Braucher, Robert, 1916-1981.

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Braucher, Robert: lawyer, educator, legal scholar, judge.

  • Feb. 23, 1916: b. New York City, s. Howard S. and Edna Vaughan (Fisher) B.
  • 1936: A.B. (high honors), Haverford College,
  • 1939: LL.B. magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • Jan. 15, 1942: Married Mary Elizabeth King, children: Roberta, William King, Jean, and Karen
  • 1939: Admitted to New York bar
  • 1950: Massachusetts bar
  • 1939 - 1941 : Associate, Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, N.Y.C.
  • 1946 - 1949 : Visiting prof. in law, Harvard Law School
  • 1949 - 1971 : Professor of law
  • 1959: Fulbright lecturer, Chuo and Tokyo Universities, Japan
  • n.d.: Consultant, N.Y. Law Revision Committee
  • 1954 - 1971 : Mass. Commissioner on Uniform State Laws
  • 1954 - 1971 : Member National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
  • 1959 - 1968 : Reporter, American Law Institute, Restatement of Contracts
  • 1961 - 1962 : Member Massachusetts Statutory Special Commission on Code of Ethics; Massachusetts Attorney General Advisory Council on Conflict of Interests
  • 1971 - 1981 : Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  • 1941 - 1945 : Served to major USAAF
  • 1946 - 1955 : CBI, PTO; to lt. Col. USAF Res. Decorated Legion of Merit, D.F.C., Air Medal
  • August 26, 1981: Died

Author:

Introduction to Commercial Law(with Charles Corker), 1949. Cases on Commercial Law,1950. Documents of Title,2nded., 1958. (with Fuller) Basic Contract Law,1964. Commercial Transactions(3rded. with Sutherland), 1964. Commercial Transactions(4thed. with Sutherland), 1968. Also numerous other book titles, reports and journal articles.

Editor Harvard Law Review, 1937-1939.

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From the guide to the Papers, 1936-1971, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)

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creatorOf Papers, 1936-1971 Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
creatorOf Braucher, Robert, 1916-1981. The class notes of Robert Braucher, 1936-1939. Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
creatorOf Trautman, Donald Theodore. Class notes of Donald T. Trautman, 1947. Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
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Massachusetts--Cambridge
Subject
Agency (Law)
Bills of exchange
Business enterprises
Conflict of laws
Contracts
Corporation law
Criminal law
Equity pleading and procedure
Evidence (Law) - Study and teaching
Law
Property
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
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Birth 1916

Death 1981

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