Penn Law Journal Archive
1980-1989
1989 Spring |
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Dean Robert H. Mundheim, whose term as Dean of the Law School ends June 30, 1989, is honored by kind words from alumni, faculty and friends.
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1989 Winter |
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Max M. Kampelman, Ambassador and Chief Arms Negotiator of the United States, gave a lecture to Law School students on “Negotiating with the Soviets.”
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1988 Spring |
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1988 Winter |
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The Honorable Arlin M. Adams, L’47, retired judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, gives this year’s Owen J. Roberts Lecture. The lecture, titled “The Religious Clauses: The Past and the Future,” is a history of the division between state and religion by scrutinizing the founding fathers’ attitudes about religion.
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1987 Fall |
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Practice Professor Douglas N. Frenkel, L’72 is interviewed, providing enlightening insights into the growing Clinical Programs at the Law School. After his graduation from Penn Law in 1972, Professor Frenkel has served as law clerk to Judge Theodore O. Spaulding, then practiced law at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, as staff attorney, supervising attorney and managing attorney. In 1980, he became Director of Clinical Programs at the Law School.
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1987 Spring-Summer |
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In December of 1985, the Law Alumni Society distributed a questionnaire to current female students and female alumni, as a way to investigate the extent to which this group encountered, or anticipated special problems in the pursuit of the practice of law. The response led to an interest in presenting a panel which would serve as a networking device for current Penn Law students and alumni.
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1986 Fall |
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1986 Spring-Summer |
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William H. Brown, III, L’55 gives the Law Alumni Society’s Annual Luncheon Forum Lecture. Mr. Brown recounts his experiences as the Chairman of the Special Investigation Commission charged with examining the confrontation between members of the Move Organization and the City of Philadelphia.
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1986 Winter |
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1985 Fall |
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1985 Spring-Summer |
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In the second in the 1984-85 series of Law Alumni Society Luncheon Forum Lectures. Visiting Professor Stanislaw Soltysinski tells of his time as the Dean of Adama Mickiewicza University in Poland.
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1985 Winter |
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In “Go West, Old Man, Go West,” Professor Louis B. Schwartz, L’35, writes about his experience at his new position at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, CA.
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1984 Fall |
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”My Life and Times: The 90-year History of One Law School Alumna,” is Rose Lerner Perlman’s, L’17, recollection of her education and practice in the legal profession. She was an early female graduate of the Law School and a forerunner in the legal profession.
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1984 Spring |
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1984 Winter |
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The Law School hosts a panel discussion on the Bok report. The panel was comprised of five Law School Alumni, and Professor Noyes E. Leech introduced the program, and was its moderator.
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1983 Fall |
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The University of Pennsylvania Law School salutes its female alumni: 1883-1983. Remarks were given by Dean Robert H. Mundheim, Bernard M. Borish, L’43, Ruth Chase Tomlin, L’43, The Honorable Doris May, L’49, Carolyn Engel Temin, L’58, The Honorable Margaret A Burnham, L’69, and Lynn A. Marks, L, 79.
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1983 Spring |
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“The Insanity Plea: A Modern Dilemma” is a collection of articles adapted from lectures delivered by Dr. Richard G. Lonsdorf, Dr. Robert L. Sadoff, and Professor Louis B. Schwartz at the Noyes Memorial Conference on November 4, 1982.
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1983 Winter |
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1983 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the graduation of Carrie Burnham Kilgore, L’83, the Law School’s first female graduate. Ms. Kilgore was originally denied admission in 1871, but was admitted to the Law School after a ten year struggle which cumulated in legislation enabling women in Pennsylvania to enter the law profession. Law Alumni Day, 1983, celebrates the achievements of Kilgore, and of all female Law School graduates.
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1982 Summer |
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Dean James O. Freedman resigns as Dean of the Law School. In April, 1982, he assumed the Presidency of the University of Iowa. Robert H. Mundheim, University Professor of Law and Finance and former General Counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department, succeeded James Freedman as Dean of the Law School.
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1981-1982 Fall-Winter |
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E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Honorary Fellow, The University of Pennsylvania Law School gives the commencement charge at this year’s Law School graduation. Mr. Bamberger was once the Dean of the Law School at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.; where he initiated and developed an important, innovative program in Clinical Legal Education.
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1981 Spring-Summer |
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This month’s “Conversations With…” column has interviews with nine Master of Laws (LL.M.) candidates. A record number of graduate lawyers enrolled in the LL.M. program in the 1980-81 school years. The Class of 1981 boasts forty-seven international graduate students, representing twenty countries.
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1981 Winter |
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“Professor Robert H. Mundheim: Our Man in Algiers,” is a transcript of Professor Mundheim’s chronicle of his experience of the negotiations that resulted in the release of fifty-three American hostages from Iranian captivity. He was in the center of complex negotiations involving representatives from twelve U.S. banks, three governments, four central banks and hundreds of international government officials, bankers and lawyers.
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1980 Fall |
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In the article “Nontraditional Lifestyles and the Law,” Vice-Dean Phyllis W. Beck explores the fundamental shift in American society’s attitude concerning the issues of unwed cohabitation, children born out of wedlock, the demand for marriage partners of the same sex, and the fight for freedom of choice concerning reproductive matters. The article first appeared in The Journal of Family Law, University of Louisville School of Law.
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1980 Summer |
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Professor Frank Goodman moderates a panel of Law School professors, who discuss the controversy surrounding the publication of The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong. Professors Stephen Burbank, Virginia Kerr and Ralph Spritzer sat on the panel.
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1980 Winter |
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“Distinguishing “The Law of the Creator;” Upholding the Law of the Land,” profiles three Law School alumni who sit on the Federal Bench. Phyllis A. Kravitch, L’43, and Dolores K. Sloviter, L’56, reside, respectively, on the Fifth and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals, while Norma L. Shapiro, L’51 sits as a District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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