A Picture of Grant Gilmore!

In an earlier post, I lamented the apparent lack of picture of Grant Gilmore on the web. Well, Professor Dudziak at the Legal History Blog has found one, and here it is. I'm almost certain it wasn't there when I looked before.

By way of reminder, any law student or lawyer who hasn't read Professor Gilmore's The Death of Contract should run, not walk, to his or her nearest virtual bookstore.

The Death of Contract

I'm stunned and saddened that I can't find a picture of the late, great Grant Gilmore on the internet. Professor Gilmore invented Article 9 and was utterly brilliant. A mesmerizing teacher. I didn't understand ten percent of what he said but was hypnotized.

Professor Gilmore's sardonic wit and piercing intelligence live on in his The Death of Contract, the single greatest legal book I have ever read. For you lawyers, at least, don't be intimidated. At barely 100 short pages (my version is about 4" by 6"), it is both a stunning deconstruction of contract theory and laugh-out-loud funny. When I skim a chapter, I can still hear his highly expressive but incomprehensible mumbling. Rest in peace, Professor!

Contorts lives!