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16 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/injlepro16 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, Routledge VOL. 16, NO. 1, MARCH 2009 1 Editorial: Special issue - the work of Robert Stevens WILLIAM TWINING Loud ties, irreverence, a throaty chuckle - not quite what one expects of a prominent university administrator. Robert Stevens has had at least three careers: as academic lawyer, as legal practitioner in England and the United States, and as distinguished head of several prominent university institutions. His curriculum vitae also lists many other positions, awards and achievements. His progression as an academic administrator could be sung to the tune of the Alleluia Chorus: Wonderful President of Haverford, Mighty Chancellor of the University of California of Santa Cruz, Ever-fund-raising Master of Pembroke College Oxford, a Prince of Covington and Burling. These positions no doubt gave him a platform for many witty after-dinner speeches, outspoken convocation addresses, and provocative op. eds. What is truly remarkable is that Robert also managed to be a highly productive scholar, not only when a full-time Professor of Law at Yale (1959-76), but also when holding these responsible executive positions. He is the author of more than 10 books, over 50 articles, numerous public lectures, and at least 20 entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography. His works include what are probably the first three books in England that were co-authored by a lawyer and a social scientist: two with Brian Abel-Smith a sociologist; one with Basil Yamey, an economist. This symposium celebrates his scholarship with a series of short vignettes on his most important books. Before introducing these, let me insert a short personal memoir. Robert and I were exact contemporaries at Oxford, both reading law from 1952 to 1955; but we did not get to know each other then. He was at Keble, I was at Brasenose. Neither of us attended many lectures. Despite Keble, he moved in more fashionable circles than I did. I was dimly aware of him making waves as a contributor to Isis, and as a prominent socialite, who engaged in sartorial experiments. However, our first real encounter was in Dar es Salaam in 1961-62. This was the very first year of University College Dar es Salaam, which consisted only of a Law School, 14 students, and three academics - teaching in the party political headquarters of TANU, the ruling party, in the year of Independence. These were heady times. Later Robert may have looked back nostalgically on his experience of a small institution for which he did not have any responsibility. He came as a representative of Yale Law School to establish a link and to advise. He and I were involved in a series of crises, which I only dimly remember through ISSN 0969-5958 print/ISSN 1469-9257 online/09/010001-3 0 2009 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/09695950903354832

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