CAHN, EDMOND NATHANIEL
Edmond Nathaniel Cahn was the author of numerous publications including The Sense of
Injustice (1949), The Moral Decision (1955), and The Edmond Cahn Reader (1966).
Cahn was born January 17, 1906, in New
Orleans, Louisiana. He received a bachelor of
arts degree in 1925 and a doctor of JURISPRUDENCE
degree in 1927 from Tulane University.
He also received a doctor of laws degree from
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
located in New York City, in 1962.
After his admission to the Louisiana bar in
1927 and the New York bar in 1928, Cahn established
a law firm in New York City where he
practiced law from 1927 to 1950. He extended
his career interests to the field of education and
taught at New York University in 1945, accepting
a professorship of law in 1948. In 1958 and 1962
he lectured on the philosophy of law at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem and on ethics at
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in
New York City in 1961.
From 1948 to 1951 he was the director of the
Conference on Social Meaning of Legal Concepts.
He was awarded the Phillips Prize in
Jurisprudence by the American Philosophical
Society in 1955.
Cahn died August 9, 1964, in New York City.
“IN EVERY MATURE SOCIETY, THERE IS CONSIDERABLE OVERLAP BETWEEN LEGAL QUESTIONS AND MORAL QUESTIONS.” —EDMOND CAHN
