Erwin Griswold

Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (* July 14, 1904 in East Cleveland, Ohio, † November 19, 1994 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer, university professor, and United States Solicitor General.

Biography

The son of a lawyer studied after visiting the Shaw Public High School in East Cleveland 1921-1925, first at Oberlin College and received there a Bachelor of Arts ( AB). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Harvard University, he finished 1928 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) and Doctor of Juridical 1929 with a Science ( SJD ). After qualifying as a lawyer in the state of Ohio, he was for a short time attorney with Griswold, Green, Palmer & Hadden, of the firm of his father.

Shortly thereafter, however, he joined the Ministry of Justice of the United States and was there 1929-1934 Special Assistant to the Attorney General.

In 1934 he accepted an appointment as professor of law at the Law School of Harvard University and taught there until his appointment as Dean of the Law School in 1946. He held this position until 1967 and was 1957-1958 and President of the Association the American law faculties ( Association of American Law Schools ). He was also a 1961 to 1967 of the Civil Rights Commission of the United States ( U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ) as a member.

In October 1967, Erwin Griswold, a member of the Republican Party, was appointed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as Solicitor General and as such took until June 1973 to third place within the U.S. Department of Justice.

After his retirement from government service, he worked as an attorney at the law firm Jones Day until his death in 1994, a large law firm with 2,200 lawyers and is based in Washington. He was also active as a curator ( Trustee ) of Oberlin College and the Historical Society of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Publications

Erwin Griswold was also the author of several legal reference books. His publications include:

  • Spendthrift trusts. In 1936.
  • Cases on Federal Taxation. 1940.
  • Cases on Conflict Laws. , 1942.
  • The Fifth Amendment Today: Three Speeches by Erwin Griswold. In 1955.
  • Manley Ottmer Hudson. In: Harvard Law Review. 74 ( 2) / 1960, The Harvard Law Review Association, Cambridge, ISSN 0017- 811x, pp. 209-211.
  • The Fifth Amendment Today: Law and Lawyers in the United States. In 1992.
East Cleveland (Ohio) Dean (education) Benjamin Bristow Samuel F. Phillips John Goode George A. Jenks Orlow W. Chapman Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. Holmes Conrad John K. Richards Henry M. Hoyt (Solicitor General) Lloyd Wheaton Bowers Frederick William Lehmann William Marshall Bullitt John W. Davis Alexander Campbell King William L. Frierson James M. Beck William D. Mitchell Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. Thomas D. Thacher James Crawford Biggs Stanley Forman Reed Robert H. Jackson Charles H. Fahy J. Howard McGrath Walter J. Cummings, Jr. J. Lee Rankin Archibald Cox Thurgood Marshall Robert Bork Wade H. McCree Rex E. Lee Charles Fried Ken Starr Drew S. Days, III Walter E. Dellinger III Seth P. Waxman Barbara D. Underwood Theodore Olson Paul Clement Gregory G. Garre Edwin Kneedler Elena Kagan
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