About the Authors

• Author: Anthony G. Amsterdam/Martin Guggenheim/Randy A. Hertz
• Profession: University Professor and Professor of Law at New York University/Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law/Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law
• Pages: 947-948

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ANTHONY G. AMSTERDAM (B.A., Haverford, 1957; LL.B., Pennsylvania, 1960)

is a University Professor and Professor of Law at New York University. Amsterdam has

litigated extensively in trial and appellate courts for more than half a century, special-

izing in cases raising constitutional issues in the fields of civil rights and criminal justice.

He has argued many cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, including

cases that developed the principal modern-day constitutional limitations upon capital

punishment. He is the author of the Trial Manual for the De fense of Criminal Ca ses, which

was first published by ALI-ABA in 1967 and is now in its fifth edition. Amsterdam

began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter, served as an Assistant

United States Attorney for two years, and then entered academia, teaching first at the

University of Pennsylvania Law School, then at Stanford University Law School, and

then joined the facult y of NY U School of Law, where he directed the Clinical and Trial

Advocacy program and the Lawyering Program for approximately a decade. He has

served as counsel, as a consultant, or as a member of the board of directors or advisors

for numerous civil rights organizations.

MARTIN GUGGENHEIM (B.A., S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, 1968; J.D., New York Univer-

sity, 1971) is the Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law at New York University

School of Law. Guggenheim teaches a law school clinic in which law students represent

parents in abuse, neglect, foster care rev iew, and termination of parental r ights proceed-

ings. He writes and lectures on the rights of young people and the rights of parents in

the legal system, and has litigated several important juvenile rights and parents’ rights

cases in the federal a nd state courts. Upon graduating from law school, Guggenheim was

a staff attorney with The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division, where he repre-

sented children in delinquency and child protection proceedings, then a staff attorney

and Acting Director of the ACLU’s Juvenile Rights Project, and then joined the faculty

of N YU S chool of Law, w here he serv ed as d irec tor of N YU ’s cli nica l and a dvoca cy pr o-

grams for half a decade. He is a recipient of the American Bar Association’s Livingston

Hall award for outstanding advocacy in the f ield of juvenile justice.

RAN DY HERTZ (B.A., Carleton, 1976; J.D., Stanford, 1979) is a Professor of Clinical

Law at NYU School of Law and serves as t he Vice Dean of the law school and Director

of Clinical and Advocacy Programs. He teaches a law school clinic in which students

represent young people in juvenile delinquency cases. He writes in the areas of crimi-

nal and juvenile justice and is the co-author, with Professor James Liebman, of Fede ral

Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure, now in its 6th edition. Upon graduating from law