Hon. Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to Address Graduates at Cardozo's 38th Commencement Ceremony
May 5, 2016 - Dean Melanie Leslie has announced that Hon. Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will address Cardozo School of Law graduates at the school’s 2016 commencement ceremony on May 31, 2016 at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.
Judge Katzmann became Chief Judge in 2013. He has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1999. He has a long-established relationship with Cardozo Law, most notably with his role in the creation of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic. He has been involved in organizing major conferences at Cardozo in recent years, and has generously given his time as a speaker and participant at law school events.
Judge Katzmann is nationally recognized as a leader in efforts to foster effective pro bono representation of the immigrant poor. He championed the creation of the Immigrant Justice Corps in 2014, a pioneering fellowship program designed to provide representation for immigrants.
His articles focus on a variety of subjects, including regulation, judicial-congressional relations, disability, the administrative process, court reform, and the war powers resolution.
Judge Katzmann’s books include Judging Statutes; Regulatory Bureaucracy: The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Policy; Institutional Disability; Courts and Congress; editor and project director of The Law Firm and the Public Good; co-editor of Managing Appeals in Federal Court; editor and contributing author of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life; and editor and contributing author of Judges and Legislators.
He has chaired the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicial Branch, and serves as a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference. He is also a commissioner on the Supreme Court Fellows Commission.
Judge Katzmann holds an A.B. summa cum laude from Columbia College, A.M. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.