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

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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.

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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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LARRY NIEMANN Director of Moot Court Program Mr. Niemann graduated from Texas in I960 with a B.B.A. and in 1962 with an LL.B., after having been a Quizmaster and Chairman of the Moot Court Board. He was also on the State Bar Moot Court Team, as well as being in Phi Alpha Delta. After graduation, he was Briefing Attorney for Judge Joe Grcenhill of the Texas Supreme Court (1962-63). Thereafter, he was in private practice in Austin with Niemann and Niemann. Although he continues with that firm, he also serves the law school in his present position, which he acquired in 1965. He is on the Moot Court Committee. WOODROW W. PATTERSON Director of Legal Aid Clinic and Visiting Professor of Law After receiving his LL.B. from Texas (1936).Mr. Patterson took the position of First Assistant District Attorney of Travis County, which he held until 1940. From that time on he has been a partner in Patterson and Patterson. In addition he is a Director and General Counsel for the Texas State Bank of Austin (since 1945), Chairman of Joint Airport Zoning Board of Austin and Travis County, and a member of the State Bar Legal Aid Committee (since 1952). He has been a member of the Planning Commission of the City of Austin (1951 55) and a Chairman of the Bar's Legal Aid Committee. Mr. Patterson’s present practice is generally with a major portion of it in title work, probate, banking, corporation, and mortgages. His law school duties include teaching Legal Aid and Office Practice. DAVID W. ROBERTSON Associate Professor of Law Mr. Robertson graduated in I960 with a B.A. degree and then received an LL.B. in 1961, both from Louisiana State, then went on to earn an LL.M. at Yale (1965). where he was a Sterling Fellow. He was Associate and Managing Editor of the Louisiana Law Review, was on the L.S.U. Honor Council, received numerous scholarships and awards, won the Interfratcmity Moot Court Competition and received both the Best Cascnote and Best Comment awards. Mr. Robertson was Legislative Assistant to Sen. Russell B. Long (1961-62) and then served as an assistant professor at L.S.U. until 1964. He was editor of the Louisiana Bar Association Newsletter on Tort and Workmen’s Compensation Casa (1963-64) and was Consultant to the Louisiana Bar Association Law Reform Committee and Reporter of the proposed Business Corporations Statute (1963-64). Before coming to Texas in 1966, Mr. Robertson was a Lecturer in Law, Leeds, England (1965-66). The author of several articles in law reviews, he teaches courses in Admiralty, Jurisprudence, International Law, and a Torts Seminar. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi and has been awarded the Order of the Coif. 25