About Samuel Thurman
Lived 1913 – 1995 (aged 81–82). Samuel Thurman was an American lawyer.
Samuel D. Thurman (1913–1995) was an American lawyer, having been Distinguished Professor at S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of Utah in 1988.
Thurman was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His father was also a lawyer. He received his law degree from Stanford University, after which he was for a time in private practice with his father.
Thurman was a member of the academic advisory committee of the Second Restatement of Torts. In the early 1980s, he was a professor at Pepperdine University's School of Law, where he taught tort law.
Thurman was a Mormon.
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American lawyer (1913-1995)
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Samuel Thurman was born in 1913.
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Samuel Thurman died on 4 February 1995.
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