Harry N. Scheiber (born 1935 in

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) is an American jurist and legal scholar. He is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he is also the director of the Institute for Legal Research. In the latter role, he also directs the Boalt Hall School of Law's Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law, and co-directs its Law of the Sea Institute. His work has covered multiple different legal subjects, such as the history of American law,

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, and

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Career

Scheiber became an instructor at

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in 1960, where he later became a full professor before leaving the faculty in 1971. He then became a professor of

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at UC San Diego, where he taught until joining the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1980. He was named the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History there in 1991, and became the director of the Institute for Legal Research (then known as the Earl Warren Legal Institute) in 2002. He was the president of the

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from 2003 to 2005.

Honors and awards

Scheiber received a humanities fellowship from the

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in 1979. He was named an honorary life fellow of the American Society for Legal History in 1999, and a fellow of the

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in 2004.

References

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