Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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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

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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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FACULTY Professor Pound was born in 1870. He was educated LIVINGSTON HALL Vice-Dean ami Proferror of Law Professor Hall was born in 1903. He was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1923 and then ma- triculated at Harvard Law School where he received the LL.B. degree in 1927. While in the Law School he was Chairman of the Board of Student Advisers. For the next four years he engaged in the practice of law in New York City until he was chosen to serve as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York during 1931-32. Professor Hall took up his duties as a member of the Harvard Law School Faculty in the latter year. Especially interested in the welfare and discipline of the student body, he served as Acting Vice-Dean during Mr. Ma- gruder's absence three years ago and was appointed to that post in a permanent capacity in 1939. Criminal Law has been the center of Professor Hall's legal pursuits. Besides numerous articles in periodicals, he has recently collaborated with Professor Glueck in editing a new casebook in that subject. Professor Hall is also teaching Agency this year in addition to Criminal Law. lin the past he has conducted classes in Contracts, Labor Law, Mortgages, Procedure, and Torts. RoscoE POUND U niverrity Professor at the University of Nebraska CA.B. 18885 A.M. 18893 Ph.D. 18975. He attended the Harvard Law School, 1889-1890, and practised in Lincoln from 1890 to 1907. From 1901 to 1903 he was Commissioner of Appeals on the Nebraska Supreme Court. In 1899 he began teaching law at the University of Nebraska and became Dean of the Law School in 1903. He went to Northwestern University as Professor of Law in 1907, spending two years there and a year at the University of Chicago, before he was named Story Pro- fessor of Law at the Harvard Law School in 1910. He became Carter Professor of General jurisprudence in 1913 and Dean in 1916, a post he held until 1936, when he retired and was elected University Professor. Professor Pound is the author of many works on legal history and philosophy. Seventeen universities have be- stowed honorary degrees upon him, and in 1940, he was awarded the gold medal of the American Bar Association for conspicuous service to American jurisprudence. He is past President of the Association of American Law Schools and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught almost every subject in the Law School cur- riculum and this year is teaching Jurisprudence and for the rest is teaching in the College. 30