1 TRIBUTES TO MARGARET A. BERGER FOR THE SCIENCE FOR JUDGES PROGRAMS

I met Margaret Berger in 1974, when she had just joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty, one of the first three young women to do so. At that time, I had no affiliation with the law school, but was lucky enough to meet Margaret, because I was just starting out as a clerk for Judge Jack B. Weinstein, and Margaret was a distin-guished alumnus of his chambers. Margaret understood that I was new to clerking and to Brooklyn, and she reached out to me and helped me with the transition from student to clerk. Immediately, I could tell she was special. For one thing, she was warm and friendly and supportive. For another, she was “hooked ” on teach-ing and legal scholarship. Margaret wanted only the best for Brooklyn Law School and she expected the best from herself. She talked about her goal of producing superior scholarship and her ideas for strengthening the School. Although I was barely out of law school, Margaret convinced me to think about becoming a professor at Brooklyn. I think the rest of the faculty were somewhat less sanguine about my candi-dacy at the time⎯after all, I hadn’t even taken the bar exam and was not quite sure what lay in my future. But, years later, Marga-ret, still my friend, urged me once again to consider joining the faculty. I have now had the pleasure of being Margaret’s colleague for twenty-two years. My initial assessment of her talents was cor-rect. She is first-rate. Margaret has been a leader at the law schoo