Edward Samuel Corwin
Corwin testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1937
Born(1878-01-19)January 19, 1878
Plymouth, Michigan, US
DiedApril 23, 1963(1963-04-23) (aged 85)
Princeton, New Jersey, US
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (AB)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsLegal history
ThesisFrench Policy and the American Alliance of 1778 (1905)
Doctoral advisorsAndrew C. McLaughlin
William E. Lingelbach

Edward Samuel Corwin (January 19, 1878 – April 23, 1963) was an American legal scholar who served as the president of the American Political Science Association. His various political writings in the early to mid-twentieth century microcosmically depict the rising activist thinking in various areas of American, constitutional law.

Biography

Corwin was born in Plymouth, Michigan, on January 19, 1878. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1900; and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He was invited to join the faculty of Princeton University by Woodrow Wilson in 1905. In 1908 he was appointed the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1936.[1] He authored many books on United States constitutional law, and he remained at Princeton until he retired in 1946. He died on April 23, 1963, and was buried in Princeton Cemetery. He was reinterred to Riverside Cemetery near his birthplace in Plymouth, Michigan, where he is buried with his wife, parents, and other family members.

A full biography of Corwin, with a comprehensive bibliography of his numerous publications, was written by Kenneth Crews and published in 1985.[2]

Bibliography

  • French Policy And The American Alliance of 1778 (1916)
  • John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court (1919)
  • The Constitution and What It Means Today (1920)
  • The President, Office and Powers (1940)
  • The Constitution and World Organization (1944)
  • Total War and the Constitution (1946)
  • The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (1952) (Editor)
  • The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law (1965)

References

  1. ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  2. ↑ Kenneth D. Crews, Edward S. Corwin and the American Constitution: A Bibliographical Analysis (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985).


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