# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-j-berman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:02.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-j-berman"
name: "Harold J. Berman"
slug: "harold-j-berman"
description: "Harold Joseph Berman 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. He was a law professor at Harvard Law School and at 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\"."
tagline: "American legal scholar (1918-2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1918-02-13"
deathDate: "2007-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.771028593334832
  historical:           10.48859066666667
  currentAttention:     6.993006993006993
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 221
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    title: "Harold Berman"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_J._Berman"
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    title: "Harold J. Berman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump