Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Wisconsin Law School.
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Wisconsin Law School.
He was also a consultant to the President"s Commission on Law Enforcement under Lyndon B. Johnson and to the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders in 1968. He attended law school there also, and joined the faculty upon his graduation in 1949. He headed the project rewriting Wisconsin"s criminal law system.
This project was to become a model for other states and the Federal Government.
He then participated in the development of the American Law Institute"s Model Penal Code, and was subsequently director of the American Bar Foundation 1961 study on improving the day-to-day administration of the criminal justice system outside the courtroom. He was chairman of that committee when it unanimously imposed the first "death penalty" on an athletic program, the Southern Methodist University football program, guilty of two rounds of major infractions within five years.
The committee forced South.M.U. to abandon football altogether for the 1987 season, and revive the sport only under severe restrictions. One of the Wisconsin law school"s clinic is named after him, the Frank J. Remington Center.
lieutenant specializes on criminal law, and operates the Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons (LAIP) Project, serving Wisconsin prison inmates.
He was a member of the Supreme Court"s Advisory Committee on Federal Rules and Procedures for 23 years, directed a 1961 study of criminal justice administration for the American Bar Foundation and headed an American Bar Association project to develop standards for the police. Remington was for many years Wisconsin"s faculty representative to the Big Ten and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and was a member of the North.C.A.A."s committee on infractions.
