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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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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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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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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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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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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