Frank Michelman
Frank I. Michelman | |
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| Born | May 26, 1936 |
| Education | Yale University B.A Harvard Law School LL.B. |
| Occupation | Robert Walmsley University Professor Emeritus |
| Employer | Harvard Law School |
Frank Isaac Michelman (born May 26, 1936)[1] is an American legal scholar and the Robert Walmsley University Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School.
Michelman wrote the influential law review article, Property, Utility and Fairness, (80 Harv. L. Rev. 1165 (1967)) on the economic reasons for just compensation in the 5th Amendment Takings Clause in the United States Constitution. This article was cited by the majority in its opinion in Penn Central v. New York City, the Supreme Court case that dealt with the authority of a local New York City landmark law that forbade the railroad company from putting up a skyscraper above the historic Grand Central Terminal structure. Michelman's analysis relied on evaluating whether the nuisance costs and value to society were worth it. He observed that while the Courts did not always provide rulings which were fair or provided utility, they provided as perfect a results that can be obtained by the Courts. He observed that administrative agencies and legislatures were shirking their roles in the compensation process.
Michelman served as Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy 1994-96 and as its President, 1998-2001.
Michelman won the American Philosophical Society award in 2005. At a November ceremony in Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society awarded Professor Frank Michelman its Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence. The prize was given only 20 times in more than a century, and honored Michelman's significant contributions to the field of jurisprudence [2]
In November 2007, Frank Michelman was a Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.[3]
He retired from the University Professorship in 2012, and in February 2013 Cass Sunstein was appointed by Harvard University's President, Drew Gilpin Faust, to succeed him.[4]
Further reading
Michelman, Frank I. "Unenumerated Rights Under Popular Constitutionalism," 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 121 (2006).
Michelman, Frank I. "Reflection," 82 Texas Law Review 1737 (2004).
Michelman, Frank I. "The Constitution, Social Rights, and Liberal Political Justification," 1 International Journal of Constitutional Law 13 (2003).
Michelman, Frank I. "The Bill of Rights, The Common Law, and The Freedom-Friendly State," 58 Miami Law Review 401 (2003).
Michelman, Frank I. "The Problem of Constitutional Interpretive Disagreement: Can Discourses of Application Help?" in Habermas and Pragmatism (M. Aboulafia, M. Bookman & C. Kemps eds., 2002). (This paper has been republished in Chinese, in the "Practical Philosophy Series," volume "Civic Republicanism")
Michelman, Frank I. "Morality, Identity, and 'Constitutional Patriotism'," 76 Denver University Law Review 1009 (1999).
Michelman, Frank I. Brennan and Democracy (Princeton University Press 1999).
Michelman, Frank I. "The Subject of Liberalism," 46 Stanford Law Review 1807 (1994) (reviewing John Rawls, Columbia Univ. Press, Political Liberalism (1996)).
Michelman, Frank I. "Takings, 1987," 88 Columbia Law Review 1600 (1988).
Michelman, Frank I. "Ethics, Economics, and the Law of Property" in Ethics, Economics, and the Law (NOMOS series - 24) (J. Roland Pennock & John W. Chapman eds., New York University Press, 1982).
Michelman, Frank I. "Property, Utility and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of 'Just Compensation" Law Vol. (80)6, April, Harvard Law Review, pp. 1165–1258
See also
References
- ^ date & year of birth, full name according to LCNAF CIP data
- ^ "Harvard Law School Record 2005"
- ^ http://www.americanacademy.de/fileadmin/assets/Press_Releases/PR_Fellowspresentation_eng.pdf date=May 2010
- ^ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/02/sunstein-a-university-professor/