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Melvin I. Urofsky
Urofsky in 2009
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Melvin I. Urofsky is an American historian, and professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University.[1]

He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1961 and doctorate in 1968.[2] He also received his JD from the University of Virginia.[3] He teaches at American University and George Washington University Law School.[4][5]

Works

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  • Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1969. OCLC 1131951106
  • A Mind of One Piece: Brandeis and American Reform, New York: Scribner, 1971. ISBN 9780684123684
  • We Are One!: American Jewry and Israel, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1978. ISBN 9780385075800
  • The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary, London: Routledge, 1994. ISBN 9780815311768
  • American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. ISBN 9780803295599
  • Affirmative Action on Trial: Sex Discrimination in Johnson v. Santa Clara, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. ISBN 9780700608300
  • Lethal Judgments: Assisted Suicide and American Law, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. ISBN 9780700610112
  • Money and Free Speech: Campaign Finance Reform and the Courts, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 9780700614035
  • Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, New York: Pantheon Books, 2009. ISBN 9780375423666[6]
  • Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue, New York: Pantheon Books, 2015. ISBN 9780307379405
  • The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today, Pantheon 2020, ISBN 9781101870877 [7][8][9]

References

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  1. ↑ "Melvin I. Urofsky | Penguin Random House".
  2. ↑ Meyer, Eugene. "Melvin I. Urofsky '61 Sets the Bar for Studying Brandeis".
  3. ↑ "Melvin I. Urofsky '61 | Columbia College Today".
  4. ↑ "Adjunct Professor". American University. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Melvin I. Urofsky". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  6. ↑ Liptak, Adam (September 20, 2009). "How Brandeis, Revered or Hated, Became a Giant of the Supreme Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  7. ↑ Patterson, Orlando (January 30, 2020). "Affirmative Action: The Uniquely American Experiment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Patterson, Orlando (February 2, 2020). "Affirmative action in US politics". Business Standard India. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  9. ↑ Menand, Louis (January 9, 2020). "The Changing Meaning of Affirmative Action". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
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