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Dr. Julius Paul, emeritus professor of political science at the State University of New York at Fredonia, passed away September 26, 2008. Dr. Paul received his Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University in 1954. He completed the BA in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1947. Prof. Paul completed additional graduate study at the University of Hawaii, Harvard University, and the University of Denver Russian Institute.
Dr. Paul served on the faculty at SUNY Fredonia from 1970 to 1992, teaching courses in public law and jurisprudence, medical ethics, and science and public policy, as well as American political thought. He held faculty posts at Kenyon College, Southern Illinois University, and Wayne State University before coming to SUNY Fredonia. Prior to joining Fredonia's faculty in 1970, he was a research political scientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where he pursued research in medical ethics.
His early work was devoted to an examination of American legal realism, particularly the work of Jerome Frank and its contribution to contemporary American jurisprudence. His book The Legal Realism of f erome N. Frank: A Study of Fact-Skepticism and the Judicial Process was published in 1959. Prof. Paul was widely known for his seminal research in eugenics, begun in 1959 and completed in the early 1970s. This research provided the most comprehensive data on the subject available,...