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

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JOEL J. FINER Assistant Professor of Law Mr. Finer received his B.B.A. from City College of New York in 1959. In 1963 he was awarded both an M.A. and an LL.B. from Yale University. Mr. Finer joined the Texas Law Faculty in 1964, after having served as law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge George T. Washington. Among the courses he teaches arc Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Comparative Constitutional Law. WILLIAM F. FRITZ Professor of Law Having received his B.A. (1935) and M.A. (1938) degrees from Texas. Mr. Fritz taught English in high schools for seven years before returning to Texas for his LL.B. (1946). While in law school, he was Editor-In-Chief of the Law Review, was a Chancellor, and received the Order of the Coif. After his graduation, he joined the faculty here and since then has taught during several summers at the George Washington, North Carolina. Minnesota, Rutgers, and Vanderbilt law schools. Mr. Fritz has co-authorcd a casebook on damages with Dean Charles T. McCormick. Also a co-author of a casebook on Property, he has authored several articles in the Texas Law Review and in the Texas Bar Journal. A past Peregrinta Dedicatee (1963), Mr. Fritz teaches Property and Marital Property Rights and serves on the Admissions Committee. He is a member of the Texas Bar and of Phi Delta Phi. CARL H. FULDA Professor of Law Having already received a Doctor of Law from the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1931. Mr. Fulda went on to study at Yale where he received an LL.B. in 1938. He is a recipient of the Order of the Coif, of a Law Faculty Fellowship, and of a grant from the Ford Foundation (1959-60). Between 1939 and 1941, he was on the Research Staff and was a consultant to the New York State Law Revision Commission, a position he resumed intermittently in the fifties. In 1942, he was in the General Counsel's office, U.S. Treasury, and from 1942 to 1946 he was with the Court Review Division, Office of Price Administration (Appellate Practice). After leaving government service, he taught at Rutgers for eight years, and in 1954 he went to Ohio State. In 1964, he left there to join our faculty in his present status. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia (1952). Louisiana State (1962), and several foreign universities, including Frankfurt and Luxembourg. Mr. Fulda was a consultant to the U.S. Attorney General's Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (1955), is now a member of the TcxasState Bar Committee on Antitrust, and is the Vice-chairman of the A.B.A. Committee on Teaching International and Comparative Law. He has written pro-lifically on competition in the regulated industries, on government regulation of business, and on the European Common Market. But his most important contribution to the school has been a casebook on International Business Transactions. A member of Phi Alpha Delta, Mr. Fulda advises the International Law Forum and is chairman of the Committee on International Legal Studies. 17

