Martin B. Louis ’56

MARTIN BERNARD LOUIS, a longtime law professor at the Univ. of North Carolina, died Nov. 4, 1994, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Marry was born in Astoria, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1934, and came to Princeton from Trenton Central H.S. He joined Court Club and majored in the special program in inter­national affairs.

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1959 and joined the Philadelphia firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, concentrating on antitrust litigation. Martin went back to Harvard for his LL.M degree and was named to the U.N.C. law faculty at Chapel Hill in 1965. In 1987, he was appointed to the Paul B. Eaton chair.

At U.N.C., Martin specialized in civil procedure and antitrust law, acquiring a reputation as a rough teacher and relentless scholar. He once said, "Taking me for Civil Procedure is like taking castor oil. You recognize that it was good medicine, but you never want to take it again."

Martin was an avid tennis player and golfer, an opera lover. and world traveler who doted on his black 1971 Porsche Targa. He authored more than 20 law review articles in his chosen fields. Martin is survived by his sister, Marion Maar, to whom the class offers its sympathy.