{"id":27716,"date":"2018-05-03T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=27716"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:40:01","slug":"remembering-professor-gordon-hylton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2018\/05\/remembering-professor-gordon-hylton\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Professor Gordon Hylton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Headshot<\/a>The Marquette Law School community is saddened by the news that Professor J. Gordon Hylton has passed away at age 65, following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

Gordon was a wonderful colleague on the Law School faculty.\u00a0 He joined the faculty at Marquette University Law School in 1995, after teaching previously at the Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology.\u00a0 Gordon\u00a0left Marquette Law School in 2015 to join the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law\u00a0full time (having\u00a0visited at UVA\u00a0many semesters previously).\u00a0 He also served a memorable year\u00a0\u00a0as the Fulbright Professor of Law at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kiev, Ukraine.\u00a0 A wonderful In Memoriam webpage<\/a> celebrating Gordon’s career appears on the website of the University of Virginia School of Law.<\/p>\n

Gordon taught courses in Property Law, Trusts and Estates,\u00a0\u00a0and Legal History, among others, and was also closely involved with the National Sports Law Institute at\u00a0Marquette Law School.\u00a0 He was\u00a0a frequent contributor\u00a0to the Marquette Law School Faculty Blog, where he was known for his posts<\/a> on the history of Marquette Law School in general and on the often overlooked\u00a0athletes who had a historical connection with our institution.\u00a0 His blog posts were sometimes quirky, often obscure, but always among the most interesting to appear on the Faculty Blog.<\/p>\n

In a memorable interview<\/a> on the Faculty Blog from 2012, Gordon gave some insight into his love of sports, especially baseball, and how it intersected with his love of the law.\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n

For people who are interested in law, organized baseball represents a fascinatingly self-contained legal system. The sport is like a legal matryoshka doll\u2014one of those Russian dolls where every time you open up the doll, there is another doll inside. The baseball industry is governed by a hodgepodge of statutes and court interpretations. Inside the industry, the game is governed by a mesh of contractual agreements and other restraints of trade; the standard player contract that ties players to teams is like a miniature constitution; and on the field the game is defined by a legal-code-like rule book and presided over by judicial figures known as umpires. And then there are the unwritten rules. Following baseball from a legal perspective is like taking a course in comparative law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my opinion, Gordon’s dedication to the study of legal history flowed directly from his commitment to learn and understand the truth.\u00a0 Whether he was writing\u00a0about the challenges faced by African American lawyers in the\u00a0early 20th century, or exploring the origins of Jesuit legal education, or calling Thomas More “overrated” as a lawyer, Gordon typically\u00a0questioned the accepted wisdom and sought to uncover the true facts.\u00a0 In so doing, Gordon\u00a0often challenged me to defend my own assumptions, both in public when we participated in faculty panels and in private over lunchtime conversation.\u00a0 For that reason, among many others, Gordon was a great friend and the perfect colleague.\u00a0 He will be missed.<\/p>\n

Professor Hylton’s funeral is at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the First United Methodist Church in\u00a0Pearisburg, Virginia. There is visitation this Friday, May 4, from 6-8 p.m. at the church.\u00a0\u00a0Condolences can be sent to The Hylton Family, 1601 Concord Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901.\u00a0 In memoriam donations can be sent to the J. Gordon Hylton Memorial Fund, c\/o Dan Vogus, 113 Roades Court, Charlottesville, VA\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Marquette Law School community is saddened by the news that Professor J. Gordon Hylton has passed away at age 65, following a battle with cancer. Gordon was a wonderful colleague on the Law School faculty.\u00a0 He joined the faculty at Marquette University Law School in 1995, after teaching previously at the Chicago-Kent College of 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