Herman Oliphant
Herman Enzla Oliphant | |
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Born | Forest, Indiana, U.S. | August 31, 1884
Died | January 11, 1939 | (aged 54)
Education | |
Organization(s) | University of Chicago Law School, Columbia Law School |
Known for | Legal realism and jurisprudence |
Spouse |
Julia Sims (m. 1905) |
Herman Enzla Oliphant was an American legal scholar and professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Columbia Law School. He is considered to be a leading figure of the legal realism movement in the United States.
Early life and education
Oliphant was born in Forest, Indiana, on August 31, 1884, to Albert G. Oliphant, a farmer and livestock trader, and Martha Jane Richardson. He grew up on the family farm. In 1903, he graduated from Forest High School and attended Marion College. He returned home in 1905 to marry his childhood sweetheart, Julia Sims. In 1907, he graduated from Marion College and then went on to obtain an A.B. with majors in philology, Greek, and philosophy from Indiana University (1909) and his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1914.[1]
Career
Oliphant began his teaching career at the University of Chicago Law School before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 1922. Shortly after his arrival at Columbia University, he wrote to the university's president, Nicholas Murray Butler, outlining some plans he had for reorganizing the curriculum of the law school.[citation needed] Essentially, his goal was to transform the school into a research center, placing particular emphasis on the interaction of the law and other social sciences. Under the administration of Huger Jervey, who became dean of the law school in 1924, Oliphant's plans were used as the basis for a reorganization of the law school. In 1932, Oliphant was co-author with Theodore S. Hope Jr. of "Study of Day Calendars" 1932, an in-depth look into how time effects trial cases.[1]
Oliphant later went on to teach at
Influence on legal realism
Oliphant is generally regarded as a representative of American
Death
Oliphant died on January 11, 1939, of heart disease at the age of 54. He is buried in Frankfort, Indiana.
References
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- ^ Herman Oliphant, A Return to Stare Decisis, 14 A.B.A. J. 71, 161 (1928).
- Columbia Law:Expanding Curriculum: Part 2
- CiteSeer: A Computational Model of Ratio Decidendi
- William Randolph Hearst and Lammont Dupont Archived March 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- "Another Exit". Time. December 17, 1951. Archived from the original on November 23, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2008.
- "Exit and Entrance". Time. January 23, 1939. Archived from the original on December 14, 2008. Retrieved August 10, 2008.
Literature
- Herman Oliphant, 'A Return to Stare Decisis', in American Bar Association Journal 14 (1928).