Learning from Professor Llewellyn.

• Date: 22 March 2005

In the sky of twentieth century legal scholars, Karl N. Llewellyn was Halley's comet. He was a founder of the legal realist movement; architect, chief reporter, and principal draftsman of the Uniform Commercial Code; renowned law teacher at Yale, Columbia, and Chicago; and author of more than a hundred articles and many books, including one that remains the definitive treatment of the appellate process. (1) As if that were not enough to make an interesting life, this American citizen was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class for valor as a...