Background
Edelman, Paul Sterling was born on January 2, 1926 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph E. and Rose (Kaminsky) Edelman.
Edelman, Paul Sterling was born on January 2, 1926 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph E. and Rose (Kaminsky) Edelman.
Son of Joseph South. and Rose (Kaminsky) East.;m. Rosemary Jacobs, June 15, 1951. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1946, Juris Doctor, 1950.
Worked at Kreindler & Kreindler (New York, New York) specializing in Maritime, Negligence, Personal Injury. Admitted to the bar, 1951, New New York 1954, United States. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New New York
1965, United States.
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1967, United States. Supreme Court. Author: Maritime Injury and Death, 2 volumes, Central Book Company, 1960.
"Liability Problems in Exploitation of the Seas," published as a monogram from the National Council on Marine Resources, 1967.
Contributor: "Maritime Personal Injury and Death Survey," Personal Injury Annual, 1961. "Legal Remedies for the Shore-Based Workers," for the Survey of Admiralty Law, published by Trial Lawyers Service Company, 1965.
Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce, 1971. Journal of International"l Society of Barristers, 1973.
Editor, Maritime Law Reporter.
Admiralty Editor and Vice Chairman, 1966-1968, Chairman, 1968-1970 of American Trial Lawyers Association Admiralty Committee. Consultant to the National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, 1967 and 1968. Liaison Attorney for the American Trial Lawyers Association, Law of the Sea Institute, 1967, 1968.
Consultant to the United States.
Department of State, considering revision of the Limitation of Liability Acting and proposals for an International Convention on the High Seas, 1968. Columnist, New York Law Journal, 1973.
Legal Advisor, Television Show, Andrea Doria, Participant, Premium Dollar Today Television Show, August, 1984. Television Documentary, Queen Elizabeth 2 Case, 1995.
Contributor to Trial Magazine, The Brief, Tort and Insurance Law Journal, 1986.
Member: New York State (Associate Editor, 1972 and Editor, 1973INCL Journal. Chairman, Maritime Committee, 1972-1975. Member, Executive Committee, Insurance Section, 1975.
Chairman, 1982-1983.
Participant in Seminars on Insurance and Trial Practice, 1986), Federal (Member, Admiralty Committee, 1955) and American (Member, Section on Tort and Insurance Practice. Member of Council, 1984-1988. Delegate of Conference with Association of Soviet Lawyers in Moscow, 1987).
Delegate of Tips to Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg, 1993.
Speaker, Law of the Sea Conference, Moscow, 1994. Chairman: Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee, 1981-1982.
Toxic and Ultra-hazardous Torts Committee, 1983-1985. Member, Planning Committee, 1982-1984) Bar Associations.
Federal Bar Council (Chairman, Admiralty Committee, 1967-1971.
1972-1975). New York County Lawyers Association. The Maritime Law Association of the United States.
(Member, Practice and Procedure Committee, 1977-1978.
American Bar Association Liaison Committee, 1982). New York State Trial Lawyers Association (Chairman, Admiralty Committee, 1966). New York Academy of Trial Lawyers (Administrative Associate, 1967-1968).
World Peace Through Law Center (Chairman, Committee on International Court of Justice, 1987).
Fellow, New York Bar Foundation.
Fellow New York Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association (past chairman admiralty committee, toxic hazardous substances litigation committee, member long range planning committee 1982-1984, member Treasury Inflation Protected Securities council 1984-1988, Soviet-American lawyers conference Moscow 1987, 94, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities lawyer conference Russia 1993), Association of Trial Lawyers of America (past chairman admiralty committees), Maritime Law Association (representative law sea seminar Moscow 1994), New York State Bar Association (TICL award 1980, 90, 93, 2005, chairman INCL section 1982-1983, editor Insurance Journal since 1973), Maritime Law Association (vice chair maritime torts committee), Hastings History Society, Oliver Wendell Holmes Society Harvard Law School, Supreme Court History Society, World Peace Through Law Center, Hudson Valley Tennis Club, Hastings Hudson (past chairman, planning board), Supreme Court History Society, Hastings History Society.
Married Rosemary Jacobs, June 15, 1951. Children: Peter, Jeffrey.