Grant Gilmore (1910 – 1982) was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, and Vermont Law School. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Yale Law School, or YLS, is the Law school of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. The University of Chicago Law School, having recently celebrated its centennial in the 2002-2003 school year has established itself as a high profile part of the University of Journals Students have the opportunity to write and edit works published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals The Ohio State Law Journal is the oldest The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. Vermont Law School ( VLS) is a private Law school located in South Royalton Vermont (a village of Royalton Vermont) He was a scholar of commercial law and one of the principal drafters of the Uniform Commercial Code. Commercial law (sometimes known as business law) is the body of Law which governs Business and commercial transactions The Uniform Commercial Code ( UCC or the Code is one of a number of uniform acts that have been promulgated in conjunction with efforts to harmonize the law of
Early life
Gilmore attended Boston Latin School and then went on to Yale University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Romance languages. The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, making it the "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, or Neolatin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all Prior to his career in law, he taught French at Yale University. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people
He authored a number of books on various areas of commercial law, including secured transactions, admiralty law, and contract law, and also drafted Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code. Generally a secured transaction is a loan or credit transaction in which the lender acquires a Security interest in certain collateral owned by the borrower and has the right Admiralty law (also referred to as maritime law) is a distinct body of Law which governs maritime questions and offenses A contract is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do or refrain from doing an act which is enforceable in a court of law Perhaps his most famous work is his survey and criticism of contract law, The Death of Contract. Grant Gilmore (1910 &ndash 1982 was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, Moritz College of Law at
One of his students and proteges was Joel Feidelman, a prominent Contract Law attorney and Partner with Fried, Frank Harris, Shriver & Jacobson who retired in 1999 and was given a generous tribute by Sargent Shriver on May 11 that year as the "best expert on Government Contracts in the country". Robert Sargent Shriver Jr (born November 9 1915 is an American Democratic Politician and Activist.
Publications
- Gilmore, Grant. Security Interests in Personal Property (2 Volumes). 1st edition, Little, Brown & Company, 1965; 2nd edition, The Lawbook Exchange, 1999. ISBN 1-886363-81-1
- Gilmore, Grant. The Death of Contract. The Ohio State University Press, 1974, 2nd edition 1995. ISBN 0-8142-0676-X
- Gilmore, Grant. The Ages of American Law. Yale University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-300-01951-3
External links
- Article on Gilmore's book Security Interests in Personal Property from Time magazine, 12 January 1968
- A reproduction of the announcement of Grant Gilmore's memorial service from the New York Times
- Index of Gilmore's papers from Harvard Law School Library
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