Professor Nelson, a leading legal historian, was emeritus at NYU Law School, where he spent most of his academic career and from which he also graduated. There is a memorial notice here. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Nelson or for those who would like to comment on the significance of

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Professor Munzer, a longtime member of the law faculty at UCLA, where he was recently emeritus, wrote widely on topics in jurisprudence, especially the philosophical foundations of property, as well as other legal and bioethical topics. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Munzer or for those who would like to comment

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A longtime professor at Duke Law School, where he was emeritus, Professor Christie wrote widely on topics in jurisprudence, torts, criminal law, and international law, among others. There is an obituary here.

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Professor Carbonneau was a leading expert on arbitration–domestic, comparative, and international–and taught for many years at Tulane University and, most recently, at Pennsylvania State University. There is an obituary here.

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Professor Twining, who was the emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London and also taught for a number of years at the University of Miami, was well-known for his intellectual biography of Karl Llewellyn (with whom he studied at Chicago in the 1950s) and for his work on evidence law, among other topics.

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