University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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JUDGE LAWRENCE T. HARRIS Law and Medicine

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R03 THE oiui GA NA as NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY THREE The School of Law The University of Oregon school of law enjoys a high national standing as evidenced by the fact that its standards are approved by the American Bar Association and by the Association of American Law Schools. The school is recog- nized as possessing a faculty of exceptionally strong teachers and scholars. Undoubtedly one of the strongest features of the school is the close contact maintained between the stu- dents and the faculty. In support of this policy Wayne L. Morse, dean of the law school, has written: The place to weed out undesirable lawyers is in our law schools, not in disbarment proceedings after dam- age has been done the public. There are few unethical and socially undesirable lawyers who were not also weak in these respects during their student days. The Oregon law school fac- ulty realizes this fact and definitely assumes its duty of inculcating in the students high standards of scholarship and of ethics and character. Whenever a student fails to respond to such standards the faculty does not hesitate to eliminate him from the school. DEAN MORSE During the past two years the law school's research program has met with wide atten- tion and favor. Two volumes, A National Survey of the Grand jury System, written by Dean Morse, and A Survey of the Administration of Criminal Justice in Oregon, prepared by Dean Morse and Mr. Ronald H. Beattie, have been received as significant contributions to criminal law literature. Professor Howard's writings in the field of Oregon contract law are a distinct service to the lawyers of the state. The Oregon Law Review, published by the students and faculty of the law school, is the official organ of the State Bar Association and is an effective instrumentality for advancing the aims and the ideals of the legal profession. With the completion of the spring term, Wayne L. Morse will have completed his second year as dean of the Oregon law school. He is the youngest law school dean in the United States. Included in the academic record of Dean Morse are a Ph.B. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1923, an M. A. degree from the same school in 1924, an LL.B. from the University of Minnesota in 1928, and a Doctor of Law from Colum- bia University in 1932. He is director of the survey of Oregon penal institutions and a member of the nation- al committee on criminal law and criminology of the Asso- ciation of American Law Schools. The law school was founded in Portland in 1884 and was brought to Eugene in 1915 and is the only one in the state holding mem- bership in the Association of American Law Schools. l 25