In memoriam: Max Baer
WESA — Max Baer, who became the chief justice of Pennsylvania’s highest court just last year and was set to retire in a few months, has died at his home in suburban Pittsburgh. He was 74. A cause of death was not immediately available. During a 33-year judicial career that began in Allegheny County, Baer…
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PENNSTATE — Christopher C. French, director of the Trial Advocacy Program and professor of practice at Penn State Law in University Park, passed away on Sept. 10. French taught at the law school for more than eight years, in addition to regularly publishing books and law review articles. His work was published in law journals around…
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PEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law mourns the passing of Kenneth W. Starr, who served as the Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and professor of law from 2004 to 2010. He was 76. “I had the privilege of serving on the faculty and in the administration of the law…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Robert N. Sayler, a renowned litigator who turned to teaching insurance and oral advocacy courses at the University of Virginia School of Law later in his career, died Wednesday. He was 82. Sayler joined the faculty in 1995 as the John A. Ewald, Jr., Distinguished Visiting Professor of…
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PENN CAREY LAW — Michael L. Wachter, William B. and Mary Barb Johnson Professor of Law and Economics, Emeritus, passed away on September 3. Wachter was a prodigious, award-winning scholar, an influential teacher who nurtured numerous high-profile careers, and a visionary builder of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s renowned Institute for Law & Economics…
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WBAL — Retired University of Baltimore School of Law professor Emeritus Byron Warken died on Monday at the age of 76. The law school said Warnken had been suffering from a neurological disorder. Warnken taught at the law school for more than 40 years before he retired in 2018. The Moot Court at the university…
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CORNELL CHRONICLE — Sherry F. Colb, the C.S. Wong Professor of Law, a pioneering scholar and prolific writer on constitutional criminal procedure, animal rights and sexual equality, died Aug. 25 at her home in Ithaca. She was 56. Colb – a beloved teacher, mentor and colleague, had an outsized influence on Cornell Law School and…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO — The UNM School of Law mourns the loss of alumna Barbara Brown Simmons (’74). She was a woman of many firsts. Not only was she the first Black woman to graduate from the UNM School of Law, but she was also the first Black woman to become a member…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — David H. Ibbeken ’71, who led the Law School Foundation for 28 years and continued to work there as president emeritus, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 80. Ibbeken retired as president and CEO in 2007, but in all spent more than 40 years working…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNEOSTA — Bruce Burton, a lawyer, law professor, and former Dean of William Mitchell College of Law, passed away on June 11 at the age of 83. Hailing from Fairmont, Minnesota, Burton graduated from Mankato State University in 1961, then taught high school English in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, and Long Beach, California, before…
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