Howard Lesnick (April 22, 1931 – April 19, 2020) was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
[2][citation needed] Lesnick was raised in the Bronx, New York and in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
[4] He was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan from 1959 to 1960, one of the first Jews to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk.
[4][5] He was a president of the Society of American Law Teachers.
[4] Among his writings are the books Religion in Legal Thought and Practice (Cambridge 2010), Moral Education (Longman 2004) (with J.F.