About the Authors

AuthorAnthony G. Amsterdam/Martin Guggenheim/Randy A. Hertz
ProfessionUniversity 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
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ANTHONY G. AMSTER DAM (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 ed ition. Amsterdam
began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Felix Frank furter, served as an Assistant
United States Attorney for two years, a nd then entered academia, teaching fi rst 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 a nd 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 lect ures 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 A id Society’s Juvenile Rights Div ision, where he repre-
sented children in delinquency and child protection proceeding s, then a staff attorney
and Acting Direc tor 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 America n Bar Associat ion’s Livingston
Hall award for outstandi ng 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 Advocac y Programs. He teaches a law school clinic in which students
represent young people in juvenile delinquency cases. He writes in t he 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

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