22 Facts About Quintin Johnstone

Quintin Johnstone served as the Justus S Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, where he was an authority on property law and land transactions, and was later an academic at the New York Law School.

Quintin Johnstone co-founded the law school of Addis Ababa University in 1967, establishing the first of such institution in Ethiopia.

Quintin Johnstone was remembered for being a "strong supporter of empirical work and interdisciplinary approaches to law" and "more concerned with the relation of legal education to the professor than any other member of the faculty".

Quintin Johnstone was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 29,1915.

Quintin Johnstone was raised in Hyde Park and enrolled in the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for primary and secondary education.

Quintin Johnstone was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1939.

Quintin Johnstone subsequently went to Yale Law School, becoming one of six students in the doctorate program to have already taught at domestic law schools, and graduated in 1951 with his Doctor of Juridical Science.

Quintin Johnstone rose to a full-time professorship in 1959, and received the Law School's appointment as the Justus S Hotchkiss Professor of Law in 1964.

From 1967 until 1969, Quintin Johnstone took a leave from Yale to move to Ethiopia, where he co-founded the Haile Selassie I University Law School of Addis Ababa University and served as its dean.

Quintin Johnstone aimed to train future students for government office at the university, replacing foreign professors on the faculty with Ethiopian ones.

Quintin Johnstone achieved emeritus status at Yale Law in 1985, and assumed a professorship at the New York Law School that same year, becoming a professor emeritus at NYLS in 2000.

Quintin Johnstone chaired the Graduate Committee at Yale, efficiently managing a controversial program, and oversaw the school's admissions for a period.

Quintin Johnstone was alone in teaching the specialty of property law, and made multiple unsuccessful efforts to increase the number of faculty in the field, though succeeded on only one occasion.

Quintin Johnstone was noted for his concern regarding the legal profession, which had been a focus of his scholarly works as a legal academic.

Quintin Johnstone gained a reputation for being among the toughest graders at Yale Law.

Quintin Johnstone taught Thomas in three classes, remembering him as a serious student that "performed very well" and who "[took] stands and aggressively [defended] them" in class.

Quintin Johnstone was awarded an honorary degree by Quinnipiac University in 1993.

Quintin Johnstone was a member of the Connecticut Bar Foundation's board of directors and served as its president from 1987 until 1991.

On June 2,2011, Quintin Johnstone was given the Service to the Profession Award by the Connecticut Law Tribune, where he previously had been the chair of the editorial board from 1999 to 2011, and the Tribune renamed it in his honor afterwards.

The CATIC Foundation established two memorial prizes in his honor: the Quintin Johnstone Scholarship, presented to students interested in property law, and the Quintin Johnstone Prize in Real Property Law, awarded to a student of Yale Law "who has demonstrated excellence in the area of real property law".

Quintin Johnstone died at 99 years of age on June 27,2014, within his home in Hamden, Connecticut.

Quintin Johnstone was still actively teaching at 96 years of age.