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 taught by Professor Hargrave; the course was taught during the first semester of the freshman year and accounted for four hours of a freshman's sixteen- hour load. I had the opportunity to compare his teaching style with all of my other professors during the ensuing three years and although he was the youngest and least experienced, he was among the very best. And, he always enjoyed his students-genuinely enjoyed spending time with them, relaxing with them, and keeping up contact with them after graduation.

But extraordinary teaching was not his only contribution. Lee, unlike so many of his own professors, was a prolific scholar. His publications, beginning with his first symposium article published in the Louisiana Law Review, have covered a wide range of disparate subject matters-United States and Louisiana constitutional law, criminal law, property law, community property law. He has served the profession, especially in this state, extremely well. His writing, like his teaching, is disciplined, clear, logical, and goes directly to the essential point. Furthermore, he completed each scholastic effort ahead of deadline and with a clean desk at the end of each day.

Lee also gave generously and often to our collegial, cooperative life-accepting tasks...