Sanford Kadish
| Sanford Kadish | |
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| Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law | |
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In office 1975–1982 |
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| Preceded by | Edward C. Halbach, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Jesse H. Choper |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 7, 1921 New York City |
| Died | September 5, 2014 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | June Kadish |
| Alma mater | City College of New York, Columbia Law School |
| Occupation | Professor |
Sanford "Sandy" H. Kadish (Sept. 7, 1921 - Sept. 5, 2014) was an American criminal law scholar and theorist. He was well known for his scholarship in criminology and criminal law theory, and for being one of the drafters of the American Model Penal Code.
Sanford Harold Kadish was born in 1921 in New York City, and grew up in the Bronx. He graduated from City College of New York, Phi Beta Kappa, and then attended a Japanese language school in Colorado.
He served in the United States Navy during World War II, translating Japanese military documents from the Pacific, until he was discharged in 1946. Kadish earned his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1948; during that time he studied with professors Herb Wechsler and Walter Gellhorn, who were influential on his career and scholarship. After law school, he practiced privately in New York before entering legal academia in 1951 at the University of Utah Law School, where he taught for ten years. He then joined the University of Michigan in 1961, before he joined UC Berkeley's School of Law (then "Boalt Hall School of Law") in 1964, where he stayed until his retirement in 1999. He served as Boalt's Dean from 1975 to 1982, and continued to serve as emeritus faculty (the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law (Emeritus)) even after his retirement in 1999.
During his years in academia, he worked with Wechsler on the ALI's Model Penal Code, which was to prove hugely influential in reforming American criminal law. He also published the first edition of his criminal law casebook, Criminal Law and Its Processes, which became the leading criminal law casebook for decades.
Kadish was renowned as "the preeminent criminal law scholar of his generation", "America's foremost scholar of the criminal law", and "the dean of American criminal law academicians". He has been described as "the leading scholar in ... criminal law theory", who was largely responsible for shaping the field.
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