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

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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.

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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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JAMES M. TREECE Associate Professor of Law Mr. Trcocc has received all of his degrees from Illinois: a B.S. in 1959, an M.A. in 1962, and an LL.B. in 1961. While in law school, he was an editor of the Um'venity of Illinois Law Forum. From 1961 to 1962, he was a teaching assistant at Illinois, and until 1966 taught at Rutgers. Then he joined the faculty here in his present position, although he had visited here in 1965. His scholarship is evidenced by articles on antitrust and unfair competition in the Rutgers, Chicago, Michigan. Notre Dame Law Reviews, scholarship he exploits as a teacher of Government Regulation of Business, Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Law, Constitutional Law, and an Antitrust Seminar. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta. RUSSELL J. WEINTRAUB Professor of Law The school's principal authority on conflict oflaws. Mr. Wcin-traub has his B.A. from New York University (1950) and his LL.B. from Harvard (1953). Both of those degrees were with Honors, and Mr. Wcintraub is a Phi Beta Kappa and member of Psi Chi. For two years after his graduation, he was defense counsel at the request of accused persons in numerous courts-martial while serving as operations-intcl-ligcncc expert” for the U.S. Army. In 1955 he became a teaching fellow at Harvard and in 