Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has received a $2 million donation to bolster its family law and public service initiatives. The gift comes from Susan Halpern, a 1984 graduate who has worked for the City of New York as an attorney in the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Ms. Halpern also served as general counsel at the Citizens’ Committee for Children before entering private practice as an adoption attorney in 1991.
Half of the donation will benefit Cardozo’s family law program, which will be renamed the Gertrud Mainzer Program in Family Law, Policy and Bioethics, in honor of late Family Court judge and Cardozo professor. The program will use the funding to expand family law clinical offerings, increase the number of students receiving summer stipends in family law practice and for lectures, workshops and other activities.
