Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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JAMES MCCAULEY LANDIS Dean and Byrne Proferrof of Acimifzirlmlive Law Dean Landis was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1899. He was graduated from Princeton in 1921 and received from the Harvard Law School the degree of LL.B. in 1924 and S.J.D. in 1925, becoming Case Editor of the Law Review. After a year as secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis, he joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1926, was ap- pointed Dean in' 1937 and Byrne Professor of Administrative Law in 1939. Massachusetts Commissioner on Uniform State Laws from 1931 until 1933. Dean Landis was a member of the Federal Trade Commission, 1933-1934, and Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935-1937. In 1938 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of an Emergency Board under the Federal Railway Act and in 1939 was special trial examiner for the Bridges Hearing. At present he is serving as United States Regional Director, First Civilian Defense Area. Dean Landis is the author of The Administrative Process and Cases on Labor Law, and collaborated with Mr. justice Frankfurter in The Business of the Supreme Court 119275. He is teaching Administrative Law and Labor Law this year. He has previously taught Contracts, Legislation, Quasi-Contracts, Public Utilities, and Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. 28

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JAMES BRYANT CONANT Prericlent of the U1ziverJ'ily President Conant was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1893. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1913 and received his Ph.D. degree in 1916. From 1916 until 1917 he was Instructor in Chemistry at Harvard, Assistant Professor from 1919 until 1925, Associate Professor from 1925 until 1927, Professor from 1927 until 1929 and Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry until 1933. In June of that year he was elected President of Harvard University, succeeding A. Lawrence Lowell. A member of the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Institute since 1930, President Conant is an honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He served as a lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army in 1917 and as a major in the Chemical Warfare Service in 1918. At present he is discharging the duties of Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Na- tional Academy of Sciences, the Imperial Academy of Science CHallej, the Royal So- ciety CEnglandJ, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh CScotlandD. He is the author of many important volumes on Organic Chemistry and islone of the outstanding authorities in this field. 27

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JOSEPH HENRY BEALE R oyall Profersor of Law Emeritus Professor Beale retired from the Law School in 1938 after a continuous membership on the Faculty of forty- erght years. With Professor Williston he shares the record for length of teaching service in Harvard Law School history. Born in 1861, he received his education at Harvard fA.B. 1882, A.M. 1887, LL.B. 18875. While a student he became one of the founders of the Lau' Review. In 1890, after practicing in Boston, Professor Beale began his teaching which continued through four administra- tions and included almost every subject in the curricu- lum. The development of Conflict of Laws and Taxation HS separate courses was largely his work. He was named Carter Professor of General jurisprudence in 1908, and, in 1912, Royall Professor. Professor Beale has written nine casebooks and seven texts including his monumental treatise on the Conflict of Laws, published in 1935. Long active in the Associa- tion of American Law Schools, Professor Beale served as its president in 1913-1914. He was also one of the Organizing forces behind the formation of the American Law Institute, for which he was the Reporter of the Restatement of the Conflict of Laws. FACULTY SAMUEL WILLISTON Dam Proferror of Law Emeritur Professor Williston, whose career is identical with that of Professor Beale in length, also retired in 1938 after forty-eight years of teaching in the Law School. Born in 1861, the recipient of an A.B. from Harvard in 1882 and an A.M. and LL.B. in 1888, Professor Williston was secretary to Mr. Justice Gray and practised law in Boston for a year before he began his teaching career in 1890. I-Ie was one of the editors of Volume I of the Review. In 1903 and 1919, respectively, Professor Williston received the Weld and Dane Chairs. Meanwhile his re- nown as a legal writer in the fields of Contracts and Com- mercial Law was rapidly spreading. He compiled case- books in Contracts, Sales, and Bankruptcy. In 1909 he published the Law of Sales and was also draftsman of the Uniform Sales Act. It is in the field of Contracts, however, that Profes- sor Williston has achieved his greatest fame. The Law of Contracts, published by him in 1920, is regarded as one of the great treatises in Anglo-American law. He also was Reporter for the Restatement of Contracts. In 1929 Professor Williston was awarded the first gold medal of the American Bar Association for conspicuous service to American jurisprudence. 29