ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - Eugene Victor Rostow, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Public Affairs, a former dean of Yale Law School and an influential scholar and government official, died on November 25, 2002, at an assisted-living residence in Alexandria. He was 89.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in New Haven, Rostow attended Yale, graduating Phi Beta Kappa at age 19, and then studied economics at Kings College, Oxford. He then returned to the United States and to Yale, graduating from the Yale Law School in 1937. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1938.
Ineligible for military service in World War II because of a bad back, he served in the Lend Lease Administration, overseeing the provision of supplies to American allies.
After World War II, he returned to Yale, becoming dean of Yale Law School in 1955 and serving until 1965. He is considered by some to be the greatest dean the law school ever had.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson named him under secretary of state for political affairs, which made him a frequent diplomatic point man on Vietnam. In 1981, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, making him the highest-ranking Democrat in the Reagan administration.
He became Sterling Professor Emeritus in 1984. His many books included Sovereign Prerogative, 1962; Law, Power and the Pursuit of Peace, 1968; The Ideal in Law, 1978; and Toward Managed Peace, 1993.
He is survived by his wife of 69 years, two sons, a daughter, two brothers and six grandchildren.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in New Haven, Rostow attended Yale, graduating Phi Beta Kappa at age 19, and then studied economics at Kings College, Oxford. He then returned to the United States and to Yale, graduating from the Yale Law School in 1937. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1938.
Ineligible for military service in World War II because of a bad back, he served in the Lend Lease Administration, overseeing the provision of supplies to American allies.
After World War II, he returned to Yale, becoming dean of Yale Law School in 1955 and serving until 1965. He is considered by some to be the greatest dean the law school ever had.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson named him under secretary of state for political affairs, which made him a frequent diplomatic point man on Vietnam. In 1981, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, making him the highest-ranking Democrat in the Reagan administration.
He became Sterling Professor Emeritus in 1984. His many books included Sovereign Prerogative, 1962; Law, Power and the Pursuit of Peace, 1968; The Ideal in Law, 1978; and Toward Managed Peace, 1993.
He is survived by his wife of 69 years, two sons, a daughter, two brothers and six grandchildren.
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - Eugene Victor Rostow, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Public Affairs, a former dean of Yale Law School and an influential scholar and government official, died on November 25, 2002, at an assisted-living residence in Alexandria. He was 89.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in New Haven, Rostow attended Yale, graduating Phi Beta Kappa at age 19, and then studied economics at Kings College, Oxford. He then returned to the United States and to Yale, graduating from the Yale Law School in 1937. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1938.
Ineligible for military service in World War II because of a bad back, he served in the Lend Lease Administration, overseeing the provision of supplies to American allies.
After World War II, he returned to Yale, becoming dean of Yale Law School in 1955 and serving until 1965. He is considered by some to be the greatest dean the law school ever had.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson named him under secretary of state for political affairs, which made him a frequent diplomatic point man on Vietnam. In 1981, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, making him the highest-ranking Democrat in the Reagan administration.
He became Sterling Professor Emeritus in 1984. His many books included Sovereign Prerogative, 1962; Law, Power and the Pursuit of Peace, 1968; The Ideal in Law, 1978; and Toward Managed Peace, 1993.
He is survived by his wife of 69 years, two sons, a daughter, two brothers and six grandchildren.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in New Haven, Rostow attended Yale, graduating Phi Beta Kappa at age 19, and then studied economics at Kings College, Oxford. He then returned to the United States and to Yale, graduating from the Yale Law School in 1937. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1938.
Ineligible for military service in World War II because of a bad back, he served in the Lend Lease Administration, overseeing the provision of supplies to American allies.
After World War II, he returned to Yale, becoming dean of Yale Law School in 1955 and serving until 1965. He is considered by some to be the greatest dean the law school ever had.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson named him under secretary of state for political affairs, which made him a frequent diplomatic point man on Vietnam. In 1981, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, making him the highest-ranking Democrat in the Reagan administration.
He became Sterling Professor Emeritus in 1984. His many books included Sovereign Prerogative, 1962; Law, Power and the Pursuit of Peace, 1968; The Ideal in Law, 1978; and Toward Managed Peace, 1993.
He is survived by his wife of 69 years, two sons, a daughter, two brothers and six grandchildren.
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