Peter Birks (1941-2004)
Professor Birks was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. He was by common estimation one of the two or three most distinguished legal scholars in Britain. We were fortunate to have him as a Visiting Professor at Texas several years ago. Despite his unfortunate, but very English, view that "legal realism is immoral," one could have nothing but admiration for his erudition, his clarity of mind, and his analytical acuity. A great loss to legal scholarship throughout the English-speaking world.
Links to memorials will be posted when they are available.
UPDATE: A brief notice, with more to follow, is at the Oxford Law site.
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