Draft:Charles Fairman

Not to be confused with mycologist Charles E. Fairman

Charles Fairman (July 27, 1897 - ) was a professor and author. He wrote books on the U.S. Supreme Court, its decisions, constitutional jaw, and the jurists themselves.

South Texas College of Law has a collection of his papers.

He was born in Alton, Illinois. He received an A.B. in 1918 andan A. M. In  from the University of Illinois. in 1918 and 1920, hmHe received a Ph.D. from Harvard Universirt in 1926. He also studied at the University of Paris in 1925 and 1926. He received an LL.B. from the University of London in 1934 and an S.J.D. from Harvard in 1938. At Harvard Fairman studied under Professor Felix Frankfurter and they continued to correspond ,when Frankfurter became a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. He also corresponded with Robert H. Jackson.

In 1955 his hiring at Harvard was announced.

Books

 * The Law of Martial Rule
 * Five Justices And The Electoral Commission Of 1877
 * American Constitutional Decisions
 * Supplement to American constitutional decisions
 * Five justices and the electoral commission of 1877
 * The Fourteenth amendment and the Bill of Rights: the incorporation theory (1970)
 * Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, 1862–1890, Harvard University Press (1939)
 * Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864-87

Articles and essays

 * "Martial Rule in the Light of Sterling V. Constantin”, Cornell Law Review (1933)
 * “The Estate of Political Science”
 * ”Some Observations on Military Occuptation” (1948)