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

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PAUL FREDERICK ROTHSTEIN Associate Professor of Law Mr. Rothstcin has his B.S. (1959) and his LL.B. (1961) both from Northwestern, where he graduated first in his class, was Editor-in-Chief of the law review, received the Order of the Coif, was a Judge Julius Minor Scholar, received the Lawyer's Title Award, and was on a National TER Moot Court Championship team. He was a Fulbright Scholar for two consecutive terms, between 1961 and 1963, to Oxford in England, where he was a member of the Oxford Law Society. For a short period in 1961, he was with Isham, Lincoln, and Beale. He it presently serving on the committee to redraft the Texxs Penal Code. He hxs taught at a myriad of schools, including Michigan, Florida, Wales, and Oxford, and he expects to lecture in antitrust at London City College and Cambridge University in 1967-68. Mr. Rothstcin has written several articles and book reviews. He is co-director of the Appellate Advocacy-Defender program and is on the Law Review and Film committees. He teaches Criminal Law. Evidence, Conflicts, and Appellate Advocacy. MILLARD H. RUUD Associate Dean and Professor of Law Recognized as an authority on commercial law, Dean Ruud is a product of Minnesota (B.S.L. 1942 and LL.B. 1947). While there, he was Editor-in-Chief of the law review. For a year after his graduation. Dean Ruud taught at the University of Kansas. and in 1948 camctothc University of Texxs. From 1950 to 1952, hewas on leave from the law school and served xs Assistant Executive Director of the Texas Legislative-Council. He has also been chairman of the Advisory Committee on Statutory Revision to the Texas Legislative-Council (1963-64), of the Advisory Committee to the Texas Legislative Council on Texas Business and Commerce Code (since 1965). and of the Law School Admission Test Council (since 1966). He has been a member, since 1961, of the Uniform State Laws Committee, State Bar of Texas, and, since 1963, of the Advisor)- Committee on Texas Legislative Internship Program. A member of Phi Delta Phi, he is a member of the Minnesota and Texas Bars. He has written several articles in the fields and is well-qualified to teach courses in Sales and Sales Financing, Legislation, and Commercial Paper. GEORGE SCHATZKI Associate Professor of Law Mr. Schatzki received both his A.B. (1955) and his LL.B. (1958) from Harvard and then went into practice with the National Labor Relations Board until I960 when he went to work for Mullinax, Wells, Morris, and Mauzy, Dallxs, for three years. In 1963. he returned to Harvard as 1 Teaching Fellow and in 1965 received his LL.M. degree. With that h« joined our faculty in 1965 as an associate professor and has begun to display his teaching ability and knowledge of the fields in his Constitutional Law, Labor Law, and Legislation courses.

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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

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WARREN F. SCHWARTZ Associate Professor of Law Mr. Schwartz has joined the faculty this year after having spent the years since his graduation as an attorney in the Civil Division, United States Department of Justice. His present practice, though limited to occasional consultation, is in International Trade and Evidence. He earned his A.B. degree at Brooklyn College in 1952 and his I.L.B. at Columbia in 1954. While in law school he was Research Editor of the law review and was a Stone Scholar. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Schwartz hits written on problems relating to judicial review of state administrative agencies. Admitted to the New York Bar, the Texas Bar, and the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, and of various Courts of Appeals, he teaches Contracts. Evidence, and International Transactions. MARSHALL S. SHAPO Assistant Professor of Law Mr. Shapo graduated with an A.B. from Miami (1958), went to Harvard for his A.M. (1961), and then returned to Miami where he gained some teaching experience as an instructor in history (1960-61 ), before working on his I.L.B., which he received in 1964. He has received a Ford Fellowship for graduate work in law and has written for the Northwestern Lnc Review, as well as for the Miami Law Rei'iew. At present he is on the law school's Texas La Review. Library, and Course Advisement committees, and teaches Torts, Injuries to Relations, and Family Law. ALLEN E. SMITH Associate Professor of Law An honor graduate of Texas, receiving a B.A. with Highest Honors in I960 and an LL.B. with Honors in 1961, Mr. Smith is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was an editor, of the La Review, on the National Moot Court Team, a Grand Chancellor, and a member of the Order of the Coif. He was also president of his first year class, outstanding first year student, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Moot Court program. After graduation, he was law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson. Jr., and in 1962 went into general practice with Orgain, Bell, and Tucker in Beaumont. In 1964, he left to join the faculty here as an assistant professor. Beside various articles, his writings include a forthcoming casebook on Torts, which he has co-authored with Professors Green, Pcdrick, Rahl, Hawkins, and Thodc. Confining his present practice primarily to appellate matters, Mr. Smith is well occupied as faculty advisor to Chancellors, as Chairman of the Scholarship and Loan Committee, and as teacher of Torts, Judicial Administration, Employee's Rights, Constitutional Law. Law and Ethics, and Jurisprudence. He is a member of Delta Theta Phi.