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Harvard Law Prof. William Stuntz Dies

By Howard M. Friedman

In a tribute to "an examined life of thoughtfulness and grace", Harvard Law School yesterday announced that renowned criminal justice scholar and beloved teacher William Stuntz died on March 14 after a long battle with cancer. At a conference last year, one participant described Prof. Stuntz's scholarship as follows:

Stuntz?s work builds a bridge between the religious and the secular, the pragmatic and the evangelical, with his intellectual commitments both rooted in faith and insistent on reasoned evidence. In the world of criminal legal discourse, this is an invaluable contribution.

On his blog, which he co-authored with David Skeel, he and Skeel said: "We are both law professors and evangelical Protestants ? a weird combination in our time. We hope it?s also an interesting combination."
[Thanks to Legal Theory blog for the lead.]

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).