Richard William Hill

Richard William Hill (1878–1947) was an American legal writer associated with banking education. Sources for his books identify him as a member of the New York Bar, and Commercial Law credits him as secretary of the American Institute of Banking.

He is best known as a coauthor of Commercial Law, a practical early-20th-century textbook prepared with Richard D. Currier and Samuel Williston. The book was written to explain legal principles useful in everyday banking work rather than to train readers as lawyers, which gives a good sense of Hill’s direct and serviceable approach.

Hill also wrote Fifty Years of Banking Education: History of the American Institute of Banking. That history was published in 1950, after his death in 1947, and points to his long connection with the organization and its educational mission.