MICHAEL BOTEIN ’66

MICHAEL BOTEIN, 71, a professor at New York Law School and the director and founder of the Media Center, died Aug. 3, 2016. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After receiving his J.D. degree from Cornell University in 1969, he received an L.L.M. in 1972 from Columbia University and a J.S.D., also from Columbia, in 1979. A scholar in telecommunications, cable television and regulation, he was the author of multiple treatises, casebooks and articles, and shared his expertise as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and a visiting professor in law schools around the world. His wife, Kris Fischer, survives, as do two children, including Elizabeth Botein Walker ’99; their spouses, including his son-in-law, Ike Walker ’99; and four grandchildren.