Steven L. Schwarcz is an American lawyer. He is the Stanley A. Star Professor of Law and Business at

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Early life and education

Schwarcz was born and raised in New York City to father Charles Schwarcz. After earning his

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

from New York University Tandon School of Engineering, he received his

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...

(J.D.) in 1974 from the Columbia Law School.

Career

With his J.D. degree, Schwarcz worked as a partner at the law firms of

Shearman & Sterling Shearman & Sterling LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in New York City, United States. The firm's lawyers come from some 80 countries, speak more than 60 languages and practice US, English, EU, French, Spanish, German, Hong Kong, OHAD ...

and

Kaye Scholer Kaye Scholer was a law firm founded in 1917 by Benjamin Kaye and Jacob Scholer. The firm had more than 450 attorneys in nine offices located in the cities of Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, New York City (headquarters), Shanghai, Palo ...

and as a faculty member at Columbia Law School,

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, and

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. He eventually joined the law faculty at

in 1996, and was shortly thereafter appointed the Stanley A. Star Professor of Law and Business. In 2010, Schwarcz was elected a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and later a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. In 2017, Schwarcz accepted multiple visiting fellowships in the

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and two of his texts on international trade were chosen by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to present at its 50th anniversary Congress.

Personal life

Schwarcz married Susan Beth Kolodny in 1976. Two years later, Schwarcz, Gerard R. Wolfe, and

Paul P. E. Bookson Paul P. E. Bookson (January 25, 1933 – September 22, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician from New York (state), New York. Life He was born on January 25, 1933, in New York City, the son of Leo Bookson and Anna Bookson. He practiced law i ...

collaborated to restore the Eldridge Street Synagogue, which his grandfather has presided over in his prime.

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References

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