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Stuntz Celebration--Skeel

By David Skeel and Bill Stuntz

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As hard as it was for Bill to endure the fuss, the celebration at Harvard Law School was, by my lights at least, unforgettable. The papers from the first three panels featured most of the nation's leading criminal law and criminal procedure scholars, and hopefully will be published as a book. A recurring theme, made by very different scholars in very different ways, was the extent to which Bill's work has transformed criminal law and criminal procedure scholarship.

The final panel was more pervasively personal. One example of the stories, from remarks by Ken Abraham, a colleague of Bill's when he was at the University of Virginia: when Bill was up for tenure at Virginia, two colleagues (one of whom was Pam Karlan, another panelist) got their hands on the stationary used by the central administration, and sent Bill a letter. Although the administration had received Bill's tenure materials, the letter said, they unfortunately would need to carefully parse each one of his articles. The process would probably take at least six years. Bill fell for the ruse.

We didn't give Bill an opportunity for rebuttal, but he presented the sketch of a new paper on the initial panel.

As soon as we have a DVD of the proceedings, I'll post a link for anyone who's interested.

Full post as published by Less than the Least on March 27, 2010 (boomark / email).