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Edward D. Ohlbaum

American law professor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ117610709 ↗
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Edward "Eddie" Ohlbaum (died 2014) was an American law professor at Temple University.

Biography

Ohlbaum was born in New Rochelle, New York. He attended Wesleyan University, where he completed undergraduate degree in 1972 and master's degree in 1973. In 1976, he received JD from the Temple University.

In 1985, he joined Temple University as the Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation. In 1993, he became full professor.

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“Edward D. Ohlbaum” enters the record as american law professor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Edward, Ohlbaum and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edward D. Ohlbaum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.