Harry Shulman
| Harry A. Shulman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 14, 1903 Krugloye near Mogilev, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 20, 1955 (aged 51) Hamden, Connecticut |
| Known for | Former Dean of Yale Law School |
Harry A. Shulman (May 14, 1903 – March 20, 1955) was a professor at Yale Law School from 1930–1954, the Dean of Yale Law School from 1954–1955, and a prominent labor arbitrator.
Shulman was born in Krugloye near Mogilev (now in Belarus), in the Russian Empire in 1903. His parents were Simon Shulman and Tillie Klebanoff. He emigrated to the United States in 1912. His family moved to Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his B.A. from Brown University in 1923 after only three years of college. He earned an LL.B., and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, in 1926 and 1927 respectively. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University on June 1, 1953. He practiced law for a year in New York City before clerking for Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis from 1929 to 1930.
In 1930, became an instructor at Yale Law School. In 1931, he was made an Assistant Professor of Law. His son, Stephen N. Shulman, was born in 1933. He became an Associate Professor in 1933, and a Professor in 1937. He became a Lines Professor in 1939, and a Sterling Professor in 1940. He was described as a superb teacher.
His scholarly work concerned torts, administrative law scholarship, and labor contracts. His lecture, “Reason, Contract, and Law in Labor Relations,” has been cited hundreds of times.
In 1941, he completed his work on the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure, which was "among the factors guiding the modern evolution of administrative law.
He was named as the next Dean of Yale Law School on January 12, 1954. On July 1, 1954, he became Dean of Yale Law School. He died in 1955 from cancer. A scholarship fund was established in his honor in 1955, a research fund in 1957, and a library fund in 1963. Conferences on labor relations were held at Yale Law School in his honor on April 6th and 7th, 1956 and January 10th and 11th, 1958
Shulman was “one of the most influential people in the history of American Labor arbitration.” His "greatest accomplishment", according to Eugene V. Rostow, was "the establishment of regular procedures for peacefully enforcing the provisions of labor contracts."
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