Thayer, James Bradley (1831-1902)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1831 - 1902

Biography

James Bradley Thayer was an American legal theorist and educator. From 1873 to 1883 he was Royall professor of law at Harvard. In 1883 he was transferred to the professorship which after 1893 was known as the Weld professorship and which he held until his death on February 14, 1902. He took a special interest in the historical evolution of law

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James Bradley Thayer papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-093

Overview: This collection includes materials relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley)...

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Subject: North Dakota -History. X