Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Zechariah Hluzfee, fr. UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR Professor Chafee 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 Speech in the United States, Gov- ernment and Mass Communications, Weathering the Panic of '73, State House vs. Penthouse: Legal Problems of the R. I. Race Track Row, and others including the recently published 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 Unfair Competition and Equitable Remedies. In addition Professor Chafee is giving two courses in Arts and Sciences: Fundamental Human Rights and Legal Protection of Literature and Art. Born: 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island. 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. He 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 Pacinc. His published writings include numerous contributions to legal periodicals and a case book on criminal law co-edited with Pro- fessor Glueck. This year he is teaching Agency and Criminal Law. Born: 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. Ph.B., 1923, University of Chicagog LL.B., 1927, Harvard. A.B., 1907, Brown, LL.B., 1913, Harvard. Page twelve 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 Com- mercial Code prepared 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 Pennsylvania.

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ERWIN NATHANIELT GRISWOLD Dean and Langdell 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 Cihce of the Solicitor General of the United States and as Special Assistant to the Attorney General from 1929 until 1934 when he was .1 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 recognized in these Helds, having written two editions of Spendthrift 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 Restatements of Trusts, Restitution, and Judgments. Puyw f'If'1wr1

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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 University of Nebraska Law Faculty. In 1927 he resigned to become Acting Professor of Law at the Uni- versity of Chicago. A year later he came to the Harvard Law School. From 1942 to 1945 he served as Compliance Commissioner in the Wtlr 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. PAUL ABRAHAM FREUND Charles Stebbins Fairchild 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 Harvard. LON LUVOIS FULLER Carter Professor of Jurisprudence 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 193 6 Professor Fuller won the Philips Award of the American Philosophical Society for an essay in jurisprudence entitled Amer- ican Legal Realism. A group of lectures entitled The Law in Quest of Itself was published in 1940. Professor Fuller is editor of a Casebook on Contracts, and is author of the readings Problems of Jurisprudence. He teaches Contracts and Jurisprudence, and conducts a seminar on the latter. Born: 1902 in Hereford, Texas. A.B., 1924, ID., 1926, Leland Stanford University. Born: 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. published On Understanding the Supreme Court C1949j. Professor Freund now teaches Constitutional Law, Conflicts of Law and a seminar in Constitutional Litigation. A.B., 1928, Washington Universityg LL.B., 1931, S.J.D., 1932 Page thirteen