Edward S. Thurston, Southmayd Professor of Law, 1919-29

Edward Sampson Thurston (1876-1948) was a professor at the Law School for a decade, having been recruited from the University of Minnesota.  Thurston, a leading contracts scholar, was best known for his casebooks, Cases in Quasi-Contract, which first appeared in 1916, and Cases on Restitution, which was published in 1940. A graduate of Harvard Law School who was considered a “traditionalist” by the Law School’s Legal Realists, Thurston left Yale for his alma mater in 1930.

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REFERENCES:

Laura Kalman, Legal Realism at Yale 1927-1960 (1986).

2 Who Was Who in America 532 (1963).