His mother was the sister of Maxwell Perkins, an editor at the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons.
One of the dominant figures in American legal education, he doubled the size of the faculty, bringing in such legal luminaries as Derek Bok, Kingman Brewster, Archibald Cox, and Alan Dershowitz.
Dash died in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure, aged 79, on the same day as Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal.
Archibald Prize | Alex Cox | Deborah Cox | Courteney Cox | James M. Cox | John Archibald Wheeler | Carl Cox | Brian Cox | Brian Cox (actor) | Ronny Cox | Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell | Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Archibald MacLeish | Michael Cox | Archibald Geikie | Sara Cox | Pat Cox | Michael Cox (academic) | Geoff Cox | Cox Enterprises | Archibald Menzies | Archibald McIndoe | Harvey Cox | Cox's Bazar | Christopher Cox | Archibald Cox | Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford | William John Cox | William Cox | Samuel Hanson Cox |
Some notable contributors to the journal include Justice Hugo Black, Robert Bork, Archibald Cox, John Hart Ely, Leon Green, Frank Michelman, Martha Minow, Richard Posner, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, and Seth P. Waxman.