It is with a heavy heart that we relay the news to you that Bruce Richard Hopkins, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., passed away on October 31, 2021. Bruce's love for the law and for writing resulted in a wonderful relationship with Wiley that lasted for better than 30 years. Throughout that time, Bruce penned more than 50 books as well as writing “The Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel” (a newsletter published monthly for 40 years). Bruce's texts are practical guides about nonprofits written for both lawyers AND for laypeople, many of which are considered vital to law libraries across the country. The ideas just kept flowing.

Beloved by many, Bruce was often referred to as the “Dean of Nonprofit Law.” His teaching muscle was built over a period of 19 years when he was Professional Lecturer in Law at George Washington University National Law Center. As Professor from Practice at the University of Kansas, School of Law, Bruce exercised his generative spirit teaching and mentoring younger colleagues. Always the legal scholar, he could brilliantly take complicated concepts and distill them down into easily understood principles for beginners, seasoned colleagues, and those unfamiliar with the subject matter. He was a presenter and featured speaker, both nationally and internationally, at numerous conferences throughout his career, among them Representing and Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations (Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.) and The Private Foundations Tax Seminar (El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO). He practiced law in Washington, DC, and Kansas City, MO, for over 50 years, receiving numerous awards and forms of recognition for his efforts.

Bruce will be dearly missed, not solely for his contributions to the Wiley catalog, but because Bruce was a wonderful person who was dearly loved and respected both by all of us at Wiley and by all of those whom he encountered.