Harry Kalven
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Harry Kalven was a writer, best known for The Negro and the First amendment.
Quick Facts About Harry Kalven
- Born
- September 11, 1914
- Died
- October 29, 1974
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- The Negro and the First amendment
About Harry Kalven
Harry Kalven Jr. was an American legal scholar known for his scholarship on tort law and United States constitutional law. He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, having graduated from the College and the Law School. Kalven coauthored, with Charles O. Gregory, a widely used textbook in the field of torts, Cases and Materials on Torts. Kalven was also a scholar in the field of constitutional law, particularly in the area of the First Amendment. Kalven is the coauthor of "The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit," one of the most heavily cited articles in the history of American law, and widely considered to be the foundation of the modern class action lawsuit. He also co-authored a pioneering empirical study of The American Jury with his Chicago colleague Hans Zeisel.
Biography source: Wikipedia
