Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 8419 704X
https://isni.org/isni/000000008419704X
Name: 
Michael I. Sovern
Michael I. Sovern (American legal scholar)
Sovern, Michael I.
Dates: 
born 1931-12-01 deceased 2020-01-20
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Language material
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author
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Columbia University (isAffiliatedWith)
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Cases and materials on racial discrimination in employment, 1973:
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AALS dir. of law teachers, 1988-89 (Sovern, Michael I.; b. 1931)
Associated Group: Columbia University naf
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Fuller form of personal name: Michael Ira
His Cases and materials on racial discrimination in employment, 1973 t.p. (Michael I. Sovern, dean and prof. of law, Columbia U.)
LC in OCLC, 6-13-90 (hdg.: Sovern, Michael I.)
Law Education, Higher Labor laws and legislation Mediation
Lawyers Law teachers Deans (Education) College presidents Mediators (Persons)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 24, 2020 (in obituary dated Jan. 23, 2020: Michael I. Sovern, a legal scholar who became the youngest full professor in Columbia University's modern history and led his school through a tumultuous period in the 1980s and '90s, died Jan. 20 in Manhattan. He was 88. A distinguished expert on labor relations and employment discrimination, Mr. Sovern was widely viewed as a master conciliator. Before becoming Columbia University's president in 1980, Mr. Sovern brought his expertise as a mediator to a firefighter strike and to student uprisings that jolted Columbia's campus. He later led a government integrity commission after municipal scandals in 1986 and chaired the auction house Sotheby's after a price-fixing scandal rocked the art world in 2000. Mr. Sovern was also a civil rights stalwart who helped establish the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, worked closely with the NAACP and provided legal support to victims of the Tuskegee syphilis study. He entered academia almost immediately out of law school, joining his alma mater Columbia Law in 1957 and becoming a full professor three years later at age 28. He was dean for nine years beginning in 1970. Michael Ira Sovern was born in the Bronx on Dec. 1, 1931. Mr. Sovern was president of the Shubert Foundation, a performing arts organization, and a board member of companies including AT&T)
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