Author and BLS alumnus Robert M. Kaufman ’57 served on Brooklyn Law School’s Board of Trustees, served as New York City Bar Association President, and worked for many years as a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP.
The Hon. Jack Weinstein was a judge for 53 years and taught many Brooklyn Law School students. He co-authored Weinstein’s Federal Evidence with BLS Prof. Margaret Berger.
See "Book Talk: Sentencing, Second Chances & Justice, 4/1, with Judge Frederic Block" @ https://www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-events/events/2025/2025_04_01/ and Eric Yap's BLS Library Blog post "Criminal Justice Reform: A Second Chance" (Mar. 13, 2025) @ https://guides.brooklaw.edu/blogs/bls-library-blog/secondchance.
BLS alumnus "Jeanette Goodman Brill '08 was Brooklyn’s first woman magistrate and the second woman magistrate appointed in New York City." (quote from Brooklyn Law School Women Making History @ https://www.brooklaw.edu/about-us/diversity/womens-history-month) Brill co-authored The Adolescent Court and Crime Prevention (1938), which is available through HathiTrust.
The Hon. Jack Weinstein and BLS Prof. Margaret Berger co-authored the noted treatise: Weinstein’s Federal Evidence. The current second ed. of this treatise (w/ Editorial Consultant Prof. Mark S. Brodin) is available in subscription database Lexis+.
