He is author of numerous books, including The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth, Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (awarded the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award), Land Use Controls (with Vicki L. Been), and Perspectives on Property Law (with Carol M. Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman).
He also attended Georgetown University Law Center on the Paul Connolly Memorial Full-Tuition Scholarship and received his Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif in 1995.
He received a law degree cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was Topics Editor of the Law Review, a junior fellow at the Center for International Studies, was co-author of two published articles on aspects of international law, recipient of the John Norton Pomeroy Prize for academic excellence two times and also of the Benjamin Butler Prize.
He then attended the University of Wisconsin, where he obtained a law degree in 1937, graduating Order of the Coif.
From 1953-56 he was in the Syracuse University College of Law in a combination program which culminated in his earning of an LL.B., which was, later, converted to a J.D. He was in the Order of the Coif, and was a Notes Editor on the Syracuse Law Review.
He then graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1948.
He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Kappa Phi, the Order of the Coif and the editorial board of Louisiana Law Review. Immediately after law school, Brown entered the United States Army as an officer through LSU Reserve Officers Training Corps.
He was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as articles editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
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Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.
In 1962, he received his juris doctor with honors from the University of Florida where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as president of the Student Bar Association, was captain of the moot court team, served as articles editor of the University of Florida Law Review, and received the J. Hillis Miller Award as the outstanding law graduate.