Special Counsel
Jerry Goldfeder’s forty-year election law practice has included representing a variety of high-profile candidates and elected officials – including Mayor, Governor and President of the United States. He also has represented members of the United States Congress, the New York State legislature, New York’s City Council, members of the judiciary, as well as unions, not-for-profits, and a variety of groups on local, state and federal campaign finance law, lobbying compliance and governmental procedures.
Goldfeder is currently Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. Previously, he served as Special Counsel for Public Integrity to then-Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.
When he is not advising clients, he is teaching and writing. Since 2003, he has taught Election Law at Fordham Law School, where he was voted Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2015 and 2019, and from 2009 through 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of the treatise Goldfeder’s Modern Election Law (NY Legal Pub. Corp., 6th Ed., Mar. 2021), and is the co-author of the New York Law Journal’s regular column, Government and Election Law. He is a prolific writer of legal and political commentary, and has published in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the N.Y. Daily News, USA Today, and various other publications. He is also author of Could Terrorists Derail a Presidential Election, in 32 Ford. Urb. L. J. 523 (2005), and Election Law and the Presidency, in 85 Fordham L. Rev.965 (2016).
Goldfeder served as a writing consultant for CNN’s mini-series, Race for the White House, and has a weekly podcast on public radio WFUV, Election Connection.
Goldfeder currently is Chair of the NY State Bar Association’s 2020 Presidential Task Force, which has advised attorneys, journalists and the public on legal issues involved in the recent presidential race. He is also a Special Advisor to the American Bar Association’s Election Law Committee.
Previously, he was Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Election Law and the Committee on New York City Municipal Affairs.
Among several awards and recognition, Goldfeder is the recipient of the New York Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Burton Award for Legal Writing.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, the Latino Leadership Institute and Let America Vote. Since 2014, Mr. Goldfeder has been a trustee of the Museum of the City of New York, appointed by the Manhattan Borough President.
He was in the first class of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, where he served on the Law Review.
Prior to enrolling in law school, Goldfeder was a graduate student in Political Science at UCLA, where he earned a Master’s degree and was a Teaching Assistant; during his tenure there he organized and was president of a local union of teaching and research assistants. He then taught American Politics as an Adjunct at Brooklyn College.
Before getting his graduate degree, he taught fifth grade in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, NYC, where he established and taught the school’s first African American social studies class.
Mr. Goldfeder has been honored by numerous organizations for his accomplishments and community service, including:
Mr. Goldfeder is the author or co-author of numerous articles. A complete list of previously published articles are available upon request. Selected publications include:
Mr. Goldfeder is a frequent speaker and has participated in many legal symposiums and seminars. A selected list of his most recent appearances follows:
New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 1979; Cardozo Law Review
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1972; Political Science
B.A., Brooklyn College, 1968
Jerry Goldfeder’s forty-year election law practice has included representing a variety of high-profile candidates and elected officials – including Mayor, Governor and President of the United States. He also has represented members of the United States Congress, the New York State legislature, New York’s City Council, members of the judiciary, as well as unions, not-for-profits, and a variety of groups on local, state and federal campaign finance law, lobbying compliance and governmental procedures.
Goldfeder is currently Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. Previously, he served as Special Counsel for Public Integrity to then-Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.
When he is not advising clients, he is teaching and writing. Since 2003, he has taught Election Law at Fordham Law School, where he was voted Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2015 and 2019, and from 2009 through 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of the treatise Goldfeder’s Modern Election Law (NY Legal Pub. Corp., 6th Ed., Mar. 2021), and is the co-author of the New York Law Journal’s regular column, Government and Election Law. He is a prolific writer of legal and political commentary, and has published in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the N.Y. Daily News, USA Today, and various other publications. He is also author of Could Terrorists Derail a Presidential Election, in 32 Ford. Urb. L. J. 523 (2005), and Election Law and the Presidency, in 85 Fordham L. Rev.965 (2016).
Goldfeder served as a writing consultant for CNN’s mini-series, Race for the White House, and has a weekly podcast on public radio WFUV, Election Connection.
Goldfeder currently is Chair of the NY State Bar Association’s 2020 Presidential Task Force, which has advised attorneys, journalists and the public on legal issues involved in the recent presidential race. He is also a Special Advisor to the American Bar Association’s Election Law Committee.
Previously, he was Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Election Law and the Committee on New York City Municipal Affairs.
Among several awards and recognition, Goldfeder is the recipient of the New York Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Burton Award for Legal Writing.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, the Latino Leadership Institute and Let America Vote. Since 2014, Mr. Goldfeder has been a trustee of the Museum of the City of New York, appointed by the Manhattan Borough President.
He was in the first class of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, where he served on the Law Review.
Prior to enrolling in law school, Goldfeder was a graduate student in Political Science at UCLA, where he earned a Master’s degree and was a Teaching Assistant; during his tenure there he organized and was president of a local union of teaching and research assistants. He then taught American Politics as an Adjunct at Brooklyn College.
Before getting his graduate degree, he taught fifth grade in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, NYC, where he established and taught the school’s first African American social studies class.
Mr. Goldfeder has been honored by numerous organizations for his accomplishments and community service, including:
Mr. Goldfeder is the author or co-author of numerous articles. A complete list of previously published articles are available upon request. Selected publications include:
Mr. Goldfeder is a frequent speaker and has participated in many legal symposiums and seminars. A selected list of his most recent appearances follows:
New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 1979; Cardozo Law Review
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1972; Political Science
B.A., Brooklyn College, 1968
