of the Securities Industry Association and served on the SIA’s Federal Regulation Committee.

Scott M. Zemser
Partner, White & Case LLP
Scott Zemser is a partner in the Bank Finance Practice of White & Case. He represents banks and investment banks as lead arrangers in connection with leveraged finance transactions, with an emphasis on sponsor driven acquisition financings. Scott worked on Wall Street for Kidder, Peabody & Co prior to entering law school. He is listed in the Euromoney/IFLR Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers.