… and smarts” suddenly dies.
Richard Nagareda, professor of law at Vanderbilt, has died at the age of 47.
Not long ago, Vanderbilt featured him in a slide show series called A Day in the Life of…
By all accounts, he was a great teacher, a wit, and a sweet man. His work on mass torts – “allegations of tortious misconduct affecting large numbers of broadly dispersed persons” – was enormously influential.