Raymond E Kramer

Raymond E. Kramer is an Administrative Law judge and the Executive Director of the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution and the Director of the Administrative Judicial Institute at the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH). The Center serves as New York City government’s central resource for conflict resolution and restorative justice practices. The Institute provides educational programs, training and workshops to New York City administrative law judges, hearing officers and administrative law practitioners. Judge Kramer is an experienced mediator and is an adjunct professor of law at New York University Law School, where he co-teaches the Mediation and Advanced Mediation: Dispute Systems Design Clinics. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he teaches Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management and Negotiation. He has also taught Dispute Resolution during summer sessions at the University of International Relations in Beijing, China.

Judge Kramer was appointed to the position of Administrative Law Judge at OATH in 1985. Prior to his tenure at OATH, he spent one year as a VISTA volunteer attorney with the Statewide Youth Advocacy Project in Rochester, New York, four years as a trial attorney with the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York in the Bronx Family Court, and two years as a member of the clinical faculty at New York University Law School, where he taught the Juvenile Rights Clinic. Judge Kramer is a member of the New York City Bar Association, a Board member for the National Association of the Administrative Law Judiciary (NAALJ), and a Board member and past President of the New York State Administrative Law Judges Association (NYSALJA). In 2021, Judge Kramer received from NAALJ the Victor Rosskopf Award, honoring a judge who exhibits the highest qualities of judicial professionalism and ethics. Judge Kramer received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.