Karl Nickerson Llewellyn was born in Seattle but grew up in Brooklyn. His father was Welsh and his mother from New England. He attended Yale College and began Yale Law School in 1915 where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. He stayed on at Yale after his graduation to work on his J.D. degree and was invited to teach commercial law. His first legal position was as house counsel for the National City Bank of New York. He then joined the law firm of Shearman and Sterling. In 1923 he returned to Yale Law School as an associate professor. A year later he visited at Columbia Law School and joined their faculty in 1925, while continuing to teach at Yale. He remained at Columbia Law School until 1951. While at Columbia, Llewellyn became one of the major jurisprudential scholars of his day, and was a major figure in the debate over Legal Realism. He was a collaborator with E. Adamson Hoebel on an anthropological study of Cheyenne law and served as a drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code. In 1951 Llewellyn moved to the University of Chicago, where he worked with his third wife, Soia Mentschikoff, and spent his remaining years of teaching
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Karl Nickerson Llewellyn was born in Seattle but grew up in Brooklyn. His father was Welsh and his mother from New England. He attended Yale College and began Yale Law School in 1915 where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. He stayed on at Yale after his graduation to work on his J.D. degree and was invited to teach commercial law. His first legal position was as house counsel for the National City Bank of New York. He then joined the law firm of Shearman and Sterling. In 1923 he returned to Yale Law School as an associate professor. A year later he visited at Columbia Law School and joined their faculty in 1925, while continuing to teach at Yale. He remained at Columbia Law School until 1951. While at Columbia, Llewellyn became one of the major jurisprudential scholars of his day, and was a major figure in the debate over Legal Realism. He was a collaborator with E. Adamson Hoebel on an anthropological study of Cheyenne law and served as a drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code. In 1951 Llewellyn moved to the University of Chicago, where he worked with his third wife, Soia Mentschikoff, and spent his remaining years of teaching
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