Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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WILLIAM SPRAGUE BARNES Director of the Foreign Law Research Study Secretary of International Legal Studies Mr. Barnes graduated from Yale in 1940 and entered the first year ofthe Harvard Law School, but his course was interrupted by war service in 1941. He was a fighter pilot in Egypt and Libya and was taken prisoner in South- ern Tunisia in 1943. He completed his first year work in Stalag Luft III, and graduated in 1947 from the Harvard Law School. He studied at the University of Geneva completing his doctorate examination in 1948. He was Research Associate in Comparative Law at Michigan Law School 1948-50. He came to Harvard to direct a study for development of foreign law research. He has served as a special consultant to the United Nations Legal De- partment. He currently serves as adviser to foreign students and to Ameri- cans desiring to study abroad. He is Director of Graduate Student Affairs and Assistant Director of the International Program in Taxation. Born: 1919, New York, N. Y. A.B., 1940, Yale, LL.B., 1947, Harvard, j.D., 1948, University of Geneva. HAROLD JOSEPH BERMAN Professor of Law After receiving his A.B. 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 the Yale Graduate School, and after another year entered Yale Law School. His study was interrupted while he served from 1942-45 with Signal Intelligence CVCFSCHS. He received his law degree from Yale in 1947 and that year taught at Stanford Law School. He has been teaching at Harvard since 1948. His is the author ofjurlire in R11.r.fia.' A11 Inlerpretalion of Soviet Law 09501, The Rn.r.rian.r in Fomr f1953J and Soviet Law and Action: The Rerollerled Carer ofa Soviet Lawyer fwith Boris A. Konstantinovsky, 19531. He is a member of the Executive Com- mittee ofthe Russian Research Center. Professor Berman teaches Torts, Comparative Soviet and American Law, and International Trade and Investment in the Law School and Sociology of Law in Arts and Sciences Born: 1918, Hartford, Connecticut. A.B., 1938, Dartmouth, M.A., 1942, LL.B., 1947, Yale. ROBERT RICHARD SON BOWIE Professor of Law From 1934 to 1942 Professor Bowie practiced law in Baltimore. During that period he served as Assistant to the Attorney General from Maryland for one year and also acted as Reporter to the Committee on Rules and Procedure appointed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Army. For three years he was with the Procurement Legal Division in the War Department and then was Special Assistant to the Deputy Military Governor in Germany. From 1950 through December 1951, Professor Bowie was on leave of absence serving as Aide to Commissionerjohn McCloy in Germany. He is again on leave this year. Born: 1901, Baltimore, Maryland. A.B., 1931, Princetong LL.B., 1934, Harvard. i19I

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FRANCIS ALFRED ALLEN Professor of Law In 1946, Professor Allen received his law degree from Northwestern after serving with the Army Air Forces. While at law school, he was Editor-in- Chief of the Illinois Law Review. Before his appointment to Harvard, Professor Allen was on the faculty of Northwestern Law School. During the 1946 and 1947 October Terms of the United States Supreme Court he was legal secretary to the late Chiefjustice, Fred M. Vinson. He has been a consultant to branches of the Illinois state government and has worked with the legal staff of the Chicago Housing Authority and has been a member ofthe Board of Governors of the Chicago Housing and Planning Council. He served in 1951 as Branch Chief in the Chief Counsel's office of the Wage Stabilization Board. Professor Allen is Associate Editor of the journal of Criminology and Politiml Srierzce. He is teaching Criminal Law and a seminar in Real Estate Transactions. Born: 1919, Kansas City, Kansas. A.B., 1941, Cornell College flowajg LL.B., 1946, Northwestern Univer- sity. ROBERT AMORY, JR. Professor of Law Professor Amory spent two and one-half years with the firm that is now Cahill, Gordon, Zachry and Reindel in New York City, specializing in corporate and anti-trust matters. His active military service began injanuary, 1941, as a private and took him through New Guinea, New Britain and most of the Philippines as a battalion and finally a regimental commander of amphibious engineers. In 1946 he joined the faculty ofthe Harvard Law School. Professor Amory has since served on the Cambridge School Board. He taught Accounting and Corporations I until called into the Army in March 1952 to serve as an Assistant Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Born: 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 1956, LL.B., 1938, Harvard. 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 Commercial Code prepared by the Institute and the Commissioner ofUniform State Laws. He has edited, with the late Professor Dodd, Carer and Materialr on Co rporariom. This year he is teaching Corporations II and Trusts. Born: 1888, Octoraro, Pennsylvania. A.B. 1907, Swarthmore College, LL.B., 1911, University of Pennsyl- vania. 41131

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ROBERT BRAUCHER l 1946. KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. 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 Ofiice of the United States Special Representative in Europe and was a special assistant to Mr. Katz when the latter was made Deputy Special Representative. 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 Contracts, Government Con- trol of Business, and International Trade and Investment. He also has a seminar in Legal Aspects of Foreign Economic Policy. Born: 1919, Longmeadow, Massachusetts. A.B., 1941, Yaleg LL.B., 1948, Harvard. Constitutional Law. -l 20 lr During 1939-41 Professor Braucher worked primarily on litigation with the New York firm that is now Hughes Hubbard 8: Reed He enlisted in the Army as a fiying cadet in April 1941 and served as a fighter pilot in the India-Burma theater and as an intelligence officer in the Pentagon and with the Strategic Bombing Survey rnjapan He returned to Harvard in Since 1948 Professor Braucher has been a consultant to the New York Law Revision Commission from 1951 55 he was a consultant to the General Counsel, Department of the Air Force and currently he is Chair man of the Belmont Planning Board He is co author of a text Inzrodur fion to Commercial Law, and editor of a casebook C07I77710fCl6llTfdI1Jdfll0HY He is teaching Commercial Law Accounting Government Procurement and a seminar in Commercial Law Born: 19165 New York, N Y A.B., 1956, Haverford College LL B 1959 Harvard ERNEST JOSEPH BROWN Professor of Law Professor Brown began the practice oflaw in Buffalo New York in 1931 After several years ofgeneral litigation work he devoted most of his time to tax and corporate matters. Beginning in 1957 he combined practice with teaching at the University of Buffalo Law School From 1942 to 1945 Professor Brown was a Captain in the Oliice of Strategic Services. He came to the Law School in 1946 This year he rs teaching Taxation and Constitutional Law In addition he has seminars in Federal Taxation and one with Professors Howe and Sutherland in Born: 1906g Lake Providence Louisiana ' A.B., 1927, Princetong LL B 1951 Harvard