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

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STANLEY M. JOHANSON Professor of Law With a B.S. degree from Yale (1955) and an LL.B. from Washington (1958). Mr. Johanson served three years, until 1961. as a legal officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he engaged in courts-martial trial work and in government research and development contracts. He was then a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, where he received an LL.M. degree. In 1963. he joined the faculty here as an associate professor. A member of Phi Delta Phi, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Law Review. received the Order of the Coif, and was chosen Outstanding Law Graduate by Phi Delta Phi. He has authored articles in the property field on estoppel by deed and on reversions, remainders, and the doctrine of worthier title but his major contribution will be a hornbook he is currently writing for West Publishing Co.: Johanson on Wills. Trusts, and Estates. Obviously qualified for them, Mr. Johanson teaches Property, Wills and Estates, and Texas Land Titles. He also serves the law school as a member of the Admissions and Curriculum committees. At this year's annual Law Day ceremonies, Mr. Johanson was honored by the student body when he was given the Teaching Excellence Award. CORWIN W. JOHNSON Professor of Laiv The Peregrines Dedicatee in 1958, Mr. Johnson came to the law school with an A.B. (1939) and a J.D. (1941) from Iowa, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa, Comment Editor ofthe Iowa Law Review, and recipient of the Order of the Coif. He has also been honored as a Sterling Fellow at Yale. After his graduation hewasaSpecial AgentfortheF.B.I.(1942-46), taught a year at Iowa, and came to Texas as an assistant professor in 1947. Admitted to the Texas, Iowa, and California Bars, Mr. Johnson has served on the Planning Commission for the City of Austin (1954-56), on the Texas BarCommittcc on Water Rights (1955 60), on committees ofthe Association of American Law Schools, on the Texas Water Code Advisory Committee (1965-66 X and on the Executive Committee ofthe University of Texas Institute of Public Affairs (1958-64). He is presently on the American Bar Association Committee on Water Rights and on the Advisory Board, University of Texas Center for Research in Water Resources. Mr. Johnson has taught as a visiting professor at Pennsylvania (1958) and during several summers at Chicago, North Carolina, Missouri. U.C.L.A., and George Washington. With Professors Cribbet and Fritz, he has co-authored a casebook on Property, and he has written numerous articles on property, water law, and land use. He is a member of Delta Theta Phi and is its faculty advisor and serves on the Budget and Personnel and Summer Session committees. He currently teaches courses in Property. Land-Use Planning. Water Law, and Land

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HELEN HARGRAVE Associate Professor of Law Miss Hargrave graduated from the University of Texas in 1926 with an LL.B. degree after having been on the staff of the Imu Review. She is a recipient of the Order of the Coif. She came to the law school in 1929 as Assistant Law Librarian and in 1940 was promoted to Law Librarian, a position she held for the next twenty-five years. She held the presidency of the American Association of Law Libraries from 1958 to 1959. In 1950. she became an assistant professor, and since I960 has been an associate professor teaching Legal Research. Miss Hargrave is a member of Kappa Beta Pi. GUS M. HODGES Professor of Law With his B.B.A. from Texas, Mr. Hodges had a distinguished law school career as a member of the Texas Law Review, as a recipient of the Order of the Coif, as a member of the Chancellors, and which was climaxed by graduation with highest honors (1932). He then went into private practice in Dallas for eight years until he joined the faculty in 1940 as a professor. Formerly Commissioner on Uniform Laws, Mr. Hodges served the Texas Bar Association on the Committee on the Administration of Justice (concerned with rules of procedure). He still engages in occasional consultation ordinarily on appeal or procedure problems. He has authored hooks on Special Issue Submission in Texas, on pre-trial procedures, and on trial and appellate procedure, as well as several articles. A member of Phi Delta Phi, Mr. Hodges serves the law school on various committees and teaches Introduction, Procedure II and III, and related seminars. WILLIAM ORR HUIE Sylvan Lang Professor of Law Mr. Huic is a graduate of Henderson State Teachers College (B.A. 1932) and of Texas (LL.B. 1935). He also has the distinction of having received an S.J.D. degree from Harvard in 1953. His private practice experience, now limited to occasional consultation, included a year with Greenwood, Moody, and Robertson, Austin (1935-36). He was also senior attorney for the Office of Price Administration (1942-43). A professor since 1946, Mr. Huie first joined the faculty in 1936 as an assistant professor. He was Assistant Dean from 1946 to 1948 and became the Sylvan Lang Professor of Law in 1965. Mr. Huic has also served as a visiting professor at California at Berkeley (summer 1956), at U.C.L.A. (summer 1961 ). and at Harvard (1961-62). He was a member of the State Bar Committee that drafted the Texas Probate Code, adopted in 1955. While in law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, was a Chancellor, and received the Order of the Coif. In I960 he was honored as the Peregrin us Dedicatee. Clearly qualified to teach Marital Property Rights, Trusts. Oil and Gas. and an Oil and Gas Seminar. Mr. Huic has written several casebooks, including one on Oil and Gas (with Walker and Woodward): and one on Marital Property Rights, as well as numerous law review articles. He is chairman of the Faculty Committee on Graduate and Research Work and serves on the Budget and Personnel, Curriculum, and Special Lectures committees.

