Peter Gabel

Peter Gabel (born January 28, 1947) is an American law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, a bi-monthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society and has written a number of articles for the magazine on subjects ranging from the original intent of the framers of the Constitution ("Founding Father Knows Best") to the creationism/evolution controversy ("Creationism and the Spirit of Nature"). Gabel was a founder of the Institute for Labor and Mental Health in Oakland, California, and is close to the critical legal studies movement. He has published more than a dozen articles in law journals such as the Harvard Law Review and Texas Law Review, focusing on the role of law in shaping popular consciousness and on how law can best be used to bring about progressive social change.[1]

Peter Gabel
Born (1947-01-28) January 28, 1947
NationalityAmerican
EducationDeerfield Academy
Harvard University (B.A.)(J.D.)
The Wright Institute (Ph.D.)
Parent(s)

Biography

Early life and education

Gabel is the only child of actress, radio and television talk show host, and television game show personality Arlene Francis and actor and director Martin Gabel. He graduated from Deerfield Academy, received his B.A. (1968) and J.D. (1972) from Harvard University, where he served as editor for the Harvard Lampoon, and received his Ph.D. from the Wright Institute in 1981.

As a teenager he worked as a guide for the 1964 New York World's Fair, a fact he revealed on the game show What's My Line?, where he appeared as a guest and stumped the panel, which included his mother.[2][3][4] He appeared a second time in 1967 along with Jonathan Cerf as the Editors of the Harvard Lampoon, once again stumping the panel which included both his mother and father, plus Cerf's father Bennett Cerf although Bennett disqualified himself at the beginning of the segment, because he revealed later that he'd been tipped off the two would appear on the show. Gabel appeared again in a 1973 syndicated episode but was guessed by Soupy Sales. [5]

Career

Gabel taught law at Boalt Hall (the law school of the University of California, Berkeley) and at the University of Minnesota before becoming a law professor for 30 years at the New College of California School of Law.[6] He also served as New College's president for 20 years. The college, founded in 1971, was an alternative school in the Mission District that offered undergraduate degrees as well as graduate degrees in psychology and law before its accreditation was revoked and the school was forced to close in June 2008.

Gabel is active in the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics, a group in the San Francisco Bay Area that: "will bring together law teachers, lawyers, and law students in the Bay Area who share our group's aspiration to connect the inner and the outer in a fundamental transformation of legal culture."[7] He is also strongly focused on communalizing the neighborhood in Noe Valley, San Francisco.[8] One of the group's successful actions was to save a small independent bookstore, Cover to Cover, which was hurt by a publishing slump. Gabel created a group email for neighbors who wanted to help and distributed fliers in the neighborhood, asking neighbors to sign a list pledging to buy a hardback book every month.[9]

Gabel is the bassist in Central Park Zoo, a dance band.[10]

Gabel has a son, Samuel, with his long-time partner, Unite Here union organizer Lisa Jaicks.[11]

Social activism

Since 1968, Gabel has been an outspoken supporter of multiple social causes including women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights and the environmental movement.

In 2015, when receiving his honorary doctorate, he commented how "in 1968 there was a radiant spirit of idealism in the air that drew me into the great social movements of that time—the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam war movement, the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the gay and lesbian movement, all movements that sought to transform the world in a more loving and just direction."[12]

Published works
  • The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self (Routledge, 2018)
  • Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics and Culture (Quid Pro Books, 2013)
  • The Redemptive Power of Law: Finding Spiritual Meaning in Legal Culture and Using it to Create a Better World (New York University Press, 2007)
  • The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning (Acada Books/New College of California Press, 2000)
  • The Spiritual Truth of JFK (Tikkun magazine, March/April 1992)
  • The Phenomenology of Rights-Consciousness and the Pact of the Withdrawn Selves, 62 Tex. L. Rev. 1563 (1984).
  • Roll Over Beethoven, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (1984) (with Duncan Kennedy).
  • Book Review of Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 302 (1977).

References
  1. The Law for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics Archived 2008-10-02 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 3/15/2009
  2. What's My Line? Peter Gabel as Mystery Guest. What's My Line. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  3. What's My Line? - Peter Gabel; Sue Lyon; Rudy Vallee. What's My Line. July 5, 1964. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  4. What's My Line? - Jonathan Cerf & Peter Gabel; Robert Morse; Pamela Tiffin. What's My Line. March 12, 1967. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZW8BDgOzNk
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2009-03-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics Retrieved 7/24/2011
  7. Spirit Law Politics biography Retrieved 1/25/2017
  8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2009-03-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Retrieved 3/15/2009
  9. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/30/DD198134.DTL Retrieved 3/15/2009
  10. http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/contributors/bio-petergabel/ Retrieved 19/09/2011
  11. "Peter Gabel Co-Chair". Spiritlawpolitics.org. PISLAP - Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  12. http://www.spiritlawpolitics.org/news/2015/6/9/peter-gabel-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-san-francisco-state-university
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