Robert Lee Hale Explained
Robert Lee Hale (1884 - 1969) was an American lawyer and economist. He earned an economics degree at Harvard University, and then worked at Columbia Law School. He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.[1]
Publications
- "Rate Making and the Revision of the Property Concept" (1922) 22 Columbia Law Review 209
- "Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non.Coercive State." (1923) 38 Political Science Quarterly
- "Economic Theory and the Statesman" in R G Tugwell (ed.), The Trend of Economics (New York, Knopf, 1924) 189 at 194-5
- "Economics and Law" in W F Ogburn & A Goldenweiser (eds.), The Social Sciences and their Interrelations (London, Allen & Unwin, 1927) 131 at 132-3
- "Force and the State: A Comparison of 'Political' and 'Economic' Compulsion" (1935) 35 Columbia Law Review
- "Prima Facie Torts, Combination, and Non-Feasance" (1946) 46 Columbia Law Review
- "Bargaining, Duress and Economic Liberty." (1943) 43 Columbia Law Review
- Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private Governing Power (1952)
See also
Further reading
- N Duxbury, 'Robert Hale and the Economy of Legal Force' (1990) 53 Modern Law Review D Kennedy, 'The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!' (1991) 15 Legal Studies Forum 86
- Barbara H. Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement (Harvard University Press, 20011
Notes and References
- Book: Mercuro, Nicholas . The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics . Medema . Steven G. . Samuels . Warren J. . 2005-09-28 . Edward Elgar Publishing Limited . 9781845420321 . Backhaus . Jürgen G. . 2nd . 531-544 . Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) – legal economist.
