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Michael A. Fitts is a lawyer, legal scholar, and current dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law. |
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List of Penn Law School alumni |
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==Biography== |
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This is a '''list of the graduates of [[Penn Law School]]'''. For a list of graduates of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] as a whole see [[List of University of Pennsylvania people]] |
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Fitts was born and raised in West Philadelphia. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1975, where he was the recipient of the Detur Prize and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Harvard National Scholar. Fitts received a J.D. degree from Yale University Law School in 1979, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. |
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He was a law clerk for Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., U.S. Judge of the U.S. Court Of Appeals of the Third Circuit. Fitts began his career as an Attorney Advisor to the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, from 1981-1985. He received a Special Commendation Award from the Attorney General of the United States for his work there. |
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=Law and Government= |
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==U.S. Government== |
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===Executive Branch=== |
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*[[Josiah E. DuBois, Jr]], U.S. State Department official, instrumental in Holocaust rescue |
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*[[Thomas K. Finletter]], United States Secretary of the Air Force, 1950-1953 |
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*[[Lindley M. Garrison]], Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson |
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*[[Earl G. Harrison]], Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942-44 |
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*[[George Washington Woodruff]], Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt |
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He then joined the Penn Law faculty, concentrating his scholarship on issues affecting the Federal Government. He has written extensively on questions of administrative law, presidential powers, and separation of powers, often using the tools of political science. He has argued for improving the structure of political parties and executive branch decision-making. He is a member of the Law and Political Process Study Group of American Political Science Association, the World Affairs Council, and the Committee of Seventy, a community watch-dog group. |
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===Judicial Branch=== |
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*[[John Warren Davis]], Former judge for both the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
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*[[James S. Halpern]] Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1990-2005 |
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*[[Phyllis A. Kravitch]] Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit |
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*[[Arthur Raymond Randolph]] Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit |
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*[[Owen J. Roberts]], U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
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===Legislative Branch=== |
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*[[Joseph Maull Carey]], U. S. Senator from Wyoming, 1890-1895; Governor of Wyoming, 1911-1915; Wyoming delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1885-1890 |
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*[[Joseph Sill Clark]], U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957-69 |
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*[[George Wharton Pepper]], U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate |
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*[[Wilbur L. Adams]], Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933-35 |
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*[[George Franklin Brumm]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1929-34 |
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*[[E. Wallace Chadwick]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947-49 |
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*[[Joel Cook]] Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907-11 |
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*[[James Harry Covington]] Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1909-14 |
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*[[Willard S. Curtin]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957-67 |
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*[[Clare G. Fenerty]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935-37 |
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*[[Benjamin Golder]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925-33 |
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*[[George Scott Graham]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1913-31 |
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*[[Everett Kent]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923-25, 1927-29 |
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*[[William Huntington Kirkpatrick]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921-23 |
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*[[James Leech]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927-32 |
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*[[John Thomas Lenahan]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907-09 |
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*[[Lloyd Lowndes, Jr]], Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873-75 |
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*[[James McDevitt Magee]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923-27 |
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*[[Levi Maish]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1875-79 and 1887-91 |
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*[[John Murphy]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943-46 |
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*[[Leonard Myers]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863-75 |
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*[[Robert Nix]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1958-79 |
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*[[Albert Rutherford]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937-41 |
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*[[Hardie Scott]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947-53 |
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*[[John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1915-19 |
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*[[Edward J. Stack]], Florida representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979-81 |
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*[[William Troutman]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943-45 |
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*[[William H. Wilson]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935-37 |
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*[[Charles A. Wolverton]], New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927-59 |
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===Diplomatic Figures=== |
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*George C. Bruno, U.S. Ambassador to Belize |
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*Charles A. Heimbold, Jr, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden |
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*Faith Ryan Whittlesey, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland |
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==State Government== |
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===Executive=== |
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*[[Joseph M. Carey]], Governor of Wyoming, 1911-1915 |
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*[[John G. McCullough]], Governor of Vermont, 1902-1904 |
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*[[Charles R. Miller]], Governor of Delaware, 1913-17 |
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*[[Samuel W. Pennypacker]], Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903-07 |
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===Judicial=== |
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*[[Randy J. Holland]], Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1986-present |
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*[[Peter B. Krauser]], Chief Judge on the Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland and past Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party |
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*[[Daniel J. Layton]], Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1933-45 and Attorney General of Delaware, 1932-33 |
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*[[John G. McCullough]], Attorney General of California during the American Civil War |
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*[[Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr.]], Former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1984-96; he was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state’s highest court; Justice of the Pa. Supreme Court, 1971-84 |
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*[[Deborah T. Poritz]], chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1996-2006 |
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*[[David Samson (New Jersey)]], Former Attorney General of New Jersey, 2002-03 |
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*[[William A. Schnader]], Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1930-34 |
