10/13/2025
Joseph Anthony Page
In Honored MemoryJoseph Anthony PageApril 13, 1934 - October 13, 2025
Joseph A. Page was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center and an eminent and pioneering legal scholar who focused on torts, products liability, and food, drug, and cosmetics regulation. In addition to his work in the field of tort law, Professor Page 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. He died at George Washington University Hospital on October 13, 2025. He was 91.
Professor Page taught at the Georgetown Law Center for more than four decades, joining the Georgetown Law faculty in 1968 until transferring to emeritus status in 2015.
He served as a board member of the American Museum of Tort Law (AMTL), the first and only tort law museum in the world and is one of the AMTL’s founders. His sweeping knowledge of tort law and his artistic sensibilities combined to make the AMTL’s exhibits educational and compelling. Professor Page also served as the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the NACCA Law Journal, 1960-1963. 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).
Professor Page 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, Professor Page wrote several books dealing with people and events in Latin America, including The Revolution That Never Was: Northeast Brazil, 1955-1964 (Grossman Publishers, 1972), Peron: A Biography (Random House, 1983), The Brazilians (Addison-Wesley, 1995), and Introduction to Eva Perón, In My Own Words: Evita (The New Press, 1996). The Spanish translation of the Peron biography was a best seller in Argentina and is still used by colleges as a history text.
Professor Page was born in Boston, MA, in 1934 and graduated with an A.B., magna cm laude, from Harvard University in 1955 and an LL.B. in 1958 and an LL.M. in 1964 from Harvard Law School.
After law school, Professor Page served in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve from 1959 to 1967, rising to the rank of Ensign, Lt.
Professor Page is survived by his wife, Martha Gil-Montero, and his brothers John Page (and his spouse Bonnie Page), Paul J. Page (and his spouse Ann Page), his brother-in-law Guillermo Gil-Montero (and his spouse Gay Lynn Gagnon), and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his parents, Joseph E. Page and Eleanor (Santosuosso) Page.
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