Franklin e zimring biography

American lawyer

Franklin E. Zimring is an American criminologist, law professor, and the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Early life and education

Zimring was born on December 2, 1942, in Los Angeles, California,^[2] to television and film writer Maurice Zimring, better known by his stage name Maurice Zimm, and his wife Molly, a lawyer who passed the California Bar in 1933.^[3][4][5] After graduating from Los Angeles Public Schools, he received his B.A.

with distinction from Wayne State University in 1963 and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1967.^[3]

Career

Zimring joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1983 as director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute, a position he held until 2002.^[3] He was appointed the first Wolfen Distinguished Scholar in 2006 and served in that capacity until 2013.^[6]

Writings

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