Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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LOUIS BRUNO SOHN Lecturer on Law Mr. Sohn has served as research assistant to Judge Hudson of the Permanent Court of International Justice since 1941. He was the secretary of the Legal Subcommittee on Atomic Energy for the year 1946. At present he is editing the department on the Development of International Law in the American Bar Association Journal. In 1948 he served as a consultant to the Legal Department of the United Nations Secretariat. 1941 Mr. Sohn was Winner of the Addison-Brown Prize for an essay dealing with Interstate Torts. He is the author of numerous articles in legal journals, and this year is teaching World Organization. Born: 1914 in Lwow, Poland. LL M Di l Sc M 1935, John Casimir University, Lwow, Poland, . ., p. . ., LL.M., 1940, Harvard. GEORGE MINKIN Assistant Dean HARRISON STEELE DIMMITT Secretary of the Law School After graduation from the Law School, Mr. Dimmitt was for five years engaged in the practice of law in New York City. In 1935 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Law School and the following year became secretary. He entered the Army in 1942 and was discharged as a Lieutenant- Colonel in February, 1946. He was attached to the staff of General Devers' Sixth Army as a G-5 officer and later served with the United States Group Control Council in Berlin. Born: 1898 in Denver, Colorado. A.B., 1920, Princetong LL.B., 1925, Harvard. Mr. Minkin was born in 1920 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1941. In that year he entered Harvard Law School, and after an interim of service in the Army, received his LLB. in 1947 and his LL.M. in 1948. In 1947 he was appointed Faculty Assistant in Charge of Ames Competition. In 1948 he was appointed Assistant Dean. Page twenty-nine

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DAVID EIDE WATTS Assistant Professor of Law Professor Watts entered the army in 1942, and after a brief initial period in anti-aircraft artillery, served with military intelligence until 1946. Following graduate study at Columbia, and prior to joining the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1949, he caught at the law schools of the Universities of Iowa and Pennsylvania. He teaches Property. Born: 1921 at Fairfield, Iowa. A.B., 1941, J.D., 1942, University of Iowa. KENNETH CULP DAVIS Visiting Professor of Law Professor Davis began the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1934, and except for interruption for government service has been a teacher of law since 193 5. He has been professor of law at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Cali- fornia. In 1939-40, as a member of the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure, he investigated various federal agencies and wrote monographs. He is the author of a dozen or more articles in legal and other periodicals in the field of constitutional law and admin- istrative law. ' This year he has been teaching Administrative Law. Born: 1908 in Missouri. A.B., 1931, Whitman College, LLB., 1934, Harvard. Page twenty-eight CALVERT MAGRUDER Lecturer on Law After serving as secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis for the 1916-17 term, Professor Magruder joined the Army as an Infantry Lieutenant. Later he returned to Washington as attorney for the United States Shipping Board. In 1920 he became an Assistant Professor in the Law School, and in 1925, Professor. He was on leave of absence in 1934-35 serving as general counsel of the N.L.R.B., and again in 1938-39, serving as general counsel of the Wage and Hour Division, United 'States Department of Labor. In 1939 he was appointed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and since 1942 he has served as a judge of the United States Emergency Court of Appeals. Professor Magruder is co-editor of Crane and Magruder, Cases on Law of Partnership. He is teaching a course in Torts. Born: 1893 in Annapolis, Maryland. A.B., 1913, A.M., 1917, St. 1ohn's College, LL.B., 1916, Harvard.

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ARTHUR CLEMENT PULLING Director of the Law Library Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1887, Mr. Pulling received his library training under John H. Arnold of the Harvard Law School. In 1912 he became Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota. While on leave of absence from Minnesota in 1918-19 he served as Captain, judge Advocate in charge of the Library of the Judge Advocate General's Department in Washington, D. C., and compiled the military law of the States for the War Department. He was appointed Associate Librarian of the Harvard Law School Library in 1942 and Director in 1943. Mr. Pulling was a lecturer on Legal Bibliography in the Law School at Minnesota from 1927 to 1942, and in 1926 compiled the Ordinances of the City of Minneapolis for the City Council. 1 LOUIS ADELBERT TOEPFER Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions Before his graduation from the Law School, Mr. Toepfer joined the Navy and served for four years as a lieutenant in the Pacific Fleet. Returning to Harvard after his discharge he obtained his degree in 1947 as of 1943. During that year he was Secretary of the Placement Office and in October, 1947, became Assistant Dean of the Faculty and Director of Admissions. Born: 1919 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A.B., 1940, Beloit College, LL.B., 1947, Harvard. ROGER ALLEN CUNNINGHAM Teaching Fellow After graduating from Harvard College in June, 1942, Mr. Cunningham en- tered the Law School. Late in 1942 he accepted a job with the Navy Department and was commissioned Ensign, USN., in 1944. Returning to the Law School after two years overseas, he graduated in 1948, and entered the firm of Nutter, McClennen and Fish. As a Teaching Fellow, he is one of six carrying on the new first year program of Group Work at the Law School. Born: 1921 in Paxton, Illinois. S.B., 1942, l..l...B., 1948, Harvard. Page thirty THORNTON GRAY EDWARDS Teaching Fellow After graduation from col- lege, Mr. Edwards was an en- sign in the Navy serving in the Philippines until 1946, when he joined the faculty at the University of Massachu- setts at Fort Devens to teach Physics and Mathematics. En- tering the Law School in 1947, he graduated in 1949 after which he worked under Professor Casner in the revision of Cases on Property by Casner and Leach. He was admitted,to the Massachusetts bar in 1949. Mr. Edwards has taught first year Groups this year. Born: 1926 at Manchester, N. H. B.S., B.N.S., 1945, Tuftsg LL.B., 1949, Harvard.