We welcome these six new members to the Cardozo faculty with great joy. Below are brief biographic sketches of each with links to full details of their academic and career achievements, which are too numerous to list here.

Mariana Berenice Acevedo Nuevo joins Cardozo as an assistant clinical professor of law. Professor Acevedo Nuevo received her M.P.A. from Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas and her L.L.M. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she is a clinical supervising attorney in the New Business Community Law Clinic. Prior to that, Acevedo Nuevo was the Shriver Housing Attorney at Legal Access Alameda, where she was an advocate for housing rights for low-income residents.

Wilfred Codrington III joins Cardozo as the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law. He is an expert in constitutional law, election law, race and the law and civil rights and civil liberties. Professor Codrington received his A.B. from Brown University, his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his M.P.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He most recently was a member of the faculty of Brooklyn Law School, where he was a dean’s research scholar focusing on constitutional reform, election law and voting rights. Before that, he was a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and was also a fieldwork supervisor for the Brennan Center Advocacy Clinic at NYU.

Haiyun Damon-Feng joins Cardozo as an assistant professor of law. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She most recently was an acting assistant professor of lawyering at NYU School of Law. Professor Damon-Feng’s expertise and research are at the intersection of administrative law and immigration law and policy, with a focus on issues relating to executive power, federalism, procedure and race. 

Tyson-Lord Justice Gray joins Cardozo as the Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. He received his B.A. from Trinity International University, his J.D. from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and his PhD from Vanderbilt University. He most recently was a visiting assistant professor of law at Boston University School of Law. Professor Gray’s scholarship addresses social justice concerns within the areas of environmental law, food law and cannabis law.

Rachel Landy transitions into a full-time faculty role at Cardozo as an assistant professor of law. Since 2022, Professor Landy has been the Director of Cardozo’s Heyman Center on Corporate Law and Governance and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. She received her B.M. from New York University and her J.D. from UCLA Law School. Before coming to Cardozo, she worked on the public policy team at Google, where she managed YouTube’s response to legislative proposals globally relating to the platform’s business model, and as a technology transactions attorney in private practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley. Her areas of expertise include business law and intellectual property. 

Zalman Rothschild joins Cardozo as an assistant professor of law and as Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion. He received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, an M.A. from Yeshiva University in Jewish philosophy, a PhD in Religion & Jewish Studies from New York University and a B.A. from Binghamton University. Professor Rothschild also received his Rabbinic Ordination from the Ariel Institute Rabbinical School of Jerusalem. He most recently was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer in law at The University of Chicago Law School and his expertise is in the First Amendment, anti-discrimination law and law and religion.