Henry Harfield
Henry Harfield (October 17, 1913 – September 13, 2003) was an American lawyer with the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling, representing Citibank. He developed the legal framework for certificates of deposit introduced as a banking product by his client, Citibank, in 1961.[1]
He graduated from Yale in 1934 and Columbia Law in 1937.
He was involved in returning prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion, for which he received a letter of thanks from the White House in regards to his negotiation of a letter of credit.[2] He also wrote articles[3][4] and a practice handbook on the subject[5]
He argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on two cases,[6] First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba (1971) and First National City Bank v. Banco Para el Comercio Exterior de Cuba (1982).
In 1988, he published "Extraterritorial Imperatives" in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Wayne, Leslie (2003-09-22). "H. Harfield, Innovator In Banking, Dies at 89". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ https://ussanctions.shearman.com/sitefiles/23063/harfield%20letter.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Harfield, Henry (2014-07-29). "Code Treatment of Letters of Credit". Cornell Law Review. 48 (1). ISSN 0010-8847.
- ^ Harfield, Henry (1977). "The Standby Letter of Credit Debate". Banking Law Journal. 94: 293.
- ^ Harfield, Henry (1979). Letters of credit. Uniform commercial code practice handbook ; no. 5. American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education. Philadelphia: American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education.
- ^ https://www.oyez.org/advocates/henry_harfield [bare URL]
- ^ "Extraterritorial Imperatives" https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1707&context=jil
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