John D. Johnston was a Duke undergraduate and a Duke Law alumnus. After completing his LL.B. degree in 1956 he went into practice until 1962, when he joined the Duke Law faculty. From 1964 to 1966 Johnston was editor of the Journal of Legal Education. He published articles on land use, trusts, and insurance. Johnston also served as a member of the Drafting Committee on the Revision of Laws Relating to Decedent's Estates and a member of the North Carolina General Statutes Commission from 1966 to 1969.
In the fall of 1967 Johnston was a visiting professor at New York University. He became a full-time faculty member at NYU in 1969. Johnston taught at NYU until his retirement in 1990. He died at his home in the North Carolina mountains in 2011.
Sources:
Duke University, School of Law, Bulletin of Duke University School of Law [serial]
1989-1990 AALS Directory of Law Teachers 457
NYU Law Mourns Professor of Law Emeritus John D. Johnston Jr., http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/johnston_john_obituary[perma.cc/T8V3-JXVB] (last viewed August 6, 2015)
- Insurance
- Real Estate Transactions
- Research and Writing
- Trusts
- Federal Taxation III
- Seminar in Estate Planning
- Land Use and Development
- Natural Resources Law
- Seminar in Property Transactions
Articles & Essays
- Constitutionality of Subdivision Control Exactions the Quest for a Rationale, 52 Cornell Law Review 871-924 ()
- Foreword, 32 Law & Contemporary Problems 371-374 () (with Robinson O. Everett)
- Foreword, 32 Law & Contemporary Problems 187-190 () (with Robinson O. Everett)
- Succession, 1967 Annual Survey of American Law 273-288 ()
- Developments in Contract Liability of Trusts and Trustees, 41 New York University Law Review 483-527 ()
- Flight Insurance and Federal Taxation: A Critical Examination of the Noel Case, 1965 Duke Law Journal 32-61 ()
- Adoptees’ Right to Share in Testamentary Gifts as “Children”, 5 Duke Bar Journal 60-66 ()
- Termination of Personal Health Insurance Contracts by Cancellation or Nonrenewal, 5 Duke Bar Journal 67-85 () (with Gerald R. Gibbons)