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Date: April 27, 1998
Stanley N. Katz Receives Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Ohio State University
Princeton, N.J.--Stanley N. Katz, professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and one of America's foremost legal historians, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Ohio State University on March 20.
A native of Chicago, Katz earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He joined the University of Wisconsin's history faculty in 1965. In 1971, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as a professor of legal history, professor of history and associate dean of the law school.
In 1978, Katz was named Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. He was co- appointed professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School in 1982 and held both appointments until 1986, when he was named senior fellow in the Wilson School. From 1979 to 1986, he also served as a visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-director of Princeton's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Research.
An outspoken advocate for the liberal arts and the ideals of intellectual exchange, Katz served as president of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1986 to 1997. He has written, co- authored or edited some 50 books and scholarly articles. He co- founded Reviews in American History, the leading journal devoted to new literature in American history, and has served as associate editor since 1973.