Sanford "Sandy" H Kadish was an American criminal law scholar and theorist.
12 Facts About Sanford Kadish
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Sanford Kadish specialised in criminology and criminal law theory, and was one of the drafters of the American Model Penal Code.
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Sanford Harold Kadish was born in 1921 in New York City, and grew up in the Bronx.
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Sanford Kadish graduated from City College of New York, Phi Beta Kappa, and then attended a Japanese language school in Colorado.
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Sanford Kadish served as an officer in the United States Navy during World War II on a destroyer in the Pacific, translating Japanese military documents, until he was discharged in 1946.
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Sanford Kadish then joined the University of Michigan in 1961, before he joined UC Berkeley School of Law in 1964, where he stayed until his retirement in 1999.
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Sanford Kadish served as Berkeley Law's Dean from 1975 to 1982, and continued to serve as emeritus faculty after his retirement in 1999.
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Sanford Kadish published the first edition of his criminal law casebook, Criminal Law and Its Processes, which was the leading criminal law casebook for many decades.
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Sanford Kadish authored the leading criminal law casebook and the first comprehensive encyclopedia of criminal law.
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Sanford Kadish is particularly cited for a number of contributions, including:.
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Sanford Kadish was a Fulbright Lecturer in 1957 at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Sanford Kadish co-authored some work with his brother, Mortimer Sanford Kadish, a philosopher.