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

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Page 18 IERRE STOCKTON WILLIAMS Professor of Law Mr. Williams became Instructor in Law, University of Iowa, and Faculty Editor, Iowa Law Review, 1941-1942, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Denver, 1946, Associate Professor of Law, University of Texas, 1946-1950, and Professor of Law in 1950. He was an attorney with the Office of Price Administration, Wash- ington, D. C., in 1942, and a Captain in the United States Army, 1942-1946, and was Associate Director, Study of Loyalty-Security Program, City of New York Bar Association, 1955-1956. He is the author of Cases and Materials on Employees' Rights and The Supreme Court Speaks, and was Associate Editor, Labor Relations and the Law. Subjects: Constitutional Law, Labor Relations, Employees' Rights, Legal Pro- fession, Seminar in Legal and Economic Aspects of Collective Bar- gaining Born 1916 A.B., University of Denver, 1938 LL.B., Columbia University, 1941 IOSEPH PARKER WITHERSPOON Professor of Law Mr. Witherspoon was Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Texas, 1948-1950, Associate Professor of Law, 1950-1955, and has been Professor of Law since 1955. He was on leave of absence, 1951-1952, as Chief Counsel, Apparel and Service Trades Branches, O.P.S., Washington, D. C. He is advisory editor, Natural Law Forum. Mr. Witherspoon was Lieutenant Commander, United States Naval Reserve, on active duty 1942-1946. He was on leave at Harvard University, 1957- 1958, on a Rockefeller Foundation grant for research in jurisprudence. Subjects: Administrative Law, Legislation, Constitutional Law, 'Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence Born 1916 Attended Hardin College, 1934 A.B., University of Chicago, 1936 LL.B., University of Texas, 1948 MARION KENNETH WOODWARD Professor of Law . After being admitted to practice in Texas, Mr. Woodward served in the United States Army, 1943-1945, was in private practice in Amarillo, 1945-1946, became Associate Professor of Law, University of Texas, 1946, and Professor of Law in 1950. In 1949-1950 he was a Sterling Fellow, Yale University. He has been Acting Dean of The University of Texas School of Law during the summer sessions since 1950 and the 1958 spring semester. He was Assistant Dean, 1948-1951, and Associate Dean, 1951-1953. Subjects: Mortgages, Texas Land Titles, Wills and Administration, Oil and Gas Born 1912 B.A., University of Texas, 1933 ' M .A., West Texas State College, 1940 LL.B., University of Texas, 1943

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HUBERT WINSTON SMITH DIRECTOR OF THE LAW-SCIENCE INSTITUTE Professor of Law Dr. Smith's legal career began in Dallas where from 1930 to 1936 he practiced law and, in the evenings, was Professor of Law at jefferson University. He was Associate in Medical-Legal Research, Harvard Law School and Medical School, 1941-1945, Professor of Legal Medicine, University of Illinois, 1945-1949, Pro- fessor of Legal Medicine and University Research Professor of Law and Medicine, Tulane University, 1949-1952, Professor of Law and Legal Medicine, and Director of Law-Science Institute, University of Texas, since 1952. He has been editor and contributing author in national symposia on Scientific Proof and Relations of Law and Medicine and Legal Responsibility of Medical Malpractice. He has been a member of the Legal Advisory Committee, National Society for Medical Research, Officer in Charge, Legal Medicine Branch, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, United States Navy, World War II, Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry, V. A. Hospital, Gulfport, Mississippi, and U. S. Public Health Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas, Con- sultant in Legal Medicine, V. A. Hospital, Houston, Texas, and Associate Editor, journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Subjects: Evidence, Legal Medicine and Elements of Medicolegal Litigation, The Science of Human Behavior in Relation to Law Born 1907 A.B., University of Texas, 1927 M .B.A., University of Texas, 1931 LL.B., Harvard University, 1930 Attended University of Edinburgh Medical School, Scotland, 1936-1938 M .D., Harvard University, 1941 JOHN F. SUTTON, IR. Professor of Law Mr. Sutton was in private practice 1941-1942 and 1945-1951 in San Angelo, and since 1951 in Austin. He spent 1942-1945 with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D. C., and was a Lieutenant, judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army Reserve, on reserve duty 1948-1953. He was a Director on the Tom Green County Bar Association Board, 1956, and member of the International Association of Insurance Counsel. He came to The University of Texas in the fall of 1957 as Professor of Law. Subjects: Contracts, Criminal Law, Agency and Partnership, Legal Profession Born 1918 LL.B. with honors, University of Texas, 1941 j. HENRY WILKINSON, JR. Professor of Law Mr. Wilkinson was an accountant until he became an Agent for the Bureau of Internal Revenue in 1937. His service in the United States Navy began as a Lieu- tenant Cjgl in 1942 and ended as a Lieutenant Commander when, late in 1945, he returned to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for two more years as an Agent. He was Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Texas in the summer of 1950, then practiced in Midland until he rejoined the Law faculty in 1957 as Professor of Law. A member of the Permanent Tax Council, he lectured in 1954, 1955 and 1957 at the Tax Conferences sponsored annually by the School of Law. Subjects: Federal Estate and Gift Taxation Born 1913 B.S., University of South Carolina, 1934 LL.B. with honors, University of Texas, 1949 Page 17

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,qi LEO G. BLACKSTOCK Visiting Professor of Law Mr. Blackstock taught Business Administration at Trinity University, 1924-1925, Business Law at Sam Houston State Teachers College, 1925-1927, and has been Professor of Business Law at The University of Texas since 1927. A member of the Texas Bar since 1933, he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1952 and the United States Court of Military Appeals in 1955. He was Chief Examiner, Cas Utilities Division, Railroad Commission of Texas, 1937- 1938. In 1953 he became Visiting Professor of Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and his volume of Cases on Military Justice was published in 1954. Since 1940 he has been a Colonel, judge Advocate Ceneral's Corps, United States Army Reserve. Subjects: Military Law, Legal Accounting Born 1899 B.A., University of Texas, 1923 M .B.A., University of Texas, 1925 LL.B., University of Texas, 1933 ARTHUR B. CUSTY Visiting Professor of Law Mr. Custy came to The University of Texas for the 1958 spring semester from the University of Mississippi Law School where he was Associate Professor of Law, 1950-1954, and has been Professor of Law since 1954. He is faculty advisor to the Mississippi Law Journal. He served in the United States Army, 1941-1946, and is presently a Captain, Iudge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army Reserve. In 1950 he was a Graduate Fellow at Yale University. Subjects: Property, Seminar in Farm Tenancy Born 1 91 8 B .A., University of Mississippi, 1948 LL.B., University of Mississippi, 1949 JULIUS F. FRANKI Visiting Professor of Law Mr. Franki was Assistant Attorney General of Texas, 1934-1935, then entered private practice. He became a part-time Lecturer at the College of Business Ad- ministration at The University of Texas in 1947, and a part-time Lecturer in Law at the School of Law in 1948. He was Special Assistant to the U. S. Ambassador, Santiago, Chile, 1942-1944, and spent 1945 with the U. S. Department of State. He is the author of Vernon's Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Subjects: Civil Procedure and Practice Born 1909 B.A., LL.B., University of Texas, 1932 Page 19