Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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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

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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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FACULTY EDWARD HENRY WARREN Proferror of Law Professor Warren was born in 1873. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1895 and an M.A. from Columbia in 1896. He later studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and then in the Law School, being graduated from the latter in 1900. Mr. Warren practised law in New York City until 1904. From 1908 to 1921 he maintained law offices in Boston. Mr. Warren joined the Faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1904. He resigned from the Faculty in 1929, but after several years' absence he returned as Lecturer in Law in 1933 and the following year was once again appointed Professor of Law. In recent years Professor Warren has concentrated his efforts on the teaching of Property to the first-year class. In 1938 he published a second edition of his Cases on Property and in 1941 he published a treatise on Margin Customers which he uses as a supplement to that case- book. From 1904 to 1929 he conducted the course on the law of Corporations and produced two casebooks on the subject and also a treatise on Corporate Advantages Without Incorporation. He has also taught Equity, Evi- dence, and Suretyship. MORTON CARLISLE CAMPBELL Proferror of Law 31 Professor Campbell was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1876. He was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1896 and from the Harvard Law School in 1900. He received the degree of S.1.D. from Harvard in 1915 and an honorary LL.D. degree from Washington and jefferson in 1923. Professor Campbell 1901. He served as a Tulane University in World War he served years, hrst as a Captain and later as a Major of Infantry. He has been a member of the Harvard Law School since 1919 and at present is Chairman of the Third-Year Class. Professor Campbell is the author of numerous law review articles and the editor of three casebooks: Mort- gages, Bills and Notes, and Suretyship. This year he is conducting classes in those three courses. He also has taught in the past Agency, Contracts, Criminal Law, Corporations, Evidence, Personal Property, Public Utili- ties, Quasi-Contracts, and Sales. was admitted to the Ohio Bar in member of the faculty of law of the year 1915-1916. During the in the United States Army for two