James Bradley Thayer
James Bradley Thayer (January 15, 1831 – February 14, 1902) American legal writer and educationist.
Born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, he graduated at Harvard College in 1852, where he established the overcoat fund for needy undergraduates.[1] He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1856, in which year he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County and began to practice in Boston. In 1873-83 he was Royall professor of law at Harvard; in 1883 he was transferred to the professorship which after 1893 was known as the Weld professorship and which he held until his death on February 14, 1902. He took a special interest in the historical evolution of law.
He wrote: The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law (1893); Cases on Evidence (1892); Cases on Constitutional Law (1895); The Development of Trial by Jury (1896); A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law (1898), and a short life of John Marshall (1901); and edited the twelfth edition of Kent's Commentaries and the Letters of Chauncey Wright (1877), and A Westward Journey with Mr. Emerson (1884).
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References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External references
- "Finding aid for James Bradley Thayer, Papers, 1831-1902.". Harvard Law School Library.
- "Finding aid for James Bradley Thayer, Scrapbooks, 1831-1902.". Harvard Law School Library.
- http://books.google.com/books?id=bOYTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA430&lpg=PA430&dq=overcoat+fund+harvard
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