I am sorry to report that long-time University of Wisconsin history professor Stanley Kutler passed away on April 7. Kutler is best known for his extensive work on Nixon -- he sued to get access to the Nixon tapes -- (and I blogged about a controversy around his edition of the Nixon tapes back in 2009). But he is probably best-known among legal historians for a wonderful volume on the Charles River Bridge case, Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case (1971), as well as his first book, Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics (1968) and his 1982 book The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War. He was also the founding editor of Reviews in American History, which is one of my favorite periodicals.
Dan Ernst has a lovely memorial of Kutler over at legal history blog.
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