Memorial Notices
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In Memoriam: William C. Powers, Jr. (1946-2019)
I was shocked to learn of the passing of Bill Powers, former Dean of the Law School and President of the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a leading authority on tort law. I was fortunate to be his colleague and to serve on the faculty at Texas when he was Dean; he…
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In Memoriam: Stephen J. Ellmann (1951-2019)
I was very sorry to learn of the passing of Professor Ellmann, a longtime member of the New York Law School faculty, and a leader in clinical legal education and an expert on the law of human rights and South Africa in particular. There is a lovely tribute from the NYLS Dean here and an…
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In Memoriam: William Van Alstyne (1934-2019)
One of the leading constitutional lawyers of his generation, Professor Van Alstyne taught from 1965 to 2004 at Duke University, and then from 2004 to 2012 at the College of William & Mary, where he was also emeritus. The William & Mary memorial notice is here and the Duke memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: David W. Robertson (1937-2018)
It has only just come to my attention that my former colleague and longtime faculty member at the University of Texas School of Law, David W. Robertson, passed away at the end of last year. A leading authority on admiralty law–his 1970 Admiralty and Federalism is widely cited by the courts, including the U.S. Supreme…
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2018: well-known law professors whose passing was noted on the blog
We noted the passing of these well-known legal scholars during 2018: David Caron, Robert W. Hamilton, Geoffrey Hazard, Jr., Robert O'Neil, Robert Pitofsky, Ronald Rotunda, Lynn Stout, and Alan Watson. If you click on the "memorial notices" category (in which this post also appears) and scroll through, you can often find more information, including…
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In Memoriam: Alan Watson (1933-2018)
A leading authority on Roman law, legal history, and comparative law, Professor Watson taught for many years at the University of Georgia and, prior to that, at the University of Pennsylvania. The Georgia memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Robert Pitofsky (1929-2018)
A leading figure in antitrust, he was also Dean of the law school at Georgetown (where he taught for many years) as well as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 1995 to 2001. The Georgetown memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Daniel Crane for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Robert M. O’Neil (1934-2018)
Law professor, First Amendment and academic freedom expert, and former leader of both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia; the Washington Post obituary is here.
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In Memoriam: Lynn Stout (1957-2018)
I'm sorry to report that Professor Stout, a leading figure in corporate law at Cornell (and who taught previously for many years at UCLA), has died of cancer. I will add a link to the Cornell memorial notice when it appears. UPDATE: The Cornell memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: Ronald Rotunda (1945-2018)
Well-known for his treatises and textbooks in both constitutional law and legal ethics, he taught for a quarter-century at the University of Illinois, then at George Mason University, and, most recently, at Chapman University. There is an informative obituary from the ABA Journal here.
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In Memoriam: David Caron (1952-2018)
International law scholar and lawyer David Caron, and longtime member of the Berkeley faculty, who became Dean of the law school at King's College, London some five years ago, has died. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear. (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.) UPDATE: A memorial notice from KCL. ANOTHER…
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In Memoriam: Robert W. Hamilton (1931-2018)
I was sorry to learn of the death of my former colleague Robert W. Hamilton, longtime member of the UT Austin law faculty and author of many well-known and widely used texts related to corporate law. (Professor Hamilton took his law degree from Chicago, though well before my time needless to say.) Although we did…
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In Memoriam: Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. (1929-2018)
A preeminent figure for many decades in both civil procedure and legal ethics, Professor Hazard taught at Berkeley, Chicago, Yale, Penn, and, since 2009, at the University of California, Hastings. The Penn memorial notice is here and the ALI notice here. (Thanks to Scott Dodson for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Fred S. McChesney (1948-2017)
A leading law & economics and antitrust scholar, Professor McChesney taught at Emory, Cornell, and Northwestern Universities before taking up a Chair at his alma mater, the University of Miami, in 2011. I will add links memorial notices when they appear. UPDATE: The University of Miami's memorial notice is here.
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In Memoriam: J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. (1922-2017)
Before becoming a distinguished and influential federal judge, Phillips served on the law faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was also Dean. There is a lovely memorial notice for Judge Phillips here. (Thanks to Mitch Berman, who clerked for Judge Phillips, for the pointer.)
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…