Editing Harold Lasswell (section)

=== Teaching career ===
From 1922 to 1938,<ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica-2023" /> Lasswell served as an assistant professor and associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago.<ref name="Gale-2004" /> During this time, Lasswell was granted a postdoctoral fellowship from the [[Social Science Research Council|Social Sciences Research Council]].<ref name="Almond-1987" /> Lasswell spent a year teaching at the Washington School of Psychiatry from 1938 to 1939, before joining the U.S. [[Library of Congress]] as director of war communications research from 1939 to 1945.<ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica-2023" /><ref name="Gale-2004" />

During this time, he also taught at the [[The New School|New School of Social Research]] and [[Yale Law School]].<ref name="Gale-2004" /> As a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, Lasswell taught a graduate seminar on "Property in a Crisis Society." He became a full-time faculty member following World War II, which underscored the need for a better understanding of law and theory about law.<ref name="McDougal-1979">{{Cite journal |last=McDougal |first=Myres S. |date=1979 |title=Harold Dwight Lasswell 1902-1978 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/795777 |journal=The Yale Law Journal |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=675–680 |jstor=795777 |issn=0044-0094}}</ref>

Lasswell taught law and political science at [[Yale University]] from 1946 to 1970. From 1970 to 1972, he served as a professor of law at the [[City University of New York]]'s John Jay College. From 1972 to 1976, he served as a distinguished professor at [[Temple University]] School of Law, where he retired from teaching.<ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica-2023" /><ref name="Gale-2004" /> [[Columbia University]] also named him the [[Albert Schweitzer|Albert Schewitzer]] professor of international affairs. After retiring from teaching, Lasswell spent his remaining years working with the Policy Sciences Center.<ref name="Gale-2004" />