Professor Gerald Lebovits has been a New York City Civil Court judge since 2012. In 2011, he was a New York City Criminal Court judge and, from 2001 through 2010, a New York City Housing Court judge.
In addition to his service as a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and, since 2007, an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where the students elected him Adjunct Professor of the Year and where he received the Dean’s Teaching Award.
For 18 years he was an Adjunct Professor of Law and the Moot Court Faculty Advisor at New York Law School (1989-2007), where he received the Order of Barristers and the Lifetime Achievement Award (for Moot Court) and was elected Adjunct Professor of the Year.
Judge Lebovits was also a staff attorney with The New York City Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division, and a principal court attorney in Supreme Court, Criminal Term, both in Manhattan.
He has authored or co-authored New York Residential Landlord-Tenant Law and Procedure (N.Y. St. B. Assn. 4th ed. 2012), Advanced Judicial Opinion Writing (N.Y. St. Jud. Inst. 7th ed. 2004), and more than 200 articles on civil practice, criminal law and procedure, ethics, family law, landlord-tenant law, legal writing, and trial and appellate advocacy.
B.A., Carleton University (1976); LL.L. (J.D. equiv.), University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section (1979); M.C.L., Tulane University School of Law (1980); LL.M. (in Criminal Justice), New York University School of Law (1986).