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DEAN ROBERT F. DRINAN, S.J. Visiting Professor of Law The Law School has been very fortunate to have such an eminent authority is Dean Drinan on its faculty this year. With an M.A. from Boston College (19-15 Dean Drinan was a member of the Georgetown law Review before graduatir with an LLB. (1949) and an LL.M. (1950) from Georgetown University la» Center. Since 1956 he has been Dean of Boston College law School where ht is a professor and has taught since 1955. Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts and before the United States Supreme Court Dean Drinan, since 1962, has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee (a Massachusetts to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He is Chairman of the Section of Family Law of the American Bar Association and was Vice-President of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1960-63). The author of Religion, the Courts and Public Policy,' he teaches Family Law and the Church-State Relations Seminar. He is also a member of Phi Alpha Delta. FRANK W. ELLIOTT Professor of Law A former Dedicatee of the Peregrinus (1966), Mr. Elliott has a B.A. (1951) and an LLB. (1957) from the University of Texas. He was Comment Editor of the Law Review, a Chancellor, a Quizmaster, and received the Order of the Coif. He is editor of Slayton Texas Forms. Among his other principal achievements arc two casebooks, Texas Trial and Appellate Procedure, which he edited with Messrs. Hodges and Jones, and Texas Judicial Process Prior to Trial, edited with Messrs. Hodges, Jones, and Thode. With Mr. I.oiseaux and Mr. Hamilton, he has authored Lending Officers Manual Under U.C.C. In 1957, Mr. Elliott was Assistant Attorney General of Texas and, from 1957 to 1958, was Briefing Attorney for the Supreme Court of Texas. After that he joined the faculty as an assistant professor. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi and teaches Introduction, Procedure 11 and III, and Evidence. PARKER C. FIELDER William H. Francis, Jr., Professor of Law A man of great practical experience. Mr. Fielder received a B.S. in Commerce at Northwestern University (1941) and an LLB. from the University of Texas (1948). He was Editor-in-Chief of the Texas law Review, a Chancellor, and received the Order of the Coif. In 1964, he was listed in Who's Who in America. After graduation, he became associate professor here and was Research Associate, Texas Legislative Council (1950). Then in 1953, he left to become a partner in Turpin, Kerr. Smith, and Dyer. Midland, Texas, where he engaged in tax and corporate practice. During this period (1959-61) he was General Counsel and Member of the Board of Directors, The Permian Corporation in Midland. He then returned as a professor in 1961. Although he continues only in occasional consultation and retainer by other lawyers on tax and corporate matters, he is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Military Appeals, Tax Court, Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and District Court, Western District, Texas. He is the author of numerous articles and is presently working on a comprehensive treatise on Oil and Gas Taxation. As might be expected, Mr. Fielder teaches f ederal Taxation, Taxation of Business Organizations, B.A. II, and a Seminar in Taxation. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi.

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BYRON FULLERTON THOMAS J. GIBSON, III Assistant Dean, Assistant Professor and Director of Continuing Legal Education Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Law This year’s Peregrinus Dedicatee graduated from Texas with a B.S.P. Ed. (1946), went to Colorado for his M.Ed. (1950), and returned to Texas for his LL.B. (1956). For five years after that Dean Fullerton taught in Texas Public Schools. Then in 1957 he became Assistant Attorney General of Texas. In 1961 he went into private practice in Austin, associated with the firm of Procter, Maloney, and Fullerton. Since 1963. he has served in his present position. Listed in Who's Who in American Education Dean Fullerton is a member and former chairman of the State Bar Public Relations Committee and of the District 10-B State Bar Grievance Prosecuting Committee. He is also a member of Delta Theta Phi and the education fraternity. Phi Delta Kappa. Besides teaching classes in Legal Research and Legal Writing, Dean Fullerton serves the law school as Faculty Advisor to the Law School Forum, Law Day, and the Student Legal Research Board. He is on the Placement, Brief Writing and Oral Advocacy, Closed Circuit Television, and Legal Aid Committees. A Texas Graduate with a B.A. and an LL.B., Dean Gibson was an Instructor from 1950 to 1951 and Texas State Librarian from 1952 to 1954. He rejoined the faculty in 1954 as an assistant professor and associate librarian. Since 1956 he has been Assistant Dean. Dean Gibson has received the Order ofthe Coif, is amemberofthcTcxas Bar, and was Chairman of the subcommittee for the revision of Texas’ Library Laws of the Texas Library Association. He has also been honored as the Peregrinus Dedicatee for 1959. Besides serving as the Loan and the Admissions Officer, he is a member of the Admissions Placement, Standards, Course Advisement, Court Clerks, and Faculty Secretary Committees. Dean Gibson teaches Legal Writing and Legal Bibliography and is a member of Phi Alpha Delta. W. W. GIBSON Associate Professor of Law A graduate of Texas (B.A. 1954, LL.B. 1956), Mr. Gibson was Associate Note Editor of the Texas Law Review and received the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he was a partner in Gibson, Ochsner, Harlan, Kinney, and Morris for nine years. Then he joined the faculty here in 1965 as an associate professor. He has been admitted to practice by the State Bar of Tex» and is a member of the American Bar Association, Travis County Bar Association, and Austin Junior Bar. He teaches courses in Property and Wills and Estates. He is chairman of the Student-Faculty Committee, is an Honor Council Observer and is on the Standard of Work Committee. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity.