Title

Interview with Howard Lesnick

Authors

Meredith Coleman, University of Pennsylvania
Steffen Bressler, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Gurtman, University of Pennsylvania
Simi B. Kaplin, University of Pennsylvania
Donna Mancusi, University of Pennsylvania
Diankha Warren, University of Pennsylvania
Howard Lesnick, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolFollow
Legal Oral History Project, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Document Type

Video Recording

Publication Date

1-31-2000

Streaming Media

Abstract

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Howard Lesnick was Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he began teaching in 1960. From 1982 to 1988 he taught at the newly founded CUNY Law School at Queens College, where he was responsible for curriculum and faculty development. Thereafter, he returned to Penn, retiring in 2016. He made important contributions to scholarship in fields ranging from labor law to legal education to law and religion. He died in 2020.

Repository Citation

Coleman, Meredith; Bressler, Steffen; Gurtman, Brian; Kaplin, Simi B.; Mancusi, Donna; Warren, Diankha; Lesnick, Howard; and Legal Oral History Project, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, "Interview with Howard Lesnick" (2000). Legal Oral History Project. 48.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/lohp/48