Robert A. Gorman (born April 22, 1937) is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor Emeritus at the

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Biography

Gorman was born in New York City. Gorman obtained an A.B. ''summa cum laude'' from

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in 1958, an LL.B. ''magna cum laude'' from Harvard Law School in 1962, where he was on the '' Harvard Law Review'', and attended

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in 1958-59. He was a Law Clerk to Hon. Irving R. Kaufman of the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit in 1962-63, and an associate at Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn in 1963-1964. Gorman is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor Emeritus at the

. Gorman was president of the

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from 1981-1982, and was president of the

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in 1991. Among his writings are ''Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining'', West Publishing Co. (1976), 2d ed. (2004) (with Matthew W. Finkin), ''Labor Law Analysis and Advocacy'' (with Matthew W. Finkin), Juris Publishing Inc. (2013), and ''Cases and Materials on Labor Law'' (with

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and

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), Foundation Press.

Awards

Gorman was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1958-59, an Honorary

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in 1958, the

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for Distinguished Teaching in 1968, the Pennsylvania Chapter of

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Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 1980, the Distinguished Service Award of the University of Pennsylvania Law Alumni Society in 2000, and the Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2000.

References

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