Dedication of Louisiana Law Review, Volume 62, Issue 1, to Professor Lee Hargrave

• Author: Katherine Shaw Spaht
• Position: Jules F. & Frances L. Landry Professor of Law
• Pages: 1-2

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Jules F. & Frances L. Landry Professor of Law, Louisiana State University.

Professor Lee Hargrave had an extraordinary tenure at the LSU Law Center, thirty-three years as a professor that began the very same year he graduated. No doubt because of his exceptional ability demonstrated while a student at the Law School, Dean Paul M. Hebert and the faculty recognized his promise and had confidence in his ability to develop his remarkable talents. They offered him a teaching position beginning the fall semester following his May graduation. Lee did not disappoint them.

As a teacher, he was exceptional-incisive, rigorous, probing, analytical, an extremely disciplined thinker. I can attest to his ability as a teacher because the second class I attended at the LSU law Center in the fall of 1968 was Civil Law Property...