In memoriam: Lewis F. Powell, Jr

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Lewis F. Powell, Jr., who served as an associate Supreme Court justice from 1972 to 1987, received several tributes after his death in 1998. He was honored for his years of public service and for the grace and rectitude of his private life. Though aristocratic in personal background and essentially conservative in judicial philosophy, he wrote some of the Court's most socially significant decisions such as the Bakke decision on race-based admissions.

Powell, Lewis F., Jr.

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In memoriam: Elisabeth A. Owens

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Elisabeth A. Owens, who died in 1998, was the first woman to achieve tenure as a full professor at Harvard Law School. She was born in 1919, got her law degree from Yale in 1951, and after practicing joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant in 1955. She received tenure as a full professor in 1976, and retired in 1981. She won respect and as an authority on international taxation.

Law teachers, Law school faculty, Harvard Law School, Owens, Elisabeth A.

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In memoriam: Justice Harry A. Blackmun, principle and compassion

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Testimonials from friends and colleagues of US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun are presented.

Blackmun, Harry A.

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