It is with sadness that I note the recent passing of Prof. Marc Galanter (Wisc.). As Brian Leiter observes (here), Professor Galanter's scholarly influence runs exceptionally deep. Marc, emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he had taught since the late 1970s, is wide recognized as "one of the most important figures in law & society scholarship over the past half-century." Colleagues at Wisconsin note that Marc's scholarly focus engages with, in part, "how the legal system, in the U.S. and elsewhere, actually functions in practice. While there are many people who embody our Law in Action tradition, it’s hard to think of a better exemplar." Finally, as a co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS), I note that Marc's canonical contribution to volume 1:3 (2004), The Vanishing Trial: An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts, endures as one of JELS' most cited papers.