Harry Kalven

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According to Wikipedia, Harry Kalven Jr. was an American jurist, regarded as one of the preeminent legal scholars of the 20th century. He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, having graduated from the College and the Law School. Kalven coauthored, with Charles O. Gregory , a widely used textbook in the field of torts, Cases and Materials on Torts. Kalven was also a scholar in the field of constitutional law, particularly in the area of the first amendment. Kalven is the coauthor of "The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit," one of the most heavily cited articles in the history of American law, and widely considered to be the foundation of the modern class action lawsuit. He also co-authored a pioneering empirical study of The American Jury with his Chicago colleague Hans Zeisel.

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Harry Kalven's Published Works

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The American Jury (1966) (943)
The Uneasy Case For Progressive Taxation (1954) (185)
Privacy in Tort Law—Were Warren and Brandeis Wrong? (1966) (104)
The New York Times Case: A Note on "The Central Meaning of the First Amendment" (1964) (53)
The Concept of the Public Forum: Cox v. Louisiana (1965) (41)
The American Jury and the Death Penalty (1966) (38)
The Jury, The Law and the Personal Injury Damage Award (1958) (37)
Delay in the Court. (1960) (36)
The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit (1941) (33)
The Dignity of the Civil Jury (1964) (31)
The Negro and the First amendment (1965) (22)
Public Law Perspectives on a Private Law Problem: Auto Compensation Plans (1966) (22)
The Empty Cabinet of Dr. Calabresi Auto Accidents and General Deterrence (1967) (16)
The Quest for the Middle Range: Empirical Inquiry and Legal Policy (1968) (15)
The Metaphysics of the Law of Obscenity (1960) (13)
The political problem of industrial civilization. (1947) (10)
Broadcasting, Public Policy and the First Amendment (1967) (7)
Obscenity and the Law (1957) (6)
Some Comments on the Law and Behavorial Science Project at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Developments (1958) (6)
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Note on Free Speech and the Warren Court (1968) (5)
The Art of Opinion Research: A Lawyer's Appraisal of an Emerging Science: Observations on "Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties" (1956) (5)
Preface to the Stanford Law Review of the California Penalty Jury in First Degree-Murder Cases (1969) (4)
Toward a Science of Impartial Judicial Behavior (1973) (4)
The Reasonable Man and the First Amendment: Hill, Butts, and Walker (1967) (4)
The Problems of Privacy in the Year 2000 (1967) (4)
The Anatomy of Justice in Taxation (1973) (4)
Ceilings, Costs, and Compulsion in Auto Compensation Legislation (1973) (4)
Book Review (reviewing Arthur A. Cohen et al., Freedom, Education and the Fund: Essays and Addresses, 1946-1956, by Robert M. Hutchins (1956)) (1957) (4)
Law School Training in Research and Exposition (1948) (4)
Law and Education (1957) (4)
A Commemorative Case Note: Scopes v. State (1960) (3)
Upon Rereading Mr. Justice Black on the First Amendment (1967) (3)
Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions - Civil (1961) (3)
Defamation and the First Amendment (1952) (3)
Contempt: Transcript of the Contempt Citations, Sentences, and Responses of the Chicago Conspiracy 10 (1970) (3)
Ernst Freund and the First Amendment Tradition (1973) (3)
Negligence on the Move (1970) (2)
Delay in the Court. An Analysis of the Remedies for Delayed Justice (1961) (2)
Ernst Freund and the First Amendment Tradition--Professor Ernst Freund and Debs v. United States (1973) (2)
Foreword: Even When a Nation Is at War (1971) (2)
Secrecy and Publicity: Dilemmas of Democracy (1962) (1)
Book Review (reviewing Albert Armin Ehrenzweig, "Full Aid" Insurance for the Traffic Victim: A Voluntary Compensation Plan (1954)) (1955) (1)
Mr. Alexander Meiklejohn and the Barenblatt Opinion (1960) (1)
Law, Science and Humanism (1961) (1)
Book Review (reviewing Leon Green, Traffic Victims: Tort Law and Insurance (1958)) (1959) (1)
Privacy and the Presidency (1968) (1)
“Please, Morris, Don't Make Trouble”: Two Lessons in Courtroom Confrontation (1971) (1)
The Bar Admission Cases: An Unfinished Debate between Justice Harlan and Justice Black (1961) (1)
The Jury in Auto Cases: Invitation to Research (1956) (1)
Is the Trial Bar a Cause of Delay (1959) (1)
The Bar, The Court, and The Delay (1960) (1)
Insanity and the Criminal Law--A Critique of Durham v. United States (1955) (1)
The Palo Alto Conference on Law and Behavioral Science (1956) (1)
Torts: The Quest for Appropriate Standards (1965) (1)
Liberal Education, the Case-System, and Jurisprudence (1947) (1)
Special Corner of Civil Liberties: A Legal View I, A Symposium (1956) (1)
The Legal Writing Program in the Law School (1953) (1)
Justices Black and Frankfurter: Conflict in the Court, by Wallace Mendelson (1962) (0)
General Analysis of and Introduction to the Problem of Court Congestion and Delay, A Rules and Procedures (1963) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Edwin Blythe Stason et al., Atoms and the Law (1959)) (1961) (0)
A Schema of Alternatives to the Present Auto Accident System (1968) (0)
The American Jury: A Critique: Rejoinder (1972) (0)
Religion and Law in America (1961) (0)
My Friend Grows No Older (1967) (0)
Wilber G. Katz (1979) (0)
Review of Secrecy and Publicity: Dilemmas of Democracy by Francis E. Rourke (1962) (0)
Review of Hatred, Ridicule, or Contempt by Joseph Dean (1955) (0)
Fact and Fiction on Court Delay (1960) (0)
Tradition and the Law (1974) (0)
Volume Information (1958) (0)
Book Review (reviewing St. John-Stevas, Obscenity and the Law (1956)) (1957) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Thomas S. Szasz, Psychiatric Justice (1965)) (1966) (0)
A Soliloquy on Comparative Negligence (1968) (0)
The American Legal System (1955) (0)
Constitutional Twins: Obscenity and Libel (1971) (0)
The Supreme Court as Legislator (1967) (0)
Discussion in Schwartz, Torts Casebooks on Parade: The Authors Meet the Users (1973) (0)
Invoking the Fifth Amendment: Some Legal and Impractical Considerations (1953) (0)
Review of The Control of Atomic Energy by James R. Newman, Byron S. Miller (1948) (0)
Profiles: William Winslow Crosskey (1969) (0)
Administration of the Law of Torts: Report on the 1961 Summer Research Training Institute on the Interrelations of Law and Other Social Institutions (1962) (0)
Mr. Justice Holmes: Some Modern Views - Torts (1964) (0)
The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer before the Atomic Energy Commission (1954) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Julius Cohen et al., Parental Authority: the Community and the Law (1958)) (1960) (0)
The Right Kind of Anarchy (1969) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Archibald Cox, The Warren Court: Constitutional Decision as an Instrument of Reform (1968)) (1969) (0)
Comment on Maki v. Frelk--Comparative v. Contributory Negligence: Should the Court or Legislature Decide? (1968) (0)
Congressional Testing of Linus Pauling Part II: Sourwine in an Old Bottle (1961) (0)
Critique of Proposed Automobile Compensation Plans, A (1967) (0)
Law and Social Action: Selected Essays of Alexander H. Pekelis (1952) (0)
Review of Varieties of Delinquent Youth by William H. Sheldon (1951) (0)
Auto Accidents and General Deterrence (1970) (0)
The Jury and the Principles of the Law of Damages (1960) (0)
Letter to Roger J. Traynor Regarding the First Ammendment (1973) (0)
Administration of the Law of Torts: The 1961 Summer Research Training Institute on Interrelations of Law and Other Social Institutions Law School Developments (1962) (0)
Strict Liability in Symposium on the Jurisprudential Basis of the Law of Strict Liability (1957) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Young B. Smith et al., Cases and Materials on Torts (1952)) (1953) (0)
The Casebook's Reply (1957) (0)
Review of Obscenity and the Law by St. John (1957) (0)
A Stopgap Plan for Compensating Auto Accident Victims (1968) (0)
The Great Ideas Today (1974) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Rebeccca West, The Meaning of Treason (1947)) (1949) (0)
Book Review (reviewing James R. Newman et al., The Control of Atomic Energy: A Study of Its Social, Economic, and Political Implications (1948)) (1947) (0)
The Elimination of the Jury Instructions (1959) (0)
The Federal Loyalty-Security Program, by Eleanor Bontecou (1954) (0)
Book Review (reviewing St. John-Stevas et al., Obscenity and the Law (1956)) (1957) (0)
Review of Safeguarding Civil Liberty Today by Carl L. Becker, Max Lerner, James Lawrence Fly, Robert E. Cushman, Francis Biddle (1945) (0)
Review of The Political Problem of Industrial Civilization by Elton Mayo (1947) (0)
Confrontation Comes to the Courtroom (1971) (0)
Review of Primer of Intellectual Freedom by Howard Mumford Jones (1950) (0)
Review of The Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West (1949) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Eleanor Bontecou, The Federal Loyalty-Security Program (1953)) (1954) (0)
Congressional Testing of Linus Pauling, Part I: The Legal Framework [reviewing Morton Grodzins & Eugene Rabinowitch, The Atomic Age] (1960) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Morris R. Cohen et al., The Faith of a Liberal: Selected Essays (1946)) (1946) (0)
Improving Our Courts: Collected Studies on Judicial Administration (1960) (0)
Advocacy and the Jury System: The Impact of the Trial Lawyer, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Judicial Conference, Third Judicial Circuit of the United States (1967) (0)
The Anastaplo Case; Briefs, Records, Comments (1967) (0)
Letter to Roger J. Traynor In Acceptance of the National News Council Adviser Position (1973) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Wallace Mendelson, Justice Black and Frankfurter: Conflict in the Court (1961)) (1962) (0)
The Oppenheimer Case. Security on Trial. Philip M. Stern, with the collaboration of Harold P. Green. Special commentary by Lloyd K. Garrison. Harper and Row, New York, 1969. xiv + 594 pp. $10 (1970) (0)
Book Review (reviewing Clarence Morris, Morris on Torts (1963)) (1954) (0)
Book Review (reviewing James C. N. Paul et al., Federal Censorship: Obscenity in the Mail (1961)) (1962) (0)
The Grand Jury Panther Report: An Unnerving Story (1970) (0)
Review of Traffic Victims: Tort Law and Insurance by Leon Green (1959) (0)
Juries in Personal Injury Cases: their Functions and Methods (1966) (0)
Statistics and the Law (1972) (0)
The Work of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions -- The Elimination of Instructions (1960) (0)
Review of The Faith of a Liberal by Morris R. Cohen (1946) (0)
Our Man from Wall Street (1968) (0)
Wilber G. Katz - the Gentle Exemplar (1972) (0)
Correspondence Between Roger J. Traynor and Harry Kalven Jr. Regarding the National News Council, 1973 July 20 - 1973 July 27 (1973) (0)
Review of The Law of Search and Seizure by John J. Cogan, Jr. (1950) (0)
Rejoinder to A. E. Bottoms and M. A. Walker, The American Jury: A Critique (1972) (0)
Review of The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization by Elton Mayo (1946) (0)
Review of Law and Social Action by Alexander H. Pekelis (1952) (0)

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