Philip ‘Flip’ Kissam

Mr. Kissam died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, at Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington.

He was born Oct. 25, 1941, in Bayshore, N.Y., the son of Charles and Ruth Kissam.

Mr. Kissam graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, in Amherst, Mass., in 1963. He then spent a year teaching economics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He studied economics for a year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he earned a degree at Yale Law School in 1968.

Mr. Kissam was a private practice attorney in New York City from 1968 to 1970; assistant counsel in the Health Services Administration of New York City from 1970 to 1972; and deputy commissioner in the Department of Mental Health and Retardation Services of New York City from 1972 to 1973.

Mr. Kissam turned to teaching in 1973 at Kansas University School of Law, where he became a full professor in 1977. He was a visiting professor and research fellow at Duke University School of Law in 1978 and 1979; an exchange professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1991 and a professor in the London Law Consortium in 1997.

Mr. Kissam was published on the topics of constitutional law and legal education.

He married Brenda Roberts in 1968. She survives.

Other survivors include a son, Jonathan, Burlington; a daughter, Ariane, Burlington; his mother, Ruth Kissam, Sarasota, Fla.; a sister, Bonnie Kissam, Sarasota; a brother, Toby, Northport, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.

The family suggests memorial contributions to Doctors Without Borders, which may be made online at www.doctorswithoutborders.org, or by mail to the organization at P.O. Box 1856, Merrifield, Va. 22116-8056.