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In Memorium: Professor Peter Nash Swisher, Ronald J. Bacigal
In Memorium: Professor Peter Nash Swisher, Ronald J. Bacigal
Law Faculty Publications
Professor Peter Nash Swisher, seventy-two, passed away on June 15, 2016 and is remembered here by Professor Ron Bacigal, his colleague at the University of Richmond School of Law.
Personal Reflections On The Honorable Robert R. Merhige, Jr.: A Judge, Mentor, And Friend, Mary Kelly Tate
Personal Reflections On The Honorable Robert R. Merhige, Jr.: A Judge, Mentor, And Friend, Mary Kelly Tate
Law Faculty Publications
Twenty-six years – half my lifetime – have passed since I joined Judge Merhige's court family as his law clerk. I attempt here to sketch my personal impressions, distilling what to me was most remarkable about Robert R. Merhige, Jr. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this dynamic man turned legendary judge – a man I revered from the moment I met him – is more vivid to me now than he was to my younger self.
Mercurial, energetic, and benevolently despotic, Judge Merhige was a man of extraordinary decency who cherished his vocation and the law. He was a World War II veteran …