Harold W. Horowitz; UCLA Vice Chancellor

Harold W. Horowitz, 77, retired vice chancellor for faculty affairs at UCLA and a longtime law professor. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Horowitz graduated from UCLA and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He received a law degree from Harvard in 1949 before returning the next year to Los Angeles, where he began teaching at USC. In 1961, he went to Washington to work for the John F. Kennedy administration as associate general counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Returning to Los Angeles in 1964, Horowitz joined the law school faculty at UCLA, teaching a course on constitutional law and conflict of laws. He was the author of numerous law review articles in the fields of constitutional law and conflict of laws. He also collaborated with Kenneth Karst on the casebook “Law, Lawyers and Social Change.” Horowitz oversaw faculty appointments and promotions as vice chancellor for faculty relations from 1974 until his retirement in 1991. Outside the university, Horowitz was deputy general counsel of the McCone Commission, which investigated the causes of the Watts riots of 1965. He also served on the board of directors of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. The family requests that any donations be made to the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles or the UCLA School of Law. On July 28 of complications from Parkinson’s disease.