Stephen D. Sugarman was the

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Professor of Law at the

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, where he has taught since 1972. He was the associate dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law from 1980 to 1982, and then again from 2004 to 2009. At UC Berkeley, he taught multiple classes in the

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curriculum, including classes

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s and

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. He had been a visiting professor at the

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, at

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, and at

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, among other institutions. Sugarman passed away on December 26, 2021 at age 79 after a four-year battle with kidney cancer.

Work

With his colleague John Coons, Sugarman was an influential architect of the

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movement in the United States, and their research was cited by the

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to argue for such programs in 1981. Coons and Sugarman also argued the case ''

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'' before the

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in 1976.

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