Grant Gilmore

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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. He was a scholar of commercial law and one of the principal drafters of the Uniform Commercial Code.

[edit] Early life

Gilmore attended Boston Latin School and then went on to Yale University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Romance languages. Prior to his career in law, he taught French at Yale University.

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. Perhaps his most famous work is his survey and criticism of contract law, The Death of Contract.

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".

[edit] Publications

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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