Joel Barry Grossman (June 19, 1936 – June 2, 2018) was an American

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and

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who was a

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political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

, and an adjunct member of the faculty at the

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School of Law. His areas of specialty were

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and

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. He had been teaching at Hopkins since 1996, before which he taught for over three decades at the

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. Grossman was an editor of "Law & Society Review," and a number of books on American constitutional law and the Supreme court. Though often credited with being a Founder of the Law and Society Association, Grossman preferred to say that he was merely "there at the Founding." He co-edited "The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court" (2005, 2nd ed.) with

Kermit Hall Kermit Lance Hall (August 31, 1944 – August 13, 2006) was a noted legal historian and university president. He served from 1994 to 1998 on the Assassination Records Review Board to review and release to the public documents related to the assa ...

. In 2005 Grossman was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Law and Courts Section of the

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. He died on June 2, 2018, at the age of 81.Joel Grossman
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