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John W. Wade, John P. Frank
John W. Wade, John P. Frank
Vanderbilt Law Review
John Wade's most distinguishing quality was his capacity for friendship. He was a great scholar; his bibliography runs for pages. He was a great teacher and law school administrator; he took over the Vanderbilt Law School when it had a hundred students and no physical home of its own and built it into a great regional institution with an admirable building. He was a great reporter for the American Law Institute. He was a war hero.
But memory dwells especially on that capacity for friendship. I have read some of the memorial letters: Our colleague, Lawrence Walsh, in a handwritten …
Dean John W. Wade, Gilbert S. Merritt
Dean John W. Wade, Gilbert S. Merritt
Vanderbilt Law Review
John Webster Wade, one of the outstanding men in the history of Nashville-an unsung hero at home, but a nationally acclaimed scholar and teacher in the world of law--died recently at age eighty- three without sufficient public notice and recognition. During his life, he had more influence on the shaping of the legal system and the law in Tennessee than any politician or judge, and he had as much influence on the national legal system as any other Tennessean of his generation.
As a young Marine Corps 2nd Lieutenant in World War II, he guided troops through the bloody battles …