[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 152 (Tuesday, October 29, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1597-E1598]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     HONORING PROFESSOR TERENCE J. ANDERSON ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 
  RETIREMENT AS PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 
                             SCHOOL OF LAW

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                         HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 29, 2013

  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor my good 
friend, Professor Terence J. Anderson on the occasion of his retirement 
as Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Miami School of Law. 
Professor Anderson is not only one of the most revered and respected 
law professors in the United States, but his legal jurisprudence far 
exceeds the boundaries of this nation, as his students and his 
influence span the globe.
  Professor Anderson is an intellectual giant in the law and over the 
course of his career has demonstrated acute success as a practicing 
lawyer, an international courts commissioner, and an academic dean. His 
knowledge of constitutional law is renown, and he has become not only a 
trusted advisor to me throughout my legal career, but a good friend, 
too.
  Since he joined the Law School faculty at the University of Miami in 
1976 as a prized professorial recruit of the late Soia Mentschikoff, 
then-Dean of the Law School, Professor Anderson has been an indelible 
influence on virtually every aspect of law student and faculty life. 
Upon graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1964, he 
served for two years as a regional courts commissioner in Malawi, 
Africa as a member of the Peace Corps, practiced commercial and 
corporate transactional law for seven years in Chicago, and taught law 
and served as academic dean at the cutting-edge Antioch School of Law 
in Washington, DC.
  As a law professor, he has been instrumental in helping students 
develop the analytical and critical thinking skills needed to 
successfully provide valued legal representation. Known for his 
demanding pursuit of perfection, Prof. Anderson's first-year elements 
course and upper-class evidence class were legendary for their 
reputation as both impossible to master yet required for those desiring 
to become formidable advocates. Having perfected Henry Wigmore's chart 
method of constructing arguments about questions of fact in complex 
cases, using boxes, circles and arrows, Prof. Anderson mystified the 
uninitiated but brought enlightenment and depth to the truly dedicated.
  Professor Anderson's long-time collaboration with Professor William 
Twining in Great Britain and the United States redefined the law of 
evidence, culminating in a 27-year adventure with the publication of 
the critically acclaimed Analysis of Evidence. The analytical structure 
that Prof Anderson developed is not confined to legal jurisprudence, as 
he and Prof. Twining are now applying their principles to such varied 
domains as archeology and the applied sciences.
  His meticulous attention to detail and perfection has produced a body 
of work that stands the test of time. His quick-thinking, crisp and 
clear arguments, and quick-fire repartee has been known to both amaze 
and confuse, all for the purpose of striking at the core of even the 
most intractable problems. His students remain passionate, as he is, 
about evidence, argumentation, and advocacy.
  Professor Anderson knows no distinction between legal theory and 
practice, following in the footsteps of the great legal thinker Karl 
Llewellyn and his mentor Soia Mentschikoff, both of whom rejected any 
sharp divide between the two. His skills were much in demand when, 
during his 1994-1995 fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for 
Advanced Studies in Wassenaar, he lectured extensively on the American 
criminal process as the world focused on the unfolding O.J. Simpson 
trial. During that period, Professor Anderson developed an ``audit 
model'' that critically analyzed and explained how the Dutch system of 
criminal procedure was different from but no less as effective as the 
American adversarial system.
  Through nearly 50 years as a gifted lawyer, advocate, professor, 
public servant, community conscience, international observer, family 
man, and legend, Terry Anderson has been a gift to the law and the 
legions of lawyers who owe their skills and successes to him. In ways 
both monumental and profound, Terry Anderson has changed for the better 
the course of the law and legal education in the United States and 
beyond. He truly represents the best of the American legal system.
  Mr. Speaker, on the occasion of his Celebration of A Life of the Law 
at the University of Miami School of Law on November 7, 2013, I am 
proud to recognize his outstanding legacy that will remain for all time 
an important component of the history of the United States of America.

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