A. Leon Green (March 31, 1888 – June 15, 1979) was an American legal realist, a pioneer in Tort law, nationally known writer and scholar, and dean of Northwestern University School of Law for 38 years. Through his efforts, Northwestern had one of the strongest law schools in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He also served as professor at Yale Law School and the University of Texas School of Law. Green wrote the "groundbreaking book, ''The Rationale of Proximate Cause,'' in 1927.
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