University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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faculty .29 , Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the College of Law, is in his thirty- fourth year, having been born October 27, 1870. He is distinctively a Nebraskan, having taken the degrees A. B., A. M., and Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska in '88, '89, and '97 respectively, and with Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honors. The foundation of his legal educa- tion was acquired at the Harvard Law School in '89 and '90. While practicing law in Lincoln he served on the board of examiners of ap- plicants for admission to the bar and also as director of the Botanical Survey of Nebraska since 1892. ln April, 1901, he was called to the supreme bench of the state as commissioner, and served until his res- ignation last September, in order to accept the position of Dean of the College of Law. He is an Associe Libre de llAcademie International de Geographie Botanique, also secretary of the State Bar Association, and a member of the local council of the American Bar Association. His vigorous and able direction of the College of Law during the Iirst year of his deanship has been in keeping with his scholarly attainments. Professor H. H. Wilson is the eldest member of the Law Faculty. He entered the University of Nebraska as a student in September, '73, and received therefrom the degrees of B. Ph., A. M., and M. LL. He was one of the first in the institution to be decorated with the key of Phi Beta Kappa. He has been in active practice in Lincoln since 1881, and during that period he has been of the counsel in some of the most important litigation in the state. His connection as instructor with the College of Law dates from 1891. His class practical nature. His principal subjects are riers, damages and evidence. In addition to has the direction of a law business which is in Lincoln. Professor Charles A. Robbins received College in 1881, and later a Ph. M. from the work is of an extremely torts, bailments, and car- his work as instructor he one of the most extensive his Ph. B. from Hedding same institution. In 1885 he took the degree of LL. B. from Northwestern University, where he received iirst prize for distinguished scholarship both years as well as iirst thesis prize. He remained in Chicago one year after graduation, clerking in the law o-thee and Writing for legal periodicals, and in 1886 came to Lincoln, where he has ever since-been engaged in the active practice of the law. He became connected with the College of Law in 1893. Although he has several other departments ot instruction, his work is devoted especially to contracts, commercial paper, and plead- ing. He successfully combines the theoretical and practical and insists on the logical correlation of the subjects in which he instructs. Besides his duties as a member of the Law Faculty he acts as counsel in impor- tant litigation. Professor- W. W. Cook, the youngest member of the Law Faculty, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 1873. From Columbia University he re- ceived the degrees of A. B., A. M., and LL. M. In 1894-95 he was an instructor in mathematics at his Alma Mater. Receiving the Tyndall fellowship in physics in 1895, the next two years were spent studying in turn at Jena, Berlin, Leipsic, and Berlin again. Physics, mathe- matics, and chemistry, and later economics, nuance, and law had his attention. Returning to Columbia, he resumed his position in the math- ematics faculty 1898-1901. He continued his work in law, completing the four-years course with the degree of LL. M. He became a member of the American History department in the University of Nebraska, 1901, and later a professor in the College of Law. His subjects are domestic relations, wills and administrations, equity, corporations, and constitutional law. His work is keenly analytical, and the plan of case study is followed strictly. 5