In Memoriam: Walter W. Miller, Jr. (1932–2021)

Wally Miller, my bankruptcy professor at BU Law back in the 1990s, has passed away. He is quite directly the reason why I became interested in bankruptcy.

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[Ira Herman]

A gentle soul and one of my mentors, who was my BU Law bankruptcy professor back in the 1980s. He even let me come back as a guest lecturer from time to time to teach his class.

[Dan Carragher]

Thanks for sharing. Wally was a refreshingly different kind of law professor - brilliant, but also compassionate.

Wally taught our bankruptcy class right from the text of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. When I started as a bankruptcy associate the day the Code went into effect, I felt completely prepared. I also took two UCC classes from Wally, and I will never forget Wally teaching all of Article 9 in two weeks when he learned that his secured transactions course would be cancelled for the following term. Those two weeks served as the foundation for what I have been doing ever since.

[Sumner Bourne]

His ability to switch glasses on the fly - between reading the Code and then looking out at the class - was amazing to watch. He was a big part of making BU Law in the 1990s a welcoming place, and he is greatly missed by his former students.