Lon Luvois Fuller (1902-1978) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1940 to 1978. He was a Professor of Law 1940-1948; Carter Professorship of General Jurisprudence 1948-1972; and an Emeritus professor 1972-1978.
Research: Sociology and the law, contracts.
Education: Stanford University A.B. 1924; Stanford Law School J.D. 1926.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “The Law in Quest of Itself” (first published 1940); “Basic Contract Law” (first published 1946); “The Morality of Law” (first published 1964); “Legal Fictions” (1967); “Anatomy of the Law” (1968).
Noteworthy Appointments: Chair of Scholars for Nixon during the 1960 presidential campaign.