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ALBERT P. JONES Professor of Law With his B.A., M.A. (1927), and LL.B. (1930)degrees from Texas, Mr. Jones became an associate ofBakcr, Botts, Andrews, and Wharton where he remained until 1943 when he became a partner n Helm and Jones, Houston. He specialized in insurance and tort and compensation law. In 1963, he became First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, having Joined the law school faculty the year before as a professor. While in law school, Mr. Jones was Editor-In-Chief of the Law Ret ie , a Grand Chancellor, and a member of the Order of the Coif. He has been honored as a Peregrine Dedicatee (1964), as President of the Texas State Bar from 1950 to 1951. and as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has CO-edited a casebook on Texas Trial and Appellate Procedure, andanotheron The Judicial Process in Texas Prior to Trial. Mr. Jones has been admitted to practice before the Texas Bar, the United States Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit, Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern. Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas. He teaches courses in Procedure II and III, Federal Courts, and Legal Profession, and is chairman of the Brief Writing and Oral Advocacy Committee, as well as a member of the Budget and Personnel and Placement committees. He is also a member of Phi Delta Phi. W. PAGE KEETON Dean and Professor of Law A man of broad experience, Dean Keeton has also received a fine academic legal education, both of which have made him a very popular professor. He has an A.B. and LL.B. (1931) from Texas, where he was on the Law Review, a Chancellor, and a recipient of the Order of the Coif. He has also received an S.J.D. from Harvard (1936). He has taught, with the exception ofthe World War II years,since 1932 when he joined the faculty as assistant professor. His valuable experience includes his having been General Counsel, Petroleum Branch of O.P.A. (1942-45), Assistant Chief Counsel of Petroleum Administration for War (1945) and a member ofthe President’s Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy (1966). His administrative ability, which unfortunately cuts into his availability as a teacher, is evidenced by his having been Assistant Dean, Texas (1940-42), Dean, Oklahoma (1946-49), Dean, Texas (since 1949), and President of the Association of American Law Schools (1961). The co-author of a casebook on Torts, Dean Keeton teaches a course in Torts and a Special Issues Seminar. He is an ex-officio member of all law school committees and is a member of Phi Delta Phi. OLE BENT LANDO Visiting Professor of Law Mr. Lando comes to our school from Denmark, having graduated from the Copenhagen University School of Law with a Cand. Jur. degree in 1947 and a Dr. Jur. (J.S.D.) degree in 1963. This degree was conferred upon him for his book Kontraktstatuttet, published in 1962. During the interim between receiving those two degrees, Mr. Lando served as a civil servant in the Danish Department of Justice, and as a judge. Since that time he has been a professor at the Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration. In 1951, Mr. Lando studied in Paris and at Oxford in England, and later at Michigan on a Smith-Mundt Scholarship (1955-56). Since then he has studied in Paris and frequently in Germany. In 1965, he received the Jur. Dr. K.G. Idman Prize for his book Kontraktstatuttet being classified as the most deserved treatise on international law written by a Nordic lawyer in 1962-64. He has written four books on comparative law problems, articles in English pertinent to European law, and a number of articles in Danish and German on related subjects. For the purpose of contributing to The International Encyclopedia of International Law. Mr. Lando is studying American Conflicts of Law. He serves here by teaching a course in Civil Law and a seminar on Comparative Commercial Law Dealings.