George Lee Haskins

Background

Haskins, George Lee was born on February 13, 1915 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Homer and Clare (Allen) Haskins.

Education

Classical diploma, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1931. AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1935. Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1942.

Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1971.

Career

Junior fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1936-1942; lecturer department sociology, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1937-1938; Lowell lecturer, Boston, 1938; associate, Herrick, Smith, Donald & Farley, Boston, 1942; with office of special assistant to secretary of state, 1946; assistant professor of law, University Pennsylvania, 1946-1948; associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1948-1949; professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1949-1985; Algernon Sydney Biddle professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1985; Algernon Sydney Biddle professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, from 1985; member of faculty arts and science, University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1985; private practice, Pennsylvania, 1986-1991; of counsel, Curtis, Thaxter et al, Portland, Maine., from 1988. Representative United States delegate to United Nations conference, San Francisco, 1945. Special attorney legal department Pennsylvania R.R., 1951-1954, consultant counsel, 1954-1970.

Appointed by President Eisenhower to permanent commission on Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, 1956. Director, vice president Pennsylvania Mutual Fund, New York City, 1961-1968. Assistant reporter for Supreme and Superior Court Justices Pennsylvania, 1970-1972.

University seminar associate Columbia, 1971-1973, from77. Supreme Court of the United States Court History Society lecturer, 1981. Visiting professor law RutgersU., Camden, New Jersey, 1987.

Hostetler, Baker and Hostetler professor of law Cleveland State University, 1990. Lecturer continuing legal education program Cleveland Bar Association, 1991. Permanent member Judicial Conference United States 3rd Circuit.

Vice-Chairman of Commission on legal history fellowships American Bar Foundation, 1978-1983. Member of national advising committee United States Constitution, New York Public Library., 1985-1987. Annual Baker-Hostetler lecturer, Cleveland Bar, 1991.

Achievements

• George Lee Haskins has been listed as a reputable lawyer, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts

    (Originally published by the Macmillan Company in 1960, th...)

  • Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts - A Study in Tradition and Design

    (Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Trad...)

  • The Statute of York and the Interest of the Commons: Being the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Prize Essay for 1935

    (Book by Haskins, George Lee)

  • The Statute of York and the Interest of the Commons. Being the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Prize Essay for 1935
  • The Growth of English Representative Government
  • (Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Tradition and Design ) Author: George Lee Haskins Mar-1985
  • Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts by Haskins, George Lee (1985) Paperback

Membership

Member Hancock (Maine) 1976 Bicentennial Commission, 1978, Sesquicentennial History Commission, International Commission for History of Republican Institutions. Member humanities council Station WHYY-television, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Delaware, from 1976. With CAC Army of the United States, 1942-1943.

From 1st lieutenant to captain War Department General Staff, 1943-1946. From 1st lieutenant to captain General Staff Corps, 1945. Major Reserve, 1946-1954.

Fellow Royal History Society, American Society for Legal History (honorary), Medieval Academy Ireland (honorary). Member American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Maine Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, Association of Bar of City of New York, Hancock County Bar Association, Swedish Colonial Society, American Judicature Society, American Arbitration Association (national panel arbitrators since 1968), C.H. Haskins Society Anglo-Norman Studies (honorary), Society Internationale pour l'Histoire du Droit (board directors from 1975), American Society for Legal History (president 1970-1974, board directors 1977-1980), American Antiquarian Society, International Law Society, Society Colonial Wars, American Academy Political Science, American History Association, American Law Institute (honorary life member), Association Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners, Juristic Society, British Records Association, Mediaeval Academy American (council 1958-1960), Society Comparative Legislation, Colonial Society Massachusetts, Massachusetts History Society (correspondent member), Maine History Society, Virginia History Society, Colonial Society Pennsylvania (governor's council 1977), Selden Society (honorary life member, correspondent secretary Pennsylvania), American Genealogical Society, Genealogical Society Pennsylvania, Institute Early American History and Culture (council, editorial board), Society Jean Bodin Pour l'Histoire Comparative des Institutions, Society Internationale pour l'Etude de Philosophie Mediévale (membre titulaire), Académie d'Histoire Européenne (honorary correspondent), S.R., Mayflower Descendants, Boston Athenaeum, Library. Company Philadelphia, United States Court Tennis Association, American Society Ancient Instruments, American Society 18th Century Studies, International Society St. Thomas Aquinas, Military Order Foreign Wars United States (companion), Society War 1812, New.

England Land Title Association, Hancock History Society (board directors 1979-1980), Century Association, Renaissance Society of America, Asociata de Istorie Comparativa a Institui et Dreptulii (board directors), Order of Coif (award for scholarly writing Pennsylvania chapter 1982), Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Somerset (Boston). Legal, Racquet, Harvard (Philadelphia).

Metropolitan (Washington). British Schools and Universities, Pilgrims of the United States, Century Association (New York City). Royal Automobile, Athenaeum (London).

Connections

Married Anstiss Crowninshield Boyden, July 15, 1944 (deceased 1978). Married Gertrude Eleanor Lounder, October 23, 1988.

Father:

Charles Homer Haskins

Mother:

Clare (Allen) Haskins

Spouse:

Gertrude Eleanor Lounder

Spouse:

Anstiss Crowninshield Boyden