Harold Joseph Berman | |
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Born | Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | February 13, 1918
Died | November 13, 2007 New York City, U.S. | (aged 89)
Alma mater | Dartmouth College (BA) Yale University (MA, JD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Soviet law, comparative law, international law, legal history, philosophy of law, law and religion |
Institutions | Harvard 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]