Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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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

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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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HAROLD JOSEPH BERMAN Assistant Professor of Law After receiving his B.A. from Dartmouth in 1938, Professor Berman studied legal history for a year at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He then went to Yale Graduate School, and after another year entered Yale Law School. He re- ceived an M.A. from Yale in 1942 and LL.B. in 1947. In the meantime he had served overseas with Signal Intelligence from 1942-45. He taught at Stanford Law School from 1947-48, and has been teaching at Harvard since 1948. He is the author of numerous articles on Soviet Law in various law reviews, and author of a recent book 'ijustice in Russia: An Interpretation of Soviet Lawf' In addition to his course in Comparison of Soviet and American Law, he teaches a seminar in Legal Problems of World Trade. He also teaches a course and a seminar on Soviet State and Law in the School of Arts and Sciences under the auspices of the Committee on International and Regional Studies, and is a Research Associate of the Russian Research Center. Born: 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut. B.A., 1938, Dartmouth, M.A., 1942, LL.B., 1947, Yale. KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. Assistant Professor of Law Professor Brewster entered the Law School after the war and graduated in 1948. He then went to Paris with Professor Katz as assistant to the General Counsel in the Office of the United States Special Representative in Europe and was a special assistant to Mr. Katz when the latter was made Deputy Special Repre- sentative. In 1949 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Economics and Social Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and joined the Law School Faculty in the Fall of 1950. This year Professor Brewster is teaching Trusts, Government Regulation of Business and is assisting Professor Adelman in the Anti-Trust Seminar. Born: 1919, Longmeadow, Massachusetts. A.B., 1941, Yale, LL.B., 1948, Harvard. Page twen ty-two WILLIAM COVINGTON HARDEE Assistant Professor of Law Professor Hardee came to the Law School as a student in 1940. In 1942 he went on active duty in the United States Naval Reserve. He served for four years, including overseas duty in the European Theater, and is presently a lieutenant commander in the Organized Naval Reserve. In 1946 Professor Hardee returned to the School to complete his legal training and a year later commenced practice in the Boston law Hrm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg. Professor Hardee was appointed Assistant Professor of Law from July 1, 1950, and teaches Accounting, Corporations and Agency. Born: 1919 in Florence, South Carolina. A.B., 1940, Emory University, LL.B., 1943 119475, Harvard.