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110 Yale L.J. 903 (2000-2001)
Joseph Goldstein: My Teacher

handle is hein.journals/ylr110 and id is 921 raw text is: Joseph Goldstein: My Teacher Guido Calabresit About forty-five years ago, in my second year as a student at the Yale Law School, an extraordinary group of new faculty members arrived. They included Alexander Bickel, Charles Black, Abe Goldstein, Leon Lipson, Ellen Peters, Harry Wellington, and Joe Goldstein. Together with those who had preceded them by a year, like Louis Pollak and Quintin Johnstone, there were fourteen or so new arrivals. I believed then, and continue to think now, that no law school has ever had so remarkable an influx and so magnificent a burst of creative energy. The new kids-for most were very young-were brilliant, testy, different from each other and from the preexisting Yale Law School faculty. And yet they fit right in, with a school that already had more than its share of academic superstars, and with that special atmosphere that defined the Yale Law School then, as it does today. Even in that amazing group, Joe Goldstein stood out from the first. Others will speak of his scholarship, of the depth of his knowledge, originality, and teaching capacity in his chosen fields-from which-like so many others-I have greatly benefited. But in this short Tribute, I want, instead, to recall Joe as my teacher in a field he knew virtually nothing about, had-I believe-never taught before, and would certainly never teach again: the law of bankruptcy. In those golden days, the universally recognized god of bankruptcy was a short, round, Montana-born-and-bred, former amateur boxer named J.W. Moore. He owned the great bankruptcy treatise, Collier on Bankruptcy,' as he did the multivolume text in the other field he dominated, Moore's Federal Practice.2 And he was also universally considered to be a superb classroom teacher. As a result, most of each Yale Law School class-some 165 students-would flock into his bankruptcy course, called Debtors' Estates (in contrast with Harvard's equivalent, which was named Creditors' Rights). t Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Dean Emeritus, Sterling Professor Emeritus, and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School. 1. JAMES WILLIAM MOORE ET AL., COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY (14th ed., Matthew Bender 1940) (1898). 2. JAMES WM. MOORE ET AL., MOORE's FEDERAL PRACTICE (2d ed. 1948). 903

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