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

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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.

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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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ERNEST E. SMITH, III Associate Professor of Law Already established as an excellent teacher since his arrival as an assistant professor in 1963. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Southern Methodist (B.A. 1958) and of Harvard (LL.B. 1962), in which latter school he wrote on the law review. He has been awarded a membership in the Order of the Coif at Texas, and his ability as a teacher was recognized by his receiving the Teaching Excellence Award in 1966. From 1962 to 1963. he was law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit and his only other outside work has been as a visiting professor at Minnesota in 1966. Mr. Smith has written articles on oil and gas law, which is one of the courses he teaches along with Property and Marital Property Rights. He is a member of the Admissions, Standards, and Law Review committees, and is a member of Phi Beta Gamma Fraternity. JOHN F. SUTTON, JR. Professor of Law Having received his LL.B. from Texas in 1941, Mr. Sutton went into practice with Brooks, Napier. Brown, and Matthews, San Antonio, where he worked through 1948. that period broken only by serving three years (1942-45) with the F.B.I. Between 1949 and 1957, when he became a professor here, Mr. Sutton was senior partner of Sutton. Stcib, and Barr in San Angelo, specializing in Oil and Gas and civil trials. He was an honor graduate, having written on the Law Review been a quizmaster, and received the Order of the Coif. Mr. Sutton has written various articles. He is admitted to the Bars of Texas, the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and has served as member of the legal Committee. Interstate Oil Compact Commission. At present he is working as Reporter for the A.B.A. Special Committee on Evaluation of Ethical Standards. A member of Phi Delta Phi. he is their faculty advisor, and is also faculty advisor to Praetors. Mr. Sutton teaches courses in Evidence, Tons, Legal Profession. Oil and Gas, and an Evidence Seminar. E. WAYNE THODE Professor of Law Mr. Thode graduated from Illinois with a B.S. (1943). He then went into the Army, part of that time assigned to the defense section during the Japanese War Criminal Trials. He then returned to school, this time at Texas, where he received his LL.B. (1950) and where he was on the Lau' Review, was a Chancellor, received the Order of the Coif, and graduated with Honors. He has since been honored by receiving the State Bar Outstanding Service Award (1961), and the esteem with which the student body regards him has been recognized by his receiving the Teaching Excellence Award in 1965. After graduation, Mr. Thode served a year as Briefing Clerk for the Texas Supreme Court, and for a year thereafter was Assistant Attorney General of Texas. Then for three years, until 1955. he was in private practice with Ralph W. Yarbrough in Austin. At that time he joined the faculty permanently as an associate professor, although he had served as a part-time lecturer and visiting professor before. On leaves of absence, he has taught at Illinois and Utah. Mr. Thode is editor of Personal Injury Litigation in Texas and is one of the co-authors of casebooks on Torts, on Texas Judicial Process, and of materials on Introduction to Legal Processes. He is a past president of the Texas Law Review Corporation and is a member of several faculty committees. His courses include Torts, Introduction, Injuries, and Procedure II.