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The same study named Ely as the fourth most frequently cited American legal scholar of all time, trailing only Richard A. Posner, Ronald Dworkin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class of 1829.
Ely also explored issues of free speech, racial discrimination and voting rights in the book.
A professor at the University of Miami School of Law since 1996, Ely also taught at Yale and served as dean of Stanford Law School from 1982 to 1987.
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62—who succeeded Ely as HLS’s expert in the field—said he would miss Ely, whom he considered a close friend.
Born in New York City in 1938, Ely spent his undergraduate years at Princeton University.