Mercuro, Nicholas; Medema, Steven G.; Samuels, Warren J. --- "Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) – Legal Economist" [2005] ELECD 164; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845420321

Section: Chapter 40

Section Title: Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) – Legal Economist

Author(s): Mercuro, Nicholas; Medema, Steven G.; Samuels, Warren J.

Number of pages: 14

Extract:

40 Robert Lee Hale (1884­1969) ­ legal
economist
Nicholas Mercuro, Steven G. Medema and Warren
J. Samuels


Introduction1
Robert Lee Hale was born in New York in 1884. His secondary school
education was undertaken in New York and Connecticut, and thereafter he
spent one year studying in Germany. He returned to the United States and
entered Harvard College, where he studied economics, graduating with a BA
in 1906 and an AM in 1907. While studying at Harvard, he served as an
assistant to one of the leading figures in orthodox economics, Frank W.
Taussig. The next year he entered Harvard Law School, receiving an LLB in
1909. After working at a Chicago law firm and then as a clerk in the legal
department of AT&T in New York, Hale enrolled at Columbia University,
where he earned a PhD in economics in 1918. As a graduate student at
Columbia, he regularly taught courses in the Economics Department. In
1919, the year after he earned his PhD, Hale was invited by Dean Harlan
Fiske Stone to teach at Columbia Law School and, as a consequence, Hale
was subsequently (in 1922) awarded a joint lectureship in the Economics
Department and at the Columbia Law School. He was formally invited to join
the law school on a full-time basis in 1928 as an assistant professor of legal
economics. He was made full professor in 1935 and retired as professor
emeritus in 1949. Hale died on 31 August 1969.
Hale can perhaps best ...