Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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ERNEST JOSEPH BROWN Proferror of Law Having practiced law for several years in Buffalo, Professor Brown turned to the academic world in 1937 by joining the faculty of the University of Buffalo Law School, where he ultimately became Assistant Dean. After serving in the Army during World War II, he came to the Law School as a Visiting Professor in 1946, and was appointed Professor on the staff the following year. With Professors Freund, Sutherland, and Howe, he is editor of a casebook on Constitutional Law, a course he teaches at the Law School along with Taxation, and a seminar in Taxation: Corporate Reorganizations and Distributions. Born: 19065 Lake Providence, Louisiana. A.B., 1927, Princetong LL.B., 1951, Harvard. CLARK BYSE Proferror of Law Following his graduation from Wisconsin in 1938, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, Professor Byse became Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. In 1940, he began a five year period of government and war service. Mr. Byse was named Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, and Professor of Law two years later. He came to Harvard in 1957. Presently, he is a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and Counsel to the American Association of University Professors. He is co-author of Admifziszmfiife Law Carer and Comment: and Tenure in Ameri- can Higher Edlzmlionf Planr, Pmrlicer, rind the Law. Born: 19125 Oshkosh, Wisconsin. B.E., 1935, State Teachers College, Oshkosh: LLB.. 1938. Wisconsin: LLM., 1939: S.J.D., 1952, Columbia. ANDREW JAMES CASNER Associate Dean and Weld Professor of Law Professor Casner is one of the nation's foremost authorities on Property Law. He has been Reporter and Adviser to the Restate- ment of Property, Reporter for the current American Law Institute project to draft a mo el estate and gift tax statute, Reporter for the Uniform Property Act, and Editor-in-Chief of the eight volume set of the Amerirmz Law of Properly. He is also a member of the A.B.A. Committee on Professional Ethics, Director of the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Law Depart- ment of Little, Brown 8a Company, editor of a casebook in Estate Planning, and co-author of a Property casebook, which will be long-remembered by most Harvard Law school students. Born: 19073 Chicago, Illinois. A.B., LL.B., 1929, University of Illinois, S,J.D., 1941, Columbia. 20

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HAROLD JOSEPH BERMAN Profefwr of Law One of this country's leading authorities on Soviet Law, Pro- fessor Berman is spending his 1961-62 leave of absence in Russia, studying Soviet Economic Law at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. and teaching a course in Introduction to American Law at Moscow State University. In 1960, he published an Introduction to The Trial of the U-2, a transcript of the record of the trial of Francis Powers in Moscow. The Professor has also been chairman of the Committee of Association of American Law Schools on Teaching Law in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, and his book, The Nnlllre nm! Fmirlinnr 0fL!11U, is used as a text in many colleges. Born: 1918, Hartford, Connecticut. A.B., 1938, Dartmouth: M.A., 1942, LI..B., 1947, Yale. DEREK CURTIS BOK AJ'J'f.ffflJlf Professor of Law Professor Bok entered the Law School in 1951, after graduating from Stanford University. He served on the Board of Editors of the Law Review and received his LL.B. in 1954. After graduation, he spent one year in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. Wllile in Europe, he wrote a monograph, The First Three Years of lbe Srlfmfmfz Plan, which was published as one of Princeton University's Studies in International Finance. Following his year abroad, he entered military service, serving as an Assistant to the General Counsel in the Othce of the Secretary of the Army. Since joining the faculty, Professor Bok has been teaching Labor Law, Antitrust Law, and a seminar in Labor Law. Born: 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A.B., 1951, Stanford, LLB., 1954, Harvard, M.A., 1958, George Waslx- ington University. ROBERT BRAUCHER Profefror of Law Aside from 15 years of teaching at the Law School, where he was Editor of the Law Review as a student, Professor Braucher has taught at the Harvard School of Business Administration for several years, and as a Fulbright Lecturer in Japan in 1959. He is currently the Reporter for the Restatement of Contracts Second, the Coordinator for the revision of the Uniform Commer- cial Code, and has served on the Massachusetts Commission on Uniform State Law since 1954. Professor Braucher has written Cater on Commerrifzl Law, and has co-authored Infredzrrliou to Comfzzercizzl Law, and Commercial Tra'12mcfi01z.r, a course he teaches in addition to Agency, the Legal Profession, and a seminar in Commercial Law. Born: 19163 New York New York. A.B., 1936, Haverfordg LL.B., 1959, Harvard. 19

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DAVID FARQUHAR CAVERS Fessenderz Professor of Low Following graduation from the Law School, where he was Presi- dent of the Law Review, Professor Cavers was associated with a New York firm for three years. After one year as an instructor here, he taught at the law schools of West Virginia and Duke with appointments as Visiting Professor at Yale and Chicago. After service as Assistant General Counsel for Price in the O.P.A., Professor Cavers rejoined the faculty, serving as Associate Dean from 1951 to 1959, and receiving the Fessenden chair in 1952. Last year, the Professor was a Consultant to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. His publications include co-authorship of Eler- tric Power Regulation in Latin America, and the editing of the volume set of Law and Contemporary Problems. Born: 1902g Buffalo, New York. B.S., 1923, University of Pennsylvaniag LL.B., 1926, Harvard. JAMES HARMON CHADBOURN Visiting Professor of Low Presently a Professor of Law at U.C.L.A., Mr. Chadbourn is teaching Civil Procedure and Evidence at Harvard this year as Visiting Professor. He has previously instructed at the University of North Carolina, Duke, and Pennsylvania. Professor Chadbourn is Research Consultant for the California Law Review Commission, and Vice-Chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Uniform Rules of Evidence. Aside from penning various articles in legal periodicals, the Professor has authored Lyncbifzg and tbe Law and co-authored California Pleading, Federal Courts, and three casebooks on Civil Procedure, each one in collaboration with a different professor. Born: 1905g Spartanburg, South Carolina. A.B., 1926, The Citadelg J.D., 1951, University of North Carolina. JOHN P. DAWSON Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law Professor Dawson was on the faculty of the University of Michi- gan for 50 years before he joined the Harvard staff in 1956. On leave from Michigan from 1942 to 1945, he served as Chief Counsel in the Rent Section, Ofiice of Price Administration, Chief, Middle East Division, Foreign Economic Administration, and Acting Regional Economic Counsellor for the Middle East, State Department, In 1947-48, he assumed the Directorship of the Foreign Trade Administration for the Greek government. Professor Dawson is the author of Uszjust Enrirbment, a Com- paratire Analysis, A History of Lay judges, and is co-author of a Casebook on C ontrorfs and C0l1l1'z1ff Remedies. Born: 19021 Detroit, Michigan. A.B., 1922g J. D., 1924, Michigan: D. Phil., 1930. Oxford. 21