Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former New York Times Executive Editor Max Frankel is co-teaching a course with former Cardozo Dean David Rudenstine entitled "The First Amendment, the Press and the Democratic Order.” The course was designed by Rudenstine as part of Cardozo’s ongoing effort to offer students the opportunity to study fundamental and enduring issues that contemporary events have moved to center stage.
As Chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau, Frankel was a key figure in the decision to publish what was popularly known as the Pentagon Papers, which led to one of the most important and extraordinary First Amendment cases in American history. Rudenstine, now a professor, wrote the definitive history of the Pentagon Papers case, The Day the Presses Stopped.
Before serving as Executive Editor from 1986-1994, Frankel was Chief Washington Correspondent and head of The Times Washington bureau from 1968 to 1972, the editor of the Sunday paper from 1972-1976, and the editor of the editorial page from 1977 to 1986. After stepping down as Executive Editor, Frankel wrote a Times Magazine column on the media until 2000.
