Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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PHILLIP ELIAS AREEDA Assistant Prokssor of Law Reversing a current trend, the Harvard Law School faculty gained a member when john Kennedy was elected President. After serving as Assistant Special Counsel to President Eisenhower, and as a member of the White House Staff from 1956 through 1960, Profes- sor Areedajoined the faculty injanuary of 1961. Prior to his work in Washington, Professor Areeda graduated summa cum laude from the Law School, was awarded the Fay Diploma, and received a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship for 1954- 55. Presently, he is teaching Antitrust Law and a seminar in Inter- national Business Regulation. Born: 1930g Detroit, Michigan. A.B., 1951g LL.B., 1954, Harvard. Born: 19295 Budapest, Hungary 20 PAUL MICHAEL BATOR f Pro essor o Law In 1956, when Professor Bator graduated from Harvard Law School, he was first in his class summa cum laude and President of the Law Review. Upon graduation he served for one year as clerk for Mr. justice john M Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for the following two years he practiced with the New York City firm of Debevoise Plimpton and McLean Since joining the faculty in 1959 Professor Bator has taught Ad ministrative Law, Criminal Law Civil Procedure and a seminar dealing with remedies against the government A.B., 1951, Princetong M.A., 1953 LL B 1956 Harvard RICHARD REEVE BAXTER f f Pro essor 0 Law Professor Baxter joined the Law School faculty in 1954 as Re search Associate in the International Waterways Project He is currently a member of the Board of Editors of the American our nal of International Law and a member of the Executive Council of the American Branch, International Law Association At the time of Professor Baxter s resignation from the Army to join the faculty, he was Chief of the International Law Branch Of fice of the judge Advocate General s Corps USAR While at the Law School, Professor Baxter has taught courses in Contracts Criminal Law, Public International Law Problems of World Order International Protection of Foreign Investments and International Law Problems. He is on research leave for 1962 1963 Born: 19213 New York, New York A.B., 1942, Brown, LL.B., 1948 Harvard Diploma in Internnional Law 1951, Cambridge, LL.M., 1952 Georgetown

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Erwin Nathaniel Griswold Dean and Langde!! Professor of Law President of the Harvard Law Review in 1928 and recipient of an S.J.D. in1929,Dean Griswold returned to his native Cleveland, Ohio for private practice. He was soon in Washington, D.C., as Special Assistant to the Attorney General, handling many cases be- fore the U. S. Supreme Court. Leaving Wash- ington in 1934, he was appointed to the Law School faculty. He became a full professor a year later and Dean and Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law in 1946. He has been Dean and Langdell Professor of Law since 1950. 1'i rs 5: , . I 3 V 5' . lj' I it E , S if ' r 'iff l-. l . ., , ,L he aww-an-v. Q. Q . I V -Wi E S The Dean's leadership has resulted in re- markable changes and progress in the Law School since 1946. Because of his singular devotion to the welfare of this school, he normally engages in an eighty-hour work week. Aside from his administrative duties, the Dean teaches a course in Taxation, does extensive writing and editing and serves on many legal committees. His published books include Spendthrw Trusts The Fwh Amend- mem' Today, and casebooks on Federal Taxa- tion and Conflict of Laws. He is also a con- tributor to legal periodicals and is general editor of the American Casebook Series. A member of the Massachusetts and Ameri- can Bar Associations, Dean Griswold is also active in the American Law Institute, is chair- man of the American Bar Association's Spe- cial Committee on Professional Relations, is a member of the U. S. Civil Rights Commis- sion and of the ABA,s Special Committee on World Peace Through Law. Among his hon- ors have been numerous honorary degrees, a directorship of the American Judicature Society and president of the Association of American Law Schools. 19

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HAROLD JOSEPH BERMAN Projkssor of Law Professor Berman returned to Harvard Law School after a year's leave of absence, in which he taught American Law at Moscow Uni- versity and studied Soviet Law at the Institute of State and the Acad- emy of Sciences. He teaches a course in Comparison of Soviet and American Law and many of his publications deal with this subject. Graduating from Yale Law School in 1947, he began teaching here in 1948 as a visiting professor. Active in promoting the teach- ing of law in the liberal arts curriculum, he has served as chairman of the Association of American Law Schools committee on this proj- ect. His text, The Nature and Function of Law, is used as a text in many colleges. Born: 1918, Hartford, Connecticut. A.B., 1938, Dartmouthg M.A., 1942, Yaleg LL.B., 1947, Yalc. DEREK CURTIS BOK Prokssor of Law Professor Bok entered the Law School in 1951, after graduating fl'0m 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 Fullbright Scholar. While in Europe, he wrote a monograph, The Hrs! Three Years ofthe Schuman Plan, which was published as one of Princeton Uni- versity's Studies in International Finance. Following his year abroad, he entered military service, serving as an Assistant to the General Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of the Army. Since joining the faculty, Professor Bok has been teaching Labor L3-W, Antitrust Law, and a seminar in Labor Law. Born: 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A.B., 1951, Stanfordg LL.B., 1954, Harvard, M.A., 1958, George Washington University. ROBERT BRAUCHER Prokssor 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 Sec- ond, the Coordinator for the revision of the Uniform Commercial Code, and has served on the Massachusetts Commission on Uni- form State Law since 1954. Professor Braucher has written Cases on Commercial Law, and has co-authored Introduction lo Commercial Law, and Commercial T ransaclions, a course he teaches in addition to Agency, the Icgal Profession, and a seminar in Commercial Law. Born: 19165 New York, New York. A.B., 1936, Haverfordg LL.B., 1939, Harvard.