Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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EAN GRISWOLD entered the Law School in 1925 and he was elected President of the Law Review. After receiving his S..l.D. in 1929 he en- tered private practice in Cleveland, but soon after left for Washington where he served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General between 1929 and 1934. During this period he was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court where he argued a record number of cases. He was appointed to the Law School faculty in 1934 and in the following year became a full pro- fessor. He has served as Dean since 1946. ln addition to his administrative duties, Dean Griswold teaches a course in Federal Taxation. ln the past, he has taught Trusts, Confiict of Laws and Administrative Law. He has published numerous books including Spendthrift Trusts, Cases and Ma- terials on Federal Taxation and recently The Fifth Amendment Today. The Dean is Editor of the Stu- dents Tax Law Service and General Editor of the Prentice Hall Law School Series. Dean Griswold has been advisor to the Restate- ment of Trusts, Restitution, and Judgments. He has also served as consultant to the U. S. Treasury Department. A recipient of numerous honorary degrees, the Dean is a director of the American Judicature So- ciety and President of the Association of American Law Schools. 11 'tif 'ft ifil Qt if' h ,U -... 1 pk itin-v4 ERWIN NATHANIEL GRlSWOl.D Dean and Langdell Professor of Law 1

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NATHAN MARSH PUSEY President of Harvard University HE twenty-fourth president of Harvard was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on April 4, 1907. Grad- uating from Abraham Lincoln High School in Coun- cil Bluffs, he entered Harvard College, where he maiored in English and Comparative Literature. After receiving his A.B. degree magna cum laude in 1928, he traveled for a year in Europe and then became a teacher at Riverdale Country School, outside New York City. Receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1932, he served as a part-time Assistant in History at Harvard during 1932-1933 and spent the following year in Greece as an Archibald Coolidge Fellow. President Pusey went to Lawrence College in 1935 as a Sophomore Tutor in an experimental program of liberal arts education. He then re- turned to Harvard to complete his graduate work, receiving his Ph.D. in 1937. From 1938 to 1940 he taught at Scripps Col- lege 1California1 as Assistant Professor of History and Literature. ln 1940, he ioined the faculty of Wesleyan University to take part in the develop- ment of new liberal arts courses for freshmen and sophomores. He became Associate Professor of Classics in 1943. A member of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, he holds numerous honorary degrees in- cluding the LL.D. from Columbia 119541, Brown 119541, and Princeton 119541, and an L.H.D. from Lawrence 119541. Among his other honors, he is a Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- vancement of Teaching, and a member of the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10

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RALPH JACKSON BAKER Weld Professor of Law Immediately following graduation, Professor Baker taught for three years as Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1932, after 18 years of private practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Professor Baker has contributed to the American Law In- stitute's Restatement of Trusts and Restatement of Restitution and has assisted in the drafting of the Investments Instruments section of the Commercial Code prepared by the Institute and the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. With the late Pro- fessor Dodd he edited Cases and Materials on Corporations. Professor Baker teaches Trusts and Corporations II and Il-A. Born: 18887 Octoraro, Pennsylvania. A.B., 1907, Swarthmore Collepeg LL.B., 1911, University of Pennsylvaina. RICHARD R. BAXTER Assistant Professor of Law From 1947 until 1954 Professor Baxter was associated with the International Law Branch, Office of the Judge Advocate General. He headed the International Law Branch during the latter years of his service. For six months in 1954 he was connected with the Office of the General Counsel, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and has since served as consultant to that office. Professor Baxter came to the Law School in 1954 as Re- search Associate in the International Waterways Proiect. He is now assisting Professor Sohn on a draft codification of the Law of Responsibility of States for the United Nations. Semi- nars in International Law Problems, Legal Problems of Inter- national Air Transportation and Criminal Law are under his direction. Born: 19215 New York City. A.B., 1942, Brown, LL.B., 1948, Harvard, Diploma in International Law, 1951, Cambridge University, LL.M., 1952, Georgetown. HAROLD JOSEPH BERMAN Professor of Law Prior to graduating from the Yale Lal School in 1947, Pro- fessor Berman served overseas with signal intelligence from 1942 to 1945. He was appointed to the Law School faculty in 1948. Specializing in Soviet Law, Professor Berman has written several books and numerous articles in the field, among which are Justice in Russia l195Ol and Soviet Military Law and Administration lwith M. Kernerl, l1955l. This spring he will publish The Nature and Functions of Law: An Introduction for Students of the Arts and Sciences. He has been active in promoting the teaching of law in the liberal arts curriculum and teaches a course in the So- ciology of Law at Harvard College. He teaches a course in Comparative Soviet and American Law and the seminar on Legal Problems of International Trade. Born: 19187 Hartford, Connecticut. A.B., 1938, Dartmouth, M.A., 1942, LLB., 1947, Yule. 12