Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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WILLIAM ORR HUIE Visiting Professor of Law Professor Huie, who came to Harvard this year through the courtesy of the University of Texas, is appropriately teaching a course in Oil and Gas, as well as two sections of Trusts. The Pro- fessor has been teaching at the Texas School of Law since 1936, and was Assistant Dean from 1946 until 1948. In 1939-40, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School. Aside from serving for a number of years on the Texas State Bar Committee on Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law, Mr. Huie has done a great deal of writing, authoring Texas Cases on Marital Rights, Casebooks on Texas Land Limitations, Texas Public Lands, Texas Sfrppleinent on Administration of Estates, and co-authoring Cases on Oil and Gas in 1960. Born: 19115 Arkadelphia, Arkansas. A.B., 1932, Henderson State Teachers Collegeg LL.B., 1935, University of Texasg S.J.D., 1953, Harvard. LOUIS LEVENTHAL JAFFE Byrne Professor of Administrative Law In 1928, Professor Jaffe graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After general practice and graduate study, he served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Brandeis in 1933, and was an attorney with the NLRB through 1935. In 1936, the Professor began teaching at the University of Buffalo Law School, and in 1948 became Dean. His article on Res Ipsa Loquitur Vindicated inaugurated the Buffalo Law Review. He was appointed to the Law School faculty in 1950 as Byrne Professor. Professor Jaffe is author of judicial Aspert of Foreign Relations, and co-author of Cases ana' Materials on Administrative Law, a subject on which he is currently writing a treatise. Born: 19053 Seattle, Washington. A.B., 1925, John Hopkins, LL.B., 19283 S.J.D., 1932, Harvard. BENJAMIN KAPLAN Royall Professor of Law Professor Kaplan is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review from 1931 to 1933. He practiced law in New York City for nine years before entering the service in 1942. During Army service he was a member of Mr. justice Jackson's staff in the Nuremberg prosecution. He returned to hiS 12W firm in 1946, and was named Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard in 1947. His appointment as Professor of Law followed the next year. Professor Kaplan is co-author of Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Proredzrre and Copyright and Unfair C ompetition. He is cur- rently teaching courses in Civil Procedure, Copyright and Unfair Competition, and a seminar in Equitable Remedies. Born: 19113 New York, New York. A.B., 1929, College of the City of New Yorkg LL.B., 1933, Columbia. 26

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HENRY MELVIN HART, JR. Dane Professor of Law Professor Hart spent one year clerking for Mr. Justice Brandeis before returning to his alma mater in 1932 as an Assistant Pro- fessor of Law. In 1937-38, he was Head Attorney in the Ofiice of the Solicitor General, in 1940-41, Special Assistant to the Attorney General Assigned to Immigration and Naturalizationg in 1945-46, General Counsel, Ofiice of Economic Stabilization. Since 1937, Professor Hart has been on the American Law Institute's Advisory Com- mittee on the Model Penal Code, and in 1961, he was appointed to the A.L.I. Advisory Committee on the Study of jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. Among his numerous writings, he has col- laborated with Professor Wechsler of Columbia on The Federal C otzrts and the Federal System. Born: 19043 Butte, Montana. A.B., 19263 LL.B., 19302 S.I.D., 1931, Harvardg LLD., 1953, Columbia. DAVID RICHARD HERXVITZ Professor of Law A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pro- fessor Herwitz entered the Law School in 1946, where he was a member of the Board of Student Advisers and the Law Review. In 1949, Mr. Herwitz served as an attorney with the Tax Court in Washington, D.C. He returned to the Law School in the following year as a Teaching Fellow. Between 1951 and 1954, he practiced in Boston and lectured at Northeastern Law School, joining the Harvard faculty in the latter year. Together with Professor Trautman, Professor Herwitz has written the third edition of Amory and Hardee, Cases and Materials on Accounting. He is currently conducting courses in Accoun-ting, Corporations II and Business Planning. Born: 19253 Lynn, Massachusetts. B.S., 1946, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LL.B., 1949, Harvard. MARK DEWOLFE HOWE Professor of Law Professor Howe clerked for Mr, justice Holmes upon graduation from the Law School in 1933. After racticing in Boston, he was appointed to the University of Buffalb Law School faculty in 1937, and became Dean three years later, at the age of 34. In 1945, he was appointed a Professor at Harvard. Mr. Howe is on leave for 1961-62, primarily preoccu ied with the second volume of his contemplated three volume biography of justice Holmes. Aside from the first volume of the set fMr. justice Holmes: The Shaping Yearsj, Mr. Howe has also been the Editor of The Holmes-Pollock Letters Q2 vols.j, The Holmes- Lashi Letters Q2 vols.j, and the editor and co-editor of a number of casebooks, including one on Constitutional Law. Born: 19062 Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 19283 LL.B., 1933, Harvard. 25

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MILTON KATZ Henry L. Stirnron Proferror of Law, Director of International Legal Stndier, and Direetor of the International Program in Taxation. In 1950-51, Professor Katz was United States Representative in Europe, with the rank of Ambassador, and as such, served as chief of the Marshall Plan in Europe. Concurrently, he was the senior American delegate to the United States Economic Commission for Europe. He was Associate Director of the Ford Foundation from 1951 to 1954, and is currently trustee or director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the World Peace Foundation and the International Friendship League. Since 1939, when he joined the faculty, Mr. Katz has written Carer and Materialr in Adrniniitrative Law, co-authored Tloe Law of International Transactions and Relations, and edited Government Under Law and the Individual. Born: 19075 New York, New York. A.B., 1927g LL.B., 1931, Harvard. ROBERT ERNEST KEETON Proferior of Law Professor Keeton was engaged in private practice in Houston, Texas, until the outbreak of World War II. From 1945 to 1945, he was Flag Secretary to Rear Admiral Mullinnix and Assistant Flag Secretary to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. After the war, he resumed private practice, specializing in per- sonal injury and insurance litigation. Prior to his appointment to the Law School faculty in 1954, he was an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University. Mr. Keeton is Adviser to the Reporter on the Restatement of Torts Second. He has written Trial Taetirr and Methods, Baile Infuranre Law, and has co-edited Carer and Material: on the Lau' of Torti. He is on leave for the first semester, 1961-62. Born: 19193 Clarksville, Texas. B.B.A., 19403 LL.B., 1941, University of Texasg S.J.D., 1956, Harvard. WALTER BARTON LEACH Story Professor of Law After graduating from the Law School, Professor Leach clerked for Mr. justice Holmes, and then practiced in Boston. In 1929, he was appointed to the faculty. He has also taught at Oxford, the University of Colorado, and Northeastern University. The Pro- fessor is a Brigadier General, USAFR Qretj, and a Consultant to the Air Force. Mr. Leach has contributed to the Restatement of Pro erty and the American Law of Property. Among his numerous puglications are The Rule A gainft Per etuitier, Care: and Text on Willa, Carer on Matraehnrettr Law o Evidence, and the co-authorship of Future Interertf and Ertate Planning and Carer and Text on Property. Born: 19005 Boston, Massachusetts. A.B., 19215 LL.B., 1924, Harvard: Certificate d'Etudes Francaises, 1920, Universite de Grenobleg S.J.D. QHon.j, Suffolk, 1958. 27