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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 is the author of books and articles on ethical responsibility in law, religion and morality, and moral education.
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Howard Lesnick is the author of books and articles on ethical responsibility in law, religion and morality, and moral education. He is completing work on Religion in Legal Thought and Practice (Cambridge, forthcoming 2010). His 2001 book (with J.F. Goodman), The Moral Stake in Education: Contested Premises and Practices (Longman), examines the foundational issue of the meaning of morality and virtue, and the controversies over the ways in which it can be taught. Among his earlier writing is Listening for God: Religion and Moral Discernment (Fordham, 1998), which asks: Where do moral imperatives come from, and how do the answers found in religion and in law affect one another?
A former law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court, Lesnick has served since 1978 as Impartial Umpire under the AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan. He is a founder and past president of the Society of American Law Teachers and has participated in litigation, training, and consultative work related to the legal problems of poor people. He has worked to develop methods by which law students, teachers, and practitioners can integrate their work with their aspirations and values. In 2003, he received the Association of American Law Schools’ Deborah Rhode Award for outstanding contributions to public service.
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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- )
Law Clerk to the Hon. John M. Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court (1959-60)
Co-Founder and Distinguished Professor, CUNY School of Law (1982-88)
President, Society of American Law Teachers (1973-75)
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
Representative Publications
RELIGION IN LEGAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE (forthcoming Cambridge 2009).
Moral Disagreement in a Culture of Certainty, in LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN THE EMPIRE OF FORCE, (H. Jefferson
Powell & James Boyd White, eds.) (Univ. Of Michigan 2008).
The Practice of Teaching, the Practice of Law: What Does It Take to Practice Responsibly, 29 PACE L. REV. 29 (2008).
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The Rhetoric of Anti-relativism in a Culture of Certainty, 55 BUFF. L. REV. 887 (2007).
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The Consciousness of Religion and the Consciousness of Law: Some Implications for Dialogue, 8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1 (2006).
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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).
Riding the Second Wave of the So-Called Religious Lawyering Movement, 75 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 283 (2001).
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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).
The Religious Lawyer in a Pluralist Society, 66 FORDHAM L. REV. 1469 (1998).
LISTENING FOR GOD: RELIGION AND MORAL DISCERNMENT (Fordham 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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