Leonard Boudin
Leonard Boudin | |
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Born | July 20, 1912 |
Died | November 24, 1989 | (aged 77)
Education | LLB) |
Spouse | Jean Roisman |
Children | Michael and Kathy |
Relatives | Louis B. Boudin (uncle) Chesa Boudin (grandson) |
Leonard B. Boudin (July 20, 1912 – November 24, 1989) was an American
Early life and education
Boudin was the son of Clara (Hessner) and Joseph Boudin, Jewish immigrants; his uncle was lawyer
Career
He represented other controversial clients including the
Boudin argued and won unanimously the first case in which the
The papers of Boudin and Rabinowitz' law firm, ultimately Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky and Lieberman, P.C., indicate work for, among others,
Boudin also taught as a visiting professor and lecturer at a variety of institutions, including
Personal life
Boudin was the nephew of
He married Jean Roisman, a poet. Together they had two children, Michael and Kathy, who achieved recognition in later life.[6] Michael Boudin became a jurist and was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, serving as its chief judge 2001-2008. Kathy Boudin was an activist and co-founder of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground, who served 22 years in prison for her role in a 1981 robbery that left two police officers and a security guard dead. His only biological grandson, Chesa Boudin, Kathy's son, was the district attorney of San Francisco from 2020 to 2022.
See also
- Louis B. Boudin
- Michael Boudin
- Kathy Boudin
- Chesa Boudin
- Victor Rabinowitz
- I.F. Stone
- National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
- National Lawyers Guild
References
- ^ "Document Details". www.inthefirstperson.com. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- OCLC 39625127.
- ^ "A Background Paper on Leonard Boudin Prepared for White House by Hunt". The New York Times. 19 July 1974. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ a b "Marquis Biographies Online". search.marquiswhoswho.com.
- ^ US Government Printing Office (1953). "Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations" (PDF). United States Senate. Washington, D.C. (published 2003). pp. 999–1015.
- ^ a b c Nick Ravo, "Leonard Boudin, Civil Liberties Lawyer, Dies at 77," New York Times, November 26, 1989.
- ^ "FW: Jewish Champions of First Amendment". lists.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ "Guide to the Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky and Lieberman Legal Files TAM.287". Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ Boudin's wife and Stone's wife were sisters.
Further reading
- Braudy, Susan, Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left, Random House, November 2003
- Rabinowitz, Victor, Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir, Beacon Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-252-02253-1
External links
- Recording of Boudin's oral argument at the United States Supreme Court in Kent v. Dulles, April 10, 1958; on the first of the two recordings.