Harold J. Berman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harold J. Berman

American legal scholar

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1918

Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 13-Nov-2007

Profession: writer, pedagogue, university teacher, legal historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Harold J.
Berman (February 13, 1918 – November 13, 2007) 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 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."