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Philip Selznick
Title: Professor of Law and Sociology, Emeritus
Office: 2240 Piedmont Avenue
Tel: 510-642-4038
Fax: 510-642-2951
Email Address: pselznick@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Margo Rodriguez
Professor Selznick taught at the University of Minnesota and UCLA before coming to Berkeley in 1952 to join the faculty of the Department of Sociology. He organized Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society and chaired the committee that planned the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. He also served as the first chair of the program.
Among Professor Selznick's most important publications are TVA and the Grass Roots; The Organizational Weapon; Leadership in Administration; Law and Society in Transition: Toward Responsive Law (with Boalt colleague Philippe Nonet); and The Moral Commonwealth.
In 2003 Professor Selznick won the Law & Society Association's Kalven prize, which recognizes a body of scholarly work that has contributed to the advancement of research in law and society.
Education:
B.S.S, City College of New York (1938)M.A., Columbia University (1943)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1947)
Dr. Jur. hc., University of Utrecht. Netherlands (1951)
