Robert Mundheim

Robert Mundheim
BVO
Born (1933-02-24) February 24, 1933 (age 91)
Hamburg, Germany
Alma materHarvard University (AB, LLB)
Occupation(s)Attorney and academician
SpouseGuna Smitchens Mundheim[1][2]
Children2[1]
Parent(s)Alfred and Cecile (Cohen) Mundheim
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2007)

Robert Harry Mundheim BVO (born February 24, 1933)[3] is an American legal scholar. He is the former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, Co-Chairman of the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, General Counsel of Salomon, Inc., and Fred Carr Professor of Law and Financial Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[4] He was honored by the American Lawyer in 2014 as a "Lifetime Achiever." The University of Pennsylvania Law School has an endowed chair named after him, "the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law."

  1. ^ a b "Mundheim Scholarship Fund". University of Pennsylvania Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 8. October 17, 2006.
  2. ^ Who's Who in Finance and Industry. Marquis Who's Who. 1993. ISBN 9780837903286 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Department of the Treasury Nomination of Robert H. Mundheim To Be General Counsel. | The American Presidency Project". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  4. ^ "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1977, Book 1: January 20 to June 24, 1977". Government Printing Office – via Google Books.