Robert Mundheim

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Robert Mundheim
LLB)
Occupation(s)Attorney and academician
SpouseGuna Smitchens Mundheim[1][2]
Children2[1]
Parent(s)Alfred and Cecile (Cohen) Mundheim
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2007)

Robert Harry Mundheim

American Lawyer
in 2014 as a "Lifetime Achiever." The University of Pennsylvania Law School has an endowed chair named after him, "the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law."

Early life and education

Mundheim was born in

US Air Force and served in Berlin.[4]

Legal career

After admission to the

Securities and Exchange Commission.[6]

Mundheim then entered academia, with one stint of simultaneous government service. His first academic posts were brief: visiting professor at

U.S. Treasury Department (1977–80).[9][4] In 1980, the University of Pennsylvania Law School named him University Professor of Law and Finance, a position he occupied until 1992.[6] From 1982 to 1989, he was also dean.[9][10]

Mundheim became co-chairman of the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in 1992,[10][11] but he soon left for Salomon, Inc., where he worked as general counsel from 1992 to 1997 and shifted to the same role for Salomon Smith Barney Holdings from 1997 to 1998.[9][10][6]

In 1999, he began work again at Shearman & Sterling, the law firm where he started his career. He is now

Of Counsel there as well as a law professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.[9][10][6]

Service and honors

From 1994-2000, Mundheim remained connected to the University of Pennsylvania Law School through service as a board member and overseer.

endowed chair in his honor, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, currently held by Amy Wax.[13][14] The university awarded him an honorary M.A. in 1971.[6]

Mundheim is on the board of trustees for both the

National Association of Securities Dealers (vice-chairman, governor-at-large, and member of the executive committee, 1988-1991).[7][18]

Mundheim was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the

American Lawyer as a 'Lifetime Achiever', which is one of the most recognized distinctions that an American lawyer can get."[19][20] He received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from The New School in 2019.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mundheim Scholarship Fund". University of Pennsylvania Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 8. October 17, 2006.
  2. ISBN 9780837903286
    – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Department of the Treasury Nomination of Robert H. Mundheim To Be General Counsel. | The American Presidency Project". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1977, Book 1: January 20 to June 24, 1977". Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  5. ISBN 9783110970289
    – via Google Books.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Robert Mundheim". University of Arizona Law. 17 July 2015.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Robert H. Mundheim,", C.V., University of Arizona.
  8. ^ Eichenwald, Kurt (September 2, 1992). "Company News; Outside Lawyer Appointed General Counsel at Salomon". The New York Times.
  9. ^ a b c d "Robert H. Mundheim - Practising Law Institute". www.pli.edu.
  10. ^ a b c d "Robert Mundheim". Shearman & Sterling.
  11. JSTOR 3312178
    .
  12. ^ "Our Board of Directors; Robert H. Mundheim," Gogo.
  13. ^ Justin Heinze (October 4, 2018). "Penn Professor Under Fire For Comments On Christine Blasey Ford". Philadelphia, PA Patch.
  14. ^ "3 More New Endowed Chairs at Law School". University of Pennsylvania Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 8. October 17, 2006.
  15. ^ "Robert H. Mundheim," Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
  16. ^ "John Coates named fellow of American College of Governance Counsel". Harvard Law Today. September 12, 2017.
  17. ^ "Our Board of Directors; Robert H. Mundheim," Gogo.
  18. ^ "Robert H. Mundheim," American Law Institute.
  19. ISBN 9781118867914
    – via Google Books.
  20. ^ Drew Combs (September 22, 2014). "Lifetime Achiever: Robert Mundheim". The American Lawyer.
  21. ^ "Robert H. Mundheim, New York Patron Fellow, Receives Honorary Degree from The New School", May 31, 2019.

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Preceded by Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
1982–1989 		Succeeded by
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