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A Footnote For Jack Dawson, James J. White, David A. Peters
A Footnote For Jack Dawson, James J. White, David A. Peters
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
In the jointly-authored section below, "I" refers to Professor James J. White and "we" refers to White and co-author David A. Peters.
Jack Dawson, known to many at Michigan as Black Jack, taught at the Law School from 1927 to 1958. Much of his work was published in the Michigan Law Review, where he served as a student editor during the 1923-24 academic year. We revisit his work and provide a footnote to his elegant writing on mistake and supervening events.
In Part 1, we talk a little about Jack the man. In Part II, we recite the nature …