Harold J. Berman

Harold Joseph Berman
Born(1918-02-13)February 13, 1918
DiedNovember 13, 2007(2007-11-13) (aged 89)
Alma materDartmouth College (BA)
Yale University (MA, JD)
Scientific career
FieldsSoviet law, comparative law, international law, legal history, philosophy of law, law and religion
InstitutionsHarvard Law School
Emory University School of Law

Harold Joseph Berman (February 13, 1918 – November 13, 2007) was an American legal scholar who was an expert in comparative, international and Soviet/Russian law as well as legal history, philosophy of law and the intersection of law and religion.[1][2] He was a law professor at Harvard Law School and Emory University School of Law for more than sixty years, and held the James Barr Ames Professorship of Law at Harvard before he was appointed as the first Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory. He has been described as "one of the great polymaths of American legal education."[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Issues Archive - Harvard Law Today".
  2. ^ Martin, Douglas (18 November 2007). "Harold J. Berman, 89, Who Altered Beliefs About Origins of Western Law, Dies". The New York Times. p. 37.
  3. ^ April L. Bogle, Ginger Pyron, When law and religion meet: the point of convergence, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007, p. 12, ISBN 0-8028-6294-2, ISBN 978-0-8028-6294-5
  4. ^ "In Praise of a Legal Polymath: A Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Harold J. Berman (1918–2007)," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57, No. 6 (2008): 1393-1470
  5. ^ Thomas C. Arthur and John Witte, Jr., "The Foundations of Law: Introduction", 54 Emory Law Journal, 1-375 (2005).

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