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Family, friends and colleagues gave a fond farewell on May 7 to Sanford Katz, who is retiring from the Boston College Law School faculty after 47 years. Katz, the inaugural holder of The Darald and Juliet Libby Chair, was the chief drafter of model child welfare legislation for the federal government, among many other accomplishments.
Guest speaker US Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) ’68 JD’72 said of his former professor: “He made you love the law the way he loved the law.” Law School Professor Emeritus Hugh Ault said that people in academic careers typically become revered scholars in their ivory tower or deeply invested in their community, but “what Sanford has done is both of them.”
In his remarks, Katz quoted T.S. Eliot – “It’s the journey, not the arrival, that matters” – and noted that, with a book in the works, he would still be on campus: “I’m not going away, so I’ll see you around.”
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