BURTON CAINE. Curriculum Vitae. Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law, 1977 to date.

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1 BURTON CAINE Curriculum Vitae ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: August 2007 Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law, 1977 to date. Subjects: Director: Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Comparative Constitutional Law, Political and Civil Rights, Antitrust Temple Law School Israel Program, and teach Comparative Constitutional Law with Israelis in Summer Sessions at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, On behalf of Tel Aviv University and Temple Law School, organized and chaired symposia on peace in the Middle East with representatives from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Palestinian Authority, and the United States, at Tel Aviv University (1996,1997); Philadelphia (1996), New York(1997), Washington (1998), and Boca Raton (1998) Overseas Teaching Temple University Japan, Spring 1991 Temple Law School-China University of Political Science & Law, Spring 2001 Temple Law School - Tsinghua University School of Law - Spring 2003, Fall 2005 Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Israel, Fall 1982, U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General s Department, Georgia, Alabama, and New York Lecturer in Law: University of Pennsylvania Law School, Lecturer: Bar Association in various programs on Antitrust and Constitutional Law. Pennsylvania Humanities Council - Commonwealth Speaker on Constitutional Law Japan Lecturer at various forums on Separation of Church and State, Antitrust. People s Republic of China , Lecturer at various universities and 1

2 public lectures on topics of U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, ACLU, and Antitrust. On behalf of the U.S. Government and others, see Lectures and Lecture Tours, below. LAW PRACTICE: Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Protection and Litigation. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Philadelphia Branch: President, 1983 to 1987 General Counsel, Chair: Committee on Privacy & Computers, Chair: Due Process Committee, Chair: Rights of School Children Project 1998-date Board of Directors 1955 to date Legal Committee -Currently Pennsylvania Chapter: Member - Board of Directors, National ACLU: Member, Academic Freedom & Education Committee Church-State Committee, 1993 to 1996 Allen S. Olmstead Award for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Civil Liberties ACLU of PA -Ted Vallance Vigilance Award for a Lifetime Devoted to Civil Liberties 2006 Active in ACLU litigation many years. Extensive appearances on behalf of ACLU on TV, radio, press, legislative committees (including opposition to tuition vouchers), other governmental bodies on wide range of constitutional issues, including freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, privacy and due process, political campaign financing. Issues recently presented on radio, TV, court, and in lectures: USA Patriot Act, Banned Books; First Amendment Rights of school children; Kosher food for Jewish prisoners in federal prisons; Free Speech for Nazis 2

3 including sale of Nazi memorabilia, religious symbols on public property including Ten Commandments, tuition vouchers, Post 9/11 and individual liberty, Constitutional Issues in Bush v. Gore, Faith-Based Initiatives, Social Security Numbers and Rights of Privacy, etc. Americans for Religious Liberty: Chair, Board of Directors Brief on behalf of ARL et al in Ten Commandments Case regarding Chester County Courthouse. Joined ACLU brief in U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. Congress v.newdow (2004) ( Under God ). Of Counsel in amicus brief in Van Orden v. Perry U.S. Supreme Court (2005). Counsel: for other civil rights organizations including Philadelphia Resistance during the Vietnam War and C.O.R.E during the Civil Rights Era. On Behalf of Soviet Jewry: National Lawyers Committee for Soviet Jewry. Chair: Greater Philadelphia Lawyers Committee for Soviet Jewry ( ). Twice visited Soviet Union in connection with trials of Soviet dissidents. Counsel for Anatoly Shcharansky (now Natan Sharansky, formerly Cabinet Minister, State of Israel) American Friends Service Committee: Ad Hoc Committee on MOVE, date Middle East Program Committee, Council on Foreign Relations Seminar on Middle East Peace to 2002 Lectures and Lecture Tours On Behalf of U.S.Government: On the U.S. Constitution and Civil Liberties; also Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Soviet Jewry: India and Nepal New Zealand, Thailand and Taiwan Lesotho, Zambia, and Kenya Liberia, India and Philippines Paris, Israel, Mauritius and Bangladesh Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Philippines Colombia, Germany, and Poland Germany (twice) France, Germany, Norway 3

