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George Edward White (born March 19, 1941) is an American legal historian,
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scholar, and the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.


Education and career

White finished high school at Philips Academy. He then graduated with a bachelor of arts degree ''magna cum laude'' from Amherst College in 1963. He went on to study at
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, where he obtained a master of arts in 1964 and doctor of philosophy in 1967, both in history. In 1970, White graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. White then clerked for Earl Warren, the then- Chief Justice of the United States, in the 1971 term. White joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1972. At Virginia Law, he became a University Professor in 1993, then a Distinguished Professor in 2003. White is a member of the American Law Institute, the
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, and the Society of American Historians. At Virginia Law, he teaches courses in
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,
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, and
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. White was once a
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and twice a senior fellow of the
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. Throughout his career, White has published 18 books, and won several awards for these publications, including a final listing for the Pulitzer Prize for
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. White has held visiting appointments at Harvard Law School,
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, the
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, and elsewhere. Between 2016 and 2020, White was the fourth most cited scholar in the United States in the field of legal history.


Personal life

White was born to Dr. George L. White, Jr. and his wife. In December 1966, White married Susan Valre Davis, now a family attorney in Charlottesville, Virginia. Davis White is the daughter of John F. Davis, the former
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. White is a lifelong fan of and participant in sports and in 1996, he published a book on the history of baseball, ''Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953.''


Selected publications


Books

* ''Law in American History, Volume 3: 1930-2000'' (Oxford University Press, 2019) * ''Law in American History, Volume 2: From Reconstruction Through the 1920s'' (Oxford University Press, 2016) * ''American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford University Press, 2014) * ''Law in American History: Volume 1, From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War'' (Oxford University Press, 2012) * ''The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges'' (Oxford University Press, 3d ed. 2007) * '' Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars'' (Oxford Press, paperback ed., 2005) * ''Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars'' (Oxford University Press, 2004) * ''Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History'' (Oxford University Press, 1980; expanded ed. 2003) * ''The Constitution and the New Deal'' (Harvard University Press, 2000) * ''Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court'' (Oxford University Press, 2000); also published as ''
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'' (Oxford University Press, 2006) * ''Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953'' (Princeton University Press, 1996) * ''Intervention and Detachment: Essays in Legal History and Jurisprudence'' (Oxford University Press, 1994) * ''Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self'' (Oxford University Press, 1993) * ''The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-35'' (Macmillan, 1988; abridged ed. Oxford University Press, 1991) * ''The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister'' (Yale, 1968; Texas, 2d ed. 1989) * ''The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges'' (Oxford University Press, 1976; expanded ed. 1988) * ''Earl Warren: A Public Life'' (Oxford University Press, 1982) * ''Patterns of American Legal Thought'' (Bobbs-Merrill, 1978)


Book chapters

* “Tracing Judicial Roles over Time,” in Robert M. Jarvis, ed., ''Teaching Legal History: Comparative Perspectives'' 257 (Wildy, Simonds & Hill, 2014). * "The Origins of Modern American Legal History," in Daniel W. Hamilton & Alfred L. Brophy, eds., ''Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology and Methods: Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz, Volume II'' 48 (Harvard Law School, 2010). * "Free Speech and the Bifurcated Review Project: The 'Preferred Position' Cases," in Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Kermit L. Hall, & Robert J. Jaczorowski, eds., ''Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History'' 99 (University Press of Kansas, 2002). * "Analogical Reasoning and Historical Change in Law: The Regulation of Film and Radio Speech," in Austin Sarat, ed., ''History, Memory and Law'' (1999). * "Warren Court," in Leonard W. Levy et al., eds., 4 ''Encyclopedia of the American Constitution'' 2023 (Macmillan, 1986). Reprinted in Leonard W. Levy et al., eds., ''American Constitutional History'' 279 (Macmillan, 1989). * "Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935)," in Leonard W. Levy et al., eds., 2 ''Encyclopedia of the American Constitution'' 920 (Macmillan, 1986).


See also

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List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Th ...


References

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