William Prosser

William Lloyd Prosser (March 15, 1898, New Albany, Indiana – 1972) was the Dean of the College of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. Prosser authored several editions of Prosser on Torts, universally recognized as the leading work on the subject of tort law for a generation. It is still widely used today, now known as Prosser and Keeton on Torts, 5th edition. Furthermore, in the 1950s, Dean Prosser became Reporter for the Second Restatement of Torts.

After spending his first year at Harvard Law School, Prosser transferred to and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School. After a brief time in private practice at Dorsey, Colman, Barker, Scott & Barber (the modern-day Dorsey & Whitney), he became a professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he wrote Prosser on Torts. He taught there from 1931 until 1940, when he resigned to become the Minnesota counsel for the Roosevelt Administration's Office of Price Administration. In 1943, he returned to private practice for another four years. In 1947, Prosser returned to Harvard Law School as a professor. The following year, Prosser became Dean of the College of Law at UC Berkeley. In 1961, Prosser left Berkeley to teach at the Hastings College of Law, where he remained until his death in 1972.

William Prosser (cricketer)

William Henry Prosser (16 July 1870 – 30 June 1952) was a Welsh-born schoolmaster and a cricketer who played in a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1893. He was born at Devauden, Gwent and died at Heacham, Norfolk.

The son of the rector of Devauden, Prosser was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 1891 to 1895 he played occasional minor cricket for Monmouthshire as a lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. But his only appearance in first-class cricket at Cambridge was in a 12-a-side match against the Gentlemen of England; he batted at No 12 in his only innings and failed to score, and he bowled 10 overs and failed to take a wicket.

Prosser graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893. He became a schoolmaster and was headmaster of Snettisham Grange Preparatory School in Norfolk.

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