Leon A. Green

A. Leon Green (March 31, 1888 – June 15, 1979) was an American legal realist, a pioneer in Tort law, nationally known writer and scholar, and dean of Northwestern University School of Law for 38 years. Through his efforts, Northwestern had one of the strongest law schools in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

Early life Green was born in Oakland, Union Parish, Louisiana on March 31, 1888. He received an LL.B from the University of Texas in 1915. When sales of stock slowed, Green spoke at a Texas Bar Association meeting on July 6, 1922, explaining the needs for the journal and its funding; his presentation secured the needed investors to start the publication. After his retirement, he was a professor emeritus of law at the University of Texas. Texas Law Review, which he help establish, is still in publication as his 1927 "groundbreaking book, The Rationale of Proximate Cause.

Selected publications The Rationale of Proximate Cause. Kansas City, Mo.: Vernon Law Book Company, 1927. Judge and Jury. Kansas City, Mo: Vernon Law Book Co., 1930. The Judicial Process in Tort Cases. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1931. Cases on Injuries to Relations. Rochester: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1940. The Walter-McCarran Law: Police-State Terror Against Foreign-Born Americans. New York: New Century Publishers, 1953. Traffic Victims: Tort Law and Insurance. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1958. The Litigation Process in Tort Law. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. The Litigation Process in Tort Law: No Place to Stop in the Development of Tort Law. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. The Correspondence Between Leon Green and Charles McCormick, 1927-1962. David W. Robertson and Robin Meyer, editors. Littleton, Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1988.