We received the sad news that on 10 March emeritus Professor Anthony Ogus passed away at the age of 80 in Hull.
Prof. Ogus has been connected to Erasmus School of Law for a long time and was appointed as honorary research professor from 2008 until his retirement in 2011. This appointment provided great opportunities for collaboration, given his excellent reputation in a variety of domains, including Social Security law, comparative law, environmental law, but mostly law and economics.
Prof. Ogus started Law and economics when this was still a novel disciplinary movement in Europe in the 1980s. He was for several decades the leading scholar in this domain in Europe. He published his Magnus opus on regulation, (Clarendon press, 1998) which still today is the standard book on the law and economics of regulation. He published much more broadly than merely on law and economics. He did important policy related work, also within our School. For his work on social security, Prof. Ogus was nominated as Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
During the years that Prof. Ogus was connected to Erasmus School of Law he provided many important contributions, promoting the quality of legal scholarship at the School inter alia in the domains of comparative law, regulation and law and economics. He also contributed intensively to the Research program, Behavioral Approaches to Contract and Tort (BACT). He published many articles as contributions to the program and worked also closely together with Professor Faure, professor Philipsen and Professor Van Boom. Prof. Ogus served on many doctoral committees and always impressed the audience with his sharp analytical mind.
Even after his retirement in 2011 Prof. Ogus remained active. Academically he still often came to Rotterdam, for example, for seminars and PhD defenses.
Prof. Ogus has been very important for many of the Law and Economics scholars at Erasmus School of Law and was a dear friend to many others. We are grateful for his great contributions to the scholarship at Erasmus School of Law, and we present our deepest condolences to his family, and especially to his wife, Helen Owens. She can be reached at: helenmlowens@gmail.com
The funeral service will take place on Friday 10 April at the crematorium in York at 2.20 p.m.
