David Rudenstine is the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law's Sheldon H. Solow
Professor
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of
Law
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. He teaches
United States constitutional law
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.
Rudenstine has been teaching at Cardozo since 1979 and is the author of ''The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the
Pentagon Papers
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Case.''
His latest book, ''The Age of Deference: The Supreme Court, National Security and The Constitutional Order'', was published in 2016.
He served as
Dean of the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2001–9.
References
External links
Cardozo Faculty PageStudent news article on Dean Rudenstine's appointment
American legal scholars
Cardozo School of Law faculty
Deans of law schools in New York (state)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American jurists
20th-century American jurists
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