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Beale was a prolific legal scholar, frequently contributing to the Harvard Law Review and other legal publications as well as authoring casebooks. He was best known for his work in Conflict of Laws, but perhaps unsurprisingly for a legal mind drawn to such a specialty, he was a top scholar in numerous sub-fields. Beale wrote and edited influential texts in a variety of subjects including: Criminal Law, Taxation, Partnership, Federal and Municipal Corporations, Liability, and Damages. Beale was notable for his advancement of legal formalism, the theory that there is an underlying set of logical principles that legal experts can determine and apply to a set of facts in a legal case.