Palmer, George E.

George E. Palmer was a professor of law at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1978, when he was named professor emeritus. He was born on February 3, 1908 in Washington, Indiana, and married Ruth Hamersly on July 7, 1935. A 1932 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he also spent some time studying law at Columbia University around 1940. He served as attorney and associate general council for the United States Office of Price Administration from 1942 to 1945, where he authored the Rent Control Laws for the country during World War II. He was an attorney for the Department of Justice in 1945.

Palmer primarily taught courses on Trusts and Estates and Restitution while he was at the University of Michigan. He was regarded as an international authority on restitution, and wrote many works about the subject including a casebook (with Jack Dawson) used in the teaching of restitution, a four-volume work on restitution, an article on the history of restitution which appeared in the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, and other articles that appeared in various law journals.

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