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2014 SPECIAL SESSION I

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5011 Celebrating the life of Michael P. Dooley.   Agreed to by the Senate, April 8, 2014 Agreed to by the House of Delegates, April 8, 2014  

WHEREAS, Michael P. Dooley, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law, died on February 18, 2014; and

WHEREAS, a native of Iowa City, Iowa, Michael Dooley earned his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1963; he practiced law with a firm in New York City, then began his career in education with the University of Illinois in 1968; and

WHEREAS, in 1971, Michael Dooley was invited as guest lecturer to the University of Virginia, where he would spend the next four decades as an educator until his retirement in 2012; over the course of his distinguished career with the school, Michael Dooley taught several areas of law and served as the chair of the law school’s Graduate Program Committee; and

WHEREAS, Michael Dooley continued to inform and inspire students and his peers as a lecturer throughout the United States; he also taught the fundamentals of American corporate law at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Austria in 1986; and

WHEREAS, an admired leader in the corporate law community, Michael Dooley offered his expertise as a member of the legal advisory committee to the New York Stock Exchange, served on numerous committees and task forces, and served as the chair of the business law section of the American Association of Law Schools; and

WHEREAS, Michael Dooley contributed to the development of corporate law throughout the Commonwealth and the country, and he served as a reporter for the American Bar Association’s Model Business Corporation Act for more than 15 years; and

WHEREAS, Michael Dooley will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by his wife, Jean; children, Michael and Anne, and their families; and numerous other family members, friends, and colleagues; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of Michael P. Dooley, a dedicated and respected educator in the Charlottesville community and the Commonwealth; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Michael P. Dooley as an expression of the General Assembly’s respect for his memory.