In Memoriam: Daniel Meltzer (1951-2015)

I am saddened by the news that Daniel Meltzer, the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has passed.  Meltzer was an important scholar of federal courts and criminal procedure and also did work in constitutional law, remedies, and comparative law.  He was a co-author of the magisterial Hart & Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System--a casebook that defined a field and represented the continued vitality of the legal process school.  He served as the Principal Deputy Counsel to President Obama and served as a member and Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and of the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB).  He authored many important articles--a representative sample can be found here.  Meltzer had a reputation as a meticulously careful and reflective scholar.  He will be missed by family, colleagues, and generations of students.