12 Facts About Aviam Soifer

Aviam Soifer is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Aviam Soifer played a fundamental role in convincing then-Dean Kingman Brewster Jr.

Aviam Soifer earned his Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in 1969, and a Master of Urban Studies at the same institution in 1972.

Aviam Soifer "wrote briefs for the American Civil Liberties Union" and became "nationally renowned for legal crusades on behalf of civil rights and women's rights".

Aviam Soifer worked on the case of United States v Progressive, Inc.

From 1976 until 1977, Aviam Soifer studied at Harvard University as a fellow.

Aviam Soifer became a professor at the Boston College Law School, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Aviam Soifer engaged in a study of paternalism, identifying "three significant varieties of parernalism: providing, deciding, and protecting".

In 1982, Soifer concurred with Lawrence G Sager that the Supreme Court was appearing to become less functional, stating that it was "losing its institutional clout and credibility" through its unusual number of fractured decisions and narrowly decided cases.

In 1987, Aviam Soifer derided as a "purge" the firing of four New England School of Law professors who allegedly believed the legal system to be racially biased; Aviam Soifer joined other area law professors in signing a letter of support.

From 1993 to 1998, Aviam Soifer was dean of the Boston College Law School.

Aviam Soifer remained as a professor at BCLS until he accepted the deanship at Hawaii in 2003.

Aviam Soifer has authored a book, Law and the Company We Keep, which received several professional awards, and was noted for having "used works by William Faulkner to explore law's relation to racial violence".