University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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JHeon Q iee i Distinguished Professor of Law of the University of Texas and Former Dean of the Law School of Northwestern University The few words printed here are indeed inadequate to even list the accomplishments of Leon Green, one of the most distinguished professors ever to set foot on the campus of this great university. tie was horn in 1888. After receiving a B.A. degree from Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas in 1908, he started upon a business career in West Texas, teas married and had one child. Leon Green wasn't long in deciding to he a lawyer. He brought his small family to Austin and enrolled in the Law School of Texas University. Before finishing school, he passed the state bar examination and thereafter became one of the few men ever to support himself and his family by practicing laic while taking his law course. After receiving his LL.B. degree from the University of Texas in 1911, he engaged in general practice for five years while teaching part time in the law school and appellate law for six years, after he became a full-time teacher. He received an honorary M.A. from Yale in 1928 and an LL.D. from Louisiana State University in 1938. With his fine practical and theoretical background, I eon Green embarked on his long experience of teaching. And what a rich experience this has been. Since 1926, he has taught at the University of Texas, University of North Carolina, Yale University and served for eighteen years as professor of law and dean of the Law School of Northwestern University. Among his contributions to legal education have been his pioneering work in curriculum planning at Northwestern, his gathering there of a notable faculty, his creation of the course in Legal Relations, now coming into recognition as an important field of education and above'all his inspiring and creative work as a teacher. Among Mr. Greens many law review articles and publications, his Rationale of Proximate Cause stands out as being one of the most controversial and original publications in the field of tort law in recent years. His works have been cited with approval by many judges as distinguished as Cardozo and Learned Hand. Rich in years and experience, this man with his keen, alert and open mind, has served as a great inspiration to his many students. Perhaps his character can best be typified by his own words, “I’m not too big a man to make mistakes, and I hope I’ll never be so little that I wont admit them.”