Memorial Notices
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In Memoriam: Christopher F. Edley, Jr. (1953-2024)
An expert in administrative law and civil rights, Professor Edley spent the first two decades of his career at Harvard Law School, before becoming Dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, a role he held until 2013, when he returned to the faculty. I will add links to memorial…
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In Memoriam: Roberta Karmel (1937-2024)
Emerita at Brooklyn Law School, where she taught for more than three decades, Professor Karmel, an expert in securities regulation and corporate law, was also a partner at a major New York law firm and the first female commissioner of the S.E.C. The BLS memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Larry Solan (1952-2024)
Recently emeritus at Brooklyn Law School (where he spent his academic career), Professor Solan did ground-breaking work at the intersection of linguistics and law, and founded BLS's unique Center for the Study of Law, Language, & Cognition. The BLS memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Jerome Skolnick (1932-2024)
Professor Skolnick taught for many years at Berkeley (1970-1994), and then for the remainder of his career at NYU, where he was also emeritus. A leading law & society scholar, he wrote influential work on different aspects of the criminal justice system, especially the police. The Berkeley JSP memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Richard…
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In Memoriam: Dan L. Burk (1962-2024)
A founding member of the law faculty at the University of California, Irvine, Professor Burk taught prior to that at the University of Minnesota and Seton Hall University. He was a leading scholar in intellectual property and Cyberlaw (or "Internet law" as it was called when he was one of the first to write about…
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In Memoriam: Marshall S. Shapo (1936-2023)
I only just learned of Professor Shapo's death in December. He was a longtime member of the law faculty at Northwestern University, where he was emeritus, and a leading scholar in the fields of torts and products liability. The Northwestern memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Charles Fried (1935-2024)
A longtime member of the Harvard Law faculty–who also served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Solicitor General of the United States during the Reagan Administration–Professor Fried wrote widely in constitutional law, torts, contracts, and legal ethics, among other topics. I will add links to memorial notices as they…
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In Memoriam: Gerald Frug (1939-2023)
A longtime member of the Harvard law faculty, where he was emeritus, Professor Frug was a leading scholar of local government law. The Harvard memorial notice is here.
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Ohio Court finds College legally liable for supporting libelous statements made by student protestors (Michael Simkovic)
During her long and varied career, Professor Hirshman was a labor lawyer, a law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, a philosophy professor at Brandeis, and a wide-ranging feminist theorist and activist. There is an evocative memorial from Katha Pollitt in The Nation. In Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin Coll., 2022-Ohio-1079, ¶ 24, 187 N.E.3d 629,…
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In Memoriam: Richard B. Stewart (1940-2023)
A leading figure (probably the leading figure of his generation) in the fields of administrative and environmental law, Professor Stewart began his career at Harvard Law School, moving to NYU in 1992, where he spent the remainder of his career. There is a memorial notice here.
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In Memoriam: JoAnne Epps (1951-2023)
A longtime law faculty member at Temple University–where she also served as Dean of the Law School, Provost, and, at the time of her death, Acting President–Professor Epps died suddenly and unexpectedly earlier this week. The NYT story about this tragic turn of events is here.
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In Memoriam: Charles Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)
A longtime member of the Harvard law faculty, where he was emeritus, Professor Ogletree was an influential teacher, mentor, and litigator, who also wrote on a variety of issues related to criminal law and procedure, as well as civil rights. The HLS obituary is here, and the NYT obituary is here.
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In Memoriam: Steven Shiffrin (1941-2023)
A leading scholar and theorist of the First Amendment, Professor Shiffrin taught for many years at Cornell, and, before that, at UCLA. The Cornell memorial notice is here, which includes at the end a link to a very nice tribute by Professor Michael Dorf.
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In Memoriam: Thomas Buergenthal (1934-2023)
A leading expert on international law and human rights, Professor Buergenthal was emeritus at George Washington University and also served as a judge on the International Court of Justice. As a child, he survived the concentration camps, which he he wrote a book about. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.
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In Memoriam: William H. Rodgers, Jr. (1939-2023)
Professor Rodgers, a longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle, was a leading figure in environmental law for decades. The UW memorial notice is here.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii