John Henry Merryman

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John Henry Merryman (born February 24, 1920 in Portland , Oregon - † August 3, 2015 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American lawyer . He was a professor at the Law School of Stanford University . Merryman's focus was on comparative law and art law . In the United States, Merryman is considered to be the founder of the field of art law.

Life

John Henry Merryman first studied music at the University of Portland and then chemistry . In 1943 he received a bachelor's degree in Portland. The following year he earned a Masters degree from the University of Notre Dame . It was here that he began to study law. In 1947 he completed his legal studies with the title of Juris Doctor (JD). He received a Master of Laws degree from New York University Law School in 1950 . In 1955 Merryman received his Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) from New York University.

He taught at Santa Clara University until 1953 and was then appointed to Stanford, where he was retired in 1986 . Even after his retirement, he held lectures on the subject of art theft in the spring semester . In 1968 and 1969 he received a Fulbright Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law .

John Henry Merryman was married to the art dealer Nancy Edwards († 2013).

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During a stay in Italy in 1962, Merryman met Italian law professors. With Mauro Cappelletti , among others , he then wrote The Italy Legal System, which was finally published in 1967 . An Introduction . After he was in Hamburg in 1968/1969 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Merryman wrote The Civil Law Tradition. An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America . Together with his student David S. Clark , Merryman developed Comparative Law - Western European and Latin American Legal Systems, Cases and Materials , which appeared in 1978.

In 1971 Merryman began to hold lectures on art law with the art historian Albert E. Elsen . the Law lecture series . Ethics, and the Visual Arts led from 1979 to the publication of the Casebook with the same name, which was published in five editions until 2007 . The lectures were inspired by Merryman's wife in the art trade. Merryman founded the 1992 Journal of Cultural Property .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Kurt Siehr, John Henry Merryman (1920–2015) and Art Law , Art and Law 2015, 127–129.
  2. ^ Review by Rene David , RabelZ Volume 34 (1970), 360.
  3. ↑ Review by Hein Kötz in RabelZ Volume 44 (1980), 538.
personal data
SURNAME Merryman, John Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and professor at Stanford
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Oregon , United States
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2015
Place of death Palo Alto , California , United States