Monday, January 31, 2005
Requiescat in pace
One of the titans of modern American contract law, Allan Farnsworth, died today, according to a release from Columbia Law Dean David Schizer. Details have not yet been released.
Farnsworth, the author of both a leading casebook and a leading treatise on contract law, was the Reporter for the Restatement Second of Contracts. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1954 and taught there for fifty years.
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