Arthur L Corbin

The first installment of the following article on products liability wasdedicated to Mr. Corbin to honor him on the occasion of his ninetiethbirthday; the second installment has to be dedicated to his memory.An incredibly rich life has peacefully come to an end, on Thursday,May 4, a little more than half a year after his ninety-second birthday.Last summer he was still able to spend several months at his summerhome in Maine, working daily for several hours in his garden. Hereturned refreshed to New Haven and surprised his visitors by thekeenness of his mind and of his memory. He loved to reminisce aboutthe early days of the Law School-its golden period, as he called it underDean Swan, his close personal friend. But, unlike most old men,he did not dwell only on the remote past. He remained deeply interestedin the present state of the Law School, the School he loved dearlyand to which he had given himself with unsurpassed loyalty anddevotion