Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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FACULTY Professor Warren was born in Boston in 1876. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1897 and from the Law School in 1900, where he was a member of the staff of the Law Review. After serving a year as secretary to Mr. Justice Gray, he began the practice of law in Boston in 1901. ' Professor Warren began teaching in the Law School in 1909 after having lectured in Government in the College for two years. He was made Bussey Professor of Law in 1919, and received his present chair ten years later. Pro- fessor Warren was Vice Dean from 1928 to 1930 and was appointed Acting Dean for the year 1929-1930, from which position he resigned in October, 1929. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been Vice-President of both the Massa- chusetts Society of Cincinnati and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Professor Warren is the author of numerous law review articles, and editor of casebooks on Wills and Administration and Conveyances. He is teaching Property lI, III and Agency, this year. He has also taught Persons, Contracts, Quasi-Contracts, and Legal History. ELDON REVARE JAMES Professor of Law and Libmrirm Professor James was born in Newport, Kentucky, in 1875. He received his education at the University of Cincinnati CS.B. 1896g LL.B. 18969. For the next twelve years he practiced in Cincinnati, meanwhile teaching law at his Alma Mater. After receiving an S.j.D. degree from Harvard in 1912, he taught for a year each at the Uni- versities of Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was Dean of the University of Missouri Law School from 1914 to 1918. Professor James became a member of the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1923. From 1918 to 1924 Professor James was Judge of the Supreme Court of Siam and its Adviser in Foreign Affairs. He served Siam as Member of the Permanent Court of International Arbitration and as Minister Pleni- potentiary. Siam has awarded him the Grand Cross of Siam and the Grand Cross White Elephant. Professor james, a past President of the American As- sociation of Law Libraries, has been Librarian of the Harvard Law School since 1923. This year he is teaching Admiralty. ln the past he has also taught Agency, Con- flict of Laws, Criminal Law, History of American Law, Evidence, International Law, Pleading, and Property. JOSEPH WARREN Well! Proferror of Law 52

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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

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EDWARD SAMPSON THURSTON Profersor of Law Professor Thurston was born in New York City in 1876. He received his education at Harvard CA.B. 1898, A.M. 1899, LL.B. 1900J. While in the Law School he became President of the Law Review. After five years of practice in New York City, Professor Thurston began his teaching career at Indiana University in 1906. He then successively taught at George Washington University C1905-19101, the University of Illinois C1910-19115, and the University of Minnesota C1911-19199. In 1919 he was appointed to the Faculty of Yale Law School, re- ceiving an honorary M.A. degree there the same year. Eleven years ago he came to the Harvard Law School. Professor Thurston was in the judge Advocate Gen- eral's Ofiice 1917 to 1919, serving for a time as Judge Advocate of the A.E.F. in North Russia. He was an Adviser to the Restatement of Torts and Reporter for Specific chapters. He was also Adviser to the Restate- ntents on Trusts and on Restitution. Professor Thurston IS the editor of Cases on Quasi-Contracts , the new Cases on Restitution and with Professor Seavey is now bringing out a Casebook on torts. He is teaching Torts, Restitution, and Mistake. He has also taught Agency, Equity, Mortgages, Property, Suretyship and Trusts. FACULTY THOMAS REED POWELL Story Professor of Law Professor Powell was born in Richford, Vermont, in 1880. Graduated from the University of Vermont in 1900 and from the Harvard Law School in 1904, he be- gan practice in Burlington. From 1907 to 1925 he was almost continuously at Columbia University where he rose from a lecturer in public law to Ruggles Professor of Constitutional Law. Harvard Law School appointed Professor Powell to the Faculty in 1925. He became Langdell Professor of Law in 1928 and Story Professor of Law in 1938. He is at present Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Studies. The author of many works in the field of Constitutional Law, Professor Powell was managing editor of the Politi- cal Science Quarterly from 1913 to 1916 and, in 1937, was President of the American Political Science Asso- ciation. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California and at Columbia. In 1936 and 1940 he was a special assistant to the United States Attorney General. Professor Powell is conducting classes in Constitutional Law this year. In the past he has also taught Administra- tive Law, Conflict of Laws, Municipal Corporations, Tax- ation and Trusts. 33