[1][2] He graduated from the City College of New York in 1943 and then served in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

Glasser returned to Brooklyn Law School in 1977 to serve as its dean, a position he held until 1981 when he was nominated for the federal bench.

[4] The prosecutor in that case, John Gleeson, would also go on to serve on the Eastern District federal bench.

[5] Judge Glasser also presided over an early terrorism trial involving an organization dubbed "The Ohio Five" and presided over a number of other significant organized crime trials and proceedings including the conviction of Vincent Gigante, the head of the Genovese crime family.

In 1987 Glasser sentenced Victor Vancier, ex-chairman of the Jewish Defense League, for charges involving a series of bombings in New York beginning in 1984.