To the Editor:

I write to enthusiastically support Peter Beck for a five-year term on the Williamstown Planning Board. Peter was a star student at Yale Law School. I particularly enjoyed having him in an Advanced Property law seminar where, in an unusual reversal, I as the professor learned a tremendous amount from Peter due to his experience in local government and planning.

To all of us at Yale Law School, Peter was one of those students who seemed as wise and mature as one of our fellow colleagues. Peter wrote a brilliant, and brilliantly funny, paper on Property Law for my class, which won a coveted student award. The paper showed how one of the basic property law concepts taught in classrooms across the country — that property law is a "bundle of rights" — is absolutely ill-suited as a metaphor and in fact has a checkered past.

Peter will bring good judgment, good humor, generosity, intelligence, and expertise to Williamstown’s Planning Board and I think the community will be extremely happy with his contributions to your wonderful town, which I have visited on several occasions.

Claire Priest
New Haven, Conn.
Simeon E. Baldwin Professor,
Yale Law School

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