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About Anthony Sebok

Professor Sebok is an expert on legal ethics, litigation finance, tort law, and insurance law. Before coming to Cardozo in 2007, he was the Centennial Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Research at Brooklyn Law School where he taught for 15 years. He was a Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University from 2005-06, and in 1999, he was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Edward N. Cahn of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Sebok’s casebook, Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, which he coauthored with John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky, is used at several leading law schools. He is the author of Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence, articles and essays on jurisprudence, and is the coeditor of The Philosophy of Law: A Collection of Essays. Sebok has served as an expert witness concerning issues of litigation finance and is the Ethics Consultant to Burford Capital.  He is a member of the American Law Institute and is an MPRE Subject Matter Expert for the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

Positions

2007 - Present Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2013 - 2016 Distinguished Research Professor of Law, Swansea University
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2007 Co-Director, Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2006 - 2007 Associate Dean for Research, Brooklyn Law School
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2005 - 2007 Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
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1997 - 2005 Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
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1992 - 1995 Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
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Curriculum Vitae

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Professional Service and Affiliations

2005 - 2007 Products Liability Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
2000 - 2003 Products Liability Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1998 - 1999 Civil Rights Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1995 - 1996 Lectures and Continuing Education Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
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Honors and Awards

  • Berlin Prize Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin (1999)
  • Research Fellow, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany (1999)
  • Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University (2005-06)

Courses

  • Constitutional Law
  • Comparative Products Liability
  • Litigation Finance
  • Tort Theory
  • Mass Torts and Social Justice
  • Insurance Law
  • Remedies
  • Advanced Torts
  • Jurisprudence
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Torts

Education

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1993 PhD, Princeton University
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1991 JD, Yale Law School
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1986 M.Phil, Oxford University
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1984 BA, Cornell University
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Articles & Essays (56)