Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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ERWIN N ATHANIEL GRISWOLD Dean and Charles Stebbens Fairchild Professor of Law Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904, Dean Griswold received both an A.B. and an A.M. degree from Oberlin College in 1925. At Harvard Law School he compiled one of the highest averages ever attained and served as President of the Law Review. He was graduated in 1928 and was awarded an S.J.D. in 1929. After practicing in Cleveland, Dean Gris- wold served as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States and as Special Assistant to the Attorney General from 1929 until 1934 when he was appointed to the Harvard Law School Fac- ulty, becoming Dean in 1946. Dean Griswold teaches Federal Taxation and has taught Trusts, Conflict of Laws and Administrative Law. He is highly rec- ognized in these fields, having written two editions of Spendtbrift Trusts and various articles. He compiled Cases on Federal Taxation and co-edited Cases on Conflict of Laws. In 1942 he was consulting expert to the Treasury Department and he has been an adviser to the Rcstatemcnts of Trusts, Restitution, and judge-ments. Page seventeen

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A native son, President Conant was born in Dorchester in 1893. He specialized in chemistry at Harvard College, graduating in three years with high honors in 1913. Re- ceiving his Ph.D. in 1916, he served as In- structor in Chemistry until 1917. During World W' ar I he Worked with the govern- ment, and later was commissioned a Major in the Chemical Warfare Service. Returning to Harvard in 1919 as an Assistant Professor, he became an Associate Professor in 1925, a Professor in 1927, and in 1929 Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry. In June, 1933, he was elected President of Harvard University. War ser- vice called him again in 1940 and until 1946 he was Chairman of the National Defense Page sixteen JAMES BRYANT CONANT President of Harvard University Research Committee. He became a mem- ber of the General Advisory Committee to the United States Atomic Energy Commis- sion in 1946. Among President Conant's other honors, he is an honorary fellow of Emmanuel Col- lege, Cambridge, a member of the Ameri- can Chemical Society, the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Philosoph- ical Society, and the Royal Society of Edin- burgh and England. He is one of the out- standing authorities, and in the last year has published a new book on education, Educa- tion in a Divided World.

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LIVINGSTON HALL Vice-Dean and Professor of Law Upon his graduation from the Law School, Professor Hall entered private practice in New York City and in 1931 was chosen to serve as Assistant United States Attorney for the southern district of New York. I-Ie returned to the Law School in 1932 and was appointed Vice-Dean in 1939. During the war years he served as regional attorney for the O.P.A. in the Boston Area, and later with the Army Air Force in the Southwest Pacific. His published writings include numerous contributions to legal period- icals and a case book on criminal law co-edited with Professor Glueck. This year he is teaching Agency and Criminal Law. Born: 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. Ph.B., 1923, University of Chicago, LL.B., 1927, Harvard. RALPH JACKSON BAKER Weld Professor of Law Professor Baker began teaching Law as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1911. From 1914 to 1932 he practiced law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, leaving there to join the Harvard Law School faculty. He was an adviser to the American Law Institute's Restatements of Trusts and of Restitution, and has been an adviser in the drafting of the part on Investment and Instruments of the Commercial Code pre- pared by the Institute and the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He has edited with Professor Dodd, Cases on Business Association. This year he is teaching Corporations II and Trusts. Born: 1888 in Octoraro, Pennsylvania. A.B., 1907, Swarthmore Collegeg LL.B., 1911, University of Penn- sylvania. ZECHARIAH CHAFFEE JR l Page eighteen Langdell Professor of Law Professor Chaffee came to the faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1916 after three years of practice in Providence, and became Langdell Professor in 1938. His studies have been chiefly in the fields of Equity and Negotiable Instruments, but his writings reflect his varied interests. Free S peecb in the United States, Government ana' Mass Comm unications, Weathering the Panic of '73, State House vs. Penthouse: Legal Problems of the R.I. Rare Track Row, and others including the forthcoming Some Problems of Equity. In 1936 he drafted the Federal Interpleader Act and was in 1947 and 1948 a member of the United Nations Sub-commission on Information and Freedom of the Press. This year he is teaching Commercial Law, Unfair Competition and Equitable Remedies. Born: 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island. A.B., 1907, Brown, LL.B., 1913, Harvard.