Background
Burbank, Stephen Bradner was born on January 8, 1947 in New York City. Son of John Howard and Jean (Gedney) Burbank.
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Stephen Bradner Burbank
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AB, Harvard University, 1968; Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1973.
Career
Law clerk, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Boston, 1973-1974;
law clerk, Chief Justice Warren Burger, Washington, 1974-1975;
general counsel, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975-1980;
assistant professor of law, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1979-1983;
associate professor of law, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1983-1986;
professor of law, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1986;
Fuller professor of law, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1991-1995;
Berger professor of law, since 1995. Reporter 3d Circuit Judicial Discipline Rules, Philadelphia, 1981-1982, 84, 3d Circuit Task Force on Rule 11, Philadelphia, 1987-1989. Member National Commision on Judicial Discipline and Removal, 1991-1993.
Mediator, arbitrator Center for Public Resources, New York, since 1986. Consultant Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, since 1986.
Achievements
Membership
Member Committee to Visit Harvard and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-1985. Member of advisory board Institute Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, since 1982. Charter trustee Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1980-1997.
Member American Law Institute (adviser transnational rules of civil procedure since 1997, member CPR arbitration commission since 1997), American Arbitration Association (panelof arbitrators since 1985), Century Association, American Judicial Society (Executive Committee, vice president since 1997), Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Ellen Randolph Coolidge, June13, 1970. 1 child, Peter Jefferson.
