2005 Articles

Professor Stanley Lubman: A Brief Biography

Clarke, Donald C.

This special issue of the Columbia Journal of Asian Law honors Stanley Lubman, one of the pioneers of modem Chinese law studies in the United States and indeed in the western world. Like that of many others in that founding generation, Stanley's early academic career showed little to foreshadow his subsequent move into China studies. Upon graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, Stanley took an undergraduate degree at Columbia, where he majored in history and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. After that, Columbia Law School must have seemed an almost inescapable fate, and he received his LL.B. in 1958. Presaging the course of his career, he also avoided some practical courses to study comparative law, Roman law, and Soviet law, which aroused his interest in studying foreign legal systems.