Francis Bohlen

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Francis Hermann Bohlen
Born
Francis Hermann Bohlen

(1868-07-31)July 31, 1868
Torts scholar and cricket player
TitleAlgernon Sydney Biddle professor of law
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School

Francis Hermann Bohlen (July 31, 1868 – December 9, 1942) was an American legal scholar from Pennsylvania who specialized in tort law and served as the Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1]

Biography

Bohlen was born in

St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire (1884), the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Laws, 1892), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Doctor of Laws, 1930).[citation needed
]

Apart from his scholarship, he was a well-known

Free Foresters, and the Philadelphian cricket team.[2][3][4]

Bohlen was the Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[5] He was an expert on the law of torts, and also taught evidence and contracts.[6][1][5] He retired from teaching in 1937.[5] He was known as a leading theorist of the Realist years in torts theory, though he was not a Realist himself.[7][8][9]

Among his writings were A Short Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts: Texas, and Other Cases on Torts (Bobbs-Merrill, 1933), Commentaries on Torts: Restatement, Issue 3 (American Law Institute, 1927), and Studies in the law of torts (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926).[10][11][12]

Francis is interred in the Bohlen Family Plot at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia

He died on December 9, 1942, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, at age 74.[2] He is interred in the Bohlen family crypt at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 3309220
    .
  2. ^ a b c "Francis Bohlen". Cricinfo.
  3. ^ Dhole, Pradip (13 July 2016). "Charles Brathwaite: The American First-Class cricketer who lived a hundred years!". Cricket Country.
  4. ^ The New York Clipper Annual ... Containing Theatrical, Musical and Sporting Chronologies ... Frank Queen Publishing Company (Limited). 1894 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b c "FRANCIS HERMANN BOHLEN," University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
  6. ISBN 9780198020271
    – via Google Books.
  7. ISBN 9780195139655
    – via Google Books.
  8. ISBN 9780191088377
    – via Google Books.
  9. ISBN 9780199599516
    – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Bohlen, Francis Hermann (1926). Studies in the law of torts. Bobbs-Merrill Company – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Bohlen, Francis Hermann (1927). Commentaries on Torts: Restatement. American Law Institute – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Bohlen, Francis Hermann (1933). A Short Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts: Texas, and Other Cases on Torts. Supplement. Bobbs-Merrill – via Google Books.
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