Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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l S JAMES ANGELL MAcLACHLAN Professor of Law Professor MacLachlan began the practice of law in Chicago in 1916. From 1917 to 1919 he served as captain in the Field Artillery. In 1924 he joined the Harvard Law School Faculty. Professor MacLachlan has edited Cases on Federal Anti-Trust Laws, and his Casebook on Creditors' Rights and Statutory Supplement have been completely revised in the 1949 edition. During World War II he served in Washington, D. C., as special counsel for the OPA, Assistant Solicitor of the War Relocation Authority, Contract Renegotiator for the U. S. Maritime Com- mission and drafted substantial amendments to the Chandler Act of 1938. He is at present a member of the Council of the Atlantic Union Committee. Professor MacLachlan is teaching Creditors' Rights, Mortgages, Suretyship, Creditors' Agreements and Liquidation, Receivership and Corporate Reorganization, and a Seminar on Security. Born: 1891 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A.B., 1912, University of Michigan, LL.B., 1916, Harvard. WILLIAM EDWARD MCCURDY Professor of Law After graduation from Harvard, Professor McCurdy was secre- tary to Mr. Justice Brandeis in 1922-23. He has been on the Law School faculty since 1923, and has also taught at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Cornell, North Carolina and Texas. He is a member of the American Law Institute's Groups for Restate- ments of Contracts, Restitution, and Torts. In 1945-46 Professor McCurdy was Special Adviser to the Director of the Legal Division, U. S. Group C. C. Qlater Office of Military Government IU. S.1 for Germanyj and Chief of the Legislation Drafting Section. From 1947-49 he was successively Chief of the Legal Advice Branch, Associate Director and Acting Director of the Legal Division, OMGUS. He is the editor of Cases on Persons and Domestic Relations and Cases on Sales Qwith Professor Willistonj. Professor McCurdy is now teaching Contracts and Domestic Relations. Born: 1893 in Augusta, Georgia. A.B., 1916, LL.B., 1921, S.j.D., 1922, Harvard. STANLEY S. SURREY Professor of Law Professor Surrey was research assistant to Professor Roswell Magill at Columbia Law School, 1932-33, followed by a brief practice in New York City. Then he started his government career: Attorney with the National Recovery Administration, Washington, D. C., 1933-35, attorney with the National Labor Relations Board 1935-37, associated with the Treasury Depart- ment 1937-47, principally as Tax Legislative Counsel. He was appointed Professor of Law at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley, 1947-50. In 1949-50 he was a member of the American Tax Mission to Japan. He is chief reporter for the American Law Institute's Income Tax Project. He is co-author along with Professor Warren of Columbia of casebooks on Federal Income Tax, and the Federal Gift and Estate Tax. Professor Surrey teaches Legislation and Taxation. Born: 1910, New York, New York. B.S., 1929, C.C.N.Yg LL.B., 1932, Columbia. Page twenty

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HENRY MELVIN HART, JR. Professor of Law After receiving his S.J.D. degree in 1931, Professor Hart served for a year as secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis, returning in 1932 as a member of the Harvard Law Faculty. In the year 1937-38 he was on leave of absence to act as attorney in the office of the Solicitor General, in 1940-41 he was special assistant to the Attorney General attached to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Professor Hart was Associate General Counsel for Price in the O.P.A. from 1942 to 1945 and General Counsel in the Office of Economic Stabilization in 1945-46. He is the author of numerous articles in the field of public law and is now teaching Federal Jurisdiction and Legislation. He also holds a seminar in Legislation. Born: 1904 in Butte, Montana. A.B., 1926, LL.B., 1930, S.lI.D., 1931, Harvard. MARK DEWOLFE HOWE Professor of Law From 1933 to 1934 Professor Howe was SCCl'Ctary to Mr. Justice Holmes, and then entered practice in Boston. He was with the Law School of the University of Buffalo from 1937 to 1943, first as professor and later as Dean. Professor Howe served as Colonel in World Wilt II with the American Military Government and with the Civil Affairs Division of the War Department. Upon his discharge in 1945, he returned to Harvard. He was editor of the Holmes-Pollack Letters Q1941j and Touched with Fire C1946j. He teaches American Legal History, and Constitutional Law at the Law School, and Structure and Nature of Law in Harvard College. Born: 1906 in Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 1928, LL.B., 1933, Harvard. BENJAMIN KAPLAN Professor of Law Professor Kaplan practiced law in New York from 1933 to 1942, engaging chiefly in Appellate Court cases. He entered the Army in 1942 and in 1945 joined the oilice of the Assistant Secretary of War for duty with Mr. Justice Jackson, United States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality. He joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in the spring of 1947 and was appointed Professor early in 1948. Professor Kaplan is now teaching Procedure and Contracts. Born: 1911 in New York, New York. A.B., 1929, College of the City of New York, LL.B., Columbia. Page azineteen,

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ARTHUR E. SUTI-IERLAND Professor of Law Professor Sutherland, after his graduation from the law school, spent two years in practice in Rochester, New York. After an interval of a year as Secretary to Justice Holmes in 1927-28, he returned to Rochester and remained in practice there until 1941. From July, 1941, until the first of November, 1945, he was in the army, serving in the Tunisian campaign with the First In- fantry Division and in Italy with Headquarters Fifth Army. On November 1, 1945, he became a professor of law at Cornell and taught there until his appointment in july, 1950, as professor of law at Harvard. He is teaching Commercial Law and Con- stitutional Law. Born: 1902, Rochester, New York. A.B., 1922, Wesleyan, LL.B., 1925, Harvard. S.J.D., 1943, Harvard. JOHN H. C. MORRIS Visiting Professor of Law Professor Morris was educated at Oxford University and was a member of the faculty there as a Fellow and Law Tutor of Magdalen College since 1936. He has been All Souls lecturer in Private International Law since 1939. In 1940 Professor Morris entered the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve as a Lieutenant Commander. He was the editor of Theobald on Wills Q9th and 10th editionsj and General Editor of Dicey's Conflict of Laws Q6th editionj. Born: 1910, London, England. B.A., 1931, B.C.L., 1932, IVLA., 1936, D.C.L., 1949, Oxford University. Procedure and Administrative Law. Born: 1906, at Lost Nation, Iowa. ALBERT SALISBURY ABEL Visiting Professor of Law After graduation, Professor Abel served for six years on the Editorial Staffs of the American Law Book Company and the West Publishing Company. Following graduate study at Harvard Law School, he commenced teaching at Washington University in St. Louis from which he went to West Virginia University where he is now professor of law on leave of absence for 1950-51. In 1939-40, he was Research Fellow at Harvard. During the war, he was a senior attorney, Food Price Section, O.P.A., and from 1942 through 1945 lieutenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve serving aboard an escort carrier, on island bases in the Southwest Pacific, and at shore stations. He is teaching Civil B.A., 1927, j.D., 1930, University of Iowa, LL.M., 1937, f Page twenty-one