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

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GRANT GILMORF, Associate Professor of Law, B.A. 1931, Pl'1,D. 1936, LL.B. 1942, Yale University. Mr. Gilmore's law school education was not his first with Yale University for he taught French at the Under- graduate School in 1936. Following his graduation from law, he became associated with Milbank, Tweed, and Hope in New York. He served as Lieutenant with the Oiiice of Judge Advocate General, United States Navy, during the war. JOHN R. THOMPSON, Assistant Professor of Law, B.A., Mellon Fellowship, Cambridge University, LL.B. 1947, Yale University. Mr. Thompson cletked for Chief jusice Vin- son in 1947-48. He was with the firm of Coving- ton, Burling, Rublee, Acheson and Shorb in Washington in 1948. Then in 1949 he joined the Yale faculty. WESLEY ALBA STURGES, Dean of the L School and Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law, Ph 1915, University of Vermont, LL.B. 1919, Columl Universityg J.D. fcum laudej 1923, Yale Law Scho D.C.1. CHon.J, University of Vermont, LL.D., Tula University, 1948. Dean Sturges has taught at the law schools of 1 Universities of South Dakota, Minnesota, Columb North Carolina, Washington, Drake, Northwestern a Kansas. He served as Chairman of the Faculty in 191 In 1946 became Dean of the Law School. He has serv as Executive Director, Distilled Spirits Institute, Ir and is now Chairman, Board of Directors, Americ Arbitration Association. . . . . . r, if

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ARTHUR LINTON CORBIN, Professor Emeritus of Law, B.A. 1894, University of Kansasg LL.B. 1899 Yale University, A.M. CHon.J 1909 Yale University. He was a Professor at the Yale Law School from 1903 until 1943, when he became a Professor Emeritus. He served as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, California, and Columbia. He held the position of Special Advisor on Contracts and Reporter on Remedies for the American Institute of Law Restate- ment. His works include: Corbin's Anson on Con- tracts, Cases on Contracts and Corbin on Contracts. HAROLD DWIGHT LASSWELL, Professor of Law, Ph.B. 1922, Ph.D. 1936, University of Chicago. Mr. Lasswell has taught at the University of Chicago, the Wash- ington School of Psychiatry, and the William A. White Psychiatric Foundation. He was Director of War Communication Research, Advisor and Consultant to the Department of Justice and the De- partment of State. He has been a Visiting Professor at California and Western Reserve Universities, and also at Yenching University in Peking, China. His writings include World Politics and Personal Insecurity g Psychopathy and Politics g Propaganda, Communica- tion and Public Opinion and Power and Society. 4. ELIAS CLARK, Assistant Professor of Law, B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1947, Yale University. After graduation from law school, Mr. Clark was associated with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly and Cox from 1947-1949. During World War II he was a lieutenant and pilot in the Army Air Corps. He joined the faculty in the fall of 1949. Mr. Clark is a member of the New York Bar and the Connecticut Bar Associa- tion. 'I1

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MYRES SMITH McDOUGAL, William K. Townsend Professor of Law, B,A. 1926, M.A. 1927, LL.B. 1935, University of Mississippi, B.C.I.. 1940, Oxford, J.S.D. 1941, Yale Uni- versity. Mr. McDougal started his teaching career at the University of Illinois. He has taught at Chi- cago, Northwestern, Columbia and Vanderbilt, and came to Yale in 1934. He has published, with Mr. Haber, Property, Wealth, Land: A110- cation, Planning and Development . He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American journal of International Law and the Journal of Comparative Law. - nr 1 -ir - - - GEORGE HATHAWAY DESSION, Lines Professor of Law, B.A. 1926, M.A, 1927, Cornell University, LL.B. 1930, Yale Uni- versity. Mr. Dession has been at Yale since 1930. He has published a Casebook, Criminal Law, Administration and Public Order. He served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Department of justice. Mr. Dession was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Advisory Committee of Rules of Criminal Procedure. EUGENE VICTOR ROSTOW, Professor of Law, B.A. 1933, Yale University, 1933-34, King's College, Cambridge, LL.B. 1937, Yale University. Mr. Rostow practiced with the firm of Cravath, de Gersdoff, Swaine and Wood, 1937-38. He was ap- pointed to the Law School faculty in 1938, where he has remained since, except for a leave to serve as visit- ing Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago in 1941, for a period of war service as As- sistant General Counsel of the Office of Lend-Lease Administration in 1942, and as Executive Assistant to an Assistant Secretary of State in 1942-44. 13