Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (1904-1994) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1934 to 1994. He was an Assistant Professor of Law 1934-1935; Professor of Law 1935-1946; Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law 1946-1950; Dean of the Faculty of Law 1946-1967; Langdell Professor of Law 1950-1967; and an Emeritus professor 1967-1994.
Research: Trusts, taxation, legal education, legal profession, Fifth Amendment.
Education: Oberlin College A.B. 1925, A.M. 1925; Harvard Law School LL.B. 1928, S.J.D. 1929.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Cases and Materials on Federal Taxation” (first published 1940); “The Fifth Amendment” (1954); “Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress” (1964); “Ould Fields, New Corne: The Personal Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Lawyer” (1992).
Noteworthy Appointments: President, Association of American Law Schools, 1957-1958; Solicitor General of the United States, 1967-1973; President, American Bar Foundation, 1971-1974. Argued more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.