George Lee Haskins RHS (February 13, 1915 – October 4, 1991) was an American legal scholar and the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
[2] Haskins was the son of medievalist Charles Homer Haskins, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
[3] He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1931), Harvard University (AB, summa cum laude, 1935), and Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1942).
[5] He enlisted during World War 2, and rose to become a major in military intelligence in the War Department General Staff, receiving the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf clusters and—from the British government—the George Medal.
[5] He died on October 4, 1991, at his home in Hancock, Maine.