B.A., Columbia, 1945; LL.B., 1948; LL.D., Central State College, 1965.
Morgan State College, 1965; Lincoln (Pennsylvania), 1977; John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, 1983; Columbia, 1984; DePaul, 1994;
Howard, 2004; Notre Dame, 2005. Assistant counsel, NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, 1949-61; director-counsel, 1961-84.
Argued before U.S. Supreme Court in 40 cases, including Brown...
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B.A., Columbia, 1945; LL.B., 1948; LL.D., Central State College, 1965.
Morgan State College, 1965; Lincoln (Pennsylvania), 1977; John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, 1983; Columbia, 1984; DePaul, 1994;
Howard, 2004; Notre Dame, 2005. Assistant counsel, NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, 1949-61; director-counsel, 1961-84.
Argued before U.S. Supreme Court in 40 cases, including Brown v.
Board of Education, 1954, which declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional;
argued other cases in the Supreme Court and other courts
involving civil rights in all its aspects. Founder, Earl Warren Legal
Training Program, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education
Fund. Participated in human rights missions to the Soviet Union,
Poland, South Africa, the Philippines, Korea, Nepal and elsewhere.
Adjunct professor, Columbia Law School, 1970-84; visiting lecturer,
Yale Law School, 1971; Harvard Law School, 1983. Dean,
Columbia College, 1989-93. Visiting professor, College of the City
of New York, 1977; University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, 1993-94;
distinguished visiting professor, St. Louis University Law School,
1994. Visiting professor, Lewis and Clark Law School, 1994, 1996;
Princeton University, 1995; University of Munich, 1998; Tokyo
University, 1996, 1998; University of Nuremberg–Erlangen, 1999-
2000; Hebrew University, 2005. Cardozo Lecturer, Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, 1973. Fellow, American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, 1998.
Awarded American Bar Association Thurgood Marshall Award,
1996. Founding member, Mexican-American Legal Defense and
Education Fund. Member, boards of the Asian American Legal
Defense and Education Fund; Human Rights Watch, 1978-98; and
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Awarded the Presidential
Citizens Medal, 2001.
Teaching interests include constitutional, civil rights, and human
rights law, civil procedure, Kafka and the law, South Africa’s postapartheid
constitution and equal rights, integration and education for
the Roma of Eastern Europe.
Publications include: Race Relations and American Law, 1959; Litigation
for Social Change, 1973; Cases and Materials on Judicial Process
and Social Change, 1976; Dean Cuisine: The Liberated Man’s Guide to
Fine Cooking, with Vorenberg, 1991; Crusaders in the Courts: How a
Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution, 1994;
Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement, 2004;
Brown v. Board of Education: Witness to A Landmark Decision, 2004; and
articles on civil rights, capital punishment and other subjects.
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