Brooklyn Law School -- Dean Joan Wexler
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Joan G. Wexler
Joseph Crea Dean and Professor of Law
Education:
B.S., Cornell University
M.A.T., Harvard University
J.D., Yale Law School
Courses: Family Law, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, Trusts and Estates
Dean Wexler has been Dean of the Law School since 1994. She joined the faculty in
1985, and served as the Law School's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for six years
before being named Dean. She also taught at New York University School of Law,
worked as an associate with the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, and served as a Law
Clerk to Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of New York.
Dean Wexler is a prominent member of the legal community. She is President of the
Federal Bar Council, was Vice-President from 2001-2002, chaired its 2002 Winter Bench
and Bar Conference, and has served on the Board of Directors; she was also the
President of the Federal Bar Council Foundation. She has been an active member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she served as Vice-President from
1996-1997, and has served on many of its committees, including chairing the Committee
on Honors. She has been a long-time member of the New York Women's Bar
Association, sitting on its Board of Directors as well as serving twice as its VicePresident. She received the organization’s President’s Award in 2002. She is a member
of the American Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education Committee, the New
Dean's Seminar Planning Committee, and the Independent Law School Committee.
Dean Wexler is a member of the American Law Institute, and serves on the boards of a
number of other organizations, including the Practising Law Institute, where she serves
on its Executive Committee, the Executive Committee of the Downtown Brooklyn
Council, and the Fund for Modern Courts. She is also a member of the NYS Unified
Court System's Commission on Alcohol and Substance Abuse in the Profession, a
member of the Committee to Restore the Thurgood Marshall Landmark Courthouse at
Foley Square, and an attorney member of the Judicial Conference of the State of New
York.
She has published extensively in the areas of family and matrimonial law and is a
frequent lecturer before bar groups on legal education. She has received numerous
honors for her commitment to the advancement of the interests of adolescents and their
families.
Contact:
250 Joralemon Street
Room 920
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718 780-7900
Email: joan.wexler@brooklaw.edu