Norman I. Silber

Professor of Law

Hofstra University School of Law

Professional Affiliations and Activities:

Columbia University Oral History Research Office

Staff interviewer, 1983 – present.

Rhoda H. Karpatkin

Hon. Bernard Meyer

Herbert Wechsler

Philip Elman

Leonard Boudin

Victor Rabinowitz

Colston E.Warne

Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports magazine)

Board of Directors, 1996 – present

Executive Committee

Audit Committee

Budget and Finance Committee

Editor-in-Chief, aci: advancing the consumer interest, published bi-annually by American Council on Consumer Interest, 1997 – 2002

Past Chair, Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs of the Bar Association of the City of New York.

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws:

U.C.C. Article 2, Observer/Liason, NCCUSL Drafting Committee

U.C.C. Article 9, Observer/Liason, NCCUSL Drafting Committee

New York State Bar Association Banking Committee,

U.C.C. Articles 3 & 4 Working Group.

Interviewing staff, Columbia Oral History Research Project, 1977 – present (legal history).

Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia Law School.

The American Council on Consumer Interests (academic research organization (appx. 1400 persons), primarily university professors and governmental consumer affairs professionals).

Candidate for President of the Organization, 1994.

Board of Directors, 1992 – 1993; 1994 – present.

Future Directions Committee (incoming chair).

Chair, Ad hoc committee on indexing ACCI publications.

Reviewer, Journal of Consumer Affairs

Consumer Federation of America.

Banking and Financial Policy Resolutions Subcommittee (past member).

Editorial Advisory Board and contributor, Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement.

Admitted to the Bar:

New York.

Massachusetts.

District of Columbia.

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