Remembering Professor Joseph A. Page

Joe Page was my classmate, friend, and colleague for 70 years.

He was an eminent and pioneering legal scholar who focused on the fields of torts, products liability, and food, drug, and cosmetics regulation. He also engaged in advocacy promoting consumer product safety and workplace health and safety before committees of Congress and in the national media and served on the Board of Directors of Public Citizen, Inc., from 1972 until 2009.

In addition to his work in the field of tort law, Joe wrote about Latin America and served as the Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas at the Law Center from 2003 to 2017.

Joe also was a board member of the American Museum of Tort Law (AMTL) and is one of the AMTL’s founders. He selected the cases featured in the museum and meticulously reviewed all the content for the museum’s exhibits. His sweeping knowledge of tort law and his artistic sensibilities combined to make the exhibits educational and compelling. Moreover, his joyful spirit enlivened the presentation of the serious and important subject of tort law.

From 1960 to 1963, Joe served as the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the NACCA Law Journal. This was the official publication of the National Association of Claimants’ Compensation Attorneys (NACCA), a bar association for lawyers focused on personal injury, workmen’s compensation, and tort law. The National Association of Claimants’ Compensation Attorneys (NACCA) later changed its name to the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and is now named the American Association for Justice (AAJ).

His warm and generous spirit and his wit and charm will be missed by his wife, Martha Gil-Montero, his family, and his friends.

Ralph Nader

October 2025

For more information about Joe Page see: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/in-memoriam-professor-emeritus-joseph-a-page/