Peter M. Fishbein

Peter M. Fishbein was Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review and a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Community Service Award from Brandeis University and the Jurisprudence Award from the Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training (ORT).

Mr. Fishbein is presently a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation, a Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and the I Have A Dream Foundation.

Experience

• Deputy Secretary General, International Peace Corps (1962–64)
• Chief Counsel to the Committee on the Executive Branch of the New York State Constitutional Convention (1967)
• Trustee of Goddard College (1967–1975)
• Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University Law School (1970–1984)

Bar Admissions

• New York
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Circuits
• United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Memberships

• Member, New York State Governor's Board of Public Disclosure (1975–1977)
• Trustee, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York (1975–1981)
• Member, Presidential Commission to Nominate Candidates for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1980)
• Director, Citizens Budget Commission (1985-1992)
• Member, Whitney Museum Legal and Ethics Committee (1994-2000)
• Director, the Healthcare Chaplaincy (1994-2000)
• Visiting Professor, Middlebury College (1996)

Education

• Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1958
• Dartmouth College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1955; Phi Beta Kappa