James Parker Hall

James Parker Hall (1871-1928) was an American legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 2nd dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1904 to 1928. He is the longest-serving dean of the law school.

Life and career

Hall was born on November 30, 1871, in Frewsburg, New York. He graduated from Jamestown High School in 1890. He graduated from Cornell University with an A.B. with honors in 1894. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1897, he graduated from Harvard Law School with a LL.B. cum laude and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was admitted to the New York bar in the same year and practised at a law firm in Buffalo, New York.

Hall died following post-operative complications in 1928.