A Conversation with Abraham S. Goldstein

Abstract

abraham samuel goldstein (1925-2005) served as the eleventh dean of the Yale Law School during the years from 1970 to 1975. A graduate of the City College of New York, he received an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1949 and became a clerk for Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Joining the YLS faculty in 1956, Goldstein was named Sterling Professor of Law in 1975, the year he returned to teaching after his deanship. Goldstein’s publications include The Insanity Defense (1967); The Myth of Judicial Supervision on Three Inquisitorial Systems (1977); The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea (1980); as well as numerous articles on criminal law and procedure.