In memoriam: Phyllis W. Beck
PENN CAREY LAW — The Honorable Phyllis W. Beck, a ground-breaking retired judge of the Superior Court, former Vice Dean at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and former Penn Nursing Board of Advisors member, died on March 3, 2025. She was 97.
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW — Charles Fried was a scholar, a teacher, a public servant, and a good friend of mine. He was widely read, both within and beyond the law. He sought always to get to the bottom of a subject, whether contracts, criminal law, or the law itself. But he was not just a…
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THE PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER — Marina Angel, 80, of Philadelphia, law professor emerita, former associate dean, and researcher at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law; longtime civil and women’s rights reformer, scholar, writer, and mentor, died Sunday, Feb. 1, of a sudden cardiac event at her home in Society Hill.
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COLORADO LAW — Richard Drury Irvin ‘73 passed away on December 9, 2024. An active member of the Boulder legal community for many years, Irvin will be remembered for his integrity and sense of humor. He was a past president of the Boulder County Bar Association (2010-2011) and remained active in BCBA and the wider…
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THE SEATTLE TIMES — Roy Prosterman, a one-time Wall Street lawyer and retired University of Washington law professor who founded a Seattle land-reform nonprofit that has helped millions of the world’s most needy, has died. He was 89.
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THE INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR — Bernard “Bernie” O’Donnell Jr.’s quiet-yet-playful demeanor is what made his office hours an outlet for success and community. For years, students counted on finding the UF law professor sipping black coffee and eating a Wawa breakfast at the table to the right of Library West’s escalators. There, O’Donnell guided students…
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THE JOURNAL RECORD — Fred H. Miller, former University of Oklahoma College of Law professor of more than 40 years and esteemed expert on uniform commercial code, died earlier this month at 87. Miller died Feb. 13 surrounded by family in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.
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TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION — Retired University of Tennessee (UT) law professor Fred Le Clercq died Jan. 12 at age 88. Le Clercq earned a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and received his law degree from Duke University School of Law. He was briefly employed by his father-in-law, Ben Scott Whaley, at the…
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Professor Henry P. Monaghan, the pathbreaking scholar of the U.S. Constitution and federal courts who was an influential teacher and mentor to generations of legal academics, died on January 1. He was 90.
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THE RECORD — Neil S. Hecht, a student and scholar of Jewish law who taught at Boston University School of Law for forty-six years, beloved by students and colleagues alike, passed away on November 11 at ninety years old.
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