John Henry Merryman
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

John Henry Merryman, Population, Civil Litigation and Legal Science, in Studi in Onore di Vittorio Denti, Vol I, Padova: CEDAM, 1994.
John Henry Merryman, Ricordo di Gino Gorla, in Scintillae Iuris: Studi in Memoria di Gino Gorla, Vol. I, Milano: Giuffre, 1994.
John Henry Merryman, The Nation and The Object, 3 International Journal of Cultural Property 61-76 (1994).
John Henry Merryman and James A. R. Nafziger, The Private International Law of Cultural Property, 42 American Journal of Comparative Law 221-44 (Supp., 1994).
John Henry Merryman, The Wrath of Robert Rauschenberg, 124 Archiv fur Urheber-Film-Funk-und-Theaterrecht 199-223 (1994).
John Henry Merryman, The French Deviation, in Scintillae Iuris: Studi in Memoria di Gino Gorla, Vol. I, Milano: Giuffre, 1994.
John Henry Merryman, Ricordando Gino Gorla, in Ricordando Gino Gorla, Universita degli studi de Roma, Centro di Studi e Ricerche di Diritto Comparato e Straniero: Saggi, Conferenze e Seminari, No. 6, 1993.
John Henry Merryman, The Wrath of Robert Rauschenberg, 41 American Journal of Comparative Law 103-27 (1993).
William F. Baxter, William Nelson Cromwell, Gerald Gunther, Keith Mann, John Henry Merryman, Luna M. Scott, William Benjamin Scott, Marie B. Sweitzer, and Nelson Bowman Sweitzer, In Memoriam: Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, 1907-1991, 43 Stanford Law Review 1171-1174 (1991)
John Henry Merryman, The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America, 2nd ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985.
John H. Barton, James Lowell Gibbs, Jr., Victor Hao Li, and John Henry Merryman, Law in Radically Different Cultures, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1983. 960 pages.
John Henry Merryman, International Art Law: From Cultural Nationalism to a Common Cultural Heritage, 15 Journal of International Law & Politics 757-764 (1983).
John Henry Merryman with Albert E. Elsen, Hot Art: A Reexamination of the Illegal International Trade in Cultural Objects, 12 Journal of Arts Management & Law 5-31 (1982).
John Henry Merryman, David S. Clark and Lawrence M. Friedman, Law and Social Change in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America: A Handbook of Legal Indicators for Comparative Study, Stanford, CA.: Stanford Studies in Law and Development, 1979.
John Henry Merryman, The Inter Vivos Transfer of Land, 26 American Journal of Comparative Law 91 (1978).
John Henry Merryman, Judicial Responsibility in the United States, 41 Rabels Zeitschrift 332 (1977).
John Henry Merryman, Comparative Law and Social Change. On the Origins, Style, Decline and Revival of the Law and Development Movement, 25 American Journal of Comparative Law 457 (1977).
John Henry Merryman, The Refrigerator of Bernard Buffet, 27 Hastings Law Journal 1023-1049 (1976).
John Henry Merryman and David S. Clark, Measuring the Duration of Judicial and Administrative Proceedings, 75 Michigan Law Review 89-99 (1976).
John Henry Merryman, Legal Education There and Here: A Comparison, 27 Stanford Law Review 859 (1975).

merry@stanford.edu

650.723.2473

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BS University of Portland 1943
MS University of Notre Dame Graduate School 1944
JD Notre Dame Law School 1947
LLM 1951; JSD 1955 New York University School of Law

Expertise:

Art and Cultural Property Law
Comparative Law