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Steve Zeidman is a Professor at the CUNY School of Law and Co-Director of the Second Look Project: Beyond Guilt and the Defenders Clinic. A Duke University School of Law graduate, he has extensive experience in criminal defense, serving as a trial lawyer, Legal Aid supervisor, and educator at Fordham, Pace, and NYU. He received the NYU Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award and CUNY’s Outstanding Professor honor. His work focuses on criminal justice reform, indigent defense, and judicial accountability.
Zeidman has served on the Appellate Division’s Indigent Defense Oversight Committee, Prisoners’ Legal Services Board, and the Parole Preparation Project. He advises on court reforms, including implementing Judge Scheindlin’s Floyd v. City of New York rulings on stop-and-frisk practices. His research spans topics like mass incarceration, clemency, and judicial selection, with publications in leading journals such as Fordham Urban Law Journal and Cardozo Law Review.
His op-eds emphasize second-look sentencing, compassionate release reforms, and systemic racism in policing. He frequently collaborates with media and podcasts, discussing decarceration and legal ethics. Zeidman advocates for progressive prosecution and has critiqued flawed judicial appointment systems, emphasizing merit-based selections.
Notable roles include membership in the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section Council and statewide commissions on indigent defense and jury practices. He has advised mayors’ judicial committees under Bloomberg and Giuliani.
