Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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FLEMING, JAMES, JR., Lafayette S. Foster P1 fessor of Law, B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1938, Yale Universi Before joining the Yale Law faculty, Mr. Jarr was with Watorus, Hewitt, Sheldon and Gumbart, a1 Assistant Attorney for the New York, New Haven az Hartford Railroad. During 1939-1940 he was acti Dean at Utah Law School. He has also taught at t law school of the University of Chicago and the U1 versity of Colorado. From 1942-1945 Mr. James vs Director of Litigation Division of the O.P.A. He l'1 published with Mr. Shulman, Cases on Torts, and wi Thurman Arnold, Cases on Trials, judgments a1 E Appeals. 5 rw f xi 5 XE S. sr , . ,. te... E3 ,. . Qu. im, 51. ,, ' wr as Gif 1-1, s,,' ' it' ,. ,. f:,1,,A.i,,t...,,. , 2 .. .J.,...., VVV,. ,M 3,735 .4 ,, p a. . . JEROME N, FRANK, JUSTICE, PEB. 1910, JD. 1912, University of Chicago. Judge Frank, a member of the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- peals C2nd. Circuit? since 1941, has appeared as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale since 1946. After practicing in Chicago and New York from 1912 to 1933, Judge Frank was Special Counsel to the R.F.C. and then the P.W.A. In 1938 he became S.E.C. Commissioner, and later Chairman, a post he held until his ascendancy to the bench. Among his many works are: Law and the Modern Mind, Fate and Freedom and Courts on Trial. rttt t aieie ' FRIEDRICK KESSLER, Professor of Law, j.U.D. 1926, Berl. University, M.A. CHon.J Yale University. Mr. Kessler first came to Yale in 1934 as a lecturer. He r mainecl until 1938 when he left to take a post at the University 1 Chicago. In 1947 he returned to Yale and assumed his prese1 position. Mr. Kessler is a member of the Illinois Bar.

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4 THE FACULTY Professor Ad Mueller, overheard in one of those rare moments when he was giving 7 ' out with the straight word, once characterized the essence of the Yale Approach and the strength of the Yale Law School as the complete individuality of every member of the faculty. And Mr. Mueller had something there, even if some of us were a little slow in , realizing that this individuality ever transcended anything more than a more perfect method of obscuring the truth. ,QV ff' ' 4 But, slowly, as the quest for the non-existent certainty began to fade, there came a greater appreciation for the contribution that each was making, in his own stylistic way, to our legal education. For, whether it was the Dean's devastating, ls that Genesis I? or Mr. Kessler's insistent, Say a leetel more! of J. W. Moore's beeming, Talk like a lawyer! each was demanding that we think, question, probe, analyse. FOWLER V. HARPER, Professor of Law, B.A. 1922, LL,B. 1923, Ohio Northern University, M.A. 1925, University of Iowa, S.j.D. 1926, University of Michigan. Before coming to Yale in 1947, Mr. Harper taught at the University of North Dakota, University of Ore- gon, Indiana University, the University of Texas, and Louisiana State University. His career in public service has included the positions of General Counsel, Federal Security Agency, Consultant, Department of Agricul- tureg Deputy Chairman, War Manpower Commission, Associate Member, War Labor Board, and Solicitor, Department of the Interior. He has also been associated with the Bobbs Merrill Publishing Company as edi- torial advisor since 1936. His published works include Treatise on the law of Torts 1933, Give Me Lib- erty 1942, Law and Democratic Society 1945. gg? 9 FRED RODELL, Professor of Law, B.A. 1926, Haverford Col- lege, 1926-1927, University of London, I.L.B. 1931 M.A. CHon.J 1939, Yale University. - l J From 1927-28 Mr. Rodell was Assitsant Literary Editor of the Century Publishing Company, and in 1931-33 was legal adviser to Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. He joined the Law School fac- ulty in 1933. He is the author of Woe Unto You, Lawyers, Democracy and the Third Term , and Fifty-Five Men, and is a frequent contributor to American Mercury, Harpers and Life Maga- zines as well as legal periodicals. He was an editor of Fortune magazine, 1937-38, and a contributing editor of The Progressive.

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x i '- JAMES WILLIAM MOORE, Professor of Law, B.S. Montana College 1924, JD. 1933 University of Chicago, J.S.D. 1935, Yale University. r i,,. un! 'CJ' Mr. Moore came to the Yale Law School in 1938. He has been Chief Research Assistant to the United States Supreme Court Procedure and Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Special Consultant to the Committee on Revisions to the Judicial Code. He is author of Moore's Federal Practice and Moore's Bankruptcy Manual , co-author of Moore and Ogleby on Corporate Reorganization , editor of Gilbert's Collier on Federal Practice, and Editor-in-chief on the 14th Edition of Collier's on Bankruptcy. -ki' NICHOLAS deBELLEVILLE KATZENBACH, Associate Pro- fessor of Law, B.A. 1945 Princetong Rhodes Scholar, Oxford Univer- sity 1947-49, LL.B. 1947 Yale University. Mr. Katzenbach came to Yale in 1952, after holding the post of Counsel and Consultant to the U.S. Air Force from 1950 to 1952. Prior to that time he was associated with Katzenbach, Gildea and Rudner of Trenton, New Jersey. VERN COUNTRYMAN, Associate Pro- fessor of Law, B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, Uni- versity of Washington. Mr. Countryman was associated with the National Labor Relations Board fol- lowing his graduation from law school and later served as clerk for justice Doug- las of the Supreme Court. After serving in World War II for three years as a Lieutenant in the Army, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the state of Washington. Before joining the faculty in the fall of 1948, he taught at the Uni- versity of Washington Law School. ts 1 f X f is if l 4. Pig. Y 5 70. gf' We . 'IQ Ji ' Hciicfk 63