王健先生(1914～2007)，1938年畢業于東吳大學法學院，同年獲得中國律師資格。1938年至1945年期間，他在上海一家知名律師事務所執業。1945年第二次世界大戰結束後，王健先生被選任為上海上訴法庭法官，成為當時著名的在上海進行的審判日本戰犯和漢奸軍事法庭的五名主審法官之一。1941至1950年期間，王健先生擔任當時中國三所名校（東吳大學、震旦大學和光華大學）的法學教授，其間赴美深造。
1947年，在獲得美國哈佛大學法學院獎學金和法學碩士學位後，王健先生回國繼續從事律師職業并在東吳大學法學院授課。1949年任震旦女子大學校長。
1952年，王健教授應邀擔任紐約聖約翰大學法學院教授，于1984年退休。王健教授在聖約翰大學不僅教授國際法，還執教美國法律基礎課程，包括合同法和公司法等。此外，王健教授還是密歇根大學法學院的法學訪問教授，并曾應美國前總統約翰遜（Lyndon Johnson）之邀，作為特别代表出席“國際法和國際合作”白宮會議。在從事法學教育和律師職業外，王健教授還多年擔任美國仲裁協會的仲裁員。
從聖約翰大學法學院退休後，王健教授成為“王和王律師事務所”的資深合夥人，這是一家專門從事跨國法律事務的律師事務所，客戶遍布美國、中國、中國台灣、拉丁美洲和亞洲其他國家。
王健教授1984年被授予聖約翰大學校長勳章，1987年成為該校榮譽法學博士，1992年獲得聖約翰大學榮譽勳章。
自1938年獲得中國律師資格開始，王健先生還于1958年獲得紐約律師資格，1986年獲得台灣地區律師資格。2000年，王健教授被授予蘇州大學榮譽教授的稱号。
王健教授（先生）于紐約時間2007年12月14日淩晨因病去世，享年93歲。
Professor Kenneth Wang (Mr. Wang) was born in China in 1914. 1Ic （He）graduated from Soochow University Law School in 1938 and was admitted to the bar(became a lawyer) in China the same year. He began practicing law as a member of (worked at)one of the leading law firms in Shanghai from 1938 to 1945 .When the Second World War ended, he was appointed as a Justice（judge） of the Court of Appeals of Shanghai, and concurrently, one of five renowned judges of the Military Tribunal for trial of Japanese War criminals and Chinese war time collaborationists. During the period from 1941 to 1950, he served as a professor of law at three China's leading educational institutions-Soochow University, Aurora University and Kwang-Hua University. In 1947, he was awarded a fellowship by Harvard University Law School where he obtained a law degree .Then he returned to China where he continued his law practice and teaching at Soochow University Law School. In 1949, he became the president of Aurora College for Women.
In 1952, Mr. Wang was invited to join the faculty at St. John's University Law School in New York where he taught till his retirement in 1984. At St. John's, Professor Wang taught not only international law, but also basic American law courses-contracts and corporations. Professor Wang also served as a visiting professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, as well as a special delegate invited by former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson to the White House Conference on International Law and International Cooperation. In addition to his teaching and law practice, he served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association for many years.
After his retirement from St. John's University Law School, Mr. Wang became the senior partner of the law firm which was named Wang & Wang, a law firm specializing in transnational legal matters, whose clients were in the U.S., China, Taiwan and other countries in Latin America and Asia.
Mr. Wang was honored by St. John's University, first with a President's Medal in 1984, then with an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1987, and finally the University's Medal of Honor in 1992.
Mr. Wang became a lawyer in China in 1938, then he became a lawyer in New York in 1958, and at last he became a lawyer in Taiwan in 1986. In 2000, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Law by Soochow University in Suzhou.
Mr. Wang died of illness in New York on December 14, 2007 before dawn, at the age of 93.
