Joseph Goldstein (1923 – 12 March 2000) was an American legal scholar. Goldstein was a Jew, and spoke Yiddish. A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, he earned a bachelor of arts degree from

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in 1943. Goldstein served in the

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during the later years of

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, then enrolled at

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. Goldstein left Yale after his first year of legal studies to pursue a doctorate from the

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, which was funded by a Fulbright Scholarship between 1959 and 1950. Goldstein obtained his bachelor's of law degree from Yale in 1952. As a student he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to joining Yale Law as an associate professor in 1956, Goldstein had clerked for David L. Bazelon and taught at

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and Harvard Law School. He was named a full professor at Yale in 1959, and subsequently held a succession of named professorships from 1968. That year, he was appointed Justus H. Hotchkiss Professor of Law. Goldstein became Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Science and Social Policy in 1969, Sterling Professor of Law in 1978, Sterling Professor Emeritus in 1993, and Derald H. Ruttenberg Professorial Lecturer in Law to 2000. As an instructor, he was known for favoring multiple sections of smaller classes, several of which he taught, instead of large lectures. Also published as In 1974, Goldstein stated, "I am a lawyer who happens to be an analyst." He coauthored books with Alan M. Dershowitz,

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, Loftus E. Becker, Jr., and Albert J. Solnit that reflected this focus, and specialized in

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law. Goldstein suffered a heart attack at home in

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, where he died on 12 March 2000.

References

External links

Joseph Goldstein Papers (MS 1787).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldstein, Joseph 1923 births 2000 deaths People from Springfield, Massachusetts American legal scholars Yale Law School alumni Dartmouth College alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics Harvard Law School faculty Stanford Law School faculty Yale Law School faculty Jewish American attorneys Yale Sterling Professors 20th-century American Jews Fulbright alumni