Alex Roshuk (July 14, 1956 – November 9, 2014) was an American attorney who was the first legal advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. He was also an electrician and worked in the entertainment industry as a director and editor.
Roshuk was born in New York City and went to Catholic school.
He practiced law in New York beginning in 1998 and from 2003 to 2005 was the first legal advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. Roshuk wrote a 1,300-word summary of arbitration and mediation modes of legal dispute resolution that became the basis for the Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee. He was also a participant in the Association of Arbitrators of the New York City Civil Court.
He directed several educational television documentaries in Italian and a short film entitled The Wizard of Malta [fr] in 1981. He also founded The Standby Program, a nonprofit organization for postproduction.
Roshuk was also an electrical engineer and entertained children as "Brooklyn Santa" from 1966 until at least 2012.
References
- "Alexis Roshuk – USA". vitheque.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- "Alex Roshuk / User:Alex756". mail list archive. November 10, 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Ben Johnson (December 24, 2012). "Santa Claus 2.0: Building drones to replace Rudolph". Marketplace. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- ^ Hoffman, Dave (24 January 2011). "Misplaced Pages's First Lawyer". concurringopinions.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- Hoffman, David A.; Mehra, Salil K. (March 5, 2009). "Wikitruth Through Wikiorder". Emory Law Journal. 59 (1). SSRN 1354424. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- "NYFA Artists – Alex Roshuk". New York Foundation for the Arts. Archived from the original on 4 July 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
External links
- Alex Roshuk at Justia
- Alex Roshuk at IMDb
- "Law office of Alex T. Roshuk, Brooklyn NY". Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
- Roshuk, Alexis T. at Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges (Governor General of Canada)
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