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Harvey
perlman, J.D.
josephine
potuto, j.d.
university chancellor
15th Year
nebraska (1963)
institutional representative
18th year
rutgers’ douglass (1967)
Harvey Perlman was named the 19th
Chancellor of the University of NebraskaLincoln on April 1, 2001. He had served
as Interim Chancellor of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln since July 16, 2000.
A former dean of the University of Nebraska
College of Law (1983-98), Perlman has also
served as interim senior vice chancellor for
academic affairs at UNL (1995-96).
A Nebraska native, Perlman was raised in
York, and earned a bachelor of arts in history
and a juris doctorate from the University
of Nebraska. During his law school years,
he was editor in chief of the Nebraska Law
Review and was elected to the Order of the
Coif, a law honors society.
He joined the NU law faculty in 1967 after
spending a year as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow
at the University of Chicago Law School. He
served on the Nebraska law faculty until 1974
when he joined the faculty at the University of
Virginia Law School. He returned to Nebraska
in 1983 when he accepted the deanship of
the Nebraska Law College, a post he held
until 1998 when he returned to the professoriate. He has also served as a visiting
professor at Florida State University College of Law, the University of Puget Sound
School of Law and the University of Iowa College of Law.
In 2011, Perlman was named an Honorary University Professor of Xi’an
Jiaotong University, in Xi’an, China. This rare lifetime appointment entitles
Perlman to privileges at the university, with which UNL has many institutional
ties. Perlman also will occasionally lecture and teach at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
The title is the highest honor the university awards to a foreign scholar, and
recognizes Perlman as an accomplished scholar or professional of important
international reputation. The award also recognizes Perlman for his significant
efforts in globalizing UNL and Xi’an Jiaotong University through joint research
and partnership degree programs.
His area of legal expertise lies in torts and intellectual property. He is a
member of the Nebraska State and American Bar Associations and is a Life Fellow
of the American Bar Association. Perlman is co-author of “Intellectual Property
and Unfair Competition” (5th edition, 1998) and co-reporter for the American
Law Institute’s “Restatement of Unfair Competition” (1994). He serves on the
Council of the American Law Institute, a leading national law reform organization
and as one of Nebraska’s Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. He previously
served as a member of the NCAA Board of Directors and is past chair of the Bowl
Championship Series Presidential Oversight Committee. He serves on the Board
of Directors of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and is Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation. He
received the George Turner Award from the Nebraska State Bar Association for
contributions to the legal profession and the Roger T. Larson Community Builder
Award from the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce.
Perlman and his wife, Susan, an NU alumna, are the parents of two daughters.
Anne, who earned degrees from UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, practices medicine in Lincoln and is married to UNL alumnus David Spinar;
they have three children; Will, Ava, and Marco, Husker fans all. Daughter Amie,
who received bachelors and juris doctorate degrees from UNL, is a Nebraska
assistant attorney general and is married to UNL alumnus Ron Larson; they are
the parents of Caleb and Finn.
Nebraska's Chancellors
1871-1876 — Allen R. Benton
1876-1882 — Edmund B. Farfield
1884-1889 — Irvin J. Manatt
1891-1895 — James H. Canfield
1895-1899 — George E. MacLean
1900-1908 — E. Benjamin Andrews
1908-1927 — Samuel Avery
1927-1938 — E.A. Burnett
1938-1946 — Chauncey S. Boucher
1947-1953 — R.G. Gustavson
1953-1954 — John K. Selleck
1954-1968 — Clifford Hardin
1968-1971 — Joseph Soshnik
1972-1975 — James H. Zumberge
1975-1976 — Adam C. Breckenridge
1976-1980 — Roy A. Young
1980-1981 — Robert H. Rutford
1981-1991 — Martin A. Massengale
1991-1991 — Jack Goebel
1991-1995 — Graham B. Spanier
1995-1996 — Joan R. Leitzel*
1996-2000 — James Moeser
2000-2001 — Harvey S. Perlman*
2001-present — Harvey S. Perlman
* Interim Chancellor
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Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto, the Richard H.
Larson Professor of Constitutional Law, has
been Nebraska’s faculty representative (FAR)
at the NCAA and conference level since May
15, 1997.
In 2002, Potuto was named Outstanding
Faculty Athletics Representative by the AllAmerican Football Foundation. From 2008-09
to 2011-12 she was president of the 1A FAR
(FARs from FBS institutions). Among