Harry Kalven Jr. (September 11, 1914 – October 29, 1974) was an American legal scholar known for his scholarship on tort law and United States constitutional law.[1] He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, having graduated from the College and the Law School. Kalven coauthored, with Charles O. Gregory (and later Richard Epstein), a widely used textbook in the field of torts, Cases and Materials on Torts. Kalven was also a scholar in the field of constitutional law, particularly in the area of the First Amendment. Kalven is the coauthor of "The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit," one of the most heavily cited articles in the history of American law, and widely considered to be the foundation of the modern class action lawsuit.[2] He also co-authored a pioneering empirical study of The American Jury with his Chicago colleague Hans Zeisel.[3]
He coined the term Heckler's veto.[4][5]
He was chair of the committee that produced what became known as the "Kalven Report",[6] a document outlining the University of Chicago's role "in political and social action."
After his death, his son Jamie Kalven, a journalist and human rights activist, completed Kalven's unfinished manuscript which was published by Harper & Row in 1988 as A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America.[7][8]
^Shapiro, Fred R. (2000). "The Most-Cited Legal Scholars". Journal of Legal Studies. 29 (1): 409–426. doi:10.1086/468080. S2CID 143676627.
^Benno C. Schmidt Jr., A Nation Without Heretics, The New York Times, February 21, 1988. (Visited October 9, 2008)
^"Hans Zeisel, 86, U. Of C. Professor". March 10, 1992.
^The Nazi/Skokie conflict: a civil liberties battle, David Hamlin, Beacon Press, 1980, p. 57.
^"Heckler's Veto".
^Kalven, Harry (November 11, 1967). Report on the University's Role in Political and Social Action (PDF) (Report). Office of the Provost, University of Chicago. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
^Bernstein, David (August 2006). "Lessons from Dad". Chicago (published June 7, 2007). Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
^Pridmore, Jay (August 3, 1988). "Book of Life". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on August 4, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
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