The chair-holders are David M. Becker, J.D., the Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property; Kathleen F. Brickey, J.D., the James Carr Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence; Michael M. Greenfield, J.D., the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law, Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law; and Daniel R. Mandelker, J.S.D., the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law.

"This medallion ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to the outstanding work of five of our most distinguished faculty members," said Joel Seligman, J.D., dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor in the School of Law. "We are truly proud of their teaching and scholarship and the impact they have made on the School of Law, the University and the legal profession."

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(From left) David M. Becker, the Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property; Kathleen F. Brickey, the James Carr Professor of Criminal Jursiprudence; Michael M. Greenfield, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law; Stephen H. Legomsky, the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law; and Daniel R. Mandelker, the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law, were honored by the School of Law at a recent medallion ceremony at the St. Louis Club.

Joseph H. Zumbalen, for whom Becker's law school chair is named, served as a professor of law at the University from 1918-1928 and as the University's legal adviser and secretary treasurer.

Becker has taught at the School of Law for 40 years. A highly regarded teacher, he received the 1973 Distinguished Faculty Award at Founders Day and was the inaugural recipient of the Law Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award given in 1988. He is the author of several books and articles. Much of his work concerns the Rule against Perpetuities.

Becker is the associate dean for external relations and, since 1993, he has held the chaired professorship. Before becoming a law professor, he practiced in Chicago.

Becker earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Chicago.

Brickey's chair is named in honor of James Carr. Known as a "distinguished old citizen and prominent member of the St. Louis bar," Carr is said to have helped shape corporate law in Missouri because of his involvement in many influential cases.

Brickey is the author of several books and more than two dozen articles and chapters published in scholarly journals and books. Her three-volume treatise, Corporate Criminal Liability, and her casebook, Corporate and White Collar Crime, are leading works in the field.

Brickey is a member of the American Law Institute and the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law and has served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Criminal Justice Section and as a consultant to the United States Sentencing Commission.

In 1991, Brickey received the Washington University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and the John C. Vance Award for the best paper in the field of transportation law that was awarded by a research arm of the National Academy of Sciences.

Brickey earned both a bachelor's degree and a law degree from the University of Kentucky.

Greenfield's chair is named in honor of Walter D. Coles, who served as an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from 1894-1898. He was a lecturer at the law school from 1904-1910.

Greenfield has been on the law school faculty for more than 30 years. In 1995, he was installed in his current chaired position in recognition of his pioneering research and teaching in the area of consumer law. He has served on the Federal Reserve Board's Consumer Advisory Council, and in 1997, he was elected to the American Law Institute.

Greenfield is a leading expert in the field of consumer law and has led national initiatives to revise the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the author of the casebook Consumer Transactions, which in 1999 received the writing award of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. He has also written a treatise called Consumer Law and several articles.

In addition to serving on several University-wide committees, Greenfield has been a member of the Faculty Senate Council and the Academic Freedom and Tenure Hearing Committee. He was also faculty chair of the School of Law building committee.

Greenfield earned his bachelor's degree at Grinnell College and his law degree at the University of Texas.

Charles F. Nagel, for whom Legomsky's chair is named, formed one of St. Louis' most prominent law firms with Daniel Noyes Kirby. For more than 50 years, Nagel served on the board of directors of the University and was board president from 1930-1932.

Legomsky is the author of two Oxford University Press books and Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, which has been adopted as the required text for immigration courses at more than 130 American law schools. He has chaired the immigration law section of the Association of American law schools, the Law Professors Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Refugee Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association.

He has testified before Congress and has advised President Clinton's transition team, former President Bush's Commissioner of Immigration, the Administrative Conference of the United States and numerous foreign governments on migration, refugee and citizenship issues.

At the University, Legomsky was the founding director of the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies.

Legomsky earned his bachelor's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, his law degree at the University of San Diego and his doctorate at Oxford University.

Mandelker's chair is named honor of Howard A. Stamper, the chairman and chief executive officer of Banquet Foods Corporation. Stamper was a Washington University Trustee from 1968-1973 and vice chairman at the time of his death at the age of 58. Stamper was active in civic affairs and a generous contributor to many local organizations.

Mandelker is one of the country's leading scholars in land use law. He is the co-author of a popular law school casebook, Planning and the Control of Land Development, the author of Land Use Law and co-author of Federal Land Use Law and Property Law and the Public Interest, a modern property law casebook.

He has testified before Congress on land use issues and was the principal consultant to the American Planning Association on its just-published new model legislation for planning and land use regulation.

In environmental law, Mandelker is best known for his widely used treatise NEPA Law and Litigation.