Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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DONALD F. TURNER Professor of Law Professor Turner holds an A.B. from Northwestern University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Harvard. After service with the Navy in the South Pacific, he took his LL.B. at Yale, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal and received the Peres Prize for outstanding student contributions to Volumes 58 and 59. He graduated cum laude in 1950. Following a clerkship with Mr. Justice Clark, he was associated with a Washington, D. C., law firm. Professor Turner teaches Commercial Law and Government Regulation of Business. He also participates in the Antitrust Seminar. Born: 19217 Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. A.B., 1941, Norihwesierrr, M.A., 1943, Ph.D., 1947, Harvard, LL.B., 1950, Yale. ARTHUR TAYLOR von MEHREN Professor of Law Before his appointment to the Law School faculty in 1946, Professor von Mehren was law clerk to Judge Calvert Magru- der. From 1946 to 1949 he studied the continental systems of law at the University of Zurich and at the University of Paris. He was on leave of absence in 1947-1948 to serve with the legal division of the United States Military Occupation Gov- ernment in Germany. During 1956-57 Professor von Mehren was a Fulbright Research Professor at the University of Tokyo. Professor von Mehren is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law and is the au- thor of The Civil Law Systems: Cases and Materials for The Comparative Study of Law 119571. He teaches courses in Conflict of Laws and the Civil Law System, and conducts semi- nars on Comparative Administrative Law, Comparative Legal Research, and Research in Conflict of Laws. Born: 1922, Albert Lea, Minnesota. B.S., 1942, LL.B., 1945, Ph.D., 1946, Harvard. DAVID WESTFALL Assistant Professor of Law While at the Law School Professor Westfall served two years on the Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude and received the Fay Diploma. He has done legal work in Kansas City and in New York and was an election examiner for the National Labor Relations Board. Professor Westfall was connected with the Chicago firm of Bell, Boy, Marshall, and Lloyd after graduation. This associa- tion was interrupted from 1951 to 1953 when he served with the Army in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. Professor Westfall is co-author, with Professor Casner, of Part 21, Construction Problems, of American Law of Prop- erty. He teaches Property ll, Oil and Gas Law, and Real Estate Transactions. Born: 1927, Columbus, Missouri. A.B., 1947, University of Missouri, LL.B., 1950, Harvard. 27

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SAMUEL E. THORNE Professor of Legal History Professor Thorne came to the School from the Yale Law School where he taught since 1945 and where he was Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Legal History and Librarian. Previously he was an assistant librarian at the Columbia Law School and Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. During World War ll he was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. ' An authority on the law of medieval and Elizabethan Eng- land, Professor Thorne has written numerous papers on legal- historical subiects, and has edited, among others, A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understandings of Statutes, A Cata- logue of the Library of Sir Edward Coke, and others. Professor Thorne teaches English Legal History and a semi- nar on the same subiect for graduate students. Born: 1907, New York City. B.A., 1927, College of the City of New York, LL.B., 1930, Harvard. ARTHUR E. SUTHERLAND Bussey Professor of Law Except for a year as legal secretary to Mr. Justice Holmes, Professor Sutherland practiced law in Rochester, New York, from 1926 until 1941. From 1941 to 1945 he served with the U. S. Army. ln 1945 he became Professor of Law at Cornell, and taught there until he became Professor of Law at Harvard in 1950. ln 1956 Professor Sutherland held a Fulbright lectureship at Oxford. He edited Government Under Law, the published proceed- ings of the John Marshall Bicentennial at Harvard, of which he was chairman. His Rundell Lectures at Wisconsin in 1955 were published as The Law and One Man Among Many. Pro- fessor Sutherland has collaborated on casebooks in Constitu- tional Law, problems of Federalism, and Commercial Law. He teaches Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, and seminars on Commercial Law and on the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. Born: l902, Rochester, New York. A.B., 1922, Wesleyany LL.B., 1925, Harvard. DONALD THEODORE TRAUTMAN Professor of Law After interrupting his college education in 1943 to serve in the Infantry and in Military Intelligence, Professor Trautman returned to Harvard in 1946, and enrolled in the seven year College-Law Program. He received his A.B. and LL.B. from Harvard in 1951. While at the Law School he was an editor of the Law Review. Professor Trautman was a Harvard National Scholar and a holder of a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship under which he traveled and studied in Europe. During the 1952 Supreme Court Term, he served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Frankfurter. This year, Professor Trautman teaches Accounting and Conflict of Laws and conducts seminars in Public Utilities and in Conflict of Laws. Born: 1924, Cleveland, Ohio. A.B., LL.B., 1951, Harvard. 26

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LOUIS A. TOEPFER Secretary of the Law School Director of Admissions Mr. Toepfer graduated from the Law School in 1947, after having had his course interrupted by four years of service with the Navy. Upon receiving his degree he was appointed Secre- tary of the Placement Office, and a year later he was desig- nated Assistant Dean and Director ot Admissions. In 1952 he took charge of the School's Financial Aids program, com- bining this with his placement and admissions responsibilities. On January 1, 1956, Mr. Toepfer was appointed Secretary of the Law School. He now serves in that capacity and also continues as Director of Admissions and Financial Aids. Born: 1919, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, A.B., 1940, Beloit College, LL.B., 1947, Harvard. WILLIAM SPRAGUE BARNES Assistant Dean After graduating from Yale in 1940, Mr. Barnes entered the Law School, but left shortly thereafter to ioin the service in 1941. A fighter pilot in Egypt and Libya in 1943, he com- pleted his first year work while a prisoner of war and grad- uated from the Law School in 1947. He received his degree of docteur en droit from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1957. Between 1948 and 1950 he was Research Associate in Comparative Law at Michigan Law School. From 1950-1954 he served the Law School as Secretary of International Legal Studies. He is director of the World Tax Series. In 1955 he was appointed Assistant Dean. Born: 1919, New York City. A.B., 1940, Yale, LL.B., 1947, Harvard. WESLEY E. BEVINS, JR. Assistant Dean Director of the Harvard Law School Fund Mr. Bevins entered the Law School in 1946 after service with anti-aircraft artillery of the Third Army in Europe. After graduation in 1948 he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, and that same year became Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Fund for the Massachusetts area. In January of 1950, Mr. Bevins ioined the Administrative Stat? as Assistant Dean. He directs the operation of the Dormi- tory Office and is also Director of the Harvard Law School Fund and the Alumni OFl'ice. Mr. Bevins holds the rank of Maior in the Army Reserve and in this capacity directs a three year course in Military Law presented at the Law School by the Army. Barn: 1918, Peabody, Massachusetts. B.S., 1941, Bowdoin College, LL.B., 1948, Harvard. 28