Leadership and Administration
Joseph Landau
Dean of Fordham Law School
Joe Landau is the 12th dean of Fordham Law School and the Paul Fuller Professor of Law. He became the associate dean of academic affairs in 2021 and joined the faculty in 2010. A scholar of constitutional law and procedure, Landau twice won Fordham Law School’s Teacher of the Year Award and received the Fordham Law Dean’s Distinguished Research Award in 2020-2021. Before joining Fordham, Landau was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he specialized in securities litigation and co-directed the firm’s pro bono practice group in immigration and international human rights. He served as chair of Immigration Equality from 2010 to 2013. He clerked for the Hon. David Trager of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Hon. Betty Binns Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Landau was the assistant managing editor at The New Republic magazine in Washington, D.C.
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Pamela Bookman
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Pamela Bookman is an expert in the fields of civil procedure, contracts, international litigation and arbitration, and conflict of laws. In 2022, she received the Fordham Law School Dean’s Distinguished Research Award and served as the Clifford Scholar-in-Residence at DePaul Law School.
Prior to academia, she was counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, representing clients in complex commercial business disputes and maintaining an active pro bono practice.
Following law school, she clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, President Rosalyn Higgins and Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Norrinda Brown
Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Director of Clinical Programs
Norrinda Brown is a recognized expert on housing law issues. Since joining Fordham in 2021, Brown has served as director of the Housing and Urban Law Clinic. Her scholarship addresses race, gender, and access to housing and law and appears in leading law journals.
Prior to law teaching, Brown spent almost a decade in government practice at the United States Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division as a trial attorney advocating on behalf of victims of housing discrimination and practiced at Hogan & Hartson LLP and DLA Piper LLP.
Bennett Capers
Associate Dean for Research
(Sabbatical Fall 2024)
Bennett Capers is a nationally recognized scholar whose work falls at the intersection of race, gender, technology, and criminal justice. His work has appeared in leading law journals and is widely cited by courts. He holds the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair and is the faculty director of the Center on Race, Law and Justice.
Prior to academia, he spent nearly 10 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York and also practiced with the firms of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Interim Associate Dean for Research
Benjamin C. Zipursky, James H. Quinn ’49 Chair in Legal Ethics, will serve as interim associate dean for research during the fall of 2024. A leader and leading voice of the Fordham Law faculty since 1995, Zipursky is a nationally and world-renowned scholar in torts, jurisprudence, and legal ethics. He served as associate dean for research from 2010 to 2013 and associate dean for academic affairs from 2001 to 2003.
Ron Lazebnik
Associate Dean for Administration
Since joining Fordham in 2009, Ron Lazebnik has directed the Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic and the Law and Technology Clinic, and established himself as a leading administrator within the school’s experiential program, serving as faculty director of externships and other critical roles.
Before Fordham Law, he was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, representing clients in various matters including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and general commercial litigation.