4 Other France (twice) People s Republic of China PR China, Tokyo, Okinawa Israel (Hebrew) 1993, 1995, Before Israeli judges, Israel (Hebrew), University Club, Paris; Monash University Faculty of Law, Melbourne, Australia Vilnius, Lithuania, Council on Eastern Europe Legal Institutions Free University, Berlin, Germany; Deutscher Juristinnenbund, Konstanz, Germany Friends of Tel Aviv University, Buenos Aires, Argentina Kehillat Beijing, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Debated Death Penalty with Chinese law professor on national TV in China Invited speaker and delegate, UNESCO Symposium on Free Speech on the Internet, Paris Beijing, PRC - The Biblical Story of Joseph and His Brothers Scholar-in-Residence - Four lectures on themes of Bible and Israel Many additional lectures, appearances, and articles over many years on civil liberties issues. Pennsylvania Humanities Council - Commonwealth Speaker, , date on various First Amendment topics including Freedom of Speech, Free Exercise of Religion and Separation of Church and State Lecture frequently to foreign visitors sponsored by U.S. Government on subjects of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties EDUCATION: Jewish Publication Society of America: Board of Trustees, Treasurer, Editorial Committee JPS National Committee on Jewish Studies 2002 to date Solomon Schechter Day School, President, Meyer Feinstein Award for Distinguished Community Service 4

5 University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1949 (Phi Beta Kappa) Harvard Law School, J.D., 1952 Honor Society: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau U.S. Air Force - Judge Advocate General Institute Certificate 1953 PUBLICATIONS: Computers and the Right to be Let Alone--A Civil Libertarian View, 22 Vill. L.R (1977) Judicial Review--Democracy versus Constitutionality, 56 Temple L.Q. 297 (1983) Introduction, Influence Abroad of U.S. Constitution on Judicial Review and a Bill of Rights, 2 Temp. Int. and Comp. L. Jour. 59 (1988) Government of the Commissars - Human Rights (1978) ELEGY TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT, The Shingle, Fall 1990, 48. The Dormant First Amendment, 2 Temple Polit.& Civ.Rights L.Rev.227 (1993) Hate Speech, Campus Codes and Free Speech (Hebrew), Plillim (1994) "The Liberal Agenda": Biblical Values and the First Amendment,14 Touro Law Review 129 (1997) The Internet and the First Amendment, Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung E.V., December 1996 Rights of Public School Children in Pennsylvania (ACLU 1998) Numerous articles in various publications, and lectures, on subjects of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties in the United States, U.S.S.R., Israel, Liberia, Philippines, Bangladesh, etc. The Akeda: Angel Unbound, (the Biblical tale of the Binding of Isaac, Genesis, Chap.22), 52 Conservative Judaism 5(1999);and The Forgotten Angel, Midstream, 1997 Whither the Peace Process in the Middle East?, Symposium, July 1996, 70 Temple L.Rev.233 (1997), Introduction by Burton Caine (The first of six symposia: in Tel Aviv (2), Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Boca Raton) Capitalist Republic of China, A View from Academia, Temple Review (January 2002) Freedom of Speech on the Internet - Asian Media Information and Communications Centre (Singapore 2003) 5

6 UNESCO & Me, A dissenting view on censoring the Internet Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review (2003) Beijing Youth Daily various articles Peace in the Middle East - A View from the Academy, JURIST 2004 The Trouble With Fighting Words: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire is a Threat to First Amendment Values and Should Be Overruled. 88 Marquette Law Rev. 441(2004) Judah and His Brother, The Dream that Failed, The Real Meaning of I am Joseph your Brother, in Genesis 45:4 (Conservative Judaism, Winter 2005) ACLU In Communist China?! Newsletter, ACLU, Pennsylvania Chapter( 2005) 6