Edward A. Harriman, Lecturer in Administrative Law, 1906-17
Edward Avery Harriman (1869-1955) came to the Law School from Northwestern, where he was a Professor of Law and faculty Secretary. Harriman was a prominent contract law scholar who corresponded frequently with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on the theory of contracts. The correspondence began when Harriman sent Holmes a copy of his law review article, “The Nature of Contractual Obligation,” 4 Nw. L. Rev. 97 (1895), that drew upon Holmes’ ideas. That article was the first chapter of Harriman’s treatise, Elements of the Law of Contracts (1896), which he later expanded into a multi-volume work, The Law of Contracts (1901).
Harriman left Yale to serve in World War I and thereafter practiced in Washington, D.C. and lectured at George Washington University Law School, publishing a book on the League of Nations, The Constitution at the cross roads : a study of the legal aspects of the League of Nations, the Permanent Organization of Labor and the Permanent Court of International Justice (1925).
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2 Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County 111-12, (1918).
David J. Seipp, “Holmes’s Path,” 77 B.U. L. Rev. 515 (1997).
Who’s Who in Law (1937).