Ellen Dannin
American academic
Ellen Dannin (1951 – November 6, 2023) was an American professor who taught and wrote primarily about American and New Zealand labor and employment law. She also wrote about privatization of government services and public infrastructure. Her last law school position was as the Fannie Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar and professor of law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law.
Early life and education
Dannin was born in Flint, Michigan in 1951. The family moved to Frankfort, Indiana after her father, Arthur Dannin, finished his residency in Osteopathy. Her parents were divorced in 1957, and her mother Jean Dannin moved their three children to St. Paris, Ohio.
In 1975, Dannin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan with High Honors and High Distinction, and the History Department's Best Thesis Award for a study of the 19th century women's suffrage and rights movement. In 1978, Dannin received a Juris Doctor degree with High Honors from the University of Michigan Law School. While in law school, she was an Administrative Editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the editor of the Women Law Student Association Newsletter, and a co-teaching fellow with Debra Armbruster for an undergraduate course—Women and the Law.
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