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Noyes E. Leech (August 1, 1921 – July 1, 2010) was an American lawyer and professor.
Noyes E. Leech | |
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| Born | August 1, 1921 |
| Died | July 1, 2010 (aged 88) |
| Title | the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell professor of law and the William A. Schnader professor of law |
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| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
Leech was born in Ambler, Pennsylvania, to Charles Sherman and Margaret (Reid) Leech.[1]
He attended Lower Merion High School (1939), and received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943, and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1948.[1][2][3] During Leech's third year of law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.[4][5] While pursuing the study of law, Leech reestablished the Mitchell Club as a diverse group of fellow legal students.[6]
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Leech worked at the law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads,[2][3] and practiced law privately in Philadelphia.[4] From 1943 to 1945 he was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army.[2][3]
Leech was the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell professor of law and the William A. Schnader professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[2][3]
He was Editor of the Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1965).[2][7]
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