Passing of a giant

The commercial law world lost one of its greatest lights Sunday with the death of William D. Hawkland.  Hawkland, author of the magisterial 18-volume Uniform Commercial Code series, was 83.  Over the course of nearly half a century he taught at Tennessee, Temple, UCLA, Rutgers, Illinois, Buffalo, Texas, NYU, and Minnesota, and at law schools in Louvain and Strasbourg.  He retired as chancellor of LSU in 1989.  Over the course of his career Hawkland wrote 18 books and upwards of 75 law review articles in nearly every area of commercial law.

A memorial service is planned in Baton Rouge next Tuesday, November 17.  Contributions may be made to a scholarship fund in his honor at LSU.