In Memoriam: Marvin Chirelstein (1928-2015)

Professor Chirelstein, a 1953 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and a leading tax scholar of his generation, taught at Yale Law School and then, from 1981 (with a brief stint in full-time practice as well) at Columbia Law School, where he was emeritus.  I will post links to memorial notices when they appear.

UPDATE:  Prof. Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia) writes:  "Perhaps one thing to highlight is his corporate finance book co-authored with Victor Brudney, 1st ed. 1972, which opened the way to interdisciplinary scholarship in corporate law, as influential a book in its realm as say, Hart & Sacks or even Hart & Wechsler.  Marvin also taught a generation of law students who made exceptionally important contributions, including Jack Coffee,  Ron Gilson, Merritt Fox, and Roberta Romano but also many others.   By the way,  Marvin was in the same class as Robert Bork, and, according to a recent essay in Greenbag on Bork and Dworkin, Bork was a groomsman at his wedding." 

ANOTHER:  Columbia's memorial notice.  (Thanks to Keith Rowley for the pointer.)