Liebmann, George W. 1939–

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Liebmann, George W. 1939–

PERSONAL:

Born June 20, 1939, in New York, NY; son of William B. (a bookseller and archivist) and Margaret (a translator) Liebmann; married Anne-Lise Grimstad (a homemaker), April 29, 1967; children: Pamela, George W., Jr., Franklin. Education: Dartmouth College, A.B., 1960; University of Chicago, J.D., 1963. Politics: Republican. Religion: Episcopalian. Hobbies and other interests: Walking, travel.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Baltimore, MD. Office—Liebmann & Shively, P.A., 8 W. Hamilton St., Baltimore, MD 21201; fax: 410-539-3973. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Law clerk to Chief Judge F.W. Brune, Annapolis, MD, 1963-64; Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, Baltimore, MD, 1963-64, partner, 1969-79; Maryland State Law Department, Baltimore, assistant attorney general, 1967-69; Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, partner, 1969-79; executive assistant to Governor Harry Hughes, Annapolis, 1979-80; Liebmann & Shively, P.A., Baltimore, principal and lawyer, 1980—. University of Manchester, Simon industrial and professional fellow, 1993-94; Cambridge University, visiting fellow of Wolfson College, 1996—. Library Company of the Baltimore Bar, president, 1975-77, 2006—, member of board of directors, 1974—; U.S. bankruptcy trustee, 1980—; Maryland Economic Development Corp., general counsel, 1987—. Historic Annapolis Foundation, member of board of trustees, 1989-97; Calvert Institute for Policy Research, Inc., executive director, 2002—. Military service: U.S. Army Reserve, 1965. U.S. Naval Reserve, active duty, 1966-72; became lieutenant.

MEMBER:

American Law Institute (life member), Federal Judicial Conference for the Fourth Circuit (permanent member).

WRITINGS:

Maryland District Court Law and Practice, West Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1976.

Maryland Circuit Court Forms, West Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1984.

The Little Platoons: Sub-local Governments in Modern History, Praeger (Westport, CT), 1995.

The Gallows in the Grove: Civil Society in American Law, Praeger (Westport, CT), 1997.

Solving Problems without Large Government: Devolution, Fairness, and Equality, Praeger (Westport, CT), 1999, published as Neighborhood Futures: Citizen Rights and Local Control, Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, NJ), 2004.

Six Lost Leaders: Prophets of Civil Society, Lexington Books (Lanham, MD), 2001.

The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars, Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, NJ), 2005.

(Editor, with Orbie R. Shively) The Trimmer's Almanac: Ten Years of the Calvert Institute, 1996-2006, Calvert Institute for Policy Research (Baltimore, MD), 2007.

Diplomacy between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Making of the Modern World, I.B. Tauris (London, England), 2008.

SIDELIGHTS:

George W. Liebmann once told CA: "My recent writing has been prompted by an interest in restoring institutions of local and sub-local self-government. It reflects my alarm at both the extreme individualism and accompanying political centralization of recent years."

He later added: "I write out of a desire to persuade and from a belief that both I and my readers can profit from empirical investigation of historical and biographical subjects, an unusual approach in an era in which so many writers reason backwards from doctrine."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society, May, 2006, Bradford Berenson, review of The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars.

Green Bag, summer, 2006, Edmund Keith, review of The Common Law Tradition.

Governing, October, 1999, review of Solving Problems without Large Government: Devolution, Fairness, and Equality.

New York Law Journal, October 26, 2006, Alani Golanski, review of The Common Law Tradition.