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Interview With David L. Cohen, Miranda Solomon, David L. Cohen, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dec 2001

Interview With David L. Cohen, Miranda Solomon, David L. Cohen, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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David L. Cohen (L '81) is the senior executive vice president of Comcast Corporation and chair of the University of Pennsylvania board of trustees. From 1992 to 1997 he served as chief of staff to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, and from 1997 to 2002 he was chair of Ballard Spahr.


Interview With Morris M. Shuster, Todd J. Griset, Morris M. Shuster, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Nov 2001

Interview With Morris M. Shuster, Todd J. Griset, Morris M. Shuster, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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After 35 years in private practice, Morris M. Shuster (L'56) began teaching clinical practice and dispute resolution at Penn Law School in 1991. He endowed a faculty chair in clinical practice at Penn Law (currently held by Douglas Frenkel) and a public interest fellowship program through the Philadelphia Bar Foundation. He died in 2012.


Interview With Kenneth W. Hansen, Megan Becher, Kenneth W. Hansen, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Nov 2001

Interview With Kenneth W. Hansen, Megan Becher, Kenneth W. Hansen, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Kenneth W. Hansen (L '83) practices in the areas of international transactions and US Department of Energy project financings. Before going into private practice he served as counsel to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and as general counsel to the Export-Import Bank of the United States. he has also taught economics and finance at a number of institutions.


John Wilkes And The Enlightenment, Stephen Carruthers Nov 2001

John Wilkes And The Enlightenment, Stephen Carruthers

Masters

Based on the absence of a substantial political philosophy and a scandalous reputation, modern assessments of John Wilkes have tended to marginalise his role in the development of radical political ideas in England in the 1760s and 1770s. This evaluation is reassessed in the context of an analysis of Wilkes’s collaboration with Charles Churchill on the North Briton and his political writings of the period, in particular his Introduction to the History of England (1768). Furthermore, Wilkes enjoyed extensive and prolonged contact with the leading continental philosophers of the period, and in particular d’Holbach, Diderot, Suard, Helvétius, and Chastellux, which …


Interview With Fernando Chang-Muy, Crystal Fu, Fernando Chang-Muy, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Oct 2001

Interview With Fernando Chang-Muy, Crystal Fu, Fernando Chang-Muy, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Fernando Chang-Muy teaches and practices in the area of immigration and refugee law. He has been an adjunct professor at Penn Law since 1994. He has served as a legal officer for the UN High Commissioner on Refugees and the World Health Organization.


Interview With Douglas Frenkel, Megan Becher, Todd Griset, Rasheena Harris, Crystal Fu, Kathleen Craven, Miranda Salomon, Maryanne Small, Jay Rittberg, Douglas N. Frenkel, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Oct 2001

Interview With Douglas Frenkel, Megan Becher, Todd Griset, Rasheena Harris, Crystal Fu, Kathleen Craven, Miranda Salomon, Maryanne Small, Jay Rittberg, Douglas N. Frenkel, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Douglas Frenkel (L'72), Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at Penn, is the architect of Penn Law’s nationally renowned clinical program, having served as Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies from 1980 to 2008. He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally and mediation in particular. He is the author of innovative teaching materials and videotapes in this field and frequently serves as a mediator in employment, commercial, educational and family matters. Frenkel’s other major area of expertise is legal ethics, having been a founding faculty member of the Law School’s …


Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1838-1857 (Mss 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1838-1857 (Mss 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 61. Docket books, 1838-1876 (3), kept by J. Gee, justice of the peace of Monroe County, Kentucky; miscellaneous papers found in books, 1838-post 1952 (20); and record book kept by B. C. Maxey of Barren County, Kentucky, which contains Gee family history, Maxey cemetery records, etc., 1925-1957.


Berle And Means Reconsidered At The Century's Turn, William W. Bratton Apr 2001

Berle And Means Reconsidered At The Century's Turn, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

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Interview With Daniel L. Greenberg, Ria C. Momblanco, Daniel L. Greenberg, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Daniel L. Greenberg, Ria C. Momblanco, Daniel L. Greenberg, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Daniel L. Greenberg oversees the pro bono program at Schulte Roth & Zable LLP. From 1987 to 1995 he directed clinical legal programs at Harvard Law School, and from 1995 to 2004 he was executive director of New York City's Legal Aid Society. He has been named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School.


Interview With André L. Dennis, Joanna L. Levine, André L. Dennis, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With André L. Dennis, Joanna L. Levine, André L. Dennis, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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André L. Dennis practices in Philadelphia in the areas of civil rights and product liability, among others.. He represented Ramona Africa in her lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia after the 1985 MOVE bombing. In 1997 he was named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School.


Interview With E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Erik Lieberman, E. Clinton Bamberger Jr., Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Erik Lieberman, E. Clinton Bamberger Jr., Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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E. Clinton Bamberger Jr. was the first director of legal services in the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, and later of Community Legal Services. He practiced law in Baltimore, where he represented the petitioner in the landmark case of Brady v. Maryland. In 1981 he was made an honorary fellow of Penn Law School. He died in 2013.


