Norman L. Greene
Partner
Norman L. Greene has extensive experience in a wide-range of litigation, such as commercial litigation, real estate (including cooperatives and condominiums, discrimination, and zoning), construction, product liability, securities, breach of contract, including government contracting and insurance, unfair competition and professional liability, including professional malpractice. He has handled cases in trial and appellate courts (including the United States Supreme Court), mediation and arbitration, and has engaged in general problem-solving short of litigation. In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Greene consults on public policy.
His wide list of publications and presentations, bar association activities, uniform law work, and other activities exemplify his interests and experience in law reform, including judicial selection; criminal justice (including capital punishment); substantive law issues, including product liability; and overall litigation practice and strategy. His work on judicial selection reform includes developing appointive systems for the selection of state court judges, which, in addition to his publications, was the subject of a symposium he organized in 2006 at Fordham Law School.
Bar and Community Service:
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chair, Committee on Uniform State Laws 1990-1993; Chair, Committee on Lectures and Continuing Education, 1993-1996; Chair, Committee on Capital Punishment, 1998-2002; Member: Executive Committee 2004-present; Long-Range Planning Committee, 1993-1996; Product Liability Committee, 1988-1990; Council on Criminal Justice, 1999-2002; Committee on Capital Punishment 1997; 2002-present)
New York State Bar Association (Member, Special Committee on Court Structure and Judicial Selection); New York County Lawyers Association (Member, Task Force on Judicial Selection)
American Bar Association (Member, Section of Litigation)
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation
Vice President and Director, Center for Family Support, New York, N.Y.
Board Member, Law Alumni Association, New York University School of Law
Commissioner, New York State Commission on Uniform State Laws
Member, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 1992-1997; 2000- present; (Member, Drafting Committee on Model Punitive Damages Act; Chair, Study Committee on Regulation of Medical Examiners).
Speaking Engagements & Panel Discussions:
Presentations on judicial selection reform, including at law schools and bar conventions; organized symposium on judicial selection reform at Fordham Law School on April 7, 2006, entitled “Rethinking Judicial Selection: A Critical Appraisal of Appointive Selection for State Court Judges”; presentations on criminal justice and capital punishment, including at the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, American College of Family Trial Lawyers Annual Convention (San Diego, CA), religious institutions, schools, theaters, and other places; presentations on litigation and related topics, including as member of faculty of Fordham University School of Law, School of Continuing Legal Education Program (organizer and founder of course on Product Liability), 1990-1994, and at the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Publications:
Capital Punishment:
Articles and Writings:
“The Context of Executive Clemency: Reflections on the Literature of Capital Punishment,” 28 Capital University Law Review 513 (2000)
“Clemency and the Capital Offender: An Introduction to the Power and the Punishment,” 28 Capital University Law Review 557 (2000)
Introduction, “The Art of Execution,” 15 Law & Literature 229 (2003)
Introduction, “Governor Ryan’s Capital Punishment Moratorium and The Executioner’s Confession: Views From the Governor’s Mansion to Death Row,” 75 St. John’s Law Review 401 (2001)
Preface, “Rethinking the Death Penalty: Can We Define Who Deserves Death,” 24 Pace Law Review 107 (2003)
“A Perspective on The Condemned, the Tinkerers, and the Machinery of Death: Capital Punishment in New York Before 1965,” 38 Criminal Law Bulletin 510 (2002)
Introduction, “Dying Twice: Incarceration on Death Row,” 31 Capital University Law Review 853 (2003)
Book Reviews:
“Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain,” New York Law Journal, April 1, 2003
“Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House,” New York Law Journal, August 1, 2000
“Proximity to Death,” New York Law Journal, March 10, 2000
“Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, The American Conscience,” New York Law Journal, March 2, 2001
“Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future,” New York Law Journal, December 14, 2001
“The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty,” New York Law Journal, February 22, 2002
“The Last-Gasp World” (review of Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty), Legal Times, July 15, 2002
“Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty,” New York Law Journal, January 30, 1998
Judiciary:
"Appointive Selection of Judges, Limited Jurisdiction Courts with Non-Lawyer Judiciaries, and Judicial Independence," 43 Court Review 80 (Court Review is a publication of the American Judges Association) (2007).
"The Judicial Independence Through Fair Appointments Act,” 34 Ford. Urb. L.J. 13 (2007).
“What Makes A Good Appointive System for the Selection of State Court Judges: The Vision of the Symposium," 34 Fordham Urb. L. J. 35 (2007).
“Perspectives on Judicial Selection,” 56 Mercer L. Rev. 949 (2005)
“Perspectives on Judicial Selection Reform: The Need to Develop a Model Appointive Selection Plan for Judges in Light of Experience,” 68 Albany L. Rev. 597 (2005)
“The Governor’s Power to Appoint Judges: New York Should Have the Best Available Appointment System,” 7 NYSBA Government, Law and Policy Journal 46 (2005)
"A Perspective on Temper in the Court: A Forum on Judicial Civility," 23 Fordham Urb. L. J. 709 (1996)
"A Perspective on Nazis in the Courtroom, Lessons From the Conduct of Lawyers and Judges under the Laws of the Third Reich and Vichy, France," 61 Brook. L. Rev. 1122 (1996)
Preface, “Executioners, Jailers, Slavetrappers, and the Law: What Role Should Morality Play in Judging,” 19 Cardozo L.Rev. 963 (1997)
Introduction, “Politicians on Judges: Fair Criticism or Intimidation,” 72 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 294 (1997)
Product Liability and General Litigation:
Articles and Writings
“Away from Ideology: A Review of Products Liability Defenses in the Era of Tort Reform,” 13 Pace L. Rev. 43 (Winter 1993)
"Product Liability Reform: The Governor's Proposal," New York Law Journal, June 22, 1993
“Cigarette Warning Labels - The Real Issue for the Supreme Court,” Business Insurance (November, 1991)
“Rabies and the Researcher: Andrulonis v. United States,” New York Negligence Reporter (June, 1991)
“Enright v. Eli Lilly : A Retreat from Deterrence,” New York Law Journal, March 20, 1991
“The Law of Successor Liability in New York Products Liability Cases,” New York Negligence Reporter (April 1990)
“Successor Liability,” New York Law Journal, February 28, 1990
Book Review:
"Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom," New York Law Journal, December 23, 1991
General Litigation:
“Settlement Strategy,” New York Law Journal, November 3, 1989
“Document Discovery, Strategy and Practice,” New York Law Journal, July 19, 1989
Professionalism:
Book Reviews:
“The Lawyer’s Myth: Reviving Ideals in the Legal Profession,” New York Law Journal, July 12, 2002
“The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America,” New York Law Journal, February 9, 1999
Article:
"The Tough Litigator," New York State Bar Journal, February 1990
Uniform State Laws:
“Symposium on Uniform State Laws,” 22 Okla. City Univ. Law Review 257, 286 (1997)
Other Book Reviews:
“Augusta Gone: A True Story,” New York Law Journal, July 20, 2001
