Stein Scholars Student and Alumni Programs

Stein Scholars alumna Karen Loewy '00 talks about the importance of the Stein Scholars program.

Stein Scholars alumna Leena Khandwala '04 talks about the importance of the Stein Scholars program.

Stein Scholars alumni Adam Libove '07 and Felice Segura '08 talk about the importance of the Stein Scholars program.

Stein Scholars alumna Caroline Hsu '09 talks about the importance of the Stein Scholars program.

State of New York Legislative Resolution

By: Senator Hoylman and Assembly member Rosenthal

Senate No. 2026; Assembly No. 453

COMMEMORATING the 20th Anniversary of the Stein Scholars Program
established by Fordham University School of Law's Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics on June 6, 2013

WHEREAS, Fordham Law School’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics established the Stein Scholars Program twenty years ago to support and educate law students who are committed, in the words of the Law School’s motto, to practicing law “in the service of others”; and WHEREAS, The Stein Scholars Program selects approximately 20 students from each entering Fordham Law School class to participate in the Program throughout the time they attend the Law School; and

WHEREAS, Interning in public interest law offices and participating in student volunteer organizations, Stein Scholars collectively contribute more than 10,000 hours of public service each year; and WHEREAS, Through their regular presentation of programs on contemporary issues of public interest law and their establishment of and leadership in other student organizations, Stein Scholars have enhanced Fordham Law School’s efforts to train students dedicated to public service and committed to the highest professional and ethical values; and WHEREAS, Stein Scholars have undertaken specialized academic work in public interest law and ethics to educate themselves for future careers in which they will employ their skills and knowledge to improve their communities and the lives of its members; and

WHEREAS, Graduates of the Stein Scholars Program, as attorneys and public citizens, have gone on to serve the public in countless ways, including through positions in federal, state, and local government agencies, through service to vulnerable and low-income clients who seek fulfillment of basic human needs such as housing, medical care, and fair work conditions, by protecting public safety and defending individual liberty, by promoting civil rights, environmental justice, and other causes, through efforts to improve the law and the legal profession, and through volunteer work and civic engagement in their communities; and

WHEREAS, Over the past 20 years, the Stein Scholars Program has benefitted from the dedication of its faculty and directors, from the support of the Fordham Law School administration, and from the generosity of the late Louis Stein and his friends and family, including his wife, the late Bess Stein, their three daughters, Ruth Nathanson, Audrey Merves, and the late Marilyn Bellet, and his grandchildren & great grandchildren; and

WHEREAS, Twenty years after its establishment, the Stein Scholars Program has grown into a strong, ongoing professional community of students and graduates who support each other’s efforts to serve the public and who, through their work, daily reaffirm the ideal of law as a public calling; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to commemorate the Stein Scholars Program established by Fordham University School of Law’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics for 20 years of public service; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted to the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics.

Adopted in Senate on May 23, 2013. Adopted in Assembly on May 20, 2013.

City of New York Proclamation

By: Council Member Gale Brewer, 6th District Manhattan

WHEREAS: Gale A. Brewer, Council Member of the 6th District, is proud to honor Fordham Law School's Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics on the 20th Anniversary of its Stein Scholars Program; and

WHEREAS: Established two decades ago, Fordham Law School’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics' supports and educates approximately 20 students from each entering Fordham Law School class that are committed, in the words of the Law School’s motto, to practicing law “in the service of others”; and

WHEREAS, Interning in public interest law offices and participating in student volunteer organizations, Stein Scholars collectively contribute more than 10,000 hours of public service each year. Stein Scholars have undertaken specialized academic work in public interest law and ethics to educate themselves for future careers in which they will employ their skills and knowledge to improve their communities and the lives of its members; and

WHEREAS: Through their regular presentation of programs on contemporary issues of public interest law and their establishment of and leadership in other student organizations, Stein Scholars have enhanced Fordham Law School’s efforts to train students dedicated to public service and committed to the highest professional and ethical values; and

WHEREAS: Stein Scholars have undertaken specialized academic work in public interest law and ethics to educate themselves for future careers in which they will employ their skills and knowledge to improve their communities and the lives of its members; and WHEREAS: Graduates of the Stein Scholars Program, as attorneys and public citizens, have gone on to serve the public in countless ways, including through positions in federal, state, and local government agencies, through service to vulnerable and low-income clients who seek fulfillment of basic human needs such as housing, medical care, and fair work conditions, by protecting public safety and defending individual liberty, by promoting civil rights, environmental justice, and other causes, through efforts to improve the law and the legal profession, and through volunteer work and civic engagement in their communities; and

WHEREAS: Over the past 20 years, the Stein Scholars Program has benefitted from the dedication of its faculty and directors, from the support of the Fordham Law School administration, and from the generosity of the late Louis Stein and his friends and family, including his wife, the late Bess Stein, their three daughters, Ruth Nathanson, Audrey Merves, and the late Marilyn Bellet, and his grandchildren & great grandchildren; and

WHEREAS: Twenty years after its establishment, the Stein Scholars Program has grown into a strong, ongoing professional community of students and graduates who support each other’s efforts to serve the public and who, through their work, daily reaffirm the ideal of law as a public calling; now, therefore

BE IT KNOWN: That Gale A. Brewer, Council Member of the 6th District, honors The Stein Scholars Program in celebration of its 20th Anniversary

Signed this 6th day of June in the year Twenty Thirteen