Dean Melanie Leslie is pleased to announce that Rachel Landy has been appointed Director of the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, effective July 1. Landy has been an adjunct professor at Cardozo since 2018, teaching Contract Drafting and Technology Transactions, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor, she will teach Professional Responsibility and Technology Transactions.

 
Landy is the author of Beyond the Work Product: A Guide to Relationship-Based Transactional Lawyering (American Bar Association, 2021). She received a B.M. in music business from New York University and earned her J.D. from UCLA School of Law.

 
Landy comes to Cardozo from the public policy team at Google, where she managed YouTube’s response to legislative proposals globally relating to the platform’s business model. Prior to Google, she spent several years as a technology transactions attorney in private practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley, advising hundreds of companies on commercial contract and intellectual property matters relating to day-to-day business, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. 


Landy said, “I am honored and excited to join the Cardozo community and look forward to working with the Heyman Scholars as their legal careers begin to take shape.”