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Frank B. (Frank Bernard) Cross
1925–2001
A leading legal scholar and teacher, he wrote widely on business law, administrative law, and judicial decision-making. His work was known for bringing empirical analysis to big legal questions in a clear, practical way.
2 Audiobooks
Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis
by Leonard J. Olund, Frank B. (Frank Bernard) Cross
Five Natural Hybrid Combinations in Minnows (Cyprinidae)
by Frank B. (Frank Bernard) Cross, W. L. Minckley
About the author
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1955, he studied at the University of Kansas and then Harvard Law School before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. There he held appointments in law, business, and government, building a reputation as a gifted teacher and a wide-ranging thinker.
His scholarship focused on business law, regulation, the economics of law and litigation, and how judges make decisions. He wrote books as well as influential articles in major law reviews, and colleagues remembered him as both a world-renowned expert and an unusually generous presence in academic life.
He died in 2019 at age 63. Tributes from the University of Texas and fellow legal scholars describe a brilliant mind, a lively debater, and a professor whose work continued to shape legal scholarship well beyond his own field.