Robert Kramer was a member of the Duke Law faculty for over a decade. He taught several subjects but most consistently led classes on jurisprudence and administrative law. He was the editor of both Law and Contemporary Problems and the Journal of Legal Education. Kramer also co-authored the treatise Federal Estate and Gift Taxes with fellow Duke Law Professor Charles L. B. Lowndes in 1956.
Kramer completed both his undergraduate and law degrees at Harvard, in 1935 and 1938. After finishing law school he joined the National Labor Relations Board as counsel. During World War II he served in several positions with the Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army. After the war he had a general practice until joining Duke Law in 1947.
In 1959 Kramer became an Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department. As a result his teaching load at Duke was reduced. During the 1960-1961 academic year Kramer only taught two classes during the spring semester. When his role in the Justice Department ended in 1961 he became Dean and Professor of Law at George Washington University, a position he kept until his retirement. He gained emeritus status in 1979 and died in 2001.
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Duke University, School of Law, Bulletin of Duke University School of Law [serial]
Kramer, Robert, 1979-1980 AALS Directory of Law Teachers 476
Robert Kramer, 87 [perma.cc/Z2XN-B38W], Quad-City Times (February 9, 2001) (last viewed August 14, 2015)
- Jurisprudence
- Restitution and Equitable Remedies
- Federal Taxation I
- Corporate Planning
- Administrative Law
- Tax and Estate Planning
- Legislation
- Credit Transactions
- Business Associations I
- Conflict of Laws
- Negotiable Instruments
- Research and Writing I
- Criminal Law
Articles & Essays
- The Attorney General of England and the Attorney General of the United States, 1960 Duke Law Journal 524-534 () (with Nathan Siegal)
- Employee Benefits and Federal Estate and Gift Taxes, 1959 Duke Law Journal 341-396 ()
- Federal Estate and Gift Taxationhttp://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/3019, 1959 Annual Survey of American Law 291-308 ()
- Interests and Policy Clashes in Conflict of Laws, 13 Rutgers Law Review 523-564 ()
- Some Observations on Law and Interdisciplinary Research, 1959 Duke Law Journal 563-570 ()
- The Place and Function of Judicial Review in the Administrative Process, 28 Fordham Law Review 1-95 ()
- Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, 1958 Annual Survey of American Law 314-340 ()
- Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, 33 New York University Law Review 113-130 ()
- Values in Land Use Controls: Some Problems, 7 American University Law Review 1-11 ()
- A Faculty Seminar on Land Use Controls, 9 Journal of Legal Education 241-244 ()
- Foreword, 20 Law & Contemporary Problems 197-198 (Spring )
- Foreword, 20 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 20 Law and Contemporary Problems 351-352 (Summer )
- The Accrual of Corporate Dividends Under the Federal Estate Tax, 16 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 46-49 () (with Charles L.B. Lowndes)
- Foreword, 19 Law & Contemporary Problems 475-476 (Fall )
- Foreword, 19 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 19 Law & Contemporary Problems 139-140 (Spring )
- Foreword, 19 Law & Contemporary Problems 323-324 (Summer )
- Foreword, 18 Law & Contemporary Problems 107-109 (Spring )
- Foreword, 18 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 18 Law & Contemporary Problems 433-434 (Fall )
- Foreword, 17 Law & Contemporary Problems 471-474 (Summer )
- Foreword, 17 Law & Contemporary Problems 253-255 (Spring )
- Foreword, 17 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 16 Law & Contemporary Problems 555-558 (Fall )
- Foreword, 16 Law & Contemporary Problems 345-348 (Summer )
- Foreword, 16 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 15 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (WInter )
- Foreword, 15 Law & Contemporary Problems 471-472 (Fall )
- Foreword, 15 Law & Contemporary Problems 123-124 (Spring )
- Foreword, 14 Law & Contemporary Problems 411-412 (Summer )
- Foreword, 14 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 13 Law & Contemporary Problems 391-392 (Summer )
