John Harriss Langbein was born on 1941 and is an American legal scholar who serves as the Sterling Professor emeritus of Law and Legal History at Yale University.
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John Langbein is an expert in the fields of trusts and estates, comparative law, and Anglo-American legal history.
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John Langbein then attended the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1968 with a LL.
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John Langbein received an honorary M A degree in 1990 from Yale University.
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In 1971, John Langbein joined the University of Chicago Law School as an assistant professor of law, eventually holding the position of Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law.
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In 1990, John Langbein joined the faculty of the Yale Law School, where he eventually became a Sterling Professor, the highest-ranking appointment at Yale University.
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John Langbein has called attention to the trend whereby human capital has replaced physical capital as the dominant form of wealth transmitted from parent to child.
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John Langbein has focused in particular on the history of criminal procedure, comparing the Anglo-American tradition to that of the European Continent.
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John Langbein has served as an Associate Reporter for the Restatement of Property : Wills and Other Donative Transfers, and is an adviser to the Restatement of Trusts.
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John Langbein is a Commissioner of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and has served on the drafting committees for several uniform acts, including the Uniform Prudent Investor Act, for which he was the Reporter.
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