# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maynard-pirsig
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:37:28.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maynard-pirsig"
name: "Maynard Pirsig"
slug: "maynard-pirsig"
description: "Maynard E. Pirsig, LLD, was an American legal scholar. He was a professor, and dean, of the University of Minnesota Law School; a Minnesota Supreme Court justice; director of the Minnesota Legal Aid Society, and an advisor for the Indonesian, Puerto Rican, and El Salvadoran legal systems. He defined Legal Ethics in the 1974 Encyclopedia Britannica. His law books were widely used in schools across the country, including his casebook Judicial Administration—which Pirsig used for the United States' first law reform course, early 1930s. He was mentored by Everett Fraser, Roscoe Pound, and Felix Frankfurter."
tagline: "American judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maynard_Pirsig.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1902"
deathDate: "1997-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.88
  momentum:             0.3179190751445086
  historical:           2.212852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "ماينارد پيرسيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Pirsig"
    title: "Maynard Pirsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6797423"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations