Joshua A. Newburg, C ’81, G ’82, L ’89, died on March
26. The College Park, Md., resident was an associate professor at the
University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, teaching
courses such as Business Ethics, Law for Managers, and the Legal
Environment of Business. Prior to joining the Smith faculty, he had been
a lawyer with the international law firm Shearman and Sterling, specializing
in international trade, corporate litigation and antitrust. He then spent
several years at the Federal Trade Commission, as staff attorney with the
FTC ’s Bureau of Competition and as attorney-advisor to Commissioner
Roscoe B. Starek. Newburg had received his bachelor’s, master’s and
law degrees from Penn, all with honors, and had served as associate editor
for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He clerked for Chief
Judge William J. Holloway Jr., of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
During his later academic career, he was published in law journals such
as The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and Georgetown International
Law Journal. At the time of his death, he was serving as assistant
editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. He held a number of editorial and
leadership positions, including president, vice-president and secretary of
the Mid-Atlantic Academy of Legal Studies in Business and vice-chair of
the Board of Directors for D.C. College Bound, a nonprofit organization.
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