Memorial Notices
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In Memoriam: Lino Graglia (1930-2022)
Professor Graglia taught for fifty years at the University of Texas School of Law, where he was only recently emeritus. The Texas memorial notice is here. I was Lino's colleague for 13 years, and like many who disagreed with him about almost every political question, I found him to be a very congenial colleague, who…
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In Memoriam: Lani Guinier (1950-2022)
A leading contributor to scholarship on civil rights, voting rights, and Critical Race Theory, Professor Guinier was emerita at Harvard Law School, where she had taught since 1998. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: An obituary from the Boston Globe, and a memorial notice from HLS. ANOTHER: The NYT obituary.
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In Memoriam: Douglas A. Kahn (1934-2021)
A leading tax law scholar, Professor Kahn taught at the University of Michigan Law School for more than a half-century. He passed away in late October of last year. There is an obituary here. (Thanks to Anita Bernstein for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Stephen D. Sugarman (1942-2021)
A leading scholar in two different fields–torts and education law–Professor Sugarman was a member of the Berkeley Law faculty since 1972. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.
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In Memoriam: Leon Gabinet (1927-2021)
A longtime member of the Case Western law faculty, Professor Gabinet was still teaching tax law until about two months ago! The Case Western memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Erik Jensen for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Arnold Loewy (1940-2021)
A well-known expert in criminal law and procedure, Professor Loewy spent nearly forty year on the law faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, before retiring and taking up a chair in the law school at Texas Tech University. There is an obituary here. (Thanks to Wayne Logan for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Mathew McCubbins (1956-2021)
A leading and influential scholar of the legislative process, Professor McCubbins was, at the time of his death, a professor in both political science and law at Duke University. The Duke Political Science memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Jack Weinstein (1921-2021)
A longtime member of the Columbia Law School faculty and a district court judge in New York, he was also well-known for his scholarship on evidence, civil procedure and mass torts. The Columbia memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Christopher Stone (1937-2021)
A longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Southern California, Professor Stone was probably best-known for his contributions to environmental law. The USC memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Scott Altman for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Eugenio Bulygin (1931-2021)
An Argentinian legal philosopher, and longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor Bulygin enjoyed an international reputation for important contributions to all aspects of jurisprudence (see a collection of his papers from OUP for a sense of the range of issues he worked on); his most famous and influential…
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In Memoriam: Zipporah B. Wiseman (1930-2021)
An expert in commercial law and feminist legal theory, Professor Wiseman was a longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Texas, and also taught at Northeastern and Harvard. The Texas memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Steve Ratner for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Phillip Blumberg (1919-2021)
An expert in corporate law, Professor Blumberg spent ten years as Dean at the University of Connecticut School of Law, a transformative period in the history of the school. He retired from teaching at UConn in 1990. The UConn memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Patricia McCoy for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Peter Gerhart (1945-2021)
An expert on antitrust and international trade, Professor Gerhart served as Dean at Case Western for a decade, and before that taught at Ohio State. More recently, he wrote widely in private law theory. The Case Western memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Deborah L. Rhode (1952-2021)
MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED JANUARY 9: UPDATED A leading scholar of legal ethics and the legal profession, as well as gender and the law, Professor Rhode spent her academic career at Stanford Law School. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: The Stanford memorial notice is here. ANOTHER UPDATE: The…
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In Memoriam: David Dolinko (1948-2020)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 31–UPDATED Emeritus at UCLA, where he spent his entire career (and earned both his J.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy), Professor Dolinko was an important contributor to criminal law theory and many topics in substantive criminal law and procedure. Professor Dolinko succumbed yesterday to COVID. I will add links to memorial…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii