Alstyne's body of work included many books, law journal articles, and congressional committee testimony. In 1994, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An article in the January 2000 Journal of Legal Studies found that Van Alstyne was among the top 40 legal scholars in the United States in number of academic citations. His work also had been cited by courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. In a 2012 study published by the University of Michigan Law Review, by Fred Shapiro and Michelle Pearse, "The Most-Cited Law Review Article of All Time," Van Alstyne's "The Demise of the Right-Privilege Distinction in Constitutional Law," 81 Harv. L. Rev. 1439 (1968), was included at number 35. Testifying in the impeachment of President Clinton His testimony on the potential impeachment of President Bill Clinton during the impeachment inquiry was quoted with approval by the New York Times opinion page, "This point [to strike a balance] was underscored by one of the Republican witnesses, Prof. William Van Alstyne of Duke University Law School. It is the prerogative of this Congress, he observed, to express dismay, despair and condemnation by means short of impeachment. Mindful of the likelihood that impeachment would fail, he urged lawmakers to struggle to find a suitable means to express your sense of disappointment. That neatly defines the challenge now confronting the members of Congress. There is nothing in the Constitution to keep them from rising to that task." Death He died from heart failure on January 29, 2019, aged 84. References External links Google Scholar Citations 1934 births 2019 deaths American legal scholars College of William & Mary faculty Duke University School of Law faculty First Amendment scholars Scholars of constitutional law Stanford Law School alumni University of Southern California alumni Impeachment of Bill Clinton