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

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George W. Stumberg Distinguished Professor of Law Mr. Stumberg received his B.A. from Louisiana State University, his LL.B. from Columbia University, and his J.D. degree from Yale University and Oxford University in England. He has been a Professor of Law at The University of Texas Law School since 1925. He served with the Board of Economic Warfare as Assistant Counsel in 1942, and in 1943, as their Special Representative in French West Africa. He then became Advisor on French Economic Affairs in the Foreign Economics Administration through 1944. Mr. Stumberg is the author of Principles of Conflicts of Laws, Cases on Admiralty, Criminal Law and Its Administration, Cases on Conflicts of Laws, and Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of France. Mr. Stumberg lectures in Criminal Law, Conflicts of Law, and Admiralty, in which he is considered a leading authority. John F. Sutton Professor of Law Mr. Sutton was in private practice in San Antonio, Texas from 1941-1942 and 1945-1949, and San Angelo, Texas from 1949-1957. He received his LL.B. (with honors) from The University of Texas in 1941. He spent 1941 until 1945 with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D. C., and was a Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army Reserve from 1948-1953. He was a Director on the Tom Green County Bar Association Board, 1956, and is a member of the International Association of Insurance Counsel. He joined the Law Faculty of The University of Texas in 1957, as Professor of Law and he lectures in courses on Contracts, Criminal Law, Agency Partnership, Legal Profession, Commercial Law, Evidence, Torts,' Insurance, and Procedure II. 24

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Hubert W. Smith, M.D. Director of Law-Science Institute Dr. Smith received his A.B. and M.B.A. from The University of Texas, and his LL.B. and M.D. degrees from Harvard University. He was an Associate in Medical Legal Research, Harvard Law School from 1941-1945. He was Officer-in-Charge of the Legal-Medicine Branch of the U. S. Navy in 1945, and in 1946 he became a Professor at the University of Illinois and served there until 1949. Professor of Legal Medicine and University Research Professor of Law and Medicine, Tulane University (1949-1952). He joined The University of Texas Law Faculty in 1952. He has been editor and contributing author in national symposia on Scientific Proof and Relations of Lav and Medicine, and Legal Responsibility of Medical Malpractice. He has lectured in Evidence, Legal Medicine and Elements of Medicolegal Litigation, The Science of Human Behavior in Relation to Law. Dr. Smith is a member of the Order of the Coif, the Director of the Law-Science Institute and Chancellor of the Law-Science Academy. Robert W. Stayton Distinguished Professor of Law Mr. Stayton received his B.A. (1907) and LL.B. (1927) from The University of Texas. He practiced law 1908-1941. He has been a Professor of Law at The University of Texas since 1925. He was a member of the Board of Legal Examiners, 1921-1923; Judge, Commission of Appeals, 1923-1925; President, Texas Bar Association, 1924-1925; Texas Civil Judicial Council, 1930-1946; Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Procedure 1940-1961; managing secretary of the Texas Law Review 1926-1961. He is author of Method of Practice, and casebooks of Texas Procedure, and he has written Stayton's Texas Forms since 1915. Mr. Stayton has lectured in Judicial Administration, Legal Method, Judicial Remedies, Trial and Appellate Procedure, and Federal Procedure. 23

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E. Wayne Thode Professor of Law Born in 1920, Mr. Thode received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois in 1943 and his LL.B. from The University of Texas in 1950. He was Briefing Attorney for the Supreme Court of Texas from 1950 until 1951, and was Assistant Attorney General of Texas from 1951 until 1952. He was in private practice from 1952 until 1955, and then became an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Texas School of Law in 1955, and Professor of Law in 1959. He has also served in the United States Army and was Assistant Defense Counsel, War Crimes Trials, Manila, P.l. in 1946. Mr. Thode's subjects are Procedure, Torts, and Introduction to Legal Processes. He is the editor of Personal Injury Litigation in Texas (West Co. 1961). J. Henry Wilkinson Professor of Law Mr. Wilkinson received his B.S. degree from the University of South Carolina in 1934, and his LL.B. with honors from The University of Texas in 1949. He was an accountant after he graduated from South Carolina until 1937 when he became an Agent for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He served in the United States Navy in 1942, beginning as Lieutenant (jg) and was honorably discharged as Lt. Commander in 1945. He became Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Texas in 1950, then he practiced in Midland, Texas until 1957, at which time he rejoined the faculty as a Professor of Law. A member of the Permanent Tax Council, he has lectured in 1954, 1955, and 1957 at the Tax Conference sponsored annually by the Law School. Mr. Wilkinson's courses' are Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, and Legal Accounting.