Robert Lee Hale
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Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) was an American lawyer and economist. He earned an economics degree at Harvard University, and then worked at Columbia Law School. He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.[1]
Publications
[edit]- "Rate Making and the Revision of the Property Concept" (1922) 22 Columbia Law Review 209
- "Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non.Coercive State." (1923) 38 Political Science Quarterly
- "Economic Theory and the Statesman" in R G Tugwell (ed.), The Trend of Economics (New York, Knopf, 1924) 189 at 194-5
- "Economics and Law" in W F Ogburn & A Goldenweiser (eds.), The Social Sciences and their Interrelations (London, Allen & Unwin, 1927) 131 at 132-3
- "Force and the State: A Comparison of 'Political' and 'Economic' Compulsion" (1935) 35 Columbia Law Review
- "Prima Facie Torts, Combination, and Non-Feasance" (1946) 46 Columbia Law Review
- "Bargaining, Duress and Economic Liberty." (1943) 43 Columbia Law Review
- Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private Governing Power (1952)
See also
[edit]- Legal realism
- Smyth v Ames (1898) 169 US 466
References
[edit]- ^ Mercuro, Nicholas; Medema, Steven G.; Samuels, Warren J. (2005-09-28). "Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) – legal economist". In Backhaus, Jürgen G. (ed.). The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (2nd ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. pp. 531–544. ISBN 9781845420321.
Further reading
[edit]- N Duxbury, 'Robert Hale and the Economy of Legal Force' (1990) 53 Modern Law Review
- D Kennedy, 'The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!' (1991) 15 Legal Studies Forum 86
- Barbara H. Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement (Harvard University Press, 20011
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