Frank B. Cross, Inwards Memoriam (1955-2019)

I wanted to tape the passing of my wonderful friend Frank Cross, a longtime faculty fellow member at the University of Texas, Austin.  Other obituaries volition remember that he was 1 of the best (NDT) college debaters of the 1970s together with a gifted teacher.  I wishing to highlight the tremendous loss to academia together with legal scholarship.  Frank contributed enormously yesteryear continually challenging himself.  Already a UT faculty member, he embarked on a course of written report of written report inwards statistics that transformed his operate together with gave us novel insights.  He began an extraordinary run of publication inwards leading constabulary reviews amongst an article that questioned operate that downplayed the contribution of lawyers to the economy.  He published many noteworthy books including Decision Making inwards the the US Courts of Appeals (2007); Measuring Judicial Activism (2009)(with Stefanie A. Lindquist); The Failed Promise of Originalism (2012); The Theory together with Practice of Statutory Interpretation (2012); together with Constitutions together with Religious Freedom (2015).  Frank contributed equally long equally he could.  Robert Prentice, his friend on the UT faculty, said inwards his obituary: “Frank bravely battled adrenoleukodystrophy his entire adult life.  This brutal illness piece of cake robbed Frank of his might to move, simply never took away his dear of life or feel of humor.  ALD ultimately defeated Frank, simply it did non define him.”  Everyone who knew Frank volition missy him.  He had this rare gift: an independent heed together with an independent heart.