Marvin E. Frankel
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Marvin E. Frankel (1921 - March 5, 2002) was a litigator, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, professor at Columbia Law School, and legal scholar whose views helped to establish sentencing guidelines for the federal courts.
[edit] Biography
Frankel received his B.A. from Queens College in 1943, and his LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1948. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review.
Over a career of more than 50 years, Frankel traveled widely campaigning for human rights and as an advocate before the Supreme Court. He was helped draft the brief for The New York Times in the First Amendment case, New York Times v. Sullivan, which set limits on libel suits brought by public figures. He was a founder of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and served as its chairman for many years.
Frankel worked at the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP from 1983 to 2002.
[edit] Selected publications
- The Grand Jury: An Institution on Trial
- Sentencing: Helping Judges Do Their Jobs
- The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View, 123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1031 (1975)
