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Carol S. Bruch
Carol Sophie Bruch (born June 11, 1941) is an American legal scholar and professor emerita of the law school at the University of California, Davis. A recognized authority on family marital property law, and private international law, she has influenced and worked on the drafting of family law statutes in California and other US states, and also international agreements. She holds a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law and an AB from Shimer College. Early life and education Bruch was born into a highly educated family in the small town of Winnebago, Illinois, near Rockford, Illinois, Rockford; she was the second of four children. Her mother, Margarete Willstätter Bruch, Ph.D., (1906-1964), was a chemical physicist and the daughter of Nobel laureate Richard Willstätter. Her father, Dr. Ernest Bruch (1905-1974), was a physician and director of nuclear medicine at Rockford's St. Anthony Hospital, Her parents had emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s as Germany be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimer College
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced ) is a Classic_book#University_programs, Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, with a history of being in different cities in Illinois prior to that. Founded in 1853 as the Mount Carroll Seminary in Mount Carroll, Illinois, the school became affiliated with the University of Chicago in 1896 and was renamed the Frances Shimer Academy after founder Frances Wood Shimer. It was renamed Shimer College in 1950, when it began offering a four-year curriculum based on the Robert Maynard Hutchins, Hutchins Plan of the University of Chicago. After the University of Chicago parted with both the college and the Hutchins Plan in 1958, Shimer continued to use a version of that curriculum. The college relocated to Waukegan, Illinois, Waukegan in 1978 and to Chicago in 2006. In 2017, it was acquired by North Central Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
