2014 SLU LAW FACULTY RETIREMENTS
ALAN J. HOWARD /// PROFESSOR OF LAW J.D., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW, 1972
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YEARS OF SERVICE TO SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
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AWARDS
1977-2014: PROFESSOR OF LAW (ASSISTANT: ‘77-’80, ASSOCIATE: ‘80-’84)
1991-1992: THOMPSON COBURN / MITCHELL AWARD FOR FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP 1980, 1986 & 1992: TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD, SLU LAW STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION
Professor Alan Howard is a legend at Saint Louis University School of Law. Since 1977, he has captured law students’ minds and hearts with his passionate teaching of Constitutional Law. It is no wonder that students voted him “Teacher of the Year” three times. In his research, Professor Howard focused on issues concerning the First Amendment, for which he received a number of prestigious awards including the top prize at the Research Conference for the Bicentennial of the First Amendment. I am especially delighted to write to honor Professor Howard because I have known him as my professor and as a colleague. And Professor Howard is truly in a league of his own as a teacher. I vividly recall Constitutional Law class and Professor Howard commanding attention with dramatic lectures in his clear, booming voice. Working through the cases, Professor Howard masterfully wove the historical and political factors as well as competing judicial philosophies and personalities into his exploration of the evolution of constitutional law. His Socratic questioning was tough and demanded thorough class preparation and strict attention in class. But, often when students would least expect it, Professor Howard would say something absolutely hilarious and the class would break up laughing. The result was a fascinating, intellectually challenging course which produced a great appreciation for constitutional principles in SLU LAW students for 37 years. It is not possible to capture all of Professor Howard’s talents and gifts to the law school in so few words but he also will be famously and fondly remembered for his fabulous turns as the auctioneer at many of the Public Interest Law Group auctions. Finally, he has been a wonderful colleague who warmly welcomed new faculty members and who always brought a humane and fair perspective to any issue being considered. His intellect, his humor and his voice will be sorely missed. PROFESSOR SUSAN FITZGIBBON (‘84)
ISAAK I. DORE /// PROFESSOR OF LAW LL.B., UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW, 1972; LL.M., UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW, 1975; LL.M., YALE LAW SCHOOL, 1976; J.S.D., YALE LAW SCHOOL, 1978 DOCTEUR HONORIS CAUSA, UNIVERSITÉ D’ORLÉANS, ORLÉANS, FRANCE, 2002
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1983-2014: PROFESSOR OF LAW, SCHOOL OF LAW 1990-2014: UNIVERSITY OF ORLÉANS, FRANCE* 2003-2014: UNIVERSITY OF BESANÇON, FRANCE* 2005-2014: UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE, FRANCE*
ADMINISTRATION
1992-2000: CO-DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW
*ANNUAL VISITOR, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
AWARDS
1984-1985, 1985-1986, 2007-2008: THOMPSON COBURN / MITCHELL AWARD FOR FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP
With the retirement of my good friend Isaak Dore, SLU LAW is losing not only a brilliant scholar and one of our few true intellectuals, but also a real gentleman whose natural modesty would not permit him to advertise just how special he was. Not only was Isaak co-founder of the Center for International and Comparative Law, its director for many years and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Saint Louis-Warsaw Transatlantic Law Journal; not only is he the only SLU LAW professor with an honorary doctorate (from the University of Orleans); but he also has perhaps the most compelling personal history of anyone on our faculty. With all the emphasis on diversity in American education nowadays, we forget that Isaak’s story is drenched in diverse cultures which culminated in adversity, exile and his circuitous route to Saint Louis University. Born of Indian parents in Zambia, he grew up speaking four Indian and two African dialects and got his law degree and LL.M. from the University of Zambia. While a young man in Africa, he also learned French in Madagascar. The independence movements in East Africa eventually led to the ethnic cleansing of the Indian population and their expulsion from East Africa. Isaak’s British commonwealth passport was of no use because his skin wasn’t white enough, so he, among other “people without a country,” looked for a country which would accept them. He made his way to Yale and earned an LL.M. and J.S.D. before taking a job with the U.N. in Geneva as a human rights officer. He began teaching in the U.S. at Southern Illinois University and finally came to SLU as a tenured professor in 1983. From that time, he has left his imprint on the school and on each of us who has gotten to know him. His book, “The Epistemological Foundations of Law,” is a classic. Let’s lift our glasses (of red wine) and toast his health—at least I know, I will still see a lot of him in his more carefree future. PROFESSOR STEPHEN THAMAN
BARBARA J. GILCHRIST /// CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF LAW J.D., WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SCHOOL OF LAW, 1976; PH.D., SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 1999
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YEARS OF SERVICE TO SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
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1986-2014: CLINICAL LAW PROFESSOR, SUPERVISOR OF ELDER LAW CLINIC 2000-2007: SUPERVISOR, EXTERNSHIP CLINIC
ADMINISTRATION
2013-2014: INTERIM DIRECTOR, LEGAL CLINICS