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"Remembering Betsy" By Her Two Professors And Editors, Thomas Green, Dirk Hartog
"Remembering Betsy" By Her Two Professors And Editors, Thomas Green, Dirk Hartog
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On November 23, 2019, immediately following the conclusion of the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Boston University School of Law held a ceremony marking the opening of an archive devoted to the scholarship of Elizabeth Clark. Betsy Clark, who taught at BU before her untimely death in 1997, was an important presence in the world of legal history in the 1980s and early 1990s. And the archive includes a number of short “responses” to her scholarship. Her colleagues David Seipp and Pnina Lahav were responsible for making the archive a reality.
Tribute, Jeffrey L. Salinger
Tribute, Jeffrey L. Salinger
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I remember sitting in the law auditorium late in our first semester of law school. Listening to a handful of professors, we heard about the electives offered for second semester. I am not sure how I felt prior to entering the auditorium that day. I do remember how I felt afterwards -- I was going to get into Professor Clark’s class. From what I’ve heard, her legal history seminar was by far the most highly coveted of the first-year electives. That’s no surprise, though -- you could almost feel her excitement as she spoke about the course. On hearing that …
Dedication: For Betsy Clark, 1952-1997, Law & History Review Editor
Dedication: For Betsy Clark, 1952-1997, Law & History Review Editor
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With the consent of those whose work appears here, and on behalf of the American Society for Legal History, this issue of the Law and History Review is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague, Elizabeth Battelle Clark, who died on the evening of December 26th, 1997, after a long and fierce fight with cancer. It is deeply saddening to realize that in each of our last three issues we have noted the death of a colleague -- of Willard Hurst, Paul Murphy, and now Betsy Clark. Hers is perhaps the hardest of these deaths to take, because …