Lindsay Rogers
{{Short description|American scholar}}
{{Orphan|date=September 2022}}
Lindsay Rogers (May 23, 1891 – 1970) was an American scholar who was Burgess professor emeritus of public law at Columbia University.{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079273/|title=Lindsay Rogers papers, 1908-1970|website=www.columbia.edu}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/forgotten-lindsay-rogers-and-the-development-of-american-political-science/E583EA20651D23FE1EFAA55537430F26|title=The Forgotten Lindsay Rogers and the Development of American Political Science|first=Amy|last=Fried|date=November 21, 2006|journal=American Political Science Review|volume=100|issue=4|pages=555–561|via=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S0003055406062423|s2cid=155060909 |url-access=subscription}}
Early life and career
Rogers was born In Baltimore on 23 May 1891.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/28/archives/lindsay-rogers-law-professor-at-columbia-dies-held-burgess-chair-31.html|title=Lindsay Rogers, Law Professor at Columbia, Dies|first=William M.|last=Freeman|work=The New York Times |date=November 28, 1970|via=NYTimes.com}} He studied at Baltimore City College and Johns Hopkins University, where he completed a PhD in 1915.
In 1920, he joined the law faculty of Columbia University. He taught there until 1959 and held Burgess professor emeritus of public law chair.
As a writer, he wrote for The Times and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Works
- The Postal Power of Congress: A Study in Constitutional Expansion (1916)https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12849&context=journal_articles
- America's Case Against Germany (1917)
- The American Senate (1926)
- Crisis Government (1934)
- The Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics and Democratic Leadership (1949){{Cite journal|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/106591294900200345|title=Book Reviews and Notices : The Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics, and Democratic Leadership. BY LINDSAY ROGERS. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1948. Pp. vii, 239. $2.75.)|first=Jack E.|last=Holmes|date=September 21, 1949|journal=Western Political Quarterly|volume=2|issue=3|pages=463–464|doi=10.1177/106591294900200345|s2cid=154768417 |url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|url=https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/view/21947|title=Book Reviews: The Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics, and Democratic Leadership, by Lindsay Rogers|first=William M.|last=Leiserson|date=September 21, 1949|journal=Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies|pages=250–251|via=journals.psu.edu}}
- An Introduction to the Problem of Government (1921)
- The New Constitutions of Europe (1922)