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Jack Greenberg

Professor of Law

B.A., Columbia, 1945; LL.B., 1948; LL.D , 1984.  Assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1949–61; director-counsel, 1961–84. Argued before United States Supreme Court in 40 cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, which declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional; and other cases in the Supreme Court and other courts involving civil rights in all its aspects.  Founding member, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Human Rights Watch.   Participated in human rights missions to the Soviet Union, Poland, South Africa, the Philippines, Korea, Nepal, and elsewhere; consulted on integrating Roma school children in public schools in Eastern Europe; visiting lecturer, Yale Law School, 1971, Harvard Law School, 1983, University of Munich, 1998; University of Tokyo, 1998.   Dean, Columbia College, 1989–93.  Presidential Citizens Medal, 2001;  Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998. Awarded American Bar Association Thurgood Marshall Award, 1996.   Board member Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.  Publications include Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement (2004); Brown v. Board of Education: Witness to a Landmark Decision (2004); Dean Cuisine: The Liberated Man's Guide to Fine Cooking (with James Vorenberg, 1991).