He studied at the University of Chicago and was a Fulbright scholar, earning both his bachelor's in philosophy and his law degrees.

[1] Hall became a member of the Illinois Bar in 1923, and began his legal career practicing corporate law in Chicago from 1923 to 1929.

[4] From 1934 to 1935 he taught as a Benjamin Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, earning the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)

[4] Hall spent the majority of his professional career as a professor of law at Indiana University Bloomington from 1939 to 1970.

Upon retiring at 65, he was invited to join the esteemed Sixty-Five Club at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he continued to teach until 1986.

He published his first book, Theft, Law and Society, in 1935; even then his interdisciplinary approach to legal analysis could be seen: "One great effect is and will be the fact that it stimulates one's thinking along all the allied fields….

[10] A full bibliography of his written works can be found on the Jerome Hall Law Library website.

[12] In 1954, Hall was one of two Americans approached by the US Department of State to travel to Korea to assist the country in reconstructing their legal system.

[16] Upon his retirement, he was invited to join the prestigious Sixty-Five Club at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, a club that invited distinguished law professors to continue their teaching and scholarly pursuits as members of the Hastings faculty upon retirement.

Classically trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Marianne had performed in New York, Philadelphia, and Canada.

Indiana University Maurer School of Law's Center for Law, Society, and Culture continues Hall's work in interdisciplinary analysis of legal problems by bringing together scholars from departments and schools across campus to engage in collaborative research and scholarship.