Francis Bohlen

Francis Hermann Bohlen (July 31, 1868 – December 9, 1942) was an American legal scholar from Pennsylvania who specialized in tort law and served as the Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Biography Bohlen was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John and Priscilla Murray Bohlen.

Apart from his scholarly work, he played cricket at a high level as an amateur, competing in England and representing the London County Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club, Free Foresters, and the Philadelphian cricket team .

Bohlen was the Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was an expert on the law of torts, and also taught evidence and contracts.

Among his writings were A Short Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts: Texas, and Other Cases on Torts (Bobbs-Merrill, 1933), Commentaries on Torts: Restatement, Issue 3 (American Law Institute, 1927), and Studies in the law of torts (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926).

He died on December 9, 1942, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, at age 74.