In Remembrance: Christopher N. Lasch ’96JD Died on June 13 2021

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Christopher Nelson Lasch, born on April 25, 1965, to Nell Commager Steele Lasch and Robert Christopher Lasch, died on June 13, 2021. He is preceded in death by his father and survived by his mother; his son Rain Ellis Lasch; his daughter Grace Perry Noe; his wife, Elizabeth Stovall; his brother, Robert Lasch; his sisters Kate Loomis and Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn; his nephews Robby Ramdin and Christopher Lasch; his nieces Greta Ramdin, Eleanor Lasch, Isabel Lasch-Quinn, and Honore Lasch-Quinn; and a grandson, Gunnar Lee Noe.

He was a 1987 graduate of Columbia University, a 1996 graduate of Yale Law School, and a Robert Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow in 2006. He dedicated his life and career to helping others as a public defender, a civil rights lawyer, and a clinical law professor, teaching as a research scholar at the Yale Law School clinic, as a visiting clinical professor at Suffolk Law School, and finally as a full professor at Denver University Sturm College of Law. He had a brilliant mind, a kind and generous heart, a soft voice, and endless wit. He was beloved by many and will be missed by all who knew him. 

—Submitted by the family.