John Robinson Wilkins and the Resources of the Law: Testing the Limits of Race, Law and Development, and the American Legal Profession

In the fall of 1964, my uncle John Robinson Wilkins joined the Berkeley Law School faculty. He was the first black professor in the school's illustrious history and only the second in the entire UC Berkeley system. Tragically, my uncle's time on the Berkeley faculty would be short. In 1970, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. After a courageous struggle-in which he retaught himself how to speak and walk with the unwavering love and support of his indomitable wife, Constance, and his two young children, John and Mariahmy uncle died on December 12, 1976. He was just fifty-one years old.