Samuel Edmund Thorne (1907-1994) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1965 to 1994. He was a Professor of Legal History 1965-1973; Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Legal History 1973-1978; and an Emeritus professor 1978-1994.
Research: English legal history.
Education: City College of New York B.A. 1927; Harvard Law School LL.B. 1930; Wesleyan University Litt. D. 1957.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “St. Germain’s Doctor and Student” 1930); “A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understanding of Statutes with Sir Thomas Egerton’s additions” (editor, 1942); Bracton’s “On the Laws and Customs of England” (co-editor, first published 1968); “Essays in English Legal History” (1985).
Noteworthy Appointments: Professor of Legal History, Yale Law School, 1945-1956; Librarian, Yale Law School, 1945-1948.