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Robert Allen Sedler (September 11, 1935 – January 4, 2025) was an American law professor and attorney, who taught at Wayne State University Law School for over 40 years, specializing in Constitutional law. Sedler began teaching at Wayne Law in 1977, prior to which he was a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Sedler retired in December 2020, after finishing the fall semester.

Life and career

Sedler was born in Pittsburgh on September 11, 1935.

Sedler graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1956, and later obtained a Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, in 1959.

Sedler taught law courses in Ethiopia at the former Haile Selassie I University (now Addis Ababa University) in the 1960s. Sedler worked with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Kentucky starting in the 1960s, serving as the ACLU of Kentucky's first general counsel, from 1967 to 1975. While with the ACLU, Sedler opposed racial segregation and challenges to the First Amendment.

Sedler wrote dozens of essays on First Amendment and civil rights jurisprudence. Sedler also wrote two books and dozens of articles on Ethiopian law. He authored one textbook, Constitutional Law in the United States, and a book on conflict of laws, Across State Lines. Sedler died on January 4, 2025, at the age of 89.

References

1. ^ University, Wayne State. "Robert Sedler - Wayne Law - Wayne State University". law.wayne.edu. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
2. "AJC Detroit Honors Rozanne and Robert Sedler > Oakland County Legal News". www.legalnews.com. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
3. "Interview with Robert Sedler | Pass the Word". passtheword.ky.gov. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
4. Sachs, David (May 8, 2019). "Professor Robert Sedler: A Champion of Justice — Detroit Jewish News". The Jewish News. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
5. "Law students thank professor following final lecture > Macomb Legal News". legalnews.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
6. Sedler, Robert A. (October 20, 2017). Constitutional Law in the United States. Wolters Kluwer. p. 1. ISBN 978-90-411-9058-1.
7. The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell. 1999. p. LE-348. ISBN 978-1-56160-324-4.
8. Schneiderman, Harry; Carmin, Itzhak J. (1972). Who's who in World Jewry. Vol. 3. Pitman. p. 799.
9. Marquis, Albert Nelson (November 2000). Who's Who in the Midwest. Marquis Who's Who. p. 536. ISBN 978-0-8379-0730-7.
10. Gora, Joel M., An Essay in Honor of Robert Sedler: Fierce Champion of Free Speech (2013). Wayne Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 1087, 2013; Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 365. Available at SSRN: SSRN 2376950
11. Sedler, Robert Allen (1968). Ethiopian Civil Procedure. Faculty of Law, Haile Sellassie I University.
12. ^ "Faces of Liberty: Robert Sedler". ACLU of Kentucky. May 21, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
13. "Author Page for Robert A. Sedler :: SSRN". papers.ssrn.com. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
14. Addis Ababa University Library Catalogue, author's page http://libcat.aau.edu.et/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:Sedler,%20Robert%20Allen. accessed on 2 Nov 2022
15. "Constitutional Law in the United States, Third edition | Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory". Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
16. Sedler, Robert Allen; Practice, American Bar Association Section of General (1989). Across state lines: applying the conflict of laws to your practice. American Bar Association, Section of General Practice. ISBN 9780897074087.
17. "Remembering Professor Robert A. Sedler". Wayne State University Law School. January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.

• 1935 births
• 2025 deaths
• University of Pittsburgh School of Law alumni
• University of Pittsburgh alumni
• American legal scholars
• Wayne State University faculty
• Conflict of laws scholars
• Lawyers from Pittsburgh