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sional sports, including Brian Burke, who has been a senior executive at
both the league and team levels in the National Hockey League; Jeff Pash,
General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for the National Football
League; and Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Major League Baseball. In
1993, Paul co-wrote the first casebook on the subject, Sports and the Law.
Now in its sixth edition, it is still described by leaders in the sports business
as the “encyclopedia to end all encyclopedias” of sports law.4
Paul was also a huge movie buff, and he found an outlet for that in his
work by becoming a leading scholar in entertainment law. When he was
reading the sports page or going to a movie, he would often flash an impish
grin and say that he was “doing research”. He used to read movie reviews
for each film he went to, sometimes beforehand. He insisted this would not
ruin the movie because he was reading only the adjectives. In true professorial
mode, he gave each film a grade, which he recorded in a journal. For
many years after Paul became immobile, Paul’s best friend, Greg, took him
out for dinner and a movie every week, a “boys’ night out” that was a cherished
ritual for both.
Paul was not only a prolific legal author, but also the author of many
travel guidebooks, which he shared with his family and friends. These
included guides to the history and architecture of Paris, and of the greater
Boston area, including such locales as Harvard Yard and Fenway Park. Reading,
learning and writing were sources of pure pleasure for Paul, and he did
those both for work and simply for the joy of it.
When Paul had visitors to his home in Cambridge, he would take them on
tours of the city and the surrounding areas. At one time or another his children
experienced their dad’s forced marches to see every historical site in
the city. In Paris, where Paul and Florrie spent many lengthy stays, this
would sometimes involve brazen and uninvited tagalongs on other historical
tours, as Paul would seek to glean some new story or intriguing fact of
interest that could be incorporated into his own family tours and guidebooks.
Each year, he welcomed new law students from Canada to the Harvard
Law School by taking them on his famous walking tour of Harvard
Yard, where he would regale them with stories of the rich history and architecture
of Harvard. It was small gestures like this that made him a beloved
professor to so many of his students.
Paul and his first wife, Barbara, had four children: Virginia, John,
Kathryn and Charlie. Paul developed a particularly special connection with
Vancouver during the six years he lived there with his family in the mid-
1970s, and after he moved to Cambridge he loved his visits back to the West
Coast to visit family and friends. Some of his happiest times were with his