Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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HENRY MELVIN HART, JR. Dane Prokssor of Law Professor Hart spent one year clerking for Mr. justice Brandeis before returning to his alma mater in 1932 as an Assistant Profes- sor of Law. In 1937-38, he was Head Attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General, in 1940-41, Special Assistant to the Attorney General As- signed to Immigration and Naturalization, in 1945-46, General Counsel, Office of Economic Stabilization. Since 1937, Professor Hart has been on the American Law Institute's Advisory Committee 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 Fed- eral Courts. Among his numerous writings, he has collaborated with Professor Wechsler of Columbia on Y7ze Federal Courts and the Federal System. Born: 1904, Butte, Montana. A.B., 1926, LL.B., 1930, S.j.D., 1931, Harvard, LL.D., 1953, Columbia. DAVID RICHARD HERWITZ 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 ofthe 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 follow- ing year as a Teaching Fellow. Between 1951 and 1954, he prac- ticed 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 Accounting, Corporations Finance and Business Planning. Born: 1925, Lynn, Massachusetts. ll-S-. 1946, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LL.B., 1949, Harvard. MARK DEWOLFE HOWE Prokssor of Law Professor Howe clerked for Mr. justice Holmes upon graduation from the Law School in 1933. After practicing in Boston, he was appointed to the University of Buffalo 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 was on leave for 1961-62, primarily preoccupied with the second volume of his contemplated three volume biography of Justice Holmes. Aside from the first volume of the set fMr fuslice Holmes, The Shaping Yearsj, Mr. Howe has also been the Editor of The Holmes-Pollock Letlers C 2 vols.j, The Holmes-Laskz' Lellers C2 vols.j, and the editor and co-editor of a number of casebooks, including one on Constitutional Law. Born: 1906, Boston, l1'I2lSS2l.Cllll5C11S. A-B.. 1928, L1..1s., 1933, Harvard. xi 3 1 4

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CHARLES MONROE HAAR Prokssor of Law Entering the Law School in 1941, Professor Haar left shortly thereafter for a tour of duty in New Guinea and the Philippines as a Naval Intelligence Officer. Graduating in 1948, he was awarded a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and spent a year in England, where he wrote Lana' Planning Law in a Free Sociegz. From 1950 to 1952, before joining the faculty, Professor Haar lectured at New York University and was a consultant for the Town Planning Com- mission ofthe United Nations. Among his numerous publications, Professor Haar has written Federal Credit and Private Housing, and has edited a casebook on land-use controls. He is currently teaching Property I, and semi- nars in Land Use Planning and Land Reform. Born: 19203 Antwerp, Belgium. A.B., 1940, New York University, M.A., 1941, University of Wisconsing LL.B., 1949, Harvard. W. -3' 26 EDWARD C. HALBACH, JR. Visiting Professor of Law On leave from the University of California, Berkley, School of Law, where he is a professor, Visiting Professor Halbach has pub- lished numerous articles and two syllabi on property law. In addi- tion to teaching extensively in this field, he has served on the Committee on Charitable Trusts of theAmerican Bar Association, section on real property. Professor Halbach has also taught at the University of Iowa, Col- lege of Commerce. He is currently teaching Trusts here at Harvard. Born: 19319 Clinton, Iowa. l3.A., l953gj.D., 1958, University of Iowa, LL.M., 1959, Harvard. LIVINGSTON HALL Prokssor of Law After graduating from the Law School magna cum laude, Profes- sor Hall spent four years in private practice, and one year as an Assistant United States District Attorney in New York before be- coming a member of the faculty in 1932. In 198, he was named Vice Dean, a post which he held for 20 years, and during the spring of 1959, was appointed Acting Dean, During the war, he was with the O.P.A. and later with theArmy Air Corps in the South- west Pacific. Professor Hall is a member of the Judicial Council of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts and of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He has been the co-editor of case- books on Criminal Law and Agency. Born: 1903, Chicago, Illinois. Pli.B., 1923, University of Chicagog LL.B., 1927, Harvard: S.j.D. fHon.j, Sul- folk University, 1955.

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LOUIS LEVENTHAL JAFFE Byrne Professor o Administrative Law 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 fudzcral Aspect of Foreign Relations, and coauthor of Cases and Matenals on Administrative Law, a subject on which he is currently writing a treatise. A B 1925 John Hopkins LL B 1928 SJ D., 1931, Harvard. 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 1 BENJAMIN KAPLAN Royall Prokssor 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 law 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 Materz'als fora Basic Course in Civil Procedure and Copyright and Unfair Competition. He is cur- rently teaching courses in Civil Procedure, and Copyright and Un- fair Competition. Born: 1911g New York, New York. A.B., 1929, College ofthe City of New York: LL.B., 1933, Columbia. MILTON KATZ Henry L. Stimson Prokssor of Law, Director of International Legal Studies, and Director 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 Cases and Materials in Administrative Law, co-authored The Law of International Transactions and Relations, and edited Govern- ment Under Law and the Individual Born: 19073 New York, New York. A.B., 19275 LLB., 1931, Harvard.