Paul Freund
| Paul Abraham Freund | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 16, 1908 St. Louis, Missouri, |
| Died | February 5, 1992 (aged 83) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Nationality |
 United States
|
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | Harvard Law School |
| Alma mater |
Washington University in St. Louis Harvard Law School |
| Notable students | Elliot Richardson, Robert Taft, James Lynn, Thomas Eagleton |
Paul A. Freund (February 16, 1908—February 5, 1992) was an American jurist and law professor. He taught most of his life at Harvard Law School and is known for his writings on the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Freund was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (1928) and Harvard Law School (1931, 1932). He served as president of the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review and wrote his 1931 thesis on "The Effect of State Statutes on Federal Equity Jurisdiction."
In 1932-1933, Freund served as law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Louis Brandeis. He later called this "the most important year in my life. Brandeis set superhuman standards and lived as if each day were his last on earth and every minute counted. He was a moralist. He saw moral issues where others saw expediency."
Freund next served at the United States Treasury, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the Office of the Solicitor General, where he worked on Supreme Court briefs for major New Deal constitutional cases, arguing for a relatively flexible interpretation of the Constitution in economic and social matters.
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