{"id":9257,"date":"2020-12-29T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2020-12-29T23:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:04:27","slug":"scott-turows-tribute-to-professor-william-p-alford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2020\/12\/scott-turows-tribute-to-professor-william-p-alford\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Turow&#8217;s Tribute to Professor William P. Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scott Turow<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #800000\">Novelist, Author of \u201c1L\u201d; College roommate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have known Bill Alford since we were friends and roommates as junior at Amherst College in 1968. Subsequently, we were reunited as law students at HLS when we both began our studies there in 1975. By then, Bill had completed his graduate work in Chinese Studies at Yale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have watched from afar as Bill has made his pathbreaking contributions to Asian Legal Studies. He was, in the years after law school, a remarkably prolific scholar and that has always been the case.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is far more important to me as a friend is the person he became, as we both emerged from the relative emotional chaos of young adulthood. The grown-up Bill is a person of unrivaled emotional generosity, who understands that no one\u2019s path through the world is \u2018easy.\u2019 He seems to approach all humans from a default position of love. 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