Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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SAMUEL E. TI-IORNE Professor of Legal History Professor Thorne came to Harvard from the Yale Law School where he was Simeon E, Baldwin Professor of Legal History and Librarian. Prior to Yale, Mr. Thorne served as an Associate Professor of Law and Librarian at Northwestern University. Dur- ing World War II, he was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. An authority on the law of medieval and Elizabethan England, Professor Thorne has written several papers on legal-historical subjects and has edited, among other works, A Discourse Upon the Exposition and U nderstfwdin gs of Statutes. Presently, the Professor is teaching English Legal History and a seminar on the same subject. Born: 19075 New York, New York. A.B., 1921, College of the City of New Yorkg LL.B., 1950, Harvard, Litt.D., 1957, Wesleyan. DONALD THEODORE TRAUTMAN Professor of Law After interrupting his college education in 1943 to serve in the Infantry and in Military Intelligence, Professor Trautman re- turned to Harvard in 1946 and enrolled in the seven year College- Law Program. He received his A.B. summa cum laude, his LL.B. magna cum laude, and was Editor of the Law Review. Following his graduation, Professor Trautman held a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship under which he studied in Europe. During the 1952 Supreme Court Term, he served as law clerk to Mr. justice Frankfurter. Professor Trautman has co-authored a casebook on Accounting with Professor Herwitz, and is currently Adviser to the Reporter of Restatement Second, Conflict of Laws. Born: 19243 Cleveland, Ohio. A.B., LL.B., 1951, Harvard. DONALD F. TURNER Professor of Law Professor Turner served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946, and then entered Yale Law School, 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. Upon graduation, he clerked for Mr. justice Tom C. Clark of the Supreme Court, and was employed for three years with Cox, Langford, Stoddard and Cutler in Washington, D. C. The Professor is presently a Conferee, Attorney General's Com- mittee to Study the Antitrust Laws, and has co-authored Antitrust Policy. Mr, Turner is teaching Government Regulation of Business, Economic Regulation, and the Antitrust Seminar. Born: 1921g Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. A.B., 1941, Northwesterng M.A., 19433 Ph.D., 1947, Harvardg LL.B., 1950, Yale. 32

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FRANK ERNEST ARNOLD SANDER Assistant Professor of Law Professor Sander began his legal career as a clerk, first for Chief judge Magruder, Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and then for Mr. justice Frankfurter, U. S. Supreme Court. His next fifteen months were spent with the Tax Division of the De artment of justice. The Professor also practiced with a Boston firm for three years before joining the Law School faculty in 1959. Currently, Mr. Sander is Consultant to the Massachusetts Bar Committee on the Judiciary, and a member of the Advisory Com- mittee to the Massachusetts Inheritance Tax Bureau. He is currently teaching courses in Taxation and Family Law, and a seminar on Taxation: Current Issues and Problems. Born: 19273 Stuttgart, Germany. A.B., 19493 LL.B., 1952, Harvard. LOUIS B. SOHN Bemir Professor of International Law and john Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization Professor Sohn is presently on a one year leave of absence, while serving as a consultant to the State Department on matters of dis- armament, and the establishment of the new Disarmament Agency. The Professor joined the faculty in 1946, after six years as Research Associate to judge Hudson of the Permanent Court of International justice. He participated in the San Francisco Con- ference which drafted the United Nations Charter, and served as a legal officer in the U.N. Secretariat in 1950 and 1951. Among Professor Sohn's published works are Carer on World Law, Carer on United Nation: Law, and World Peace Through World Law. Born: 1914, Lwow, Poland. LL.B.,, Dipl. Sc.M., 1935, John Casimir University, Lwow, Polandg LL.M., 1940, Harvardg S.J.D., 1958, Harvard. ARTHUR E. SUTHERLAND Buney Proferror of Law Aside from 1927-28, when he was legal secretary to Mr. justice Holmes, Professor Sutherland practiced law in Rochester, New York, from 1926 until 1941. He served in the U. S. Army from the latter year until 1945, receiving the Bronze Star and numerous citations. Before becoming Professor of Law at Harvard in 1950, he taught at Cornell. In 1956, Professor Sutherland held a Ful- bright lectureship at Oxford, He edited Government Under Law, the published proceedings of the john Marshall Bicentennial at Harvard, of which he was chairman, and his Rundell Lectures at Wisconsin in 1955 were published as The Law and One Man Among Many. He has also co-authored casebooks on Constitutional Law and Commercial Law. Born: 1902g Rochester, New York. A.B., 1932, Wesleyang LL.B., 1925, Harvard. 31

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DETLEV FREDERICK VAGTS Arrirlfmt Profefror of Law Following his graduation from the Law School in 1951, Professor Vagts practiced with the Hrm of Cahill, Gordon, Reindel 8: Ohl in New York City for several years, specializing in corporate and antitrust matters. 1953 to 1956 were spent in the Air Force, with Mr. Vagts serving as an intelligence officer and Staff judge Advocate fora fighter group. In 1956, he returned to his previous practice, before being appointed to the faculty in 1959. For the past two years, the Professor taught the Antitrust Litigation Seminar. He is currently teaching Accounting, Law of International Transactions and Relations, and Corporations I. Bom: 19293 Washington, D.C. A.B., 19485 LL.B., 1951, Harvard. ARTHUR TAYLOR von MEHREN Proferror of Law Before his appointment to the faculty in 1946, Professor von Mehren, who was Editor of the Law Review in 1944-45, was law clerk to judge Calvert Magruder. He was on leave in 1947- 48, while serving with the legal division of the United States Military Occupation Government in Germany. During 1956-57, he was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Tokyo. Mr. von Mehren is on the Board of Editors of the American journal of Comparative Law, Director of the American Association for the Comparative Study of Law, and Vice President of the American Foreign Law Association. He is the author of The Civil Law Syrlem: Carer and Material: for the Compafafiue Sindy of Law. Born: 1922g Albert Lea, Minnesota. B.S., 19423 LL.B., 1945g Ph.D., 1946, Harvard. DAVID WESTFALL Proferror of Law While at the Law School, Professor Westfall was a member of the Law Review, graduated magna cum laude and received the Fay Diploma. The Professor was 'afiiliated with the Chicago Hrm of Bell, Boyd, Marshall and Lloyd after graduation. This association was interrupted from 1951 to 1953, when Mr. Westfall served with the Army in 'the Ofiice of the judge Advocate General. Professor Westfall is the co-author of Part 21, Construction Problems , of the American Law of Property, and is currently the Assistant Reporter to the Federal Estate and Gift Tax Project of the American Law Institute. He is presently conducting courses in Estate Planning and Business Planning. Born: 19275 Columbia, Missouri. A.B., 1947, University of Missouri, LL.B., 1950, Harvard. 33