Alumnus Judah Marans ’11 passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 22. He would have turned 28 on Dec. 29.

Marans, who had been a third year law student at the University of California, Berkeley at the time of his death, is survived by parents Nina Kampler and Dr. Zvi Marans, brothers Gabe and Benjamin and sister Dara.

In 2009, Marans founded the Brandeis University Law Journal and served as its Editor in Chief. He also served on the Student Judiciary as both an associate justice and the Chief Justice, notably mediating both an impeachment case and a libel case during his time as the judiciary’s Chief Justice. In the impeachment case, he wrote the decision upholding the Student Union’s move to impeach its secretary, after she failed to introduce a piece of legislation to the Senate within the allotted time period. From 2013 to 2014, Marans was the Productions Editor for the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy.

Funeral services took place on Thursday, Dec. 24 at Gutterman and Musicantin Funeral Directors in Hackensack, New Jersey.

—Abby Patkin