Former Marquette law professor Wallace Alexander MacBain, III passed away on July 17, 2009, as the result of complications from a fall at his home in Nashotah, Wisconsin.\u00a0 Professor MacBain was born in Audubon, New Jersey, on March 21, 1933.\u00a0 His father, Wallace A. MacBain, Jr., was a member of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipworkers of America.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prof. MacBain graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers Law School in 1959 where he was also a member of the law review.\u00a0 He spent the early years of his\u00a0 professional life involved with school desegregation issues and served as a consultant to the United States government on that subject.\u00a0 He joined the Marquette faculty in 1965 where he remained until his retirement at the end of the 1994-95 academic year.\u00a0 As a faculty member, he served under Deans Seitz, Boden, DeGuire, and Barkan.<\/p>\n
At Marquette, he served for several years as director of admissions (when that was still a position held by a faculty member).\u00a0 Over the course of his career he taught a wide variety of courses, but his specialties were Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Legislation, and Conflicts of Law.\u00a0 He was frequently quoted in the Milwaukee newspapers, and his most widely cited article had to do with the insanity defense.<\/p>\n
His colleagues remember him as a devoted academic citizen and as a wonderful story teller.\u00a0 He is survived by his wife as well as two children and two step-children and a number of grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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