Legal Commentary

I'm surprised the other law blogs I read haven't publicized this yet, but the New York Times today prominently features an obituary of William Stevens, who as a law student at Penn authored the famous "Aside" on The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule.  As the Times describes it, the note engendered years of discussion, sparked a substantial degree of law and baseball scholarship (although I must add that, like some others, I have never understood the intellectual fascination with baseball), and certainly -- for good and sometimes ill -- enlivened the writing of student notes and legal scholarship in general.  To be so publicly remembered for a student note is a rare thing indeed; more importantly, Stevens seems to have had a life well lived inside and outside of the law.  My condolences to his family.  His article can (hopefully) be found here.