The dedication of this issue of the Washington Law Review to Professor Robert Meisenholder suitably celebrates the long career of a scholar, teacher, and beloved colleague. Professor Meisenholder retired in June 1985 after thirty-seven years as a member of a law faculty, thirty-one of those years at the Univesity of Washington School of Law. He came to our Law School in 1954, after six years of teaching in other schools (Miami and Cincinnati), four years of practice, and three years in the Navy (as a Japanese language expert during WWII). His legal education (both J.D. and S.J.D.) was at Michigan, where he later returned as a visiting professor in 1958-59