Center Leadership and Affiliated Faculty

Suzanne M. Endrizzi ’96
Assistant Dean

Suzanne is the founding Assistant Dean of the Fordham Law Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC). Fordham Law announced the creation of the Center in April 2019, formally launching it in the fall of 2019. In this role, Suzanne provides strategic direction for the CJEC and works collaboratively with the Center’s Affiliated Faculty. She develops unique and innovative programming to engage with the judiciary and foster collaboration with courts with a focus on the role of the judiciary, the rule of law and civics. In addition, Suzanne manages the judicial clerkship platform for JD students and alumni working collaboratively with the Faculty Clerkship Committee.

Prior to launching the CJEC, Suzanne led the Law School's Career Planning Center for 15 years developing the strategic vision and direction for the department, crafting an innovative and comprehensive marketing strategy to deepen and expand the employer base, representing the department externally through employer outreach and presentations, and launching a series of initiatives to enhance support for the professional development of our JD students and alumni. Previously, Suzanne was a legal search consultant working with Fortune 500 in-house legal departments to identify and recruit talent. She also practiced corporate law at Brown & Wood (now Sidley LLP) and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Suzanne is a graduate of Law School and Villanova University, College of Commerce & Finance.

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Affiliated Faculty

Pamela Bookman
Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Law

Professor Pamela Bookman is an expert in the fields of Civil Procedure, Contracts, International Litigation and Arbitration, and Conflict of Laws. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, and other leading law journals.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Bookman was a Counsel in the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial business disputes with a focus on transnational litigation and maintained an active pro bono practice.

Professor Bookman received her B.A. in Russian Literature from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Virginia Law Review and received the Rosenbloom Award for enhancing the academic experience of her fellow students. Following law school, Professor Bookman clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, President Rosalyn Higgins and Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Paul Radvany
Clinical Professor of Law

Paul Radvany teaches the Securities Arbitration Clinic, as well as Trial and Arbitration Advocacy and the Criminal Justice Externship Seminar. He previously was a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division for the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. While working there, he was a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he taught Trial Practice, the Federal Court Clerk Externship class, and the Profession of Law class and also was the founder and instructor of the Disability Law Project. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Prof. Radvany worked at Debevoise & Plimpton as a litigation associate. Prior to working at Debevoise, Prof. Radvany clerked for the Hon. Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York, and received his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.