Allison Dunham; University of Chicago Law Specialist

Allison Dunham, 78, the Arnold I. Shure Professor Emeritus and former general counsel of the University of Chicago. A specialist in probate and property law and laws affecting the growth of urban areas, Dunham wrote the property law casebook “Modern Real Estate Transactions.” He received the Chicago Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council’s “Champion Fighter for a Better Chicago” award in 1959. After serving as executive director of the National Conference of Commissioners on State Laws from 1962 to 1969, he was appointed to the Illinois division, making him a member of the national body he had served. He later became director of the Center for Urban Studies in Chicago. On Friday in Pomona.