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Publication Date

11-16-2025

Abstract

Like so many others—friends, family, former students, colleagues, and practically everyone who knew him well—I was shattered by the news of Dick Fallon’s death. Dick and I had grown close over the years in a friendship that developed slowly and evolved into one we came to treasure. He had a Midwestern sensibility: soft-spoken, humble to a fault, kind-hearted, far-sighted, reflective, family-oriented, keen to put folks at ease and to downplay his own accomplishments. (His example forces me to admit that perhaps New Englanders share these virtues with Midwesterners.) But alongside his native humility, he also had a fierce commitment to ideas, to getting the law right—especially the constitutionally-inflected law of federal jurisdiction. One can see both sides of Dick, the gentle humility and argumentative tenacity, in his appearance at Northwestern Law School in March 2012 as part of a festschrift honoring the scholarship of Northwestern’s own Marty Redish.

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