John Henry Merryman
John Henry Merryman (February 25, 1920 – August 3, 2015) was an American legal scholar known for his work in comparative law and art law. He was remembered as "one of the most influential academics in the field of art and law." He was the author of approximately 25 books and 200 scholarly articles.Merryman was a professor at Stanford Law School where he held the Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professorship of Law. He is considered the founder of art law as a field of legal study in the United States. The author of various texts on the civil law tradition, including ''The Civil Law Tradition'', he was the country's foremost expert on that legal tradition. Provided by Wikipedia
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