Larry D. Soderquist (July 20, 1944 – August 20, 2005) was a noted author and Professor of Law at

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from 1981 to 2005 and director at Corporate and Securities Law Institute from 1993 to 2005.

Biography

Soderquist was born in

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and received his B.S. from

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in 1966; his J.D. from

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

in 1969; and his D.Min. from

Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary, also known as Trinity College of the Bible, is a conservative evangelical Bible college and seminary located near Evansville, Indiana. Trinity offers distance education programs at undergrad ...

in 1998. Soderquist was an ordained minister. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Soderquist taught at the

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. Prior to teaching, he was an Army Captain during the

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; after that, he practiced law on

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with

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. Soderquist was a

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during the

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. Other military positions include serving as chief intelligence officer on a General's staff. Soderquist also penned two mystery novels outside of his academic work: ''The Labcoat'' (1998) and ''The Iraqi Provocation'' (2003). On July 3, 2005, Soderquist was in a serious car accident and died from his injuries the next month, aged 61. He was interred at

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in Virginia.Burial Detail: Soderquist, Larry D
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References

External links

at ArlingtonCemetery.net, an unofficial website
The Iraqi Provocation

Thoughts on Martha Stewart's Securities problems

20th-century American educators Trinity College and Seminary alumni Harvard Law School alumni People from Ypsilanti, Michigan University of Notre Dame faculty Vanderbilt University faculty Vanderbilt University Law School faculty Notre Dame Law School faculty United States Army officers Eastern Michigan University alumni Road incident deaths in Tennessee 1944 births 2005 deaths American legal scholars People associated with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Burials at Arlington National Cemetery {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub