Crossing the River Jordan Award

Previous Winners

NAME (2004)
Michael A. Rebell is executive director and counsel of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. in New York. He is an experienced litigator, administrator, researcher, and scholar in the field of education law. He served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State of New York, adjudicated in 1995 and 2003, in which the New York Court of Appeals declared that under the state’s constitution all children are entitled to the “opportunity for a sound, basic education.” Mr. Rebell has litigated numerous major class action lawsuits, including Jose P. v. Mills, which involved a plaintiff class of 160,000 students with disabilities, and served as a court-appointed special master in a Boston special education case, Allen v. Parks. Mr. Rebell is the co-author of two books, Equality and Education and Educational Policy Making and the Courts, as well as dozens of articles on issues of law and education. A frequent lecturer and consultant on education law, he taught courses on law and education at Yale Law School and is currently an adjunct professor and lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and at Teachers College, Columbia University. Mr. Rebell graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School.