Robert Lee Hale
Encyclopedia
Robert Lee Hale was an American lawyer and economist. He earned an economics degree at Harvard University
, and then worked at Columbia University
Law School. He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, and then worked at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Law School. He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.
Publications
- "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