Henry King: reflections on a legal giant.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 22 March 2010
• Author: Entin, Jonathan L.

Henry King and I were suite mates for 24 years. Even now, four months after his passing, I find it disorienting not to have Henry--often in an elegant suit and sneakers--stop in my office to say hello and, after looking at the color of my shirt, remark that it must be a white-collar day or a blue-collar day.

Henry had an insatiable curiosity about almost everything. Like a great journalist, he was always asking other people questions because he knew that everyone has a story to tell. But Henry had his own views, and he was never shy about expressing them. At faculty workshops and at the Canada-U.S. Law Institute conferences that he organized and led for so many years, Henry regularly asked the first question, and it was usually a humdinger. Henry had a unique perspective as a private practitioner, public servant, and professor, and he brought that perspective to everything he did as a member of our faculty.

What really stands out for me about the CUSLI conferences is how tight a ship Henry ran. Nobody got on the program without a paper in hand ahead of time. And for years he kept...