Roger Conant Cramton was born May 18, 1929 to Dorothy and
Dr. Edward Cramton and raised in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
where he attended St. Johnsbury Academy before going on to
Harvard in 1950 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1956.
Following graduation he clerked for Judge Sterry
Waterman on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice
Harold Burton on the U.S. Supreme Court. He began teaching
at the University of Chicago Law School, continued at the
University of Michigan Law School until he was called to
Washington, D.C., where he served as Chair of the
Administrative Conference of the United States and as Assistant
Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel under resident Nixon.
Following the Saturday Night Massacre, he returned to
Academia, as Dean of Cornell Law School, where he continued
his career in teaching writing and government service. His
writings: dozens of articles, leading textbooks in the law: The
Conflict of Laws (5th ed. 1993), The Law of the Ethics of
Lawyering (4th ed. 2005), Reforming the Court: Term Limits for
Supreme Court Justices (2006), along with creating The
American Legal Ethics Library. Roger’s joy was his family: his
wife Harriet, their children, Ann (Don Kopinski), Charles
(Debbie), Peter (Catherine) and Cutter
(Dawn), 11 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. Roger
never lost his love of tennis, skiing, dancing, the mountains, his
vacation home at Lake Willoughby and the law. To Life he said A-men.
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