{{Short description|American lawyer (1935–2016)}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2011}} {{Infobox person | name = Jan G. Deutsch | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|5|25}} | birth_place = Katowice, Silesia, Poland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|5|19|1935|5|25|mf=y}} | death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | other_names = | spouse = Elizabeth Dempsey | occupation = Legal scholar | years_active = | alma_mater = Yale University | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Jan Ginter Deutsch''' (May 25, 1935 – May 19, 2016) was a Polish-born American philosopher and legal scholar best known for his work on the philosophy of corporate law, jurisprudence, and the cultural underpinnings of capitalist democracy. Deutsch's most recent book, ''Power and Precedent'' (Vandeplas, 2007), is a summation of his work on United States jurisprudence over the past few decades.
==Biography== He was born in Katowice, Silesia, Poland.<ref name="Yale obit" />
Deutsch was a long-time professor in Yale Law School, and at the time of his death was Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer at that school. He received a B.A. (Alpheus Henry Snow Prize and Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Yale Daily News 13 June 1955 — Yale Daily News Historical Archive |url=https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=d&d=YDN19550613-01.2.4&srpos=76&e=-------en-20--61-byDA-txt-txIN-warren+memorial+prize------ |access-date=2023-07-23 |website=ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu}}</ref>), Ph.D., and J.D. from Yale, after which he clerked with U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.<ref name="Tushnet1996">{{cite book|last=Tushnet|first=Mark V.|title=The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7UTPwJNHQG4C&pg=PA181|access-date=22 February 2011|date=February 1996|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-1665-1|pages=181–}}</ref> He practiced law at Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis in Cleveland from 1964 to 1966 (with future Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia) before joining the Yale Law faculty in 1966. Deutsch's two most famous published works are ''Selling the People's Cadillac: The Edsel and Corporate Responsibility''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://tahlequahdailypress.com/homepage/x519331683/Edsel-not-a-huge-success-but?keyword=leadpicturestory|title=Edsel not a huge success, but...|last=Glenn|first=Eddie|date=6 March 2007|work=Tahlequah Daily Press|access-date=22 February 2011}}</ref> (Yale University Press, 1976), a diagnosis of social ills as seen through the lens of a failed automobile, and a 1969 article, "Neutrality, Legitimacy, and the Supreme Court: Some Intersections Between Law and Political Science," 20 Stan. L. Rev. 169, on fundamental rights vs. opinions.<ref name="Smith1985">{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Rogers M.|title=Liberalism and American constitutional law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g8tUBn8TZcC&pg=PA283|access-date=22 February 2011|year=1985|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-53015-7|pages=283–}}</ref>
Former President Bill Clinton wrote, in his autobiography, of Deutsch: "He was the only man I'd ever met who ate all of an apple, including the core. He said all the good minerals were there. He was smarter than I was, so I tried it. Once in a while, I still do, with fond memories of Professor Deutsch."<ref name="Clinton2004">{{cite book|last=Clinton|first=Bill|title=My life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yB9CJTmiL54C&pg=PT280|access-date=22 February 2011|year=2004|publisher=Random House, Inc.|isbn=978-0-375-41457-2|pages=280–}}</ref>
Deutsch died on May 19, 2016, at the age of 80.<ref name="Yale obit">{{cite web |title=Yale Law School Mourns the Passing of Professor Jan Deutsch |work=Yale Law |date=May 19, 2016 |url=https://www.law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/yale-law-school-mourns-passing-professor-jan-deutsch }}</ref>
==See also== * List of American philosophers * List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8)
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==External links== * [http://www.law.yale.edu/cbl/modernera.htm Biography at Yale] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610205444/http://www.law.yale.edu/cbl/modernera.htm |date=2011-06-10 }} * {{citation |last1=Tushnet |first1=Mark |title=Jan Deutsch: An Appreciation |date=August 20, 2016 |ssrn=2827084}}
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