Greenleaf, Simon (1783–1853)

US lawyer and professor. He read and practised law in Maine from 1806. When Maine became a state, he was the reporter to its supreme judicial court (1820–32). He then became a professor of law at Harvard University (1833–48). Always deliberate and thorough, as seen in his widely hailed three-volume Treatise on the Law of Evidence (1842–53), he is regarded, along with Joseph Story, as one who contributed the most to shaping Harvard Law School. Greenleaf was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts.