New Law Dean Will Assist Bok

Albert M. Sacks, professor of Law, has been named associate dean of the Law School.

Sacks will continue his teaching duties, while assisting Dean Derek C. Bok with the administration of the Law School.

In past years, Sacks has been chairman of the School's Faculty committee on planning and development. He has concentrated on developing the School's range of urban legal studies and worked in the Harvard and M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies.

After graduating from the School magna cum laude in 1948, Sacks clerked for Justice Augustus Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Later, he clerked for Justice Felix Frank-furter of the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington before joining the Faculty in 1952.

Sacks, now 48, is a graduate of the City College of New York. He was president of the Law Review while at Harvard.