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Retired UCLA law dean Murray Schwartz dies at 87

By Jason Siegel

Murray Schwartz, UCLA's third law dean and a professor in criminal law and legal ethics there, died of heart failure on Feb. 15. He was 87.

Schwartz started teaching at UCLA in 1958 and served as dean of their law school from 1969 to 1975. He received professor of the year and excellence in teaching awards at UCLA. He was also the school's vice chancellor from 1988 to 1991.

After graduating from law school in Pennsylvania, Schwartz clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson and then worked in the Solicitor General from 1952 to 1954.

"Murray's passing will be a great loss to our community," UCLA law dean Michael Schill told the Philadelphia Daily News.

Donations may be sent to the UCLA Foundation School of Law, attention Donna Colin, Box 951476, Los Angeles CA 90095.

Philadelphia News Obituary

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).