Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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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.

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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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EDWIN MERRICK DODD, JR. Fessenden Professor of Law After graduation from Harvard Law School in 1913, Professor Dodd spent three years in the practice of law in Boston. In 1916 he went to Washington and Lee University, and a year later he became a member of the Legal Section of the War Industries Board. He again entered private practice in Boston after the war, but in 1922 joined the Uni- versity of Nebraska Law Faculty. In 1927 he resigned to become Acting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. A year later he came to the Harvard Law School. From 1942 to 1945 he served as Compliance Commissioner in the War Production Board. Professor Dodd teaches Corporations I. He is co-editor of Cases on Business Associations. ' Born: 1888 in Providence, Rhode Island. A.B., 1910, LL.B., 1913, Harvard. LON LUVOIS FULLER Carter Professor of Jurisprudence MANLEY OTTMER HUDSON Professor Fuller began his teaching career at the University of Oregon in 1926. After two years he went to the University of Illinois and later to Duke University. In 1938 he was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty, and concurrent with his teaching here he practiced law in Boston from 1941 to 1945. In 1936 Professor Fuller won the Philips Award of the American Philosophical Society for an essay in Jurisprudence entitled American Legal Realism. A group of lectures entitled The Law in Quesf of Itself was published in 1940. Professor Fuller is editor of a casebook on Contracts, and is author of readings called Problems of Iiirisprzulcnca. He teaches Contracts and Jurisprudence, and conducts a seminar on the latter. Born: 1902 in Hereford, Texas. A.B., 1924, J.D., 1926, Leland Stanford University. . . l Bemis Professor of International Law 1 Professor Hudson has taught at Harvard with some intermissions since ' 1919, he has held his present chair since 1923. After serving on various commissions at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, he became a member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, and served as legal adviser to the International Labor Conference in Washington, 1919, Genoa, 1920, and Geneva, 1924. From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on two appointments by President Roosevelt. From 1936 to 1946, he was a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, on election by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations. In 1948 the General Assembly elected him a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations and he now serves as Chairman of that Commission. Among his numerous publications are Infernational Legislation, eight volumesg World Courf Reports, four volumesg and the standard treatise on The Permananf Court of International Justice, 1920-1942. Professor Hudson gives a course in International Law and a seminar in International Law Problems. Born: 1886 in St. Peters, Missouri. A.B., 1906, A.M., 1907, William Jewell College, LL.B., 1910, S.J.D., 1917, Harvard. Page nineteen.