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JOSEPH LYNCH

Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Aug 28, 1924 – Feb 3, 2018 (Age 93)

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BORN
August 28, 1924
DIED
February 3, 2018
AGE
93
LOCATION
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

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Joseph M. Lynch Attorney and professor of law at Seton Hall, researcher and author on early federal-state relations, 93 Joseph M. Lynch, retired professor of law at Seton Hall University, died on Feb. 3, 2018 at age 93 in Lawrenceville, N.J. after a long career as an attorney, law professor and...

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The FTD Farewell Too Soon Bouquet

I am another of many New Jersey lawyers who had Joseph Lynch as a professor in my first year of law school. The year-long course on Civil Procedure with him still provides guidance in my own practice. I also had the opportunity to work with Professor Lynch on some publications. He was an intense scholar with a wry sense of humor. And in later years he was to be seen walking the streets of Princeton, with his wife while she was alive, and then later by himself while surely thinking deep...

My deepest sympathy to the family. May you find comfort in God's Word at 1Thessalonians 4:14

My condolences to the family if Professor Lynch. It was my privilege to be one of his students at Seton Hall Law and have always held him in the highest esteem.

Judge Elaine Davis

My first experience in law school was Professor Lynch's Constitutional Law class, which immediately made it clear that this was not going to be like college. He was frequently referred to as "Professor Kingsfield" with equal parts of awe and respect. Con Law during the Watergate era insured that the first ten minutes of each class was a lively discussion of the Constitution in action. He was a great man who had a great influence on several generations of attorneys who, for them most part,...