Max Radin

Max Radin (born March 29, 1880 in Kempen , German Reich , † June 22, 1950 in Berkeley ) was an American legal scholar .

life and work

Max Radin, son of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin, emigrated with his family to the USA and grew up in New York . He received his first lessons from his father. He studied at the City College of New York ( BA 1899) and at the School of Law at Columbia University (LL.B. 1902). After graduation, he worked as a lawyer and public school teachers in New York and deepened his studies at Columbia University, where he in 1909 with a thesis on ancient Associations doctorate was. From 1907 he worked at Newton High School as a first assistant; At the same time, he held courses on Roman and civil law at the City College of New York from 1917 to 1918. In 1918 he was hired as an Instructor of Law at Columbia University.

In 1919 Radin left school and New York and went to California. At the University of California, Berkeley , he received a chair in law, which he held from 1919 until his retirement in 1948. Most recently, he was John Henry Boalt Professor of Law from 1940. During his time at Berkeley, he was visiting professor at Yale Law School (1940), Pacific University in Oregon (1946) and Columbia University (1947). In 1949 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey . In 1948 he received a doctorate from Whitman College .

In his research, Radin combined Roman and civil law with current legal issues. He published more than 700 works, including several specialist and popular scientific monographs and manuals.

Fonts (selection)

• The Legislation of the Greeks and Romans on Corporations . New York 1910 (dissertation)
• The Jews among the Greeks and Romans . Philadelphia 1916
• Handbook of Roman Law . St. Paul (MN) 1925
• Life of People in Biblical Times . Philadelphia 1929
• The Awful Pursuit of Gain . Boston / New York 1929
• The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth . Chicago 1931
• Handbook of the Anglo-American Legal History . St. Paul (MN) 1936
• Article in Pauly-Wissowa 's Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE), Vol. XVII, 2 (1937) and XVIII, 1 (1939): Obligatio, Obsignatio, Obvagulatio, Oratio
• The Law and Mr. Smith . New York 1938
• Marcus Brutus . New York / London 1939
• Manners and Morals of Business . Indianapolis 1939
• Law as logic and experience . New Haven / London 1940
• The Day of Reckoning . New York 1943
• The Law and You . New York 1948
• Epicurus, My Master . Chapel Hill (NC) 1949
• Radin's Law Dictionary . New York 1951

literature

• Ward W. Briggs : Radin, Max . In: Derselbe (ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , pp. 514f.

Web links

• Entry on Max Radin in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)