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*[[Horace Stern]], Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1952-56 |
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*[[Leo E. Strine, Jr]], Judge and Vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery |
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===Other=== |
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*[[David Norcross]], past chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee |
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==City Government== |
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*[[Joseph S. Clark]], Mayor of Philadelphia, 1952-56 |
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*[[Oscar Goodman]], Mayor of Las Vegas, 1999-2011 |
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==Non-United States Government== |
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===Political Figures=== |
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*[[John Wallace de Beque Farris]], Canadian politician and member of the senate of Canada (1937-1970) and Attorney General of Vancouver (1917-1920) |
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*[[Raul Roco]], Former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines (Fellow) |
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===Judicial Figures=== |
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*[[Sir Ronald Wilson]], Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation |
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===International Law Figures=== |
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*Jasper Yeates Brinton, Former U.S. Legal Advisor to Egypt, architect of the Egyptian court system and Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court |
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===Diplomatic Figures=== |
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*Alfred Toro-Hardy, Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Kingdom, 2001-present |
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*Fisseha Yimer, Ethiopian Ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations (LLM 1972) |
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=Academia= |
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==University Presidents== |
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*[[Janice R. Bellace]], first president of Singapore Management University |
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*[[Peter J. Liacouras]], Chancellor of Temple University |
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*[[Mark Yudof]], President of the University of California System |
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==Legal Academics== |
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*[[Khaled Abou El Fadl]], a professor at UCLA School of Law; scholar of Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law |
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*Jonathan D. Varat, Former Dean of the UCLA School of Law (1998-2003); author of popular constitutional law casebook |
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*[[Bernard Wolfman]], Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School |
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=Activism= |
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*[[Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander]]: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States; first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law; first black woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar; Civil Rights activist, appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman.<ref>http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/alexander_stma.html</ref> |
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*Carrie Burnham Kilgore: First woman to graduate from Penn with a law degree<ref>http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/women/chron3.html#a</ref> (LL.B.) and the first woman to practice law in Pennsylvania; she argued for a woman’s right to vote before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She was also the first woman in New York to earn a medical degree. |
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As a scholar and as an administrator, he is dedicated to cross-disciplinary education, co-authoring and co-teaching with scholars from other disciplines and establishing new joint programs within the University. |
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=Arts and Entertainment= |
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*[[Moe Jaffe]], songwriter and bandleader |
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Fitts’s grandfather was a professor and Dean of the Wharton Business School, and his father was a professor and chair of the department of surgery at Penn Medical School.<ref>http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=July&artYear=2004&EntryNo=1273</ref> |
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*Pam Jenoff, novelist |
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*[[Henry Chapman Mercer]], American archaeologist |
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==References== |
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*[[Lisa Scottoline]], novelist |
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=Business= |
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*[[Michael Adler]], CFO Expedia |
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==External Links== |
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*Hussam Hamadeh, Founder Vault, Inc. |
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* [http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mfitts/ Faculty Profile at Penn Law] |
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*Gilbert Harrison, Founder, Chairman and CEO, [[Financo, Inc.]] |
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* [http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mfitts/cv.pdf C.V. at Penn Law] |
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*[[Gerald Levin]], former CEO of AOL Time Warner |
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=Media and Journalism= |
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*[[Adrian Cronauer]], former radio disc jockey and Special Assistant to the Director of the POW/MIA Office at the Department of Defense |
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*[[Alberto Ibarguen]], President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald |
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*[[Norman Pearlstine]], chief content officer of Bloomberg L.P. Previously, editor in chief of Time Inc. |
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*[[Michael Smerconish]], radio host |
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*Van Toffler, President, MTV Networks |
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*[[Lynn Toler]], Judge of the television series Divorce Court |
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=Sports= |
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*[[Anita DeFrantz]], 1976 women's eight-oared shell bronze medalist, the first woman and the first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee, IOC's first female vice president, and chair of the Commission on Women and Sports. |
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=Other= |
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*[[Daniel Barringer (geologist)]], first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on earth, and namesake of the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona |
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*[[William Draper Lewis]], Founder and first director of the American Law Institute |
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*[[George Wharton Pepper]], Founder of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a U.S. law firm with more than 500 lawyers |
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*[[Bernard Segal]], Past President of the American Bar Association |
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=Attended but did not graduate= |
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*[[William Radford Coyle]], Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925-27, 1929-33 |
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*[[George B. McClellan]], U.S. Civil War General; Governor of New Jersey |
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=Notes= |
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Revision as of 20:35, 12 November 2008
Michael A. Fitts is a lawyer, legal scholar, and current dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law.
Biography
Fitts was born and raised in West Philadelphia. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1975, where he was the recipient of the Detur Prize and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Harvard National Scholar. Fitts received a J.D. degree from Yale University Law School in 1979, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal.
He was a law clerk for Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., U.S. Judge of the U.S. Court Of Appeals of the Third Circuit. Fitts began his career as an Attorney Advisor to the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, from 1981-1985. He received a Special Commendation Award from the Attorney General of the United States for his work there.
He then joined the Penn Law faculty, concentrating his scholarship on issues affecting the Federal Government. He has written extensively on questions of administrative law, presidential powers, and separation of powers, often using the tools of political science. He has argued for improving the structure of political parties and executive branch decision-making. He is a member of the Law and Political Process Study Group of American Political Science Association, the World Affairs Council, and the Committee of Seventy, a community watch-dog group.
As a scholar and as an administrator, he is dedicated to cross-disciplinary education, co-authoring and co-teaching with scholars from other disciplines and establishing new joint programs within the University.
Fitts’s grandfather was a professor and Dean of the Wharton Business School, and his father was a professor and chair of the department of surgery at Penn Medical School.[1]