Harold Joseph Berman (1918-2007) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1948 to 2007. He was a Visiting Professor of Law 1948-1949; Assistant Professor of Law 1949-1952; Professor of Law 1952-1973; Story Professor of Law 1973-1976; James Barr Ames Professor of Law 1976-1984; and an Emeritus professor 1984-2007.
Research: International and comparative law, Russian and Soviet law, legal history and philosophy, law and religion.
Education: Dartmouth College A.B. 1938; Yale University M.A. 1942; Yale Law School LL.B. 1947.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Justice in Russia: An Interpretation of Soviet Law” (first published 1950); “The Nature and Functions of Law” (first published 1958); “Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition” (first published 1983); “Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition” (2003).
Noteworthy Appointments: Awarded the Bronze Star in World War II; Principal founder, American Law Center in Moscow; Co-chair, Emory Law School World Law Institute; Robert W. Woodruff Professorship of Law, Emory Law School, appointed 1985.