Law Professor

A leading member of the U. S. State Department's legal staff, and secretary of the Class of 1932, Michael H. Cardozo has joined the faculty of Cornell University as Associate Professor of Law. His teaching duties will begin next fall, when he will conduct classes in international law and problems, and conflict of laws. He will also participate in planning and conducting a new course dealing with problems in international policy.

Cardozo entered government service in 1938 as a special counselor with the Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1940 until 1942 he was with the tax division of the Department of Justice and between 1942-45 he was on the legal staffs of the Lend-Lease Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration, serving for a year as attache of the American Embassy and Lend-Lease representative in Turkey.

He joined the State Department as chief of the legal division in the Office of Foreign Liquidation Commissioner and later became asistant legal adviser for economic affairs. He helped in the drafting of the Economic Cooperation Act, the Mutual Defense Act, and the Mutual Security Act. He is the author of numerous articles which have appered in legal journals.

Cardozo took his graduate work at Yale University Law School, receiving the LL.B. degree in 1935. He is married and has three children.

MICHAEL H. CARDOZO '32