Background
Shulman was born in Krugloye near Mogilev (now in Belarus), in the Russian Empire in 1903. His son, Stephen N. Shulman, was born in 1933.
Shulman was born in Krugloye near Mogilev (now in Belarus), in the Russian Empire in 1903. His son, Stephen N. Shulman, was born in 1933.
He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University on June 1, 1953. In 1941, he completed his work on the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure, which was "among the factors guiding the modern evolution of administrative law.
He emigrated to the United States in 1912. His family moved to Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his B.A. from Brown University in 1923 after only three years of college.
He earned an LL.B., and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, in 1926 and 1927 respectively. He practiced law for a year in New York City before clerking for Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis from 1929 to 1930. In 1930, became an instructor at In 1931, he was made an Assistant Professor of Law.
He became an Associate Professor in 1933, and a Professor in 1937. He became a Lines Professor in 1939, and a Sterling Professor in 1940. He was described as a superb teacher.
His scholarly work concerned torts, administrative law scholarship, and labor contracts. His lecture, “Reason, Contract, and Law in Labor Relations,” has been cited hundreds of times. He was named as the next Dean of on January 12, 1954.
On July 1, 1954, he became Dean of He died in 1955 from cancer. A scholarship fund was established in his honor in 1955, a research fund in 1957, and a library fund in 1963. Conferences on labor relations were held at in his honor on April 6th and 7th, 1956 and January 10th and 11th, 1958
He was known as an arbitrator of even temperament, common sense, good humor, and exceptional judgment.
He also served on the Connecticut Labor Relations Board and the Alien Enemy Hearing Board of Connecticut. He was a special counsel for the Railroad Retirement Board from 1934 to 1936, and assisted in the arguing of Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad Co. before the Supreme Court.
He led a panel on steel workers wages during the 1952 steel strike. He also helped arbitrate an aircraft industry workers' collective bargaining case in 1952, which resulted in a 14 cent an hour wage increase. Many of the cases that Shulman handled involved violence.
As a reporter for the American Law Institute on the restatement of torts, he dealt with unfair competition, trademark infringements and labor disputes.
He was a temporary board member of the National Recovery Administration. He was an associate member of the National War Labor Board during World War II. He was a member of the Wage Stabilization Board during the Korean War. He was a member of the Attorney General's committee on administrative procedure in 1940 and 1941.
He was a member of the council of the American Law Institute from 1947 to 1952.
Married Rea Karrel, July 10, 1927.