Harry Shulman

Harry A. Shulman (May 14, 1903 – March 20, 1955) was a professor at Yale Law School from 1930 to 1954, the dean of Yale Law School from 1954–1955, an expert of industrial relations and labor law, and a prominent labor arbitrator.

Early life

Shulman was born in Krugloye near Mogilev (now in Belarus), in the Russian Empire in 1903. His parents were Simon Shulman and Tillie Klebanoff. He emigrated to the United States in 1912. His family moved to Providence, Rhode Island. He practiced law for a year His son, Stephen N. Shulman, was born in 1933. He became an associate professor in 1933, and a professor in 1937. He became a Lines Professor in 1939, and a Sterling Professor in 1940. He was described as a superb teacher.

His scholarly work concerned torts, administrative law scholarship, and labor contracts. His lecture, "Reason, Contract, and Law in Labor Relations", has been cited hundreds of times.

In 1941, he completed his work on the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure, which was "among the factors guiding the modern evolution of administrative law.

He was named as the next Dean of Yale Law School on January 12, 1954. On July 1, 1954, he became Dean of Yale Law School. He died in 1955 from cancer. A scholarship fund was established in his honor in 1955, a research fund in 1957, and a library fund in 1963. and January 10–11, 1958.

Work as arbitrator

Shulman was "one of the most influential people in the history of American Labor arbitration." He was a special counsel for the Railroad Retirement Board from 1934 to 1936,

He led a panel on steel workers wages during the 1952 steel strike. He also helped arbitrate an aircraft industry workers' collective bargaining case in 1952, which resulted in a 14 cent an hour wage increase. He was a member of the Wage Stabilization Board during the Korean War.

He was a member of the Attorney General's committee on administrative procedure in 1940 and 1941. As a reporter for the American Law Institute on the restatement of torts, he dealt with unfair competition, trademark infringements and labor disputes. He was a member of the council of the American Law Institute from 1947 to 1952. In May 1954, he received the Americanism Award of the Connecticut Valley Council of B'nai B'rith.

Selected works Cases and materials on the law of torts with Fleming James Jr., 1942 Cases on labor relations with Neil W. Chamberlain, 1949 A study of law administration in Connecticut : a report of an investigation of the activities of certain trial courts of the state with Charles Edward Clark, 1937 Opinions of the Umpire, 1945 Cases on Federal Jurisdictions and Procedure with Felix Frankfurter, 1937