{"id":9288,"date":"2020-12-31T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2020-12-31T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:00:46","slug":"ryan-goldsteins-tribute-to-professor-william-p-alford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2020\/12\/ryan-goldsteins-tribute-to-professor-william-p-alford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Goldstein’s Tribute to Professor William P. Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Goldstein<\/strong>
\nJ.D. \u201998, Harvard Law School<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Alford is an inspiration.\u00a0 Very few people are so accomplished and yet so approachable and friendly.\u00a0 I think that combination is woefully underappreciated.\u00a0 As a student, that approachability meant so much to me.\u00a0 He was always willing to talk about ideas and research or just catch up.\u00a0 I wanted to work harder and do better just to earn his respect.\u00a0 His accomplishments speak for themselves.\u00a0 I felt lucky to have the ability to spend time with a professor who is so highly-respected the world over.\u00a0 It drove home just how special HLS is.\u00a0 Every interaction.\u00a0 The fact that he was so friendly and genuinely excited about what we were doing as students is one of my favorite memories from HLS.\u00a0 I focused on Japan more, yet he took just as much interest in what I was doing as he did with students working exclusively with him.\u00a0 That left a deep impression of how treating people nicely and genuinely, every day and every interaction, can really inspire them to more.\u00a0 When I returned to Harvard to visit, he was the same Professor Alford as ever, and those few hours together are also very important to me.\u00a0 It is hard to come up with words for someone who so appreciably stands out as an example of what a professor should be.\u00a0 He probably does not even understand how he has made thousands of us into better academics, lawyers, judges and people (I realize these are not mutually exclusive designations, and some of us can be good people and good lawyers!).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryan Goldstein J.D. \u201998, Harvard Law School Professor Alford is an inspiration.\u00a0 Very few people are so accomplished and yet 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