BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW • YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
August 31, 2022
BY EMAIL
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman
President, Yeshiva University
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
Dear President Berman:
As faculty members of Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, we are writing to express our profound disappointment that Yeshiva University continues to enforce a discriminatory policy that harms its LGBTQ+ undergraduate students and has gone so far as to seek the intervention of the United States Supreme Court in this matter. Before the initiation of this litigation, a group of us met with you to communicate our views that YU was acting in a way that was both improper and illegal. You expressed your profound respect for all YU students. You
promised that principle would guide the University’s future actions. The position taken by YU in litigation, however, does not communicate respect to all of its students.
As a member of the Yeshiva University community, Cardozo Law School has consistently supported and respected our LGBTQ+ students without hesitation. Undergraduate students deserve no less, and the courts have confirmed that the University is violating the law by refusing to permit YU’s Pride Alliance to meet on the same terms as other student organizations. Even if the law were otherwise, YU’s continued discrimination would be wrong and contrary to the very principles that bind us together in community.
We write, once again, to ask you to accept the New York State court’s ruling, to withdraw the request to the Supreme Court, and to treat the YU Pride Alliance with the same respect and dignity Yeshiva shows other student organizations.
Very truly yours,
Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud
Assistant Professor of Law
Michael Burstein
Professor of Law
Vice Dean
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David Carlson
Professor of Law
Robert Kirkman Collins
Professor of Practice
Rebekah Diller
Clinical Professor of Law
Pamela Foohey
Professor of Law
Myriam Gilles
Paul R. Verkuil Research Chair and Professor of Law
Betsy Ginsberg
Clinical Professor of Law
Elizabeth Goldman
Clinical Professor of Law
Toby Golick
Clinical Professor of Law (Emeritus)
Luís C. Calderón Gómez
Assistant Professor of Law
Peter Goodrich
Professor of Law
Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin
Clinical Professor of Law
Michael Herz
Arthur Kaplan Professor of Law
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Young Ran (Christine) Kim
Professor of Law
Barbara Kolsun
Professor of Practice
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Ramya Kudekallu
Telford Taylor Human Rights Teaching Fellow of Clinical Law
Christopher Lau
Visiting Assistant Professor
Rachel Landy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Heyman Center
Kate Levine
Professor of Law
Burton N. Lipshie
Professor of Practice and Director of Advocacy Skills Training
Lela Love
Professor of Law
Alma Magaña
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Peter Markowitz
Professor of Law
Kathryn Miller
Associate Professor of Law
Lindsay Nash
Associate Professor of Law
Leslie S. Newman
Professor of Law
Mauricio E. Noroña
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Jacob Noti-Victor
Associate Professor of Law
Jonathan H. Oberman
Clinical Professor of Law
Deborah Pearlstein
Professor of Law
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Michael Pollack
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Alexander Reinert
Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy
Gabor Rona
Professor of Practice
Michel Rosenfeld
University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy
Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights
Jessica Roth
Professor of Law
David Rudenstine
Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law
Leslie Salzman
Clinical Professor of Law
Andrea Kupfer Schneider
Professor of Law and
Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution
Jeanne L. Schroeder
Professor of Law
Anthony Sebok
Professor of Law
Kate Shaw
Professor of Law
Edward Stein
Professor of Law
Stewart Sterk
Mack Professor of Law
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Martin Stone
Professor of Law
Saurabh Vishnubhakat
Professor of Law
Victor Wang
Acting Director, Tech Startup Clinic
Matthew Wansley
Assistant Professor of Law
David J. Weisenfeld
Professor of Practice
Samuel Weinstein
Professor of Law
Elizabeth Wu
Clinical Teaching Fellow
Felix Wu
Professor of Law
Charles M. Yablon
Professor of Law
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