Grant Gilmore was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School

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, University of Chicago Law School

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, Moritz College of Law

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 at Ohio State University

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, and Vermont Law School

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. He was a scholar of commercial law

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 and one of the principal drafters of the Uniform Commercial Code

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Gilmore attended Boston Latin School

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 and then went on to Yale University

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, where he earned a Ph.D.

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 in Romance languages

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. Prior to his career in law, he taught French

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 at Yale University.

He authored a number of books on various areas of commercial law, including secured transactions, admiralty law

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, and contract

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 law, and also drafted Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code. Perhaps his most famous work is his survey and criticism of contract law, The Death of Contract

The Death of Contract

The Death of Contract is a book by American law professor Grant Gilmore, written in 1974, about the history and development of the common law of contracts...

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Publications

• Gilmore, Grant. Security Interests in Personal Property (2 Volumes). 1st edition, Little, Brown & Company, 1965; 2nd edition, The Lawbook Exchange, 1999. ISBN 1-886363-81-1
• Gilmore, Grant. The Death of Contract. The Ohio State University Press, 1974, 2nd edition 1995. ISBN 0-8142-0676-X
• Gilmore, Grant. The Ages of American Law. Yale University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-300-01951-3

External links

• Article on Gilmore's book Security Interests in Personal Property from Time magazine, 12 January 1968
• A reproduction of the announcement of Grant Gilmore's memorial service from the New York Times
• Finding aid for Grant Gilmore, Papers Harvard Law School Library