Dash, Samuel.

Lawyer, educator, and author. Born 1925; died 2004.

From the description of Samuel Dash papers, 1748-2004 (bulk 1965-2002). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132906

Biographical Note

• 1925, Feb. 27: Born, Camden, N.J.
• 1943 - 1945 : Pilot, United States Army Air Force in Italy
• 1946: Married Sara Goldhirsh
• 1947: B.S., Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1949: Founder and first president, Harvard Voluntary Defenders, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., an early student clinical program to aid indigent defendants
• 1950: J.D., cum laude, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1951 - 1952 : Trial attorney, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
• 1952 - 1956 : Assistant and later district attorney, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1955 - 1962 : Member, Advisory Committee on the Model Penal Code, American Law Institute
• 1957 - 1958 : Director, Philadelphia Bar Association Endowment Study of Electronic Eavesdropping, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1958 - 1963 : Partner in law firm, Dash and Levy, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1958 - 1965 : Member, Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Superior Court Criminal Procedural Rules Committee
• 1959: Published with Richard F. Schwartz and Robert E. Knowlton, Eavesdroppers. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
• 1963 - 1965 : Executive director, Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement, a poverty program experiment sponsored by the city of Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1965 - 1971 : Executive director, Committee on Laws Pertaining to Mental Disorders, Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia Circuit
• 1965 - 2003 : Professor of law, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Director, Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
• 1966 - 1972 : Special consultant, Standards on Prosecution Function and Defense Function, Project on Standards for Criminal Justice, American Bar Association
• 1967 - 1972 : Council member, Section of Criminal Justice, American Bar Association; chairman in 1971; delegate in 1972
• 1968 - 1975 : Member, Board of Trustees, Public Defenders Service, Washington, D.C.
• 1970 - 1971 : Chairman, Section of Criminal Law, American Bar Association
• 1972: Observer and mediator, International League for Human Rights, during the tribunal of inquiry into the “Bloody Sunday” incident in Northern Ireland Published Justice Denied: A Challenge to Lord Widgery's Report on “Bloody Sunday.” New York: Defense and Education Fund of the International League for the Rights of Man Observer, International League for the Rights of Man and American Jewish Committee, during contact with members of the Human Rights Committee in Moscow, as well as scientists, engineers, and Jewish activists in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Kharkov, Soviet Union
• 1972 - circa 1990 : Consultant to attorney general and government of Puerto Rico
• 1973 - 1974 : Chief counsel and staff director, United States Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities (Watergate Affair)
• 1975: Member, Special Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, American Bar Association
• 1975 - 1978 : Member, Governing Board, Common Cause
• 1976: Published Chief Counsel: Inside the Ervin Committee–The Untold Story of Watergate. New York: Random House
• 1976 - 1977 : Principal investigator for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, examination of the firing of a special prosecutor investigating police corruption, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1977: Fulbright scholar and visiting professor, University of Melbourne and Monash University School of Law, Australia
• 1977 - 1981 : Consultant, Law Reform Commission of Australia
• 1981 - circa 2003 : Director, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
• 1981 - 1981 ? : Member, United States Court of Appeals Judicial Conference, Standing Committee on Pro Se and ProBono Matters
• 1984 - 1990 : Member, Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association
• 1984 - 1992 : Special counsel to president of the Senate of Puerto Rico, Cerro Maravilla investigation
• 1985: Chief counsel, Alaska state senate, impeachment inquiry of Governor Bill Sheffield First American permitted by South Africa to interview Nelson Mandela during his incarceration
• 1987 - 1990 : Chairman, Special Committee on Criminal Justice in a Free Society, Section of Criminal Justice, American Bar Association
• 1988 - 1987 : Member, Task Force to Revise Standards on Prosecution Function and Defense Function
• 1990 - 1992 : Member, Special Committee on the Drug Crisis, American Bar Association
• 1991 - 1991 ? : Mediator, United States District Court Mediation Program, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• 1994 - 1998 : Ethics advisor to Kenneth Starr, Whitewater Inquiry independent counsel
• circa 1997: Mediator, Appellate Mediation Program, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
• 2002: Member, Code of Ethics Subcommittee, United Way of the National Capital Area
• 2004: Published The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
• 2004, May 29: Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Samuel Dash Papers, 1748-2004, (bulk 1965-2002), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)