Background
Fisch, Edith L. was born on March 3, 1923 in New York City. Daughter of Hyman and Clara L. Fisch.
(TITLE : Charities and Charitable Foundations AUTHOR : Edi...)
TITLE : Charities and Charitable Foundations AUTHOR : Edith L. Fisch FORMAT : Hardback Book PUBLISHER : Lond Publications DATE : 1974 SIZE: About 7 1/4" x 10 1/4" PAGES: 870 plus 170 page 1980-1981 Cumulative Pocket Supplement
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Fisch, Edith L. was born on March 3, 1923 in New York City. Daughter of Hyman and Clara L. Fisch.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1945. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia University, 1948. Master of Laws, Columbia University, 1949.
J.Sc.D, Columbia University, 1950.
She was disabled by poliomyelitis at age 12 and lived the rest of her life in a wheelchair. When she earned three law degrees from Columbia Law School in 1948, 1949, and 1950, she became the first woman to earn a Juris Scientiae Doctor at Columbia and the first student there to earn all three law degrees. The professors at Columbia discouraged her from going on to teach law despite her ambition to do so, but she taught at the New York Law School from 1962 to 1965, becoming the first female law professor in New York State.
She is the author or co-author of the law textbooks The Cy President Doctrine in the United States. (1951), Fisch on New York Evidence (1959), and Charities and Charitable Foundations (1974), and was president of the New York Women's Bar Association from 1970 to 1971.
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Educational director Foundation Continuing Legal Education, 1964—1995. County committeewoman 7th District New York Democrats, 1949—1952. Board directors, treasurer national women's committee Brandeis University, 1964—1968.
Member of American Association of University Women, Academy Political Science, American Arbitration Association (national panelist), Brooklyn College Lawyers Group (recording secretary 1961-1963, board governors 1963-1965), Association Bar City of New York (chairman library committee 1991-1994), National Association Women Lawyers, New York Women's Bar Association (president 1970-1971, board directors 1971-1973, advisory council since 1974), Brooklyn College Alumni Association, Alumni Association Columbia University.
Married Steven Ludwig Werner, December 14, 1963 (deceased ).