caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date known_for image article_title name
summers of leuven in 1966 receiving an honorary doctorate at the catholic university 30 october 2010 germantown , pennsylvania , u.s. grass range , montana , u.s. american 21 november 1918 us labor law scholar clydesummers1966.jpg clyde summers
 clyde wilson summers
clyde summers

clyde wilson summers -lrb- november 21 , 1918 -- october 30 , 2010 -rrb- was an american lawyer and educator who is best known for his work in advocating more democratic procedures in labor unions .
he helped write the labor management reporting and disclosure act of 1959 -lrb- also known as the landrum-griffin act -rrb- and was highly influential in the field of labor law , authoring more than 150 publications on the issue of union democracy alone .
he was considered the nation 's leading expert on union democracy .
`` what louis brandeis was to the field of privacy law , clyde summers is to the field of union democracy , '' wrote widener university school of law professor michael j. goldberg in the summer of 2010 .
`` summers , like brandeis , provided the theoretical foundation for an important new field of law . ''
