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A ‘giant’ in legal academia: UW-Madison law professor, Marc Galanter, dies at 95

Longtime UW-Madison Law School professor Marc Galanter, an influential legal scholar and mentor to many, died Tuesday. He was 95.

Galanter was born on Feb. 18, 1931, in Philadelphia to his two parents, Jacob and Mary.

He met his wife, Eve Galanter, at the University of Chicago in 1966 after she reached out asking to attend a class he was teaching, but she couldn’t make it to his talk. He offered to put together a reading list for her.