Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Harvard Law School Yearbook 1967 Sesquicentennial Edition 3

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Richard M. Cion, Editor William A. Anderson, Business Manager F. Frederick Kennedy, Jr., Business Manager The Yearbook is presented to the Harvard Law School Community as one of the services of the L S ' ' ' aw chool Committee of Phillips Brooks House. The Committee wishes to express its appreciation to all who have helped make possible this publica- tion. CD 1967 Law School Committee of Phillips Brooks House 2 Z 5-

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Dedication ERWIN NATHANIAL GRISWOLD Dean and Lcmgdell Professor of Law The dedication of the Harvard Law School Yearbook to Erwin Nathaniel Griswold on the occasion of the completion of his twentieth year as Dean of the School is in recognition not only of the leadership he has provided as Dean during these twenty years but also in tribute to the example he has furnished of what it means to lead a full life in the law. Few people have concerned themselves with the law so effectively on so many fronts. Dean Griswold's role as a legal educator, in the capacities of administrator, teacher and scholar, has taken up a significant portion of his time since his graduation from the Harvard Law School summa cum laude in 1928. The distinction with which he has filled this role is widely recognized, as evidenced by the honorary degrees he has been awarded from thirteen domestic universities and eight foreign ones. His achievements as a legal scholar range from the development of distinguished teaching materials through his classic treatise on Spendthrift Trusts to his timely and socially significant book on The Fifth Amendment. In this last connection should be noted his dedicated work as a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission since 1961. Dean Griswold's qualities as a legal educator have been fortified and strengthened by the fact that he has kept in close touch with practicing lawyers and their problems. He has been a member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association for many years and is currently on the Board of Governors of that organization and Direc- tor of the American Bar Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. His influence on law and the leval profession through the channels of these legal groups is widely recognized. C Many Of Our great legal figures have devoted some of their time to Government service. Whether this service is of the type for which legal training is a prerequisite or not, the perspective gained from it seems to provide a continuing source of strength for those who participate in it. Dean Griswold had been only a few months in the PVIVHW Pfflctice of law in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929 when he was asked to join the staff Ogrglgi iollcltcgr General in Washington. He then spent five years in Washington pre- I? .C anses or the United States Supreme Court, and, in the final years there, pre- sent , . IHS 0181 Eifflument on behalf of the Government for the reater art in tax cases. -' ' 1 8 P , ZYhIfIfZ1riYfaGr1si1wold, as he then was, left the Department of Justice for a professorship W ld HV , lt HS been widely reported that Chief Justice Hughes remarked that this Stitlemectist the Government fifty million dollars a year - probably a gross under- 4