Wood Remembrances

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Judge Diane P. Wood: A True Friend
Zachary D. Clopton
Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

My deepest gratitude to Judge Wood for her boundless mentorship and support. Thank you to Katherine Kinzler, Tejas Narechania, and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their help with this piece.

Bodum USA, Inc. v. La Cafetiere, Inc. is a case about French press, trade dress, and a twenty-year-old contract.

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What Judge Wood Taught Me About Glass Cages
Elizabeth A. Reese
Elizabeth Reese (Yunpoví) is a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

When I began my clerkship year with Judge Diane Wood, I was keenly aware that I would be getting to know one of the most powerful people I would ever encounter in my life.

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Judge Wood and the Human Side of Judging
Tejas N. Narechania
Tejas N. Narechania is the Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

I am immensely grateful to Judge Wood for giving me the chance to clerk for her, to Khushali Narechania for being willing to uproot our nascent family so that I could seize that opportunity, and to Scott Hemphill for urging me to apply to Judge Wood’s chambers in the first instance. I also thank Matthew Reade and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for the invitation to offer my personal recollections, and for their edits and suggestions on this short piece.

It is often said that one should always choose a great boss over a great role.

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Oboe Judging
David Freeman Engstrom
Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, and the Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School.

Judge Diane Wood took a different approach.  She played the oboe.

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