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Tel: 215.898.7495
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: hlesnick@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Law and Equality
- Professional Responsibility
- Religion and the Law
Bio
Howard Lesnick has taught law for 47 years.
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Howard Lesnick has taught law for 47 years. A former law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States, he specialized initially in the law of the work relation: labor law, employment discrimination, and welfare law, writing extensively on labor-management issues. He has served since 1978 as Impartial Umpire under the AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan. A founder and past President of the Society of American Law Teachers – a group of law teachers committed to the public responsibilities of the Bar and the law schools – he has participated in litigation, training, and consultative work related to the legal problems of poor people, including the rights of refugees, and has worked, with others, to develop methods by which law students, teachers, and practitioners can make their work in law more fully integrated with their aspirations and values, and with the motivations that drew them to legal careers. His current teaching interests are religion, law, and lawyering; legal responses to inequality; and professional responsibility. In recent years, he has published books and articles on ethical responsibility in law practice, religion and morality, and moral education.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law (1998 -); Professor (1960-82); Participating Faculty, Center on Professionalism (1988-96)
Impartial Umpire, AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan (1978 -)
President, Society of American Law Teachers (1973-75)
Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research, Consultant and Visiting Professor in the Law and Social Policy Program (1975-1978)
Visiting Professor - University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Columbia, University of California, Hastings, Lewis & Clark, University of Michigan, NYU, Stanford, University of Texas, University of Utah, University of Washington
Clerk to Justice John M. Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court (1959-60)
Representative Publications
The Rhetoric of Anti-relativism in a Culture of Certainty, __ BUFF. L. REV. __ (2007).
The Consciousness of Religion and the Consciousness of Law: Some Implications for Dialogue, 8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1 (2006).
MORAL EDUCATION: A TEACHER-CENTERED APPROACH (Longman 2004) (with J.F. GOODMAN).
No Other Gods: Answering the Call of Faith in the Practice of Law, 18 J.L. & RELIG. 459 (2003).
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THE MORAL STAKE IN EDUCATION: CONTESTED PREMISES AND PRACTICES (Longman 2001) (with J.F. GOODMAN).
Speaking Truth to Powerlessness, 52 VAND. L. REV. 1033 (1999).
Personal Fulfillment in the Changing World of Law Practice: Opportunities and Obstacles, 72 TEMPLE L. REV. 1011 (1999).
LISTENING FOR GOD: RELIGION AND MORAL DISCERNMENT (Fordham 1998).
The Religious Lawyer in a Pluralist Society, 66 FORDHAM L. REV. 1469 (1998).
Religious Particularity, Religious Metaphor, and Religious Truth: Listening to Tom Shaffer,
10 J.L. & RELIG. 317 (1995).
BEING A LAWYER: INDIVIDUAL CHOICE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW (West 1992).
Being a Teacher, of Lawyers: Discerning the Theory of My Practice, 43 HASTINGS L.J. 1095 (1992).
The Wellsprings of Legal Responses to Inequality: A Perspective on Perspectives, 1991 DUKE L.J. 431.
BECOMING A LAWYER: A HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON LEGAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONALISM (West 1981) (with E. DVORKIN & J. HIMMELSTEIN).
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