Vanderbilt University Law School

Charles O. Galvin

Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus

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Email: charles.galvin@vanderbilt.edu

Education

S.J.D. Harvard University
J.D., M.B.A. Northwestern University
B.S.C. Southern Methodist University

Biography

Charlie Galvin served on Vanderbilt's law faculty from 1952-63 and from 1978-90, and served as Dean of Southern Methodist University from 1963-78. He was named Centennial Professor of Law in 1983 and held that chair until his retirement from the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 1990, after which he served as Executive in Residence with Vanderbilt University's Human Resource Services for three years. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas since 1994, and honors over the course of his distinguished academic career include visiting professorships at the law schools of the University of Michigan, Duke University, the University of Kansas, and Pepperdine University as well as a year as the Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow at Harvard University. Early in his career, Professor Galvin was a member of the Council, Section on Taxation,American Bar Association, and he served as secretary of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar from 1980-82. He was a member of the American, Texas and Tennessee Bar Associations, the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a Fellow of the American and Texas Bar Foundations. Professor Galvin served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942-44.

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