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USC law professor Charles Whitebread dies from lung cancer at 65

By Jason Siegel

USC law professor Charles Whitebread died in Santa Monica on Tuesday from lung cancer, Above The Law reported. (here) He was 65.

An expert on criminal law, the U.S. Supreme Court and juvenile law, WhiteBread taught at the University of Virginia School of Law for 13 years before joining USC in 1981. He also gave a lecture on how to succeed in the first year of law school at 81 law schools, taught a criminal procedure and criminal law for Bar/Bri and gave lectures on recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

"His unique delivery ? imagine a blend of Jon Stewart, Erwin Chemerinsky and Foghorn Leghorn ? made his updates one of the most popular and best-received events each year," writes Cal Law's Legal Pad. (here)

USC law and the University of Virginia Law School plan to separately recognize Whitebread's contributions at yet to be determined dates, law dean Robert Rasmussen wrote in a press release.
 
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the Charles H. Whitebread Scholarship at the University of Southern California Law School, or the Jeff Griffith Youth Center, c/o Friends of the Center

Whitebread's family requests donations be made to a scholarship fund in his name (here) or to the Jeff Griffith Youth Center, which serves homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people.

According to his Web site, Edgar Allen Poe was one of Whitebread's favorite authors...

"Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream"
- Excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe's "A Dream within a Dream"

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).