George Lee Haskins RHS (February 13, 1915 – October 4, 1991) was an American legal scholar and the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[2]

Biography

Haskins was the son of medievalist Charles Homer Haskins, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He was born and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]

He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1931), Harvard University (AB, summa cum laude, 1935), and Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1942).[4] Haskins was a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Henry Fellow at Merton College of Oxford University.[5] He enlisted during World War 2, and rose to become a major in military intelligence in the War Department General Staff, receiving the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf clusters and—from the British government—the George Medal.[6]

Haskins was the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the oldest of the endowed chairs at the law school.[7][8] He taught at the law school for 39 years.[7]

He wrote at least ten books and 82 articles.[3] Haskins was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and President of the American Society for Legal History.[5] He died on October 4, 1991, at his home in Hancock, Maine.[6]

References

  1. ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 264–265.
  2. ^ Haskins, George Lee (1984). Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Tradition and Design. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819143730 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b "GEORGE L. HASKINS"
  4. ^ "George L. Haskins, 76, Law Professor at Penn". The New York Times. 10 October 1991.
  5. ^ a b "Biographical Notes on Contributors; George L. Haskins". Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
  6. ^ a b "GEORGE LEE HASKINS"
  7. ^ a b "GEORGE L. HASKINS"
  8. ^ Meeting, Association of American Law Schools (30 April 1993). "Proceedings". The Association – via Google Books.