Interview With Rhonda Copelon, Elizabeth Carrott, Rhonda Copelon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Rhonda Copelon, Elizabeth Carrott, Rhonda Copelon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

No abstract provided.


Interview With Bruce J. Terris, Corinne Levy, Bruce J. Terris, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Bruce J. Terris, Corinne Levy, Bruce J. Terris, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Bruce J. Terris was an assistant in the US Solicitor General's office from 1958 to 1965, where he argued sixteen cases before the Supreme Court. In 1970 he went into private practice. He was counsel in many landmark environmental law cases and was active in numerous District of Columbia-area nonprofits. In 1977 he was named a Penn Law honorary fellow. He died in 2017.


Interview With Hans F. Loeser, Larry Seymour, Hans F. Loeser, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Hans F. Loeser, Larry Seymour, Hans F. Loeser, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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A graduate of Harvard Law School, Hans Loeser joined the Boston firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot, where he founded one of the country's first pro bono programs. He co-founded and chaired the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law of the Boston Bar Association and the Boston Lawyers Vietnam Committee, which earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list." He has been named an honorary fellow of the Penn Law School. He died in 2010.


Interview With Justice Cruz Reynoso, Will Proctor, Cruz Reynoso, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Justice Cruz Reynoso, Will Proctor, Cruz Reynoso, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Cruz Reynoso served as associate justice for the Third District Court of Appeals (1976-1981) and the Supreme Court (1981-1986) of California. From 1993 to 2000 he was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights. He has been named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School.


Interview With Ira J. Kurzban, Kristin Smith, Ira J. Kurzban, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Ira J. Kurzban, Kristin Smith, Ira J. Kurzban, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Ira J. Kurzban is a partner in the law firm of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A., of Miami, Florida, and serves as adjunct faculty member in Immigration and Nationality Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is also a founding board member of Immigrants' List, a political action committee focusing on immigration issues. He was a founder of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and served as Board Chair from 2004-2019. He has been named an honorary fellow of Penn …


Interview With Eli Rosenbaum, Deborah Weisbein, Eli Rosenbaum, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Mar 2001

Interview With Eli Rosenbaum, Deborah Weisbein, Eli Rosenbaum, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Eli M. Rosenbaum (WG'77) served as director of the U.S. DOJ Office of Special Investigations, which was primarily responsible for identifying, denaturalizing, and deporting Nazi war criminals, from 1994 to 2010, when the office was merged into the new Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section. He is now the Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in the new Department of Justice section. He is the primary author of Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation, which narrates the inquiry he led …


Interview With William R. Klaus, Rosanna V. Perretta, William R. Klaus, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Feb 2001

Interview With William R. Klaus, Rosanna V. Perretta, William R. Klaus, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Why Do They Strike Us?, James Polchin Jan 2001

Why Do They Strike Us?, James Polchin

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Over the past two years since the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie Wyoming, the circumstances of his death have held a symbolic place in the story of violence against gay men and lesbians nationally. University of Wyoming Professor Beth Loffreda's book Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder is on the "Lambda Book Report" best-sellers list and MTV has recently premiered "Anatomy of a Hate Crime: The Matthew Shepard Story" that dramatized the events of October 6th, 1998. The telling and retelling of Shepard's murder in both academic books and popular culture suggests …


The Lobbyist No. 31 (Winter 2001), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2001

The Lobbyist No. 31 (Winter 2001), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


0701: William Lemaster Trial Transcript, 1993, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2001

0701: William Lemaster Trial Transcript, 1993, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of copies of the twelve volume court transcript for the case of the State of Ohio vs. William Lemaster, case no. 92-CR-61 in the court of common pleas. Lemaster was accused and convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Jeff Halley and his son Jeff Halley, Jr. The court transcript includes jury selection, exhibits, and testimony.


Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2001

Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1449. Letter, 21 April 1970, of U.S. District Court Judge Mac Swinford, Lexington, Kentucky, to Crawford Crowe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling a request for a copy of his book Kentucky Lawyer. He declines to vouch for the accuracy of the book's historical facts "other than as legend."


Competing Frameworks For Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-Era Claims, Vivian Grosswald Curran Jan 2001

Competing Frameworks For Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-Era Claims, Vivian Grosswald Curran

Articles

There are many angles from which to perceive the contemporary holocaust-era claims. In 1997, Time magazine quoted Elie Wiesel as saying that, [i]f all the money in all the Swiss banks were turned over, it would not bring back the life of one Jewish child. But the money is a symbol. It is part of the story. If you suppress any part of the story, it comes back later, with force and violence.

Wiesel touches on two perspectives: first, what has been described as litigating the holocaust, with all that that implies about the law's questionable capacity to adjudicate issues …


What's So Special About American Law?, William Ewald Jan 2001

What's So Special About American Law?, William Ewald

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Attorney General Taney & The South Carolina Police Bill, H. Jefferson Powell Jan 2001

Attorney General Taney & The South Carolina Police Bill, H. Jefferson Powell

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Conflicting Rights And The Outbreak Of The First World War, Leo Katz Jan 2001

Conflicting Rights And The Outbreak Of The First World War, Leo Katz

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.