Jane L. Scheiber

Harry N. Scheiber is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and History, Emeritus, in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He also directs the School’s Institute for Legal Research and its Law of the Sea Institute, and is former director of its Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law. Previously he was professor of history at Dartmouth College and at the University of California, San Diego. A leading authority on constitutional and legal history, Scheiber is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Society for Legal History. He has been a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, the Wallace Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hawai`i, and twice a Guggenheim Fellow. He is author or editor of fourteen books, including The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921, recently republished; Earl Warren and the Warren Court; The State and Freedom of Contract; American Law and the Constitutional Order; Ohio Canal Era: and New Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law. Other books include Federalism and the Judicial Mind, and, most recently, several books on ocean law. He has published more than one hundred articles in journals of history, law, and the social sciences.
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