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

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SAM LANHAM Lecturer in Law Mr. Lanham is a graduate of Baylor, having received his B.A. in 1952, and his LL.B. in 1955. He was on the Baylor Law Review and received his law degree Cum Laude. Between 195 5 and 1964, he was a partner in Richey, Shcehy, Tceling and Cureton in Waco. Between 1958 and 1964, Mr. Lanham was a lecturer at Baylor. In 1965 he came here as a lecturer and teaches Insurance, Remedies, and Eminent Domain. A member of Phi Alpha Delta, Mr. Lanham is working on his B.D. degree at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. J. LEON LEBOWITZ Professor of Latv Having received his LL.B. from Baylor in 1945. Mr. Lebowitz earned an A.B. there in 1950 while teaching, before going to New York University where he earned his LL.M. From 1953 to 1955 he was in private practice as a partner of Edwards, Rcssler, Homer, and Lebowitz in Waco, Texas. Since its origin in 1949, Mr. Lebowitz has been a member of the State Bar Committee on Revision of Corporation Laws, which produced the Texas Business Corporation, Non-Profit Corporation, and Miscellaneous Corporation Laws Acts. He is also on the State Bar Committee on Securities and Investment Banking, Section of Corporation, Banking, and Business Law, and the Committee on Publications. For nineyears from 1946, he was on the Baylor law faculty as assistant and then associate professor and Law Librarian. Then in the spring and summer of 1955, he was a visiting professor here, as well as a visiting associate professor at Louisiana State from 1955 to 1956, when he joined our faculty on a permanent basis. He has been honored as a Teaching Fellow at N.Y.U. (1951 52) and has received the Order of the Coif. Mr. Lebowitz has written a book. Legal Bibliography and Restart!? (1957) and various articles on corporate law. He has been the faculty adviser to the Taos Law Review, and as a member of Phi Delta Phi, to that fraternity. Mr. Lebowitz teaches courses in Introduction, Business Associations I and II, Fiduciary Administration, and Agency. PIERRE R. LOISBEAUX Professor of Law Having been Editor-in-Chicf of the Boston Latv Review. Mr. Loiseaux graduated from that school with an LL.B. in 1950 and then received his LL.M. in 1951 from New York University. He taught at Arkansas from the time of his graduation until 1953, when he went to Emory. In 1956, he joined the Texas faculty as an associate professor. The author of numerous articles, Mr. Loiseaux has authored a casebook on Creditors' Remedies. He is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar. He is on the Student-Faculty, Course Scheduling, Budget and Personnel, and International Legal Studies committees. A qualified scholar, Mr. Loiseaux teaches Contracts, Commercial Law, and Creditors' Rights. Moreover, he takes an active part in the affairs of his legal fraternity. Phi Delta Phi.

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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.

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ROBERT E. MATHEWS Professor of Laiu Recognized as an authority in the field of Labor Law, Mr. Mathews is a product of Yale (A.B. 1915) and Chicago (J.D. 1920). A member of Phi Beta Kappa and recipient of the Order of the Coif, Mr. Mathews has also been President of the League of Ohio Law Schools (1951-55) and of the Association of American Law Schools (1952), as well as a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Mr. Mathews has engaged in private practice in Chicago (1922), in government practice in Washington, D.C. (1942-45). and again as Associate General Counsel. National War Labor Board (1944-45). During 1942, Mr. Mathews was a member of two Ohio Minimum Wage Boards, and since 1941 has often acted as a labor arbitrator. He has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators for several years. His teaching experience has varied: Besides summer teaching at Columbia, Colorado. Chicago, Michigan, and Rutgers, Mr. Mathews has taught at Montana (1922-24), Ohio State (1924-64) with leaves of absence at Columbia (1928-29). Indian Law Institute (1961-62), and Harvard (1965-64), and Texas (1965). For nine years from 1952,hcwasa member of the A.B.A. Council of the Section on Legal Education. He was a co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of. the International Society for Labor Law (1958-61) and was a member of the U.S. Libor Mission to Bolivia (1943). Besides having served as Editor-in-Chief of Labor Relations and the Law. Mr. Mathews has edited several casebooks, including Partnership and Agency. Employment Relations and the Law. and Readings on Labor Law. He is author of Problems Illustrative of the Legal Profession (1966) and of various articles in legal periodicals. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi and was in the House of Delegates, American Bar Association (1952). ROY M. MERSKY Professor of Law and Director of Research Mr. Mersky is a Wisconsin graduate, having received a B.S. in 1948. an LL.B. in 1952, and an M.A.L.S. in 1953. Besides a brief period of private practice in Wisconsin, he has held many different positions, including one for a five year period (1954-59) as Assistant Librarian and Chief of Readers' and Reference Service, Yale Law Library, then one as Director of the Washington State Supreme Court Library (1959-63). and most recently one for a two year period ending in 1965 as Professor of Law and Law Librarian at Colorado. In addition to his membership on numerous library organizations. Mr. Mersky is a member of the Regional Board of the A.C.L.U., a member of the Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League, and a member of the N.A.A.C.P. He is a member of several sections of the American Bar Association and is on the law school's International and Comparative Law, Special Lectures, Interdisciplinary and Southwest Center, International Legal Studies, Moot Court, and Student-Faculty committees. Mr. Mersky has authored numerous and diverse articles and is presently working on a four-volume work, with Rutgers Professor Blaustein, Profiles 0} the United States Supreme Court Justices. Also in progress is a collection of everything written by and about Jerome N. Frank. KEITH E. MORRISON Professor of Law Mr. Morrison has an A.B. degree from Kansas (1931), an M.S. degree from Wyoming (1939). and an LL.B. from Yale (1948). He is a member of the Order of the Coif. From 1939, Mr. Morrison was an agricultural economist from the Wyoming Agricultural Extension Service, and from 1945 to 1955, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hoisington National Bank. In 1948, he joined the faculty here as an associate professor and has been visiting professor at Stanford (summer 1959) and at Northwestern (spring 1962). He has written a recent article on the widow's election and the issue of consideration and teaches courses in Federal Income Taxation, Federal Taxation, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, and a Taxation seminar. Chairman of the Standard of Work Committee, Mr. Morrison is also a member of the Graduate and Research, Library, and Placement committees, and Is a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity.