Last April Fools Day, I profiled the most famous sports-law review article of all-time, "The Uncommon Origins of the Infield Fly Rule." This piece, which was presumably written tongue-in-cheek, examines “whether the same types of forces that shaped the development of the common law also generated the Infield Fly Rule.”Over the years, The Uncommon Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule developed a cult following. The work has been cited 56 times, including by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Wikipedia ranks the Aside as one of the sixteen most “significant” works ever published by Penn Law Review.
On Thursday, piece's author, Will Stevens, passed away. The New York Times wrote a beautiful obituary, which I have attached a link here.
My deepest sympathies go out to the Stevens Family.
(The author wishes to thank Sam Porter for alerting him of this sad news.)
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Our professors, all of whom are top law professors from top U.S. law schools, typically assign a couple cases for the students to read. Students then read and brief those cases to prepare for class.
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