At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Lamm's grandfather was Rabbi Yeshoshua Baumol (1880–1948) who authored the Responsa - Emek Halakha. It is this kind of position which honest men particularly honest believers in God and Torah must adopt at all times and especially in our times.

He holds a Ph. Norman (Nachum) Lamm (born December 19 1927 in Brooklyn New York United States) is a major American Modern Orthodox rabbi scholar author and Jewish communal leader. He is the Chancellor of Yeshiva University.