Dean Melanie Leslie has announced that Professor Anthony Sebok will hold the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Chair in Law at Cardozo School of Law. The Danciger Chair was established in 1981 and was most recently held by Professor Emeritus Monroe Price, Cardozo’s former dean.  Sebok is the co-director of Cardozo’s Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law.

“One of Cardozo’s most cited scholars, Professor Sebok has made significant and lasting contributions to the development of the law and to the Cardozo community, most notably in his role as the co-director of the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law,” said Dean Leslie.  “Professor Sebok is an excellent teacher who has made a lasting impact on generations of law students.”

Sebok is a nationally recognized legal scholar in tort law and an expert on legal ethics, litigation finance, and insurance law. Sebok’s casebook, Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, which he co-authored with John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky, now in its fifth edition, is used at several leading law schools. His new book on comparative tort law (with Mauro Bussani and Marta Infantino) will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2022. Sebok has also published books on legal philosophy, including Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence. Sebok has had recent scholarly articles published in the Cornell Law Review, University of Illinois Law Review, New York University Law Review, Journal of Tort Law and The Review of Litigation

Sebok began teaching at Cardozo in 2007, and prior to that was the Centennial Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Research at Brooklyn Law School, where he taught for 15 years. He taught as a visiting professor of law at Cornell Law School, Haifa University in Israel, Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, the Free University in Berlin and as a visiting professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University. He was a Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Sebok clerked for Chief Judge Edward N. Cahn of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He 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 a subject expert for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination for the National Conference of Bar Examiners, and serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee

He earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and holds an M.Phil in politics from the University of Oxford.