Robert MacCrate

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Robert MacCrate (July 18, 1921 – April 6, 2016)

My Lai Massacre. In the late 1980s, MacCrate served as president of both the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association ("ABA"). MacCrate later chaired the ABA Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession. The Task Force's Report, widely known as the MacCrate Report, was issued in July 1992.[2] MacCrate was a partner and vice chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell
LLP. Although retired from active practice, MacCrate continued to serve on many boards and was active as a Senior Counsel of Sullivan & Cromwell until his death in 2016.

Robert MacCrate's father,

Supreme Court of the State of New York.[3]

The MacCrate Report

With the backing of the ABA Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession, the MacCrate Report criticized the state of

law school ranking system
.

Education

MacCrate was a 1939 graduate of Brooklyn Friends School,[3] a 1943 graduate of Haverford College, and a 1948 graduate of the Harvard Law School. He received honorary doctorates from Union College in 1986, Haverford College in 1987, Dickinson College in 1987, William Mitchell in 1994, Quinnipiac Law School in 1995, CUNY School of Law, and University of South Carolina in 2004.[6]

Death

MacCrate died aged 94 on 6 April 2016 at his home in Plandome, New York.[7]

References

  1. ^ "The New York Red Book". 1961.
  2. ^ a b c American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (July 1992), Report of The Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap (the McCrate Report), retrieved 2008-09-17
  3. ^ a b http://www.brooklynfriends.org/RelId/607530/ISvars/default/Alumni_Profile%253a_Robert_MacCrate_'39.htm Alumni Profile of Robert MacCrate, Brooklyn Friends School.
  4. ^ Crossing the Bar - Law Schools and Their Disciples Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Crashing the Supremacy Paradigm
  6. ^ Sullivan & Cromwell biography of Robert MacCrate
  7. ^ New York Times Robert MacCrate, lawyer in My Lai inquiry, dies at 94
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