| Frank I. Michelman | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 26, 1936 |
| Education |
Yale University B.A. 1957, History, Phi Beta Kappa |
| Occupation | Robert Walmsley University Professor |
| Employer | Harvard Law School |
Frank Isaac Michelman (born May 26, 1936)[1] is an American legal scholar and Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School.
Michelman wrote the influential law review article, Property, Utility and Fairness, (80 Harv. L. Rev. 1165 (1967)) on the economic reasons for just compensation in the 5th Amendment Takings Clause in the United States Constitution. This article was cited by the majority in its opinion in Penn Central v. New York City, the Supreme Court case that dealt with the authority of a local New York City landmark law that forbade the railroad company from putting up a skyscraper above the historic Grand Central Terminal structure. Michelman's analysis relied on evaluating whether the nuisance costs and value to society were worth it. He observed that while the Courts did not always provide rulings which were fair or provided utility, they provided as perfect a results that can be obtained by the Courts. He observed that administrative agencies and legislatures were shirking their roles in the compensation process.
Michelman served as Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy 1994-96 and as its President, 1998-2001.
Michelman won the American Philosophical Society award in 2005. At a November ceremony in Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society awarded Professor Frank Michelman its Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurispudence. The prize was given only 20 times in more than a century, and honored Michelman's significant contributions to the field of jurisprudence [2]
In November 2007, Frank Michelman was a Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.[3]
Michelman, Frank I. "Unenumerated Rights Under Popular Constitutionalism," 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 121 (2006).
Michelman, Frank I. "Reflection," 82 Texas Law Review 1737 (2004). Full text: WWW || HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
Michelman, Frank I. "The Constitution, Social Rights, and Liberal Political Justification," 1 International Journal of Constitutional Law 13 (2003). Full text: WWW || WESTLAW
Michelman, Frank I. "The Bill of Rights, The Common Law, and The Freedom-Friendly State," 58 Miami Law Review 401 (2003). Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
Michelman, Frank I. "The Problem of Constitutional Interpretive Disagreement: Can Discourses of Application Help?" in Habermas and Pragmatism (M. Aboulafia, M. Bookman & C. Kemps eds., 2002). (This paper has been republished in Chinese, in the "Practical Philosophy Series," volume "Civic Republicanism")
Michelman, Frank I. "Morality, Identity, and 'Constitutional Patriotism'," 76 Denver University Law Review 1009 (1999). Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
Michelman, Frank I. Brennan and Democracy (Princeton University Press 1999). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
Michelman, Frank I. "The Subject of Liberalism," 46 Stanford Law Review 1807 (1994) (reviewing John Rawls, Columbia Univ. Press, Political Liberalism (1996)).
Michelman, Frank I. "Takings, 1987," 88 Columbia Law Review 1600 (1988).
Michelman, Frank I. "Ethics, Economics, and the Law of Property" in Ethics, Economics, and the Law (NOMOS series - 24) (J. Roland Pennock & John W. Chapman eds., New York University Press, 1982).