Leonard Glantz Retires, Will Become Professor Emeritus of Health Law.

After more than four decades of actively fostering a culture of academic excellence at the School of Public Health, Leonard Glantz is stepping down as a professor of health law.

Known as a passionate teacher who blended academic rigor with a wickedly humorous classroom environment, Glantz is relinquishing some of his teaching and administrative duties while transitioning into a different role at the School. George Annas, professor and chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, and Glantz’s longtime colleague and collaborator, said Glantz will become Dean Sandro Galea’s first appointed professor emeritus.

Glantz also served as associate dean for academic affairs and held appointments in both the School of Medicine and the School of Law. His research over the past few decades has focused primarily on the constitutional issues raised by public health interventions, privacy, the rights of children, the regulation of research with human subjects, and mental health law.

He is a past recipient of the Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor at SPH, presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding and sustained contributions to the School’s education program.

Glantz began his lifelong involvement with Boston University in the mid-1960s as an undergraduate, earning an AB in psychology in 1970 from the College of Liberal Arts. He went on to graduate from the School of Law in 1973, and began teaching public health law with Annas in 1974.

Those wishing to make a gift in his honor can direct it to the Leonard H. Glantz Award Fund for Academic Excellence. The award is presented annually to a student whose academic achievement typifies the high performance, creative and critical thinking, ability to integrate different areas of public health, intellectual curiosity and motivation, and clear potential for future intellectual and creative contributions to public health. Visit www.bu.edu/give for details on how to make a gift.

—Michael Saunders