Introduction: Practical Reason and the Scholarship of Philip P. Frickey

Abstract

On April 24, 2009, Berkeley Law held a daylong conference and gala dinner on behalf of the late Professor Philip P. Frickey. The conference produced an extraordinary set of essays, which appear in this symposium issue of the California Law Review. Although the purpose of the symposium issue is to illuminate Professor Frickey's scholarship, a few introductory words about his career seem in order. Professor Frickey graduated from the University of Kansas in 19752 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1978, where he was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. After graduation, Professor Frickey clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then practiced law for a couple years in Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he taught for seventeen years. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2000. He was appointed to the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Chair in 2007, and held that chair until his