In memoriam: Elayne E. Greenberg
ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY — Dean Michael A. Simons and the entire Law School community mourn the passing of Elayne E. Greenberg, Professor of Legal Practice and Director of the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution. An irrepressibly positive force, she enriched St. John’s Law and the wider profession as she taught the value and practice…
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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE — The Brandeis School of Law mourns the death of an alum, former faculty member, respected legal community figure and loyal friend of the law school, Norvie Lay, who died April 12 in Louisville.
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER — Donald N. Bersoff, 85, of Philadelphia, law school professor emeritus at Villanova and Drexel Universities, groundbreaking lawyer and psychologist, author, consultant, mentor, volunteer, and veteran, died Tuesday, March 26, of complications from Parkinson’s disease at his home in Center City.
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MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Larry Bakken, a founding faculty member of Hamline University School of Law and an advocate for government service whose work and teaching brought him around the world, died Tuesday, March 19, at the age of 80.
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THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT — Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Julie Shapiro, a longtime summer resident of Truro, died at her home in Seattle on March 12, 2024 after a lifelong fight with Marfan Syndrome. She was 68.
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THE CORNELL DAILY SUN — Faust F. Rossi J.D. ’60, Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques, Emeritus, died on Wednesday, March 6 at the age of 91. Rossi was a long-time member of the Cornell Law community and an influential member of the legal world as a scholar in evidence and trial advocacy.
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UC LAW SAN FRANCISCO — UC Law SF recognizes the recent and unexpected passing of a giant in the tax law field, Stephen Lind, who joined the faculty in 1975 and helped build the nationally recognized tax bench that exists to this day. “Generations of UC Law SF students found their calling in tax law…
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ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY — This past weekend, as hundreds of law students competed in the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition that he helped to launch, the St. John’s Law Community learned that beloved and esteemed Professor Bob Zinman had passed away at the age of 92.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — The Brooklyn Law School Community deeply mourns the loss of 1901 Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Larry Solan, who died on Saturday, March 2, at 71. Solan was a pioneering scholar of linguistics and the law, and a highly esteemed member of the faculty for 28 years.
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BERKELEY — Jerome (Jerry) Skolnick died in New York City on Thursday February 22, one month shy of his ninety-third birthday. Jerry was born in New York in 1932, received his BA from City College, and a PhD in Sociology from Yale. After teaching at other schools, in 1970, he joined the faculty of the School…
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