Robert A. Gorman (born April 22, 1937) is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor Emeritus at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Biography
Gorman was born in New York City.
Gorman obtained an A.B. ''summa cum laude'' from Harvard College
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in 1958, an LL.B. ''magna cum laude'' from Harvard Law School in 1962, where he was on the '' Harvard Law Review'', and attended University College
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at Oxford University
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in 1958-59. He was a Law Clerk to Hon. Irving R. Kaufman of the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit in 1962-63, and an associate at Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn in 1963-1964.
Gorman is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...
.
Gorman was president of the American Association of University Professors
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from 1981-1982, and was president of the Association of American Law Schools
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in 1991.
Among his writings are ''Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining'', West Publishing Co. (1976), 2d ed. (2004) (with Matthew W. Finkin), ''Labor Law Analysis and Advocacy'' (with Matthew W. Finkin), Juris Publishing Inc. (2013), and ''Cases and Materials on Labor Law'' (with Archibald Cox
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and Derek Bok
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Life and career
Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and siste ...
), Foundation Press.
Awards
Gorman was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1958-59, an Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
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in 1958, the Lindback Award
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History
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for Distinguished Teaching in 1968, the Pennsylvania Chapter of Order of the Coif
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Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 1980, the Distinguished Service Award of the University of Pennsylvania Law Alumni Society in 2000, and the Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2000.
References
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Harvard College alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
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Living people
University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty
Proskauer Rose people
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Alumni of the University of Oxford
Presidents of the American Association of University Professors
1937 births
Fulbright alumni