Sidney Rosdeitcher

Sidney Rosdeitcher

Justice Program, Senior Policy Advisor

Sidney Rosdeitcher is a retired litigation partner from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, L.L.P., where he is now Of Counsel. He was lead counsel in the Center's defense of Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance and worked with the Center in earlier living wage litigation in St. Louis. He has long been active in public interest matters. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association, chaired its Committees on Civil Rights, International Human Rights, and Professional and Judicial Ethics, and Council on International Affairs and is now Chair of its Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law. He is a Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and co-chair of its Subcommittee on the Powers of Congress. He received the Lawyers Committee's Segal Tweed Award for his contribution to civil rights and Human Rights First's Marvin E. Frankel Pro Bono Award for his asylum work. He also taught civil liberties at Brooklyn Law School and ethics at Columbia Law School. Before joining Paul, Weiss, Mr. Rosdeitcher served in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and on leave of absence from Paul, Weiss, as assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Rosdeitcher received his B.A. from Columbia in 1958 and L.L.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1961, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. 

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