Robert Mundheim
Robert Harry Mundheim BVO (born February 24, 1933) is an American legal scholar. He is the former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, Co-Chairman of the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, General Counsel of Salomon, Inc., and Fred Carr Professor of Law and Financial Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was honored by the American Lawyer in 2014 as a "Lifetime Achiever." The University of Pennsylvania Law School has an endowed chair named after him, "the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law." Early life and education Mundheim was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Alfred and Cecile (Cohn) Mundheim, and emigrated to the United States with his mother and brother in January 1939. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1954, and a LL.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1957. From 1961 to 1962 he was in the US Air Force and served in Berlin. Legal career After admission to the New York bar in 1958, Mundheim practiced at the law firm Shearman & Sterling until 1961. From 1962-63, he was special counsel to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mundheim