William Draper Lewis

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According to Wikipedia, William Draper Lewis was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School , and the founding director of the American Law Institute. Personal life and education William Draper Lewis was reported by the Pennsylvania Law Review as being a devout Episcopalian born to Quaker parents, Henry and Fannie Hannah Wilson Lewis, in Philadelphia, in 1867. Lewis was the great-grandson of Simeon Draper, and a descendant of James Draper, an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He also descended from Puritan pioneer George Lewes , an early settler at Plymouth Colony; the clothier-turned-farmer was also, in 1648 and 1650, an early surveyor of highways and, in 1651, was appointed constable of the town of Barnstable.

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William Draper Lewis's Published Works

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The conflict of laws : a comparative study (1948) (18)
The Uniform Limited Partnership Act (1917) (6)
The life of Theodore Roosevelt (5)
The Social Sciences as the Basis of Legal Education (1913) (5)
Human Rights in England and the United States (1946) (3)
Our sheep and the tariff (2)
The Adaption of Society to Its Environment (1894) (2)
Constitutional Convention Bulletins (1)
The Proposed Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (1913) (1)
James Barr Ames 1846-1909 (1)
The Future of Our Judicial System of Stating and Developing Law (1937) (1)
Injunctions against Nuisances and the Rule Requiring the Plaintiff to Establish His Right at Law (1908) (1)
The Restatement of the Law by the American Law Institute (1923) (1)
Strikes and Courts of Equity (1)
The Constitutional Problem of Workmen's Compensation (1911) (1)
Legal Education and the Failure of the Bar to Perform Its Public Duties (1906) (1)
Great American Lawyers. A History of the Legal Profession in America (1908) (1)
Great American lawyers : the lives and influence of judges and lawyers who have acquired permanent national reputation, and have developed the jurisprudence of the United States : a history of the legal profession in America (1)
The Anglo-Saxon Law Suit (1894) (1)
A New Method of Constitutional Amendment By Popular Vote (1912) (1)
Can Prices Be Regulated by Law (1)
William Draper Lewis' Address (1900) (1)
The Lease of the Philadelphia Gas-Works (1)
The Proper Preparation for the Study of Law (1900) (1)
Specific Performance of Contracts. Defence of Lack of Mutuality. Second Paper. English Cases Involving Contracts Containing an Option (1901) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts - Perfecting Title after Suit Has Begun (1902) (0)
A Protest against Administering Criminal Law by Injunction - The Debs' Case (1894) (0)
American Contemporaries - William Hoskins (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts - Defence of Lack of Mutuality: Seventh Paper (1902) (0)
The Federal Power to Regulate Child Labor in the Light of Supreme Court Decisions (1914) (0)
The Study of the Common Law (1898) (0)
Some Leading English Cases on Trade and Labor Disputes (1903) (0)
A Few Observations on Law and Sovereignty, Being a Partial Introduction to the Study of Legal History (1895) (0)
The Constitutionality of the Income Tax (1895) (0)
English Cases on the Restraint of Libel by Injunction Since the Supreme Court Judicature Act, 1873 (1903) (0)
Pepper and Lewis' New Digest. Vol. IV (1903) (0)
The Possibility of New Legal Obligations: Second Paper (0)
[V 18 A 2] Henry W. Lister (1945) (0)
Introduction (1946) (0)
A Vendor's Right to Specific Performance (1902) (0)
Damages Given in Equity in Lieu of a Specific Performance (1902) (0)
Department of Constitutional Law. Pennoyer v. McConnaughey. Supreme Court of the United States (1893) (0)
Department of Constitutional Law. Great Barrington v. Berkshire. Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1893) (0)
Constitutional Revision in Pennsylvania (1921) (0)
Present Status of the Defence of Want of Mutuality in Specific Performance (1903) (0)
Report of the Special Committe on Legislative Drafting (0)
The Possibility of New Legal Obligations (0)
Department of Constitutional Law. Fletcher v. Prather. Supreme Court of California (1894) (0)
The Political Organization of a Modern Municipality, or Local Municipal State (1892) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts. Defense of Lack of Mutuality. First Paper. Mutuality as Understood in the Eighteenth Century (1901) (0)
Department of Constitutional Law. State v. Carey. Supreme Court of State of Washington (0)
The Federal Power over Commerce (1892) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts. Defence of Lack of Mutuality. Fifth Paper. The Statute of Frauds (1901) (0)
The Ultimate Sources of the Development of the Law (1895) (0)
Department of Constitutional Law. Supreme Court of the United States. Albuquerque National Bank v. Perea (1893) (0)
Report of the Committee on Legislative Drafting (0)
Treaty Powers: Protection of Treaty Rights By Federal Government (1909) (0)
The President's Address (1919) (0)
The Desirability of Expressing the Law of Partnership in Statutory Form (1911) (0)
Report of the Special Committee on Legislative Drafting (0)
George Washington's farewell address to the people of the United States (0)
Letter To the Editor (1946) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts - Defense of Lack of Mutuality: Fourth Paper (0)
THE UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT (1915) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts. Defence of Lack of Mutuality. Third Paper. The American Cases on Contracts Containing an Option (1901) (0)
Report of the Committee in Charge of Annual Meeting of the Academy, April 4 and 5, 1913 (1913) (0)
The Work of the American Law Institute in Criminal Procedure (1926) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts. Defence of Lack of Mutuality (1902) (0)
Two Questions in Specific Performance (1901) (0)
Specific Performance of Contracts. Defence of Lack of Mutuality. Fourth Paper. Bonds for the Conveyance of Real Property. Subject of Options Concluded (1901) (0)
Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (1935) (0)
William Ephraim Mikell (1944) (0)
46. The Common Law of Today (1930) (0)
Questions Relating to Time in Cases of Specific Performance. Second Paper. English Cases of the Period of Lord Eldon (0)
Coal Price Regulation and the Constitution (1924) (0)
Report of the Committee On Social Studies in the High School (1920) (0)

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