University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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ERIC STEIN Associate Professor of Law Mr. Stein was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 8, 1913. In 1937 he received his J.U.D. degree with distinction from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. Thereafter he practiced law for a brief period before being taken into the Czechoslovakian Army. After release from military service he came to the United States where he enrolled in the University of Michigan Law School in 1940. H received his j.D. degree in 1942 from the University of Michigan. Late in 1942 he joined the United States Army and was assigned to the Division of Military Intelligence. In July of 1943 he was SCI1t overseas to engage in intelligence work in North Africa, and later in Italy. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Order of the Italian Crown. After discharge from the Army in 1946 he became a member of the staff of the United States Department of State, first in the International Security Office, and later with the United Naions Affairs Bureau. He has been an associate professor of law at the University of Michigan since 1955. He teaches Law of Atomic Energy, International Law, Law of International Trade, and Comparative Law. ROY FRANKLIN PROFFITT Assistant Professor of Law Assistant Dean of the Law School Mr. Proffitt was born in 1918. He attended the University of Nebraska where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration in 1940. During Wforld War II, he served in the United States Navy, holding the rank of Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N.R., at the end of the war. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in january 1943. After a brief period of practice with the hrm of Miller, McKinley ik IValsh, in Greeley, Colorado, he joined the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Law, where he eventually was promoted to the rank of professor. As technical adviser to the Missouri State Senate Criminal Law Revision Committee from 1951 to 1954, Mr. Proffitt assisted the Missouri General Assembly in making significant changes in the substantive criminal law in that state. At Michigan, as assistant Dean, Mr. Proffitt has taken over the administration duties hitherto performed by the secretary to the Law School, together with the handling of the scholarship and student aid program. In addition, he teaches a portion of the Hrst-year course in Criminal Law. RINALDO L. BIANCHI Assistant Professor of Law Born in 1924, in Highland Park, Michigan, Mr. Bianchiwas taken by his parents, in 1939, to their native Italy. There he was educated in the elementary schools and eventually in the University of Pisa Law School, where he received the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1947. Subsequently he returned to the United States where he earned his B,A. in 1951 and his M.A. in 1952 from VVayne Uni- versity, and his in 1955 from the University of Michigan. He was an instructor and assistant to the dean from February to july of 1956, assistant adviser to foreign students, and assistant professor of law since 1956. He teaches Torts, Atomic Energy Law, Creditors' Rights, and Comparative Law. 32

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Picture not available. GABRIEL NATHANIEL ALEXANDER Visiting Lecturer in Labor Law Born in 1910, Mr. Alexander received his A.B. in 1930 and LL.B. in 1933 from the University of Michigan. He was with the law firm of Alexander 8: Alexander in Detroit from 1933 to 1948. From 1942 to 1944 he was also an inspector of machine parts with the Glenn R. Martin Company in Detroit. From 1948 to 1954 he was impartial umpire for General Motors Corporation, UAW. During the period 1950 to 1954 he also served as an instructor in Labor Law and Labor Arbitration at Wayne University Law School. During 1952 he taught a course in Collective Bargaining for the University of Michigan Extension Service. In 1954 he was an attorney and arbitrator in Detroitg and in 1955 he was a visiting professor in Labor Law and Labor Arbitration at New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations in New York City. Since that period he has resumed practice of law in Detroit. He teaches the Seminar in Labor Law. KONRAD ZWEIGERT Visiting Professor of Law Born in 1911, Prof. Dr. Zweigert was formerly professor of law at Tuebingen, and is now professor of law at Hamburg. He has been associated for several years with the Max Planck Institut fur auslaenclisches und internationales, founded by Dr. Ernst Rabel Qformerly the Kaiser Wilhelm lnstitutj . He is author or co-author of German works and articles, chiefly in the held of comparative law. He repre- sented Germany at the London Congress for Unihcation of Law in 1950. He was visiting professor for one year at Georgetown University Law School in Washing- ton, D.C., and was for a period a member ol' the German Constitutional Court. He teaches Principles of Comparative Law and the Seminar on The Rule of Law QDue Processj. 34