Maynard E. Pirsig, LLD, (/ˈpɜːrsɪɡ/; January 9, 1902 - February 7, 1997) was an American legal scholar. He was director of the Minnesota Legal Aid Society, dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, a Minnesota Supreme Court justice, and an advisor for the Indonesian, Puerto Rican, and El Salvadoran legal systems. He defined legal ethics in the 1974 Encyclopedia Britannica. His law books were widely used in schools across the country, and his book Judicial Administration was the first casebook on the field of judicial administration in the US. He was mentored by Everett Fraser, Roscoe Pound, and Felix Frankfurter.