The American Law Institute mourns the passing of Doug Rendleman, a distinguished scholar of remedies and civil procedure and a valued contributor to the Institute’s work. Rendleman served as an Adviser to Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment and to Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies, where his deep knowledge of equitable doctrine and remedies law informed the development of these projects.
Over a career spanning more than five decades, Rendleman became one of the leading scholars in the field of remedies. His teaching, scholarship, and casebooks shaped generations of students and lawyers, and his work on injunctions, restitution, and the enforcement of judgments remains widely influential.
Rendleman spent much of his academic career at Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he was known as an outstanding teacher and generous mentor to students and colleagues alike. His contributions to the law and the legal academy were recognized in a tribute published in the Washington and Lee Law Review on the occasion of his retirement.