Norman Redlich
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[edit] Early Years
Norman Redlich was born in 1925. He received his A.B. degree from Williams College in 1947, and his L.L.B. degree from Yale University law school in 1950, then received his LLM from NYU law school in 1955. He joined the faculty at NYU in 1960.
[edit] Warren Commision Years
In 1963, J. Lee Rankin appointed Redlich as a special assistant on the Warren Commission. He was credited with disproving the Belin Theory, which related to a city bus ticket in Lee Harvey Oswald's pocket helping him escape to Mexico. [1] However, controversy arose when Gerald Ford provided J. Edgar Hoover with a probe into Redlich's past and found that he was on the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, which was set up to defend communist lawbreakers.
Following a leak to right-wing politicians, on May 5, 1964, Ralph F. Beerman accused Redlich of defending Cuba on various issues. This incident, combined with the above one relting to the ECLC, led many to consider Redlich a communist sympathizer.
[edit] Later Years
In 1972, he was named as corporation counsel of New York City by then-mayor John Lindsay. In 1975, Redlich became dean of NYU Law School. From 1977 to 1999, Redlich was a member of the Vermont University Law School board of trustees. [2] In 1993, he received the highest award given to lawyers by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, the Whitney North Seymour Award. In 1996, he was awarded the Robert J. Kutak Award, given annually by the American BAR association's educational department to those who it feels have made outstanding contributions in the field of legal education.
Redlich is currently chairman of the American Jewish Congress national governing council. [3] He is also a member of the executive committee of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. [4]
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Redlich has authored several books on law [5]
- Norman Redlich's son is TV producer/writer Ed Redlich.
