Larry Church, 1938-2024
Sherwood R. Volkman-Bascom Professor of Law
In Memoriam 1938-2024
Education
Law School: LL.B., University of Wisconsin Law School
Summa Cum Laude, 1963
Note Editor, Wisconsin Law Review. Dahlberg Award. Order of the Coif. Ford Foundation Fellowship in Urban and Regional Planning.
College: B.A. German and Philosophy, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Cum Laude, 1960
Sphinx Honor Society. Perry Award.
Biography
Born: June 20, 1938, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Preliminary Schooling: Milwaukee Country Day School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1941-56)
Employment
- 1963-65 Lecturer, Haile Sellassie University, Faculty of Law, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (U.S. Peace Corps)
- 1965-68 Associate with Foley and Lardner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 1968- Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School; 1971, Associate Professor; Professor since 1975; Currently Volkman-Bascom Distinguished Teaching Professor of Law
- 1971-72 Advisor to the Supreme Court of Afghanistan
- 1972-74 Lecturer, University of Zambia Law School
- 1976 Visiting Professor, Brigham Young University Law School
- 1980 Visiting Professor, University of Oregon Law School
- 1983 Visiting Professor, American University Law School
- 1983- Lectures on American Law for Foreign Students, summers, Wisconsin International Institute
- 1985, 1989 Two weeks to one month lectures on American Law in Australia
- 1992 China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan.
Subjects
- Constitutional Law; Property; Criminal Law; Environmental Law;
- Currently Taught: Introduction to American Law
- Student teaching awards: 1971; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1985; 1988; 1993
Publications
- Casebooks: Legislative and Administrative Processes, (with Linde, Bunn and Paff) Foundation Press, Mineola, New York (1981)
- Introduction to American Law: A Casebook (with Christenson) (1995)
- Articles: A Commentary on the Law of Agency - Representation, III. J. Eth. Law, 284-302; 303-316 (1966);
- Equitable Conversion in Wisconsin, 1970 Wis. L. Rev., 404;
- Legal Systems, Chapter II of Institutions in Agricultural Development, Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1971;
- New Directions in Regionalism: A Case Study of Intergovernmental Relations, 1971 Wis. L. Rev., 449 (with C. P. Runge);
- Law and the Future in Afghanistan, Qaza (Kabul), 1972 (reprinted 3 Law Asia 457);
- Courts, Legislatures and the Application of Statutes: Zambia's Stock Theft Law, 1973 Zambia L. J. 87;
- The Common Law and Zambia, 1974 Zambia L. J. (reprinted, Law in Zambia, East African Pub'l. Nairobi, 1984);
- Free Speech, Defamation and South Africa, 3 Issue 51 (1974);
- Lesion Contracts, 1975 Tehran L. Rev. 12 (with N. Katouzian);
- Public Access to Privately Owned Lands, (with Model Recreational Land Use Act) 1979;
- Soil Erosion - The Next Crisis?, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 535 (with J. Arts);
- Farmland Conversion: The View from 1986, 1986 Ill. L. Rev. 521;
- A Call for Readable Law Review Articles, 1989 Wis. L. Rev. 739;
- History and the Constitutional Role of Courts, 1990 Wis. L. Rev. 1071;
- Commenting on Comments, 24 Conn. L.R. 185 (1991).
Course Materials
- Cases and materials on Agency and Business organization, Ethiopia, 1964;
- An Introduction to the Law of Zambia, 1974 (reprinted, 1993);
- Criminal Law; Property; Constitutional Law; Law and Population; Introduction to American Law; Environmental Law.
News & Media
Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024Emeritus Professor Larry Church '63 Dies
UW Law NewsFriday, Oct 12, 2012Larry Church: Sweeping changes to affirmative action unlikely in U.S. Supreme Court case
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Teaching Areas
- Comparative Law
- Constitutional Law
- Legal Processes
- Property Law