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- Monroe Henry Freedman (April 10, 1928 – February 26, 2015) was a professor of law and the former dean at Hofstra Law School. He lectured at Harvard Law School annually for 30 years, and was a visiting professor at Georgetown Law School from 2007 to 2012. He has been described as "a pioneer in the field of legal ethics" and "one of the nation's leading experts on legal ethics." Prior to becoming Dean at Hofstra Law School, at the end of the 1979-1980 academic year, Freedman taught at The George Washington University Law School. He taught Contracts every year, beginning in the 1960-1961 academic year, and Appellate Practice & Procedure, beginning in the 1962-1963 academic year, along with other occasional courses including Current Decisions (for Law Review members), Equity, Agency, and Federal Jurisdiction. During the 1960s, he encouraged many women to attend law school, based on the idea that the law school would benefit from having more women in the student body. One effectual way Professor Freedman taught ethics was to point out and discuss ethical issues that arose in cases already under discussion from the contracts textbook. Freedman is noted for criticism of restrictions on lawyer advertising, restrictions on trial publicity by defendants and defense attorneys. He has argued that lawyers should be permitted to reveal information necessary to prevent death or serious bodily harm, that law professors' sexual relations with students should be recognized as unethical conduct, and that the lawyer's decision to represent a client is a moral decision. During the 1960s, Freedman served as chair of the National Capital Area American Civil Liberties Union, was counsel to several civil rights organizations, and was a consultant to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He was volunteer general counsel of the Mattachine Society. He was the first executive director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Freedman has received many awards and honors, including the American Bar Association's Michael Franck Award for Professional Responsibility in 1998. (en)
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