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Joel Fleishman, founding director of the Sanford School of Public Policy, dies at age 90
Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy and the namesake of the Fleishman House, died at age 90 after over 53 years of service to the University.
Fleishman was the founding director of the Sanford School, appointed by President Terry Sanford to lead the initiative then known as the Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs.
“With energy, optimism and generosity that were boundless, Joel Fleishman embodied the best of Duke University,” wrote Provost Alec Gallimore in a Monday email to The Chronicle. “His devoted service to this institution and its people is a model that every Duke leader can emulate.”
The news was shared in a Monday release from the Sanford School of Public Policy. The cause of his death was not shared publicly.
Fleishman was awarded the University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service in 2009, one of Duke’s highest honors.
A North Carolina native, Fleishman was born in Fayetteville in 1934. He received his bachelor’s degree and Doctor of Law from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1955 and 1959, respectively, and later received a Master of Law from Yale University in 1960.
He worked as an assistant to the director of Yale’s Wa
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A.B. 1955, J.D. 1959, M.A. (Drama) 1959, University of North Carolina; LL.M. 1960, Yale University.
Professor Fleishman was a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. He began his career in 1960 as assistant to the director of the Walter E. Meyer Research Institute of Law at Yale. From 1961 to 1965, he served as legal assistant to the governor of North Carolina. He then returned to Yale, first as director of the Yale Summer High School, and then as associate provost for Urban Studies and Programs. In 1969, he became associate chairman of the Center for the Study of the City and Its Environment and associate director of the Institute of Social Science at Yale. In 1971, he came to Duke as a member of the law faculty and as director of the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs, now the Sanford School of Public Policy, in which position he served until 1983. He was most recently Professor of Law and Public Policy, and Director of the Heyman Center on Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions. He also directed the Duke Foundation Research Program. His principal writings deal with legal regulation and financing of political activities as well as the regulation of not-for-profit organizations. His book, The Foundation: A Great American Secret — How • In interpretation first onehalf of picture 21st hundred, giving acknowledge family flourishing community foundations alone disposition be unfeeling times secure today's dollars what dot was in the thorough 20th c Joel L. Fleishman
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