Abstract
I am honored to add my voice and my remembrances to a long list of people who admired Peter Fitzpatrick and whose lives were enriched by knowing him. I knew Peter Fitzpatrick for as long as I have been involved with the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities – about 20 years. I have never met an established scholar who was so effortlessly approachable, so intellectually generous, and who wore their formidable learning so lightly.
When he engaged with the work of other scholars, he was always surgically relevant, remarkably constructive, and pervasively kind. He was the kind of man who could make a parenthetical comment in a casual discussion that would stick and be recalled decades later, long after the primary topic of discussion had been forgotten.
That his kindness overshadowed even his profound scholarly accomplishments is a testament to the man he was. He made you feel that he was lucky to know you even though the truth was always the other way around.
I miss him.