Howard Lesnick (April 22, 1931 – April 19, 2020) was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the

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Lesnick was born into a Jewish family in New York City to George L. and Sadie (Rovner) Lesnick, the children of immigrants. Lesnick was raised in

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, New York and in

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. Lesnick had an AB in History from

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(1952), an AM in American History from

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(1953), and an LLB from

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(Editor-in-Chief of the ''

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'', 1958). He was in the

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from 1953 to 1955. He was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan from 1959 to 1960, one of the first Jews to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk. Lesnick was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the

. From 1982 to 1988 he was the

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at Queens College Distinguished Professor of Law. He was a president of the Society of American Law Teachers. Among Lesnick's awards were the University of Pennsylvania Law School Beacon Award (2015), the

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Deborah Rhode Award (2003), and the Community Legal Services Equal Justice Award (1994). Among his writings are the books ''Religion in Legal Thought and Practice'' (Cambridge 2010), ''Moral Education'' (Longman 2004) (with J.F. Goodman), and ''The Moral Stake in Education'' (Longman 2001) (with J.F. Goodman).

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