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Williston, Samuel
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Williston, Samuel (1861–1963) jurist; born in Cambridge, Mass. He was professor (1890–1938) and active professor emeritus (1938–63) at Harvard Law School. He continued in private practice into his nineties and became Harvard's oldest living alumnus. His five-volume Law of Contracts (1920–22) became a standard. He codified commercial law that was adopted by most American states. The American Bar Association awarded him its first gold medal (1929).
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This approach has been advocated for years by author Roger Fisher, a Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard Law School, of "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Within Giving In," in which he suggests moving away from so-called positional bargaining in favor of common-interest identification and responding to that challenge.
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Even Arthur Corbin had Samuel Williston to contend with.
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