Nicholas J. Healy requires no introduction to the readers of this Journal, which he served as Editor from 1981 to 1990. But of course he has served many other constituencies as well,1 including (from 1947 to 1986) the students of New York University Law School, where he was an adjunct professor teaching admiralty. Although Nick has passed the teaching torch to his partner, John D. Kimball (the editor of the present volume), the Nicholas J. …