Philip Selznick (1919-2010) taught generations of law and sociology students as a professor of sociology and jurisprudence & social policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He was founding chair of Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. In addition to this work, his other influential books include 'TVA and the Grass Roots'; 'Law, Society and Industrial Justice'; 'Law and Society in Transition' (with Philippe Nonet); 'The Moral Commonwealth'; 'Leadership in Administration'; 'The Communitarian Persuasion'; and, in 2008, 'A Humanist Science.'