Martin A. Kurzweil

Academic Fellow

Office: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 543
435 West 116th Street
New York 10027 N.Y. 10027
Tel: (212) 854-1980
Email: mkurzw@law.columbia.edu



Education
  • A.B. magna cum laude, Social Studies, Harvard College, 2002
  • J.D. magna cum laude, Harvard Law School, 2007

Experience

Martin recently served as Senior Executive Director for Research, Accountability, and Data at the New York City Department of Education.  In that role, he was responsible for designing and producing school evaluations and parent, teacher and student surveys of school quality; program evaluation, policy research, and external research requests; local implementation of New York State’s school evaluations pursuant to the No Child Left Behind Act; and the organization and quality of student outcomes data.  Prior to serving in the Department of Education, Martin clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz.  Before entering law school, Martin was a research associate at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he co-authored an award-winning book on the role of students’ socioeconomic status in higher education, among other publications.

Research Interests

  • Education Law and Policy
  • Civil Rights
  • Administrative Law and Regulation

Books

  • William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil & Eugene M. Tobin, Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education (University of Virginia Press, 2005)
       American Educational Research Association 2006 Outstanding Book Award
       University Continuing Education Association 2006 Phillip E. Frandson Award
  • William G. Bowen & Sarah A. Levin (in Collaboration with Martin A. Kurzweil), Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values (Princeton University Press, 2003)
Law Journal Publications
  • Note, The Two Faces of Chevron, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1562 (2007)
  • Developments in the Law: Voting and Democracy -- V. Trends in State Self-Regulation of the Redistricting Process, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 1165 (2006)