Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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DAVID FARQUHAR CAVERS Professor of Law Professor Cavers joined the Law School Faculty in the summer of 1946. Previously he had taught here as instructor for the year 1929-30, having practiced in New York before that. He then became Assistant Professor at the West Virginia University College of Law. From 1931 to 1945 he was Professor of Law at Duke University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. Professor Cavers established and edited the Duke University Law School Quarterly, Law ana' Contemporary Problems. During the war he served as Assistant General Counsel for Price and later as Associate General Counsel for Price in the OPA. Professor Cavers is teaching Conflicts and is supervising the first year program of group work. Born: 1902 in Buffalo, New York. B.S. in Economics, 1923, University of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1926, Harvard. ARCHIBALD COX Professor of Law After graduation from Harvard Law School in 1937 Professor Cox was secretary to the Honorable Learned Hand, judge of the United States Court of Appeal. From 1938 to 1941 Professor Cox practiced Law in Boston. He was appointed Visiting Professor in October, 1945, and Professor in 1946. During the spring term, 1947, he was Acting Vice-Dean. In 1941 he served with the National Defense Mediation Board and in December of that year joined the Office of the Solicitor General, Department of justice, where he remained until 1943. He held the position of Associate Solicitor of the United States Department of Labor from 1943 to 1945. Professor Cox is now teaching Labor Law and Torts. He is also conducting a Labor Seminar. Born: 1912 in Plainfield, N. J. A.B., 1934, LL.B., 1937, Harvard. RICHARD HINCKLEY FIELD Professor of Law After fourteen years of practice in Boston, Professor Field joined the staff of the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as Regional Attorney in Boston. In December, 1943, he went to Washington and served for three years as General Counsel of the O.P.A. In December, 1946, Professor Field resigned his government position and came to the Harvard Law Faculty. This year he is teaching Procedure and Ad- ministrative Law. Born: 1903 in Phillips, Maine. A.B., 1926, LL.B., 1929, Harvard. Page twenty-three

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ROBERT BRAUCHER Professor of Law From 1939 to 1941 Professor Braucher was engaged in the practice of law in New York City. In 1941 he joined the Army and served as a pilot in the Air Force and later with Military Intelligence. After his discharge he returned to Harvard. In 1948 and 1949 he served as consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission. This year Professor Braucher is teaching Commercial Law. Born: 1916 in New York City. A.B., 1936, Haverford College, LL.B., 1939, Harvard. ERNEST JOSEPH BROWN Professor of Law Professor Brown began the practice of law in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1931. After several years of general litigation work he devoted most of his time to tax and corporate matters. Beginning in 1937 he combined practice with teaching at the University of Buffalo Law School. From 1942 to 1945 Professor Brown was a Captain in the Office of Strategic Services. He came to the Law School in 1946 and is teaching Taxation and Constitutional Law. Born: 1906 at Lake Providence, Louisiana. A.B., 1927, Princeton, LL.B., 1931, Harvard. Page twenty-two ANDREW JAMES CASNER Professor of Law Before coming to the Harvard Faculty in 1938, Professor Casner served on the Law School faculties of the following Universities: Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, and Leland Stanford. He was a Colonel in the Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. Professor Casner participated both as a reporter and as an adviser in the preparation of the Restatement of Property. He was also Reporter for the Uniform Property Act and has contributed a number of articles in the property field to legal periodicals. He is co-editor with Professor Leach of a casebook for Property I. This year he is teaching Property I and Property II. Born: 1907 in Chicago, Illinois. A.B., LL.B., 1929, University of Illinoisg S.J.D., 1941, Columbia.

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Professor Freund now teaches Constitutional Law and a seminar in PAUL ABRAHAM FREUND Professor of Law Professor Freund began his legal career as secretary to Mr. justice Brandeis for the 1932-33 term. For the next two years he was a member of the legal staffs of the Treasury Department and of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. For the next four years his work was in the offices of the Solicitor General of the United States and as special assistant to the Attorney General. He returned to Harvard in 1939 as a lecturer and was appointed Professor in 1940. From 1942 to 1946 he was on leave with the Department of Justice. He is the author of the recently published On Understanding the Suprenze Court f1949j. Constitutional Litigation. GEORGE KNOWLES GARDNER Professor of Law Professor Gardner began the practice of law in Boston in 1914 and remained actively occupied in the profession for a period of fourteen years. From 1921 until 1928 he served as an Instructor in Law at Northeastern University, becoming a member of the Harvard Law Faculty in the latter year. From 1942 to October, 1946, Professor Gardner practiced law in Boston and acted as Assistant Treasurer and Secretary of Taunton Coating Mills, Inc., of Taunton, Mass. He is the editor of Cases and Materials on Contracts and author of several articles in legal periodicals. This year he is on leave from the Law School. Born: 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts. A.B., 1912, LL.B., 1914, Harvard. Born: 1908 in St. Louis Missouri LL.B., 1931, S.J.D., 1932 Harvard l Page twenty-four SHELDON GLUECK Professor of Criminology Professor Glueck came to the Law Faculty in 1929 after several years' teaching in the Social Ethics Department at Harvard. He has been Adviser to the American Law Institute in the drafting of the Youth Correction Authority Act, member of the U. S. Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure, and United States Delegate to the International Prison Congress in Prague. Professor Glueck has published many research works done with the collaboration of Mrs. Glueck QDr. Eleanor T. Glueckj, including 500 Criminal Careers, 1000 juvenile Delinquents, 500 Delinquent Women, Later Criminal Careers and others. Some of his other works are Crime and justice QLoWell Lecturesj, War Criminals: Their Prosecution and Punishment, and The Nuremberg Trial and Aggressive War. He teaches Criminal Law and Criminology. Born: 1896 in Warsaw, Poland. A.B., 1920, George Washington Universityg LL.B., LL.M., 1920, National Law School, A.M., 1922, Ph.D., 1924, Harvard.