Benjamin Kaplan (1911-2010) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1947 to 2010. He was a Visiting Professor of Law 1947-1948; Professor of Law 1948-1961; Royall Professor of Law 1961-1972; and an Emeritus professor 1972-2010.
Research: Civil procedure, copyright and unfair competition, equitable remedies.
Education: City College of New York A.B. 1929; Columbia University Law School LL.B. 1933.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Procedure” (co-author, 1953); “An Unhurried View of Copyright” (1967).
Noteworthy Appointments: Prosecuting Attorney, first Nuremberg Trial (awarded Bronze Star); Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1972-1981.