Albert J. Rosenthal, Columbia Law Dean, Dies at 91
Albert J. Rosenthal, who as dean of Columbia Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped increase the number of women on the school’s faculty, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 91 and lived in Scarsdale, N.Y.
The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his son Ned said.
A specialist in constitutional and environmental law, Mr. Rosenthal joined the law school faculty in 1964. At his death he was the Maurice T. Moore professor emeritus of law there.
When Mr. Rosenthal assumed the deanship in 1979, Columbia Law School had 3 women on its full-time faculty; when his term ended in 1984, there were 10. Other prominent faculty members appointed during this period include Vincent A. Blasi, an authority on First Amendment law, and George P. Fletcher, a criminal law expert.
Under Mr. Rosenthal’s stewardship, the law school also established centers for Japanese and Chinese legal studies....
Read entire article at NYT
The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his son Ned said.
A specialist in constitutional and environmental law, Mr. Rosenthal joined the law school faculty in 1964. At his death he was the Maurice T. Moore professor emeritus of law there.
When Mr. Rosenthal assumed the deanship in 1979, Columbia Law School had 3 women on its full-time faculty; when his term ended in 1984, there were 10. Other prominent faculty members appointed during this period include Vincent A. Blasi, an authority on First Amendment law, and George P. Fletcher, a criminal law expert.
Under Mr. Rosenthal’s stewardship, the law school also established centers for Japanese and Chinese legal studies....