Robert O. Dawson (1939-2005)

There is no memorial notice available yet, but Dean Powers’s remarks to the law school community this morning are worth sharing on this sad occasion: 

Bob’s professional accomplishments were astonishing.  He literally  wrote much of Texas law.  He has enormous respect in the legal community.  He was a fabulous teacher who our students honored just last week by naming Law Week after him.   He was a wonderful scholar over several decades.  He was a warm and congenial colleague.  He was a clinical innovator, establishing our Criminal Defense Clinic and only recently working to establish and build the Innocence Project.

I might add that he also carried on with extraordinary, and quite moving, fortitude and dignity during his final illness, continuing to teach, establishing, as Dean Powers noted, the Law School’s new Innocence Project, and participating in other ways in the life of the Law School.

I will post a link to memorial notices when they are available.     

UPDATE:  The Law School’s memorial notice is here.