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Legal Biography

Columbia Law School

Series

2005

Columbia Law Review

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Allan Farnsworth, Ali Reporter, Lance Liebman Jan 2005

Allan Farnsworth, Ali Reporter, Lance Liebman

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For my five years as Dean of Columbia Law School, I only occasion-ally worked with Professor Farnsworth. He was not a faculty member who needed the Dean's help or wanted the Dean's attention. But once he came to my office, a mischievous twinkle in his eye, to share the news that on that day, the recorded number of citations to Farnsworth on Contracts had moved into first place among all legal publications, displacing Williston.


Remarks For Allan Farnsworth Memorial, Carol Sanger Jan 2005

Remarks For Allan Farnsworth Memorial, Carol Sanger

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I first met Allan Farnsworth in 1972. I was a first year law student at the University of Michigan and we were introduced by my own Contracts professor, a young blond fellow who had just joined the faculty named Lee Bollinger. The meeting between Allan and me is what would now be called "virtual" – I bought Contracts: Cases and Materials, 2d edition. Still, the introduction turned into an intense commitment. For an entire year Farnsworth was my constant companion. I stayed up late at night with Farnsworth and come April, Farnsworth never left my side. I had never seen …