Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr.
| Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 9, 1902 Rochester, New York |
| Died |
March 10, 1973 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Wesleyan University, Harvard Law School |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Lawyer, educator and historian |
| Institutions | Harvard University Cornell University U.S. Army |
Arthur Eugene Sutherland Jr. (Feb 9, 1920 – Mar 10, 1973) was an American lawyer, law professor, and author.
Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. was the youngest son of Arthur E. Sutherland a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. He was born and raised in Rochester New York. He attended college at Wesleyan University class of 1922, and graduated from the noted Harvard Law School Class of 1925 with a J. D.. He clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1927–1928.
After law school Sutherland returned to practice law for 14 years in Rochester, N.Y. where his father, Arthur E. Sutherland Sr., and older brother William Sutherland were both in the legal profession.
Sutherland married Margaret Susanne Adams and had four children: David, Peter, Eleanor and Prudy. Mrs. Sutherland passed away New Year's Eve 1957/1958, one of the 70,000 Americans who died of the Asian flu during the 1957 pandemic. His second wife was Mary Elizabeth Genung Kirk.
Arthur E. Sutherland died of cancer in 1973 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As a young man, in 1919 Sutherland was sent with Captain Emory H. Niles to survey areas of the recently toppled Ottoman Empire and report back. The result was the Niles and Sutherland Report for the US Congress.
During the Second World War, Sutherland served as Aide-de-Camps to General Mark W. Clark with distinction in the U.S. Army. He left the Army in 1945 as a Colonel, with a number of high honors, including the Bronze Star and the Order of the British Empire.
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Cornell University invited Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. to teach law after WWII in 1945.
Soon after, in 1950 Harvard Law School invited him to teach. Arthur E. Sutherland Jr. was the Bussey Professor of Law Emeritus, author of a number of books on the law, and a frequently cited legal scholar on topics of both constitutional and commercial law. He was a member of the Harvard Faculty of Law for twenty years between 1950-1970. Sutherland helped draft the Uniform Commercial Code, a body of laws establishing common trade practices among the United States. He was chair of a special committee working to revise Massachusetts "blue laws" in 1962. The simpler and more coherent set of laws was later adopted by the Massachusetts Legislature. Sutherland was on the opposing legal team in the Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market "Blue Laws" case brought before the US Supreme Court.
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