Howard Lesnick

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Howard Lesnick (April 22, 1931 – April 19, 2020) was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.{{cite web |title=Howard Lesnick |url=https://www.jacobfruth.com/obituary/howard-lesnick |publisher=Jacob F. Ruth Funeral Directors |access-date=8 January 2021}}

Biography

Lesnick was born into a Jewish family in New York City to George L. and Sadie (Rovner) Lesnick, the children of immigrants.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jacobfruth.com/obituary/howard-lesnick?lud=E7909DBB17A5FB39296BC548518F656D|title=Obituary for Howard Lesnick at Jacob F. Ruth Funeral Directors|website=www.jacobfruth.com}}{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} Lesnick was raised in the Bronx, New York and in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

Lesnick had an AB in History from New York University (1952), an AM in American History from Columbia University (1953), and an LLB from Columbia Law School (Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review, 1958).{{cite web|url=https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/hlesnick/|title=Penn Law Faculty: Howard Lesnick, expert on Law and Equality, Religion and the Law, Professional Responsibility|website=www.law.upenn.edu}} He was in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955.{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/hlesnick/cv.pdf|title="C.V."}} He was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan from 1959 to 1960, one of the first Jews to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk.

Lesnick was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 1982

to 1988 he was the City University of New York Law School at Queens College Distinguished Professor of Law.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/26/nyregion/city-to-open-a-law-school-with-low-tuition.html|title=City to Open a Law School with Low Tuition|first=Susan Heller|last=Anderson|newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 December 1982|publisher=}}

He was a president of the Society of American Law Teachers.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OC47AQAAIAAJ&q=Howard+Lesnick|title=Society of American Law Teachers Equalizer|date=29 April 1995|publisher=Society of American Law Teachers|via=Google Books}}

Among Lesnick's awards were the University of Pennsylvania Law School Beacon Award (2015), the Association of American Law Schools Deborah Rhode Award (2003), and the Community Legal Services Equal Justice Award (1994).

Among his writings are the books Religion in Legal Thought and Practice (Cambridge 2010), Moral Education (Longman 2004) (with J.F. Goodman), and The Moral Stake in Education (Longman 2001) (with J.F. Goodman).