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

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ROY FRANKLIN PROFFITT 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 World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy, holding the rank of Lt. 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 1948. After a brief period of practice with the firm of Miller, McKinley Sz Walsh, in Greely, Colorado, he joined the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Law, where he eventually was promoted to the rank of pro- fessor. As technical advisor 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 sub- stantive criminal law in that state. At Michigan, as assistant Dean, Mr. Proffitt has taken over the ad- ministration duties hitherto performed by the secre- tary of the Law School, together with the handling of the scholarship and student aid program. His ad- ministrative duties at Michigan include the scheduling of classes and examinations, supervision of the scholarship and loan program, student discipline, serving as secretary of the Faculty, and local direc- tion of the Law School Fund. He is co-editor of Statutes, Rules and Cases on Criminal Procedure. In addition, he teaches in the Criminal Law and Pro- cedure areas. S, ,. ,ff '2 -4 ' Q.: 13 ff! 94. MARCUS L. PLANT Professor of Law Born in 1911, Mr. Plant received his B.A. in 1932 and M.A. in 1934 from Lawrence College, and J,D. in 1938 from the University of Michigan. I-Ie was admitted to practice in Wisconsin in 1939, in New York in 1946, and in Michigan in 1950. He practiced in Milwaukee from 1938 to 1941 and from 1943 to 1944, with the government in Washington, D.C., from 1941 to 1943, and in New York from 1944 to 1946. His practice was in the field of cor- porate finance. He has been a professor of law since 1946. He teaches Torts, Bills and Notes,Medicolegal Problems, and Workman's Compensation. He is the author of Cases of Torts and co-author of The Law of Medical Practice and The Law of Workmen's Com- pensation. Mr. Plant is a member of the Committee on Medical-Legal Problems of the Michigan State Bar and an associate editor of the Michigan State Bar Association Journal. He is the University of Michigan facility representative to the Intercollegiate fBig 101 Conference.

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CHARLES W. JOINER Acting Dean of The Law School, 1965-66 Born in 1916, Mr. Joiner received his B.A. in 1937 and J.D. in 1939 from the State University of Iowa. He was admitted to practice in Iowas in 1939. He practiced in Des Moines from 1939 to 1947. He was with the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1945. He was assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan from 1947 to 1949, associate professor of law from 1950 to 1952, pro- fessor of law since 1953 and associate dean since 1960. Professor Joiner teaches Trials Sz Appeals and Practice Court, and fCivil Procedure.l He is the author of Trials and Appeals and joint author of Cases and Statutes on Jurisdiction and Judgments and Civil Justice and the Jury. He is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Advising Committee on Uniform Rules of Evidence, the Advising Com- mittee on Civil Rules, the Board of Commissioners for the State Bar of Michigan, and the Standing Committee on Ethics of the ABA. Professor Joiner is married and has three children. FRANCIS A. ALLEN Dean Elect Professor Francis A. Allen of the University of Chicago Law School was named as the new Dean of the University of Michigan Law School effective July 1, 1966 on January 21, 1966. He served as a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School in 1962-63 and is a recognized authority in the field of criminal and constitutional law. Born in 1919, Mr. Allen received his A,B. in 1941 and an honorary J.D. in 1958 from Cornell College, his LL.B. from Northwestern in 1946, and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1950. He has taught at Northwestern, Harvard, Chicago, and Michigan. Universities. He has taught a wide variety of subjects including Sales and Creditors Transactions, Administra- tive Law, Property, Real Estate Transactions, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Law and Criminology, Criminal Procedure, and Family Law. He is author of The Borderland of Criminal Justice 119643. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Illinois Law Reveiw in 1943 and served as a clerk to Chief Justice Vinson in 1946-48. Mr. Allen is married and has two children.

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SPENCER L. KIMBALL Professor of Law Born in 1918, Mr. Kimball attended the University of Arizona from which he received his B.S. in 1940. In 19.43-44, he studied Japanese at the Naval Language School at the University of Colorado, and thereafter served in the Pacific area until 1946. He then studied at the University of Utah fin 1946-471 before receiving a B.C.L. degree from Oxford University QEnglandJ in 1949. In 1958 he also received an S.J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin. He was Associate Pro- fessor of Law at the University of Utah from 1949-50, Dean of the Law School from 1950-54, and Professor from 1954-57. Since 1957 he has been Professor of Law at Michigan, and since 1962, has also been Director of Research. At Michigan he has taught Contracts, Insurance, Introduction to the Legal System, and Law and Society Seminars. In 1955-56 he had a Rockefeller research grant at the University of Wis- consin, out of which came the award-winning book Insurance and Public Policy. The book is a study of the historical development of insurance law. Sub- sequently, he has written very extensively on insurance regulation, including some comparative studies, both in American and foreign periodicals. WILLIAM BURNETT HARVEY Professor of Law Born in 1922, Mr. Harvey received his A.B. in 1943 from Wake Forest College, and his J.D. in 1949 from the University of Michigan, and attended the University of Heidelberg from 1955to 1956,working in legal philosophy. He was admitted to practice in the District of Columbia in 1949, and was an associate of Hogan 81 Hartson in Washington, D.C,, from 1949-51. He was an assistant professor Naval Science and Tac- tics at Tufts College and the University of Kansas in 1946, lecturer in law at the University of Michigan School of Business Administration in 1948, pro- fessorial lecturer in law Qpart timei at George Wash- ington University Law School in 1950, and has taught at the University of Michigan since 1951. He teaches Contracts, Legal Philosophy, and Legal Aspects of African Development. He was admissions officer of the Law School 1951-55. Also, he was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana and Director of Legal Education and Ghana 1962-64.