Norman Dorsen
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| Born | 1930 (age 86–87) New York City |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | New York University School of Law |
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Columbia University Harvard Law School |
Norman Dorsen is the Frederick I. and Grace A. Stokes Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at the New York University School of Law, where he specializes in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, and Comparative Constitutional Law. Previously Dorsen was president of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1976–1991. Dorsen was also president of the Society of American Law Teachers, 1972–1973, and president of the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law in 2000. Dorsen successfully argued the case of In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), before the U.S. Supreme Court which held that juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults. He also argued Supreme Court cases Levy v. Louisiana (1968), ensuring equal protection for out-of-wedlock children, and United States v. Vuitch (1971), the first abortion case to reach the Court.
Dorsen sits on the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A 1953 graduate of Harvard Law School, Dorsen performed military service in the office of the Secretary of the Army fighting against McCarthyism in the Army-McCarthy Hearings. Dorsen clerked for Chief Judge Calvert Magruder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and then Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II in the 1957 Term.
Dorsen is the author of numerous books, including Comparative Constitutionalism (2003 ), Our Endangered Rights (1984 ), and Frontiers of Civil Liberties (1968).
Dorsen's papers related to multiple aspects of the American civil liberties movement from the 1950s to the 1980s are housed in the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. Among other honors, he received the Medal of Liberty from the French Minister of Justice in 1983 and the Eleanor Roosevelt Medal for contributions to human rights from Bill Clinton in 2000. In 2007, the Association of American Law Schools presented him with its first triennial award for “lifetime contributions to the law and to legal education.”
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