George Haskins

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]

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