# Jan Deutsch > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jan_Deutsch > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jan_Deutsch.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Deutsch > Source revision: 1353872668 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Katowice), [Silesia](/source/Silesian_Voivodeship_(1920%E2%80%9339)), [Poland](/source/Second_Polish_Republic) | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|5|19|1935|5|25|mf=y}} | death_place = [New Haven, Connecticut](/source/New_Haven%2C_Connecticut), U.S. | other_names = | spouse = Elizabeth Dempsey | occupation = Legal scholar | years_active = | alma_mater = [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Jan Ginter Deutsch''' (May 25, 1935 – May 19, 2016) was a Polish-born [American philosopher](/source/American_philosophy) and legal scholar best known for his work on the [philosophy](/source/philosophy) of [corporate law](/source/corporate_law), [jurisprudence](/source/jurisprudence), and the cultural underpinnings of [capitalist](/source/capitalism) [democracy](/source/democracy). Deutsch's most recent book, ''Power and Precedent'' (Vandeplas, 2007), is a summation of his work on [United States](/source/United_States) jurisprudence over the past few decades. ==Biography== He was born in [Katowice](/source/Katowice), [Silesia](/source/Silesian_Voivodeship_(1920%E2%80%9339)), [Poland](/source/Second_Polish_Republic). 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](/source/Alpheus_Henry_Snow_Prize) and Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize{{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}}), Ph.D., and J.D. from [Yale](/source/Yale_University), after which he [clerked](/source/Law_clerk) with [U.S. Supreme Court](/source/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States) justice [Potter Stewart](/source/Potter_Stewart).{{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–}} He practiced law at [Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis](/source/Jones_Day) in [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland) from 1964 to 1966 (with future Supreme Court justice [Antonin Scalia](/source/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''{{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](/source/Tahlequah_Daily_Press)|access-date=22 February 2011}} (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.{{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–}} Former President [Bill Clinton](/source/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."{{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–}} Deutsch died on May 19, 2016, at the age of 80.{{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 }} ==See also== * [List of American philosophers](/source/List_of_American_philosophers) * [List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8)](/source/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_(Seat_8)) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==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}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Deutsch, Jan G.}} Category:1935 births Category:2016 deaths Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent Category:20th-century American legal scholars Category:Yale Law School faculty Category:Yale Law School alumni Category:21st-century American philosophers Category:20th-century American philosophers Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Category:20th-century American lawyers Category:21st-century American legal scholars Category:21st-century American lawyers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jan Deutsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Deutsch) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Deutsch?action=history)). 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