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GOLDSTEIN, Abraham was born on July 27, 1925 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Isidore and Yetta (Crystal) Goldstein.
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Crime Law & Society
(Includes contributions from Herbert L. Packer, Jerome Hal...)
Includes contributions from Herbert L. Packer, Jerome Hall, Erving Goffman, Francis A. Allen, H.L.A. Hart, Norval Morris, Gordon Hawkins, and many others. (Legal Reference)
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The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea (Edward Douglas White lectures)
(Book by Goldstein, Abraham S.)
Book by Goldstein, Abraham S.
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The Insanity Defense
(The insanity defense has become the most passionately deb...)
The insanity defense has become the most passionately debated issue in criminal law, a debate marked by slogans and stereotypes. Mr. Goldstein offers a reasoned study of that debate and the current rules behind the law, as well as a careful examination of what might be expected from any new rules now proposed.
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- The Passive Judiciary: Postcutorial Discretion And the Guilty Plea
- The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea (Edward Douglas White lectures) by Abraham S. Goldstein (1982-01-03)
- The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutional Discretion and the Guilty Plea (Edward Douglas White lectures) by Abraham S. Goldstein (1982-03-06)
- The Insanity Defense by Abraham S. Goldstein (1967-03-01)
- The Insanity Defense (For more than a century, the insanity defense has been th...)
Abraham Samuel S. Goldstein
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Abraham GOLDSTEIN, American professor of law. Faculty, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies 1969; Commission, to Revise Criminal Statutes of Connecticut 1966-1970; Governor s Planning Commission, of Criminal Administration 1967-1971, member Connecticut Board of Parole 1967-1969;; American Academy, of Arts and Sciences since 1975.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, City College of New York, 1946. Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1949. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1961.
Master of Arts (honorary), Cambridge University, England, 1964. Doctor of Laws (honorary), New York Law School, 1979. Doctor of Laws (honorary), DePaul University, 1987.
Career
Goldstein served in the United States. Army during World World War World War II He received an undergraduate degree in economics from City College of New York in 1946 and then entered the Yale Law School, from which he received an Bachelor of Laws in 1949. He subsequently served as the first law clerk of Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. After clerking, Goldstein joined the Yale Law faculty in 1956, was named a full professor in 1961, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law in 1967, and Sterling Professor of Law in 1975.
He served as dean from 1970 to 1975, and then returned to teaching.
In 1970 he also served on the sponsoring board of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee, an organization providing free civilian counsel to United States. military personnel in Vietnam. His publications included The Insanity Defense (1967).
The Myth of Judicial Supervision on Three Inquisitorial Systems (1977). The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea (1980).
And numerous articles on criminal law and procedure, the principal subjects that he taught to several generations of Yale Law students.
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The Insanity Defense
( For more than a century, the insanity defense has been ...)
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The Insanity Defense
(The insanity defense has become the most passionately deb...)
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Crime Law & Society
(Includes contributions from Herbert L. Packer, Jerome Hal...)
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The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea (Edward Douglas White lectures)
(Book by Goldstein, Abraham S.)
- The Passive Judiciary: Postcutorial Discretion And the Guilty Plea
- The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea (Edward Douglas White lectures) by Abraham S. Goldstein (1982-01-03)
- The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutional Discretion and the Guilty Plea (Edward Douglas White lectures) by Abraham S. Goldstein (1982-03-06)
- The Insanity Defense by Abraham S. Goldstein (1967-03-01)
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The Insanity Defense
Membership
Faculty, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies 1969. Commission, to Revise Criminal Statutes of Connecticut 1966-1970. Governor s Planning Commission, of Criminal Administration 1967-1971, member Connecticut Board of Parole 1967-1969.
American Academy, of Arts and Sciences since 1975.
Connections
Married Ruth Tessler, August 31, 1947 (deceased February 1989). Children: William Ira, Marianne Susan. Married Sarah Feidelson, May 7, 1995.
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United States
Education
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1946
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1949
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1961
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1964
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1979
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1987