Author: Gerald W. Boston
Born: 1942
Died: 2000
Bio: Gerald W. Boston '67 of Haslett, Mich., died August 16, 2000. He was a professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. Director of the Harvard Legislative Research Bureau early in his career, he went on to chair a task force with Ralph Nader '58 to draft the National Highway Traffic Safety Act. He was then in private practice in Cleveland before serving as assistant general counsel of the Freuehauf Corp. in Detroit, associate counsel for litigation and regulatory matters at the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, and cocounsel with a practice in Farmington Hills. Author of numerous books on tort law, including the casebook Environmental and Toxic Torts, and editor of a five-volume work on personal injury damages, Boston was a member of the Cooley Legal Authors Society. His most recent book was Emotional Injuries Law & Practice.