John Philip Dawson (1902-1985) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1956 to 1985. He was a Visiting Professor of Law 1956-1957; Professor of Law 1957-1961; Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law 1961-1974; and an Emeritus professor 1974-1985.
Research: Contracts, restitution, legal institutions, legal history.
Education: University of Michigan A.B. 1922, J.D. 1924; University of Oxford, D. Phil. 1930.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Cases on Remedies” (co-author, 1939); “Unjust Enrichment: A Comparative Analysis” (1951); “A History of Lay Judges” (1960); “The Oracles of the Law” (first published 1968), “Cases and Comments on Contracts” (co-author, first published 1977).
Noteworthy Appointments: Professor, University of Michigan Law School, 1927-1957.