Harold J. Berman (February 13, 1918 – November 13, 2007) was Ames professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Emory University for more than sixty years.
Born in February 13, 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut, Berman received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1938, and a master’s degree and Juris Doctor from Yale University in 1942 and 1947, respectively. He served as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army in the European Theatre of Operations f...
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Harold J. Berman (February 13, 1918 – November 13, 2007) was Ames professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Emory University for more than sixty years.
Born in February 13, 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut, Berman received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1938, and a master’s degree and Juris Doctor from Yale University in 1942 and 1947, respectively. He served as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army in the European Theatre of Operations from 1942 to 1945 and received the Bronze Star for his service.
In 1948 he joined the faculty of Harvard Law School, where he built a reputation as one of the world's best-known scholars of Soviet law, and held the Story Professorship of Law and later the Ames Professorship of Law. He was a frequent visitor to Russia as a guest scholar and lecturer, even during the height of the McCarthy era. In 1958, he represented the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle in Soviet courts, in an unsuccessful attempt to collect copyright royalties from the government...
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