Kenneth E. Scott *53

Kenneth Scott, professor emeritus at Stanford Law School, died June 19, 2016, at age 87.

Scott graduated from William and Mary in 1949, earned a master’s degree in politics from Princeton in 1953, and earned a law degree from Stanford Law School in 1956. He then practiced law at Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City and at a Los Angeles firm.

In 1961, he became chief deputy savings-and-loan commissioner of California, and in 1963 he was appointed general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington. There, he was instrumental in getting the Financial Institutions Supervisory Act of 1966 passed. Scott went to Stanford Law School in 1968, when it started a joint J.D./MBA program, of which he was a mentor. He taught banking regulation, corporate securities law, and administrative law, part of a growing faculty that helped Stanford Law School gain national and international repute.

In 1983, Scott became the first Parsons professor of law and business. He retired from teaching in 1995, but remained an active scholar and was one of the nation’s leading experts on understanding the failure of large banks during the 2008 financial crisis.

Scott is survived by his wife, Sunny; three children; five grandchildren; a stepdaughter; and three step-grandchildren.

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