Charles Monroe Haar (1920-2012) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1952 to 2012. He was an Assistant Professor of Law 1952-1955; Professor of Law 1955-1967 and 1969-1972; Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law 1972-1991; and an Emeritus professor 1991-2012.
Research: Urban problems, land use, housing, real property, corporate organization, government financing.
Education: New York University A.B. 1940; University of Wisconsin M.A. 1941; Harvard Law School LL.B. 1948.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Land Planning Law in a Free Society” (1951); “Land and Law” (1964); “Property and Law” (co-author, first published 1977); “Cities, Law, and Social Policy” (1984); “Zoning and the American Dream” (co-author, 1989); “Suburbs under Siege” (1996).
Noteworthy Appointments: Chair, National Task Force on the Preservation of Natural Beauty, 1964; Assistant Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1966-1969.