Background
Handler, Milton was born on October 8, 1903 in New York City. Son of George and Ray (Friedman) Handler.
Milton Handler
October 8, 1903 (age 115) New York City
On staff, Columbia University, 1927-1972; now professor of law emeritus, Columbia University private practice law specializing in antitrust, trademark law senior partner firm, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler president, New York Majestic Corporation, 1937-1948. General counsel National Labor Board, 1933-1934. Special assistant to general counsel Treasury Department, 1938-1940. Assistant general counsel Lend Lease Administration, 1942-1943. Special counsel Foreign Economics Administration, 1943-1944. Associate public member National.War Labor Board, 1944. Adviser American Law Institute Restatement of Torts and Restatement of Torts second. Arbitrator numerous important labor and commercial disputes. Mitchell lecturer Buffalo Law School, 1956-1957. Lecturer U.Leyden, The Netherlands, 1963. Member attorney general's national commission to study antitrust laws, 1953-1955.
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Author: books, articles including Antitrust in Perspective, 1957. Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation, 4th edition, 1967. Cases and Materials on Business Torts, 1972.
(with others) Twenty-Five Years of Antitrust, 1973, 2 vols. Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation, 2 vols., 1975.
(with others) Antitrust In Transition, 3 vols., 1991. Editor: Columbia Law Rev, 1924-1926.
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Education
Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts, 1924). Columbia Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1926). Columbia University (Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, 1990), Awarded Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) by Hebrew University, 1965.
Career
On staff, Columbia University, 1927-1972;
now professor of law emeritus, Columbia University
private practice law specializing in antitrust, trademark law
senior partner firm, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler
president, New York Majestic Corporation, 1937-1948. General counsel National Labor Board, 1933-1934. Special assistant to general counsel Treasury Department, 1938-1940.
Assistant general counsel Lend Lease Administration, 1942-1943. Special counsel Foreign Economics Administration, 1943-1944. Associate public member National.War Labor Board, 1944.
Adviser American Law Institute Restatement of Torts and Restatement of Torts second. Arbitrator numerous important labor and commercial disputes. Mitchell lecturer Buffalo Law School, 1956-1957.
Lecturer U.Leyden, The Netherlands, 1963. Member attorney general's national commission to study antitrust laws, 1953-1955.
Achievements
Works
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Author: books, articles including Antitrust in Perspective, 1957. Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation, 4th edition, 1967. Cases and Materials on Business Torts, 1972.
(with others) Twenty-Five Years of Antitrust, 1973, 2 vols. Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation, 2 vols., 1975.
(with others) Antitrust In Transition, 3 vols., 1991. Editor: Columbia Law Rev, 1924-1926.
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Membership
Honorary chairman board directors American Friends of Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Deputy chairman, board governors Hebrew University. Fellow American College Trial Lawyers, American Bar Foundation, Federal Bar Council.
Member American Bar Association (council antitrust secretary 1961-1964), Federal Bar Association, New York State Bar Association (chairman special committee to study state antitrust laws 1956-1966), Association of Bar of City of New York, New York County Lawyers Association (director 1953-1956) Clubs: Men's Faculty (Columbia).
Connections
Son of George and Ray (Friedman) H. M. Marion W. Kahn, December 21, 1932 (deceased). 1 daughter, Carole Enid.
M. Miriam Adler, February 3, 1955.
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Political Party
Democrat
Education
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1924
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1926
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1965
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1990
Awards
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Recipient bicentennial silver medallion Columbi Recipient bicentennial silver medallion Columbia, 1954. Scopus award American Friends of Hebrew University, 1963. Medal of excellence Columbia Law Alumni, 1976.
Outstanding Research in Law and Government award Fellows of America Bar Foundation, 1977. Human Relations award lawyers division Anti-Defamation League Appeal, 1979. Milton Handler chair in trade regulation established at Columbia Law School, 1974.
Joseph M. Proskauer award lawyers division United Jewish Appeal, 1980, Israel's 50th Anniversary tribute award, 1998, John Sherman award 1998. Handler Auditorium on Mount Scopus Campus of Hebrew University, dedicated 1975.