to block its publication." Despite this defeat by the combined forces of commercial and academic censorship, Brickman received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1964. The following summer at the Miami Beach law firm of Sibley, Giblin, King & Levenson was to be Brickman's only experience in the practice of law in his long career. He returned to academe at the end of the summer, on a Sterling Fellowship to Yale University, where he earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in 1965. By the fall term of 1965, Brickman was an assistant professor at the University of Toledo College of Law. Academic career University of Toledo College of Law Brickman's eleven years at the University of Toledo College of Law, as an assistant professor (1965-1968), associate professor (1968-1971) and full professor (1971-1976), were the central component of what he was later to call his "liberal days," when much of his work focused on social justice, poverty law, urban housing and zoning, campaign finance reform, living conditions for migrant workers, youth employment, and racial and gender equality. In 1967, when he was jointly appointed as a visiting research professor by the Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility in New York City, Brickman developed a course at Toledo on law and poverty, a subject at that time taught in only a handful of law schools nationwide, establishing in that year the College's Law and Poverty Clinic. He also served as a consultant to the community action programs division of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). In 1968, his course syllabus was published by the Ohio State Legal Services Association in both print and Braille editions. He also taught, wrote, and carried out research, some of it sponsored by the Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility, on the efficiency and effectiveness of legal systems, legal paraprofessionalism, and group legal services, as well as the role of clinical education in law schools. In 1975, Brickman developed a course for the University of Toledo College of Law on a topic to which he was to make a lifetime scholarly commitment and many later contributions: legal ethics, and ethical lawyering. This, with other early works by Brickman, are held in the archives of the LeValley Law Library of the University of Toledo. He published five more articles in 1975, his last year in Toledo,