Courses

• Real Property
• Real Estate

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1960
• Associate Professor of Law, 1962
• Professor of Law, 1964
• Robert J. Kutak Professor of Law Emeritus, 1985
• Emeritus, 2002

Education

• J.D., 1952, Rutgers University, Newark
• B.S., Economics, 1974, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Berger joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1960; Associate Professor, 1962; Professor, 1964. Professor Berger assumed Emeritus status in 2002. He received his B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949 and his J.D. from Rutgers University in 1952. While in law school, he served as Case Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He was admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New Jersey in 1953 and Nebraska in 1973. He served as a Legal Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1953 to 1956. He then practiced law in New Jersey from 1956 to 1959. In 1959, he was appointed a Teaching Fellow at Rutgers University Law School.

Professor Berger has published numerous articles in the field of real property, his major area of specialization. He also teaches in the real estate transactions and accounting areas. He has served on many University committees including the Conciliation, Academic Freedom and Tenure, and the Recruitment Committees. In addition, he has been active on the AALS Committee on Small Law Schools and the Advisory Committee to the Journal of Legal Education. Mr. Berger was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota in 1969-70 and at UCLA in 1974-75.

Courses

• Constitutional Law
• Water Law Planning & Policy
• Constitutional Problems Seminar

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1958
• Associate Professor of Law, 1960
• Professor of Law, 1963
• Cline Williams-Flavel A. Wright Professor of Law Emeritus, 1984
• Emeritus, 1992

Articles

• Tribute to Professor Lawrence Berger, 77 Neb. Law Rev. 649 (1998)
• Reflections About Law Reviews and American Legal Scholarship, 76 Neb. Law Rev. 681 (1997)
• Interstate Transfers of Water: State Options After Sporhase (with Professors Thorson and Potuto), 78 Neb. Law Rev. 754 (1991)

Education

• S.J.D., 1959, University of Wisconsin
• M.A., 1951, University of Nebraska
• Order of the Coif, 1949
• J.D., cum laude, 1949, University of Nebraska
• B.S., 1943, University of Nebraska

Professor Harnsberger's principal areas of interest are Constitutional Law and Water Law Planning & Policy. Education: University of Nebraska, B.S., 1943, M.A., 195l, J.D., (cum laude) 1949; University of Wisconsin, S.J.D., 1959. Member: Beta Gamma Sigma and The Order of the Coif. Casenote Editor, Nebraska Law Review. Law practice, Stewart & Stewart, Lincoln, 1949-1955; Lancaster County Attorney's Office, 1955-1956; Lecturer, College of Business Administration, 1954-1956; Faculty, College of Law, since 1956; Cline Williams-Flavel A. Wright Professor of Law. Trustee, Nebraska Groundwater Foundation, and member of the Governor's Water Council. Author (with Prof. Thorson), Nebraska Water Law and Administration; co-author of Waters and Water Rights. For six years he was a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Environmental Law.

Professor Harnsberger thinks the law school's case method of study "leads to a lively exchange of views and creates a resistance to unreasoned slogans, inaccurate facts and indoctrination. The method arouses an incisive curiosity about law as a social institution."

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1977
• Associate Professor of Law, 1974
• Professor of Law, 1977
• Margaret R. Larson Professor of Legal Ethics, 1987

Education

• L.L.M., 1974, Harvard University
• J.D., cum laude, 1967, Harvard University
• B.A., magna cum laude, 1964, Harvard University

Professor Kalish joined the faculty in 1971. He received his B.A., J.D., and LL.M. from Harvard in 1964, 1967, and 1974, respectively. In the 1973-1974 academic year, he was a Fellow in the Law and the Humanities at Harvard. In the Spring of 1976, he was a Fellow in the Law and Economics Institute at the University of Miami. In the fall of 1982, he was an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics and a Scholar in Residence at King's College, London. He is a member of the California and Nebraska Bars. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked for Judge L. P. Moore, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced law in Los Angeles with a law firm and the Western Center for Law and Poverty. He teaches Legal Process, Legal History, Legal Profession, Corporations, and Advanced Corporations. He is the Director of the Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics.

Courses

• Jurisprudence
• Legal Process
• Criminal Law
• Native American Law
• Native American Law Seminar
• Mass Communications Law

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1972
• Associate Professor of Law, 1975
• Professor of Law, 1988

Articles

• American Indian Sovereignty and Naturalization: It's a Race Thing (with Tyndall and Smith), 80 Neb. L. Rev. 171 (2001)

Education

• J.D., with Distinction, 1971, University of Nebraska College of Law
• Order of the Coif, 1971
• B.A., 1966, University of Nebraska

Mr. Snowden joined the faculty in 1971. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1966 and his J.D. degree (Order of the Coif, with Distinction), in 1971. While in Law School he served as Research Editor of the Nebraska Law Review and was a member of the College's National Moot Court Team. After graduation, he accepted a position as Instructor at the University of Michigan Law School for the 1971-1972 school year. He was a Law Clerk for Chief Justice Paul White, Nebraska Supreme Court, before joining the faculty. He received a University of Nebraska Teaching Council Summer Fellowship in 1973 to sponsor an experimental undergraduate law course to be taught by law students in the Centennial College. He is a member of the Nebraska Bar, the Nebraska Bar Association House of Delegates, the American Bar Association, and the Omaha Tribe Bar. For the 1974-75 academic year, Mr. Snowden was a Fellow in the Law and Humanities Program at Harvard. He teach Jurisprudence, Legal Process, Criminal Law, Native American Law, and Mass Communications Law.