(September 22, 2011, Philadelphia)--James C.N. Paul, 85, a Philadelphia native and former dean of Rutgers Law School in Newark, N.J., who helped found the first law school in Ethiopia, died of prostate cancer Tuesday, Sept. 13, at home in Trappe, Md.
While teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the early 1960s, Mr. Paul made several trips as an Eisenhower Fellow and on behalf of the Peace Corps to universities in Ethiopia and other African nations.
In 1963, he accepted an invitation from Haile Selassie University, now Addis Ababa University, to oversee the creation of a law school.
He moved his family to Addis Ababa, and spent the next six years raising money, building the law school, and hiring faculty, while serving as law school dean and professor of law. From 1968 to 1969, he was also academic vice president of Haile Selassie University.
Source: Philly.com
While teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the early 1960s, Mr. Paul made several trips as an Eisenhower Fellow and on behalf of the Peace Corps to universities in Ethiopia and other African nations.In 1963, he accepted an invitation from Haile Selassie University, now Addis Ababa University, to oversee the creation of a law school.
He moved his family to Addis Ababa, and spent the next six years raising money, building the law school, and hiring faculty, while serving as law school dean and professor of law. From 1968 to 1969, he was also academic vice president of Haile Selassie University.
Source: Philly.com
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