George Haskins
{{short description|American legal academic}}
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| birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|10|4|1915|2|13}}
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| occupation = Law professor
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| title = Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law
| boards = *Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- President of the American Society for Legal History
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| parents = Charles Homer Haskins and Clare (Allen) Haskins
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| awards = *Guggenheim Fellow
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- Merton College, Oxford{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|pages=264–265}}
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George Lee Haskins RHS (February 13, 1915 – October 4, 1991) was an American legal scholar and the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0sP7mMEE-oC|title=Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Tradition and Design|first=George Lee|last=Haskins|date=1984|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=9780819143730|via=Google Books}}
Biography
Haskins was the son of medievalist Charles Homer Haskins, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He was born and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3973&context=penn_law_review "GEORGE L. HASKINS"]
He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1931), Harvard University (AB, summa cum laude, 1935), and Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1942).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/10/obituaries/george-l-haskins-76-law-professor-at-penn.html|title=George L. Haskins, 76, Law Professor at Penn|newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 October 1991|publisher=}} Haskins was a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Henry Fellow at Merton College of Oxford University.{{cite web|url=https://www.colonialsociety.org//node/899|title=Biographical Notes on Contributors; George L. Haskins|website=Colonial Society of Massachusetts}} He enlisted during World War 2, and rose to become a major in military intelligence in the War Department General Staff, receiving the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf clusters and—from the British government—the George Medal.[https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517770.pdf "GEORGE LEE HASKINS"]
Haskins was the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the oldest of the endowed chairs at the law school.[https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3974&context=penn_law_review "GEORGE L. HASKINS"]{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ho7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22George+Haskins%22+law+professor|title=Proceedings|first=Association of American Law Schools|last=Meeting|date=30 April 1993|publisher=The Association|via=Google Books}} He taught at the law school for 39 years.
He wrote at least ten books and 82 articles. Haskins was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and President of the American Society for Legal History. He died on October 4, 1991, at his home in Hancock, Maine.
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