1. Jerome Hall was an American legal scholar and academic.
21 Facts About Jerome Hall
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Jerome Hall is best known for his pioneering work in interdisciplinary legal analysis.
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Jerome Hall studied at the University of Chicago and was a Fulbright scholar, earning both his bachelor's in philosophy and his law degrees.
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Jerome Hall graduated from law school with honors in 1923.
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Jerome Hall became a member of the Illinois Bar in 1923, and began his legal career practicing corporate law in Chicago from 1923 to 1929.
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Jerome Hall spent the majority of his professional career as a professor of law at Indiana University Bloomington from 1939 to 1970.
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Jerome Hall was a renowned scholar in comparative law, criminal law, and jurisprudence.
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Jerome Hall was among the first scholars to analyze legal problems through an interdisciplinary approach.
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Jerome Hall made significant contributions to the global legal community throughout his career.
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In 1954, Jerome Hall was one of two Americans approached by the US Department of State to travel to Korea to assist the country in reconstructing their legal system.
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Jerome Hall spent seven weeks in Korea, then went to Japan for another six weeks, and was then asked to continue on to India for another six weeks, culminating in the Philippines for an additional week.
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Jerome Hall was named honorary director of the Korean Law Institute in 1955.
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Jerome Hall advised India on the rewriting of the country's criminal code during this trip.
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Jerome Hall's teaching accolades could be seen within the United States as well.
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Jerome Hall received the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for distinguished teaching from Indiana University in 1956; Hall was only the second recipient of this award, and was the only law professor at IU to receive it during his career.
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Jerome Hall attained the faculty ranking of distinguished professor at Indiana University in 1957.
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Jerome Hall later held the Edward Douglass White lectureship at Louisiana State University in the spring of 1962 and was a Murray Lecturer at the University of Iowa in 1963.
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Jerome Hall received several honorary doctor of law degrees throughout this career: from the University of North Dakota in 1958, the China Academy in Taipei in 1968, and the Tuebingen University in 1978.
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Jerome Hall was one of 25,000 people whose biography appeared in the first edition of Marquis' Who's Who in the World.
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In 1940, Jerome Hall married Marianne Adele Cowan, an actress from Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Jerome Hall's scholarship continues to have an influence, cited regularly in academia today.