The 1999 volume of the prestigious Supreme Court Review is dedicated to UT law professor Charles Alan Wright, "Teacher, Scholar, Public Citizen for a Half-Century."
Edited by faculty at the University of Chicago Law School, the Supreme Court Review is an annual publication containing articles assessing and analyzing the prior year's decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. The lead article in the 1999 volume is by UT law professor Ernest A. Young.
Wright, who now holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at UT, joined the UT faculty in 1955, and has served as a Visiting Professor at many law schools, including Harvard and Yale. His multi-volume treatise on Federal Practice and Procedure has been called "the Bible" of federal judges. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has remarked that Wright stands "like a Colossus...at the summit of our profession." Wright is President of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.