Harry N. Scheiber (born 1935 in New York, New York)[2][3] is an American jurist and legal scholar. He is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he is also the director of the Institute for Legal Research. In the latter role, he also directs the Boalt Hall School of Law's Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law, and co-directs its Law of the Sea Institute. His work has covered multiple different legal subjects, such as the history of American law, federalism, and environmental law.[4]

Harry N. Scheiber
Born1935 (age 88–89)
NationalityAmerican
AwardsRockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1979)[1]
Academic background
EducationColumbia College, Columbia University (A.B., 1955), Cornell University (M.A., 1957; Ph.D., 1962)
ThesisInternal improvements and economic change in Ohio, 1820-1860 (1962)
Academic work
DisciplineLegal scholar, historian
Sub-disciplineAmerican legal history, law of the sea, federalism in the United States
InstitutionsDartmouth College, University of California, San Diego, Boalt Hall School of Law

Career

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Scheiber became an instructor at Dartmouth College in 1960, where he later became a full professor before leaving the faculty in 1971. He then became a professor of American history at UC San Diego, where he taught until joining the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1980. He was named the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History there in 1991, and became the director of the Institute for Legal Research (then known as the Earl Warren Legal Institute) in 2002. He was the president of the American Society for Legal History from 2003 to 2005.[5]

Honors and awards

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Scheiber received a humanities fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1979.[1] He was named an honorary life fellow of the American Society for Legal History in 1999, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "ROCKEFELLER FUND ANNOUNCES AWARDS". The New York Times. 1979-05-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  2. ^ Scheiber, Harry N. (2007). Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law. Lexington Books. p. 297. ISBN 9780739116357.
  3. ^ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-11-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ "Harry N. Scheiber". Research UC Berkeley. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  5. ^ a b "Harry Scheiber CV" (PDF).