[We are grateful to David Sugarman for this notice. DRE]
Professor William Twining, a leading figure in the world of legal education and scholarship, died peacefully at home on October 9 aged 91. Twining’s work on Karl Llewellyn, with whom he had studied in the late 1950’s, notably, The Karl Llewellyn Papers (University of Chicago Law School, 1968) and Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (Cambridge University Press 1973, 2nd edn 2012), challenged many misconceptions concerning Llewellyn’s ideas and the legal realist movement and set in train a significant re-evaluation of their nature and significance. Twining donated his private collection of documents, published and unpublished, related to legal realism and pragmatism, to the Perelman Centre, Brussels, for scholars to use in the future: Le Centre Perelman - Centre Perelman
For a more detailed treatment of Twining’s life and work, see
https://www.slsa.ac.uk/sln-
