Education
Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School.
At Tulane he started a law clinic to serve low-income people in New Orleans and made Tulane the first law school in the United States to require a specific number of community service hours for graduation. Under his leadership, African American students came to constitute a greater percentage of the law school student body than in any other non-historically black law school. A cheerful and outspoken liberal, he relished controversy.
During his tenure, Tulane published the nation"s first gay law journal.
He was succeeded by Tulane Law School Dean Edward F. Sherman. Mr. Kramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1958.
He was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University in 1958-1959 and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1962. He clerked at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund for Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black justice on the United States. Supreme Court.
In 1965, he became counsel to United States. Republican
Adam Clayton Powell Junior. (Doctorate-New York) on the House Committee on Education and Labor, handling anti-poverty legislation and the first Higher Education Acting.
He publicly defended the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic when it ran afoul of powerful chemical and oil companies in Louisiana. He also defended the Tulane Appellate Advocacy Program"s involvement in a Supreme Court suit against a local utility.