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Law professor receives Distinguished Faculty Award

Friday, June 2, 2006

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Seymour Moskowitz, a Valparaiso University professor of law and respected national scholar on elder abuse and related issues, has been named this year’s winner of the Jack Hiller Distinguished Faculty Award.

The Distinguished Faculty Award annually honors a professor in Valparaiso’s School of Law who is an exceptional teacher, scholar and role model.

Moskowitz joined Valparaiso’s faculty in 1969 and is a noted scholar on legal issues surrounding child labor and elder abuse. He has had numerous articles addressing those subjects published in professional journals and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Council for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and Neglect. Moskowitz previously has received the University’s Kretzmann Research Award to study state laws concerning elder abuse, which affects up to 2 million people in the United States each year.

Moskowitz also was a founding director of Valparaiso’s Law Clinic, which provides free legal representation to individuals who otherwise could not afford it.

“Professor Moskowitz embodies the exceptional standards of rigorous yet caring teaching, and unstinting commitment to students, that have been hallmarks of the VU School of Law since its inception,” said Jay Conison, dean of the law school.

Moskowitz completed his bachelor’s degree in American history at Columbia University and his law degree at Harvard Law School. He also completed graduate work at Brandeis University and Boston College in special education and programming for disabled persons.

 

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