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Sixth Annual Commencement Exercises, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Commencement Programs

Order of Exercises

Processional:

Herbert C. Dobrinsky, Vice President for University Affairs; Herald

Egon Brenner, Executive Vice President; Chief Marshal

Presiding:

Norman Lamm, President

Israel Miller, Senior Vice President

The National Anthem:

Cantor Sherwood Goffin, Lincoln Square Synagogue, New York

Invocation:

Rabbi Marvin J. Sugarman, Shaarey Zedek Congregation, North Hollywood, California

Welcome:

Monroe E. Price, Dean

Commencement Address:

Edward I. Koch, Mayor, City of New York

Conferring of Degrees:

Dean Price

Musical Interlude

Announcements:

Dr. Miller

Alumni Greetings:

Rosemary Claire Byrne, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Class of 1980

Awards and Honors:

Dean Price

Jacob Burns

Remarks:

Ralph Jules Reissman, Class …

Cardozo Revisited: Liability To Third Parties; A Real Property Perspective, Robert Kratovil

Seattle University Law Review

One of the most outstanding jurists of our time, Justice Benjamin Cardozo, articulated a principle spanning the "seamless web" of the law which, unfortunately, has been obscured by the attempts of courts, casebook writers, and law professors to pigeonhole the principle into familiar categories. Justice Cardozo established the principle that a person who undertakes a task is liable for injury to remote third parties, regardless of lack of privity, which arises from the person's negligent performance of the task. Cardozo also enunciated an exception to this rule which developed into a widely accepted opposing rule. This Article first traces the …