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Melvin Eisenberg Wins Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction
Professor Melvin Eisenberg is the recipient of this year's Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. The award is given annually in the spring semester and honors a Boalt Hall professor who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching.
An expert on contracts and corporations, Eisenberg joined the Boalt Hall faculty in 1966. In addition to his work at Boalt, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, a Guggenheim fellow and a Fulbright senior scholar. Before joining Boalt he served as assistant counsel to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Warren Commission) and as assistant corporations counsel of New York City.
A reception in honor of Eisenberg will be held Thursday, April 11, at 3 p.m. in the Goldberg Room. The Rutter Award was established in 1995 by William A. Rutter, a philanthropist, lawyer, educator and author who has been part of the legal profession for more than 45 years. For more information about the award, please contact Erin Campbell at 510-643-8010 or ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu.
(4/8/02)
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