Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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ZELMAN COWEN Visiting Professor of Law Professor Cowen, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia, was a Rhodes Scholar and a Vinerian Law Scholar at Oxford University and was elected a Fellow of Oriel College in 1947. He taught at Oxford until 1950 when he returned to his native Melbourne as Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Law School. He is also Dominion Liaison Officer in Australia for the British Colonial Office. During World War II, Professor Cowen was an officer in the Australian Navy, and in 1947 served as Constitutional Consultant in Germany for the British Military Govern- ment. Professor Cowen was co-editor of Dicey, Confiicl ofLawr and in 1950 became editor of the International Law Quarterly. He is co-author of Errays in Evidence to be published by Oxford University Press. At Harvard he is conducting classes in Conflict of Laws and a seminar in International Confiict of Laws. Born: 1919, Melbourne, Australia. A.B., 1939, LL.B., 1940, LL.M., 1941, University of Melbourne, B.C.L., 1947, M.A., 1947, Oxford University. ARCHIBALD COX Professor of Law After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1937, Professor Cox was secretary to Learned Hand, judge of the United States Court of Appeals. From 1938 to 1941, he practiced law in Boston. He was appointed Visiting Professor in October, 1945, and Professor in 1946. During the spring term, 1947, he was Acting Vice-Dean. In 1941, he served with the National Defense Mediation Board and in December of that year joined the Office of the Solicitor General, Depart- ment ofjusrice, where he remained until 1943. He held the position of Associate Solicitor of the United States Department of Labor from 1943 to 1945. In 1952, he was Chairman ofthe Wage Stabilization Board in Wash- ington, D. C. Professor Cox is now teaching Labor Law and is also conducting two seminars in Labor Law: one is considering proposals for the revision of the Taft-Hartley Act, the other, the application of Anti-Trust laws to labor problems. Born: 1912, Plainfield, Newjersey. A.B., 1934, LL.B., 1937, Harvard. RICHARD HINCKLEY FIELD Professor of Law After fourteen years of practice in Boston, Professor Field joined the staff of the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as Regional Attorney in Boston. In December, 1943, he went to Washington and served for three years as General Counsel of the O.P.A. In December, 1946, he joined the Harvard Law Faculty. This year he is teaching Procedure and a seminar injudicial Administration. He has edited, with Professor Kaplan, a Casebook in civil procedure. Born: 1903, Phillips, Maine. A.B., 1926, LL.B., 1929, Harvard. 1221-

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HELEN MAUD CAM Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of History Since 1948, Miss Cam has been Samuel Zemurray, jr. and Doris Ze- murray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of History in Harvard University. She taught in England at Girton College Where she was Director of Studies in History and Law. Her latest work is England Before Elizabeth. This is Miss Cam's third year at the Law School where she is conducting a seminar in English Legal History. Born: 18852 England. B.A., 1907, M.A., 1909, London University, M.A., 1931, I-iff-D-, 1939, Cambridge University. I ANDREW JAMES CASNER Professor of Law Before coming to the Harvard Faculty in 1938, Professor Casner served on the Law School faculties of the following Universities: Illinois, Mary- land, Michigan, Texas, and Leland Stanford. He was a Colonel in the Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. Professor Casner participated both as a reporter and as an adviser in the preparation ofthe Restatement of Property. He was also Reporter for the Uniform Property Act and has contributed a number of articles in the property field to legal periodicals. He is co-editor with Professor Leach of a Casebook for Property I and Editor-in-Chief of American Law of Property, a seven volume treatise. In 1953 he published Ertate Planning: Cater, Statuter, Text and Other Materialf. He is teaching Property I and the course in Wills, Future Interests and Estate Planning. Born: 1907, Chicago, Illinois. A.B., LL.B., 1929, University of Illinois, S.j.D., 1941, Columbia. ZECHARIAH CHAFEE, JR. University Professor Professor Chafee came to the faculty of the Harvard Law School in 1916 after three years of practice in Providence, and was Langdell Professor from 1938-1950. His studies have been chiefly in the helds of Equity and Nego- tiable Instruments, but his writings reflect his varied interests. Free Speech in the United Stater, Government and Marr Communieationt, Weathering the Panic of'73, State Home ot. Penthouxe: Legal Problem: ofthe R. I. Rate Traeh Row, and others including How Human Right! Got into the Conttitution. In 1936 he drafted the Federal Interpleader Act and was in 1947 and 1948 a member of the United Nations Sub-commission on Information and Freedom of the Press. This year he is teaching Equitable Remedies and Unfair Competition and is giving a seminar on Fundamental Human Rights. In addition Professor Chafee has been giving two courses in Arts and Sciences: Fundamental Human Rights, and Legal Protection of Litera- ture, Art, and Music. Born: 18855 Providence, Rhode Island. A.B., 1907, Brown, LL.B., 1913, Harvard. l21l

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RICHARD FORD Assistant Professor of Legal Medicine Dr. Ford is a native son, having been born and raised in the Cambridge area. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. During World War II, Dr. Ford was Commanding Ofiicer of the 4th Portable Surgical Hospital and held the rank of Major. In the held of public service, Dr. Ford was Associate Medical Examiner, Suffolk County, from 1946 to 1950, and in 1950 was appointed Medical Examiner, a position which he still holds. In the academic sphere, he is the Acting Head, Department of Legal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, a Lecturer in Legal Medicine at Yale and Tufts, and conducts the Medico-Legal Problems Seminar here at the Law School. In addition, Dr. Ford is a member of numerous medical societies. Born: 19155 Cambridge, Massachusetts. A.B., 1936, M.D., 1940, Harvard. PAUL ABRAHAM FREUND Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law Professor Freund began his legal career as secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis for the 1932-33 term. For the next two years he was a member of the legal staff of the Treasury Department and of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. For the next four years his work was in the ofhces of the Solicitor General of the United States and as special assistant to the Attorney General. He returned to Harvard in 1939 as a lecturer and was ap- pointed Professor in 1940. From 1942 to 1946 he was on leave with the Department ofjustice. I-Ie is adviser on the revision of the Confiict of Law Restatment. Published works include On Uncleruanding lhe Supreme Court and Can.fliluliol1alLuw.' Carer and Olker Problems fco-editor with Professors Brown, Howe, and Sutherlandj. Professor Freund now teaches Constitutional Law and a seminar in Con- stitutional Litigation. Born: 1908, St. Louis, Missouri. A.B., 1928, Washington University, LL.B., 1931, S.,I.D., 1932, Harvard. LON LUVOIS FULLER A Carter Professor of Generaljurisprudence Professor Fuller began his teaching career at the University of Oregon in 1926. After two years he went to the University of Illinois and later to Duke University. In 1939 he was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty, and concurrently with his teaching here he practiced law in Boston from 1941 to 1945. In 1936 Professor Fuller won the Philips Award of the American Philo- sophical Society for an essay injurisprudence entitled American Legal Realism . A group oflectures entitled The Law in Quen oflzrelfwas pub- lished in 1940. Professor Fuller is editor ofa case-book on Contracts and is author of collected readings in Problemr of jfzrirprudenee. He teaches Contracts andjurisprudence, and conducts a seminar in the latter. Born: 1902, Hereford, Texas. A.B., 1924,J.D., 1926, Leland Stanford University. I23l