Memorial service for Law Dean Lee Teitelbaum is Oct. 21

Teitelbaum

Cornell Law School will hold a memorial celebration in honor of Lee Teitelbaum, the former Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, who died Sept. 22 at age 63. The gathering will be Thursday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Sage Chapel, with a reception to follow in Myron Taylor Hall. The Teitelbaum family will be present, and friends, colleagues and members of the Cornell community are invited to attend.

Teitelbaum, who was dean and professor at the Law School from 1999 to 2003, was a specialist in family law and a prolific scholar who wrote three books on juvenile courts, a casebook on family law and articles on the sociology of the law and legal history, juvenile law, family law, evidence and professional ethics.

Under Teitelbaum's tenure, Law School faculty salaries became more competitive with peer schools and the International and Comparative Law Program expanded, as did cross-disciplinary teaching and scholarship. Teitelbaum also was credited with leading a successful campaign to establish merit-based scholarships and enhance student recruitment and overseeing the renovation of classrooms to incorporate new technologies.

Before coming to Cornell Law School, Teitelbaum was the dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah from 1990 to 1998 and a law faculty member there from 1986 until 1999. He left Cornell in 2004, returning to Utah with his family and rejoining the Utah law school faculty.