Marina Angel, 80, of Philadelphia, law professor emerita, former associate dean, and researcher at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law; longtime civil and women’s rights reformer, scholar, writer, and mentor, died Sunday, Feb. 1, of a sudden cardiac event at her home in Society Hill.
A nationally renowned expert in labor and employment law, Professor Angel spent 38 years, from 1979 to 2017, teaching groundbreaking classes at Temple in employment, criminal, and juvenile law, women and the law, and some previously neglected subjects. She became the first law professor to earn the Sandra Day O’Connor Award from the Philadelphia Bar Association in 1996 and told The Inquirer she enjoyed “taking people who really don’t know about the law or the legal system and training them. There are thousands of Marina Angel trainees running around.”
She also taught and lectured about the law at Temple University Japan in Tokyo, Rutgers University, Albany Law School in New York, and law schools in Turkey, Puerto Rico, Israel, Australia, and Greece. Former students called her “caring,” “magnificent,” “brilliant,” and “bold” in online tributes. One former student said: “In an environment that sometimes squelches the reasons that some of us chose to become lawyers, she nourished it.”
Professor Angel served as Temple’s associate dean for Graduate Legal Studies and External Programs in 1983 and ‘84, and adviser to the school’s Women’s Law Caucus and other student law groups. She coordinated...
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