Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
Al Hill died on December 5, 2015 at the age of 98, outlasting most of his contemporaries. Al had taken senior status when I came to Columbia Law School, and I succeeded him in the course on federal courts. The little I saw of Al left me with the firm impression of a warm, gentle, affable, caring human being. I did, however, know Al’s work quite thoroughly. And while a memorial is no occasion for an extended review of Al’s long and distinguished academic career, I would like to draw attention to a particularly shining period: Al’s contributions to federal courts scholarship during the decades between the late1950s and early 1980s. Al’s writings during that period solidified his reputation as a federal courts grandmaster.
Disciplines
Law | Legal Biography
Recommended Citation
Henry P. Monaghan,
Al Hill: A Grandmaster Has Passed,
117
Colum. L. Rev
835
(2017).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/590