Sanford Kadish

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Sanford Kadish
7th Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
In office
1975–1982
Preceded byEdward C. Halbach, Jr.
Succeeded byJesse Choper
Personal details
Born(1921-09-07)September 7, 1921
New York City
Died(2014-09-05)September 5, 2014
NationalityAmerican
SpouseJune Kadish
Alma materCity College of New York, Columbia Law School
OccupationProfessor

Sanford "Sandy" H. Kadish (September 7, 1921[1] – September 5, 2014) was an American criminal law scholar and theorist. He specialised in criminology and criminal law theory, and was one of the drafters of the American Model Penal Code.[2]

Biography

Sanford Harold Kadish was born in 1921 in New York City,[3] and grew up in the Bronx.[1] He graduated from City College of New York, Phi Beta Kappa, and then attended a Japanese language school in Colorado.

He served as an officer in the

University of Utah Law School, where he taught for ten years.[4] He then joined the University of Michigan[4][5] in 1961,[6] before he joined UC Berkeley School of Law in 1964, where he stayed until his retirement in 1999. He served as Berkeley Law's Dean from 1975 to 1982,[5]
and continued to serve as emeritus faculty (the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law (Emeritus)) after his retirement in 1999.

During his years in academia, he worked with Wechsler on the ALI's Model Penal Code, which was to prove hugely influential in reforming American criminal law. He also published the first edition of his criminal law casebook, Criminal Law and Its Processes, which was the leading criminal law casebook for many decades.

Scholarship

Kadish was renowned as "the preeminent criminal law scholar of his generation",[7] "America's foremost scholar of the criminal law",[8] and "the dean of American criminal law academicians".[8][9] He has been described as "the leading scholar in ... criminal law theory", who was largely responsible for shaping the field.[9]

In his scholarship and his work on legal reform, Kadish applied a

sociological lens to criminal law and criminology. Kadish authored the leading criminal law casebook[8] (Criminal Law and Its Processes, first published in 1962) and the first comprehensive encyclopedia of criminal law[8]
(The Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, first published in 1983).

Kadish is particularly cited for a number of contributions, including:

Academic service and awards

At different times, Kadish was president of the

American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[12] During the 1950s Kadish served as an arbitrator with the Regional Wage Stabilization Board (1951–53).[6]

Kadish was a

Guggenheim Fellow.[13] While dean, Kadish helped institute the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, one of the first of its kind.[8] In 2003, Kadish and his wife endowed the Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs,[4]
fostering continued scholarship in the ethics and policy of criminal law, and in legal and moral reasoning generally.

Personal life

Kadish was the son of Frances R. Kadish.[14] Kadish co-authored some work with his brother, Mortimer Kadish, a philosopher. He was married to June Kadish (1922-2011) for 68 years,[15] with whom he had two sons, Josh and Peter Kadish.[11]

Bibliography

Books
  • Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials, first published 1962, with Monrad G. Paulsen; 9th edition published 2012, with
    Stephen J. Schulhofer
    , Carol S. Steiker, and Rachel E. Barkow.
  • Ed., The Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Free Press, 1983)[16]
  • Blame and Punishment: Essays in the Criminal Law (1987) (collection of a number of previously published pieces)[17]
  • M. Kadish & S. Kadish, Discretion to Disobey: A Study of Lawful Departures from Legal Rules (1973); later, M Kadish, S Kadish, MR Kadish, SH Kadish (2012)
Selected articles
Bibliographies and tributes

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Andrew Cohen, "Former Dean and Criminal Law Giant Sanford Kadish Dies at 92" Archived 2014-10-16 at the Wayback Machine, Berkeley Law News, Sept. 5, 2014.
  2. Colum. L. Rev.
    1098 (v.78, n.5, June 1978) for a review of the time prior to the MPC and the early work that led to it.
  3. ^ John S. Bowman, Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Sanford Kadish '48" Archived 2014-10-18 at the Wayback Machine, Columbia Law School Profiles.
  5. ^
    Cal. L. Rev.
    515 (v.70, n.3, May 1982).
  6. ^ a b c "Sanford H. Kadish", University of Michigan Law School's Law Quadrangle Notes, v.5, n.3 (May 1961), available at the "University of Michigan Faculty History Project" (last visited Oct. 11, 2014).
  7. ^ a b c Stephen J. Schulhofer, 79 Cal. L. Rev. 1408 (1999).
  8. ^
    Cal. L. Rev.
    1401 (v.79, n.6, Dec. 1999)
  9. ^ a b c Meir Dan-Cohen, 1418 Cal. L. Rev. 1417 (1991).
  10. Yale L.J.
    1449 (1991).
  11. ^ a b Adrianna Dinolfo, "UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Emeritus Sanford Kadish Dies at 92" (obituary), The Daily Californian, Sept. 10, 2014.
  12. ^ Jesse Choper, "Sanford H. Kadish", 79 Cal. L. Rev. 1415 (1991).
  13. ^ Sanford H. Kadish Archived 2014-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, Guggenheim Fellows database (last visited Oct. 11, 2014).
  14. ^ New York Times Death Notices, Nov. 5, 1970.
  15. ^ June Kadish, Obituary, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2011 (available at legacy.com).
  16. Cal. L. Rev.
    1347 (Dec. 1984).
  17. Cal. L. Rev.
    769 (1988).

External links

  • JD Journal
  • Berkeley scholarship memoriam
  • "'Friendly Fire' Costs $50: Insurance Company Ordered to Pay for Cigarette Burn",
    New York Times
    , July 14, 1951 (detailing early lawsuit by Sanford Kadish against Hartford Fire Insurance Company)
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