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Carl A. Auerbach

Visiting Professor of Law

Carl Auerbach has been a Distinguished Professor at the USD School of Law each spring semester since 1985. He graduated from Harvard law School in 1938 and began his practice in a private Washington, D.C. firm. He then joined the legal staff of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division. He also served on the National Defense Commission and the Office of Price Administration (OPA) until 1943, then after being discharged from the Army in 1946; he was promoted to general counsel of the OPA. He taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School, from 1947 to 1961, where he established himself as an eminent scholar in administrative and constitutional law. Professor Auerbach obtained a Fullbright Advanced Research Award at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1953 to 1954, and he then became a fellow with Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1958 to 1959. In 1961, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was also dean for seven years. Professor Auerbach received the prestigious American Bar Foundation Award for research in law and government. He has also written numerous articles in the areas of administrative law, civil rights, constitutional law, legal education, and law and the social sciences.