Ernst Freund (January 30, 1864, in
New York City
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– October 20, 1932, in
Chicago, Illinois
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) was a noted American legal scholar. He received a Dr. Jur. from the
University of Heidelberg
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(1884) and a Ph.D. in political science from
Columbia University
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(1897). He was professor of political science at the
University of Chicago
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(1894–1902) and then professor of law at Chicago (1903–1932), serving as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law (1929–1932). Freund was principally responsible for the development of
administrative law
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in the
United States
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during the early twentieth century. He was one of the organizers of the Immigrants' Protective League (1908). The
University of Chicago Law School
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has established the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professorship of Law and Ethics in his honor, a seat currently held by philosopher
Martha Nussbaum
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.
U.S. Supreme Court
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justice
Felix Frankfurter
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Born in Vienna, Frankfurter im ...
described Freund as "one of the most distinguished of all legal scholars in the whole history of the legal professoriate".
[Harlan B. Phillips, ''Felix Frankfurter Reminisces'' 173 (New York, 1960).]
Works
*(1897
''The legal nature of corporations'' University of Chicago Press.
*(1903) ''Empire and sovereignty''. University of Chicago Press.
*(1904) ''Jurisprudence and legislation''.
*(1904) ''The Police Power: Public Policy and Constitutional Rights''. University of Chicago Press.
*(1908) (with Heinrich Brunner) ''
The Sources of English Law''. Little, Brown.
*(1911) ''Cases on administrative law selected from decisions of English and American courts''. American casebook series.
*(1914) ''The problem of adequate legislative powers under state constitutions''. Academy of Political Science.
*(1917) ''Standards of American Legislation''. University of Chicago Press.
*(1919) ''Illegitimacy laws of the United States and certain foreign countries''. Govt. Print. Off.
*(1922) (with Maurice Taylor Van Hecke) ''The teaching of statute law''. University of North Carolina Press.
*(1923) (with Robert Virgil Fletcher, Joseph Edward Davies Cuthbert Winfred Pound, John Albert Kurtz, and Charles Nagel) ''The growth of American administrative law''. Thomas Law Book Co.
*(1928) ''Administrative powers over persons and property; a comparative survey''. University of Chicago Press.
*(1932) ''Legislative Regulation: A Study of the Ways and Means of Written Law''. The Commonwealth Fund, New York.
References
*Kraines, Oscar. (1974) ''The world and ideas of Ernst Freund: the search for general principles of legislation and administrative law''. University of Alabama Press.
*Firmage, Edwin Brown. (1963) ''Ernst Freund, pioneer: the contributions of Ernst Freund to administrative law''. University of Chicago Press.
External links
Guide to the Ernst Freund Papers 1882-1934at th
University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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1864 births
1932 deaths
American legal writers
University of Chicago faculty