Julian Eule; Legal Expert on Voter Referendums

Julian Eule, 47, an educator and legal expert on the referendum process. Eule, a professor of law at UCLA since 1985, was frequently consulted by news media and political figures about the role of voter initiatives in emerging democracies. He wrote and lectured extensively on the subject, including a talk at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, in 1995. He recommended that judiciary branches of government examine initiatives that result from direct democracy to assess their constitutionality. Also an expert on constitutional law and affirmative action, Eule earned degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Cornell and Harvard Law School. He practiced law in New York City and in the mid-1970s was legal counsel to then-Connecticut Gov. Thomas Meskill. From 1977 until he came to UCLA, Eule taught and served as associate dean and university counsel at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia. On Thursday in Los Angeles of cancer.