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Harold J. Berman

American legal scholar (1918-2007) · United States · Educators · Died at 89

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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.

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Awards

Bronze Star Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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".

Country
United States
Category
Educators
Type
Educator
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 2007 · aged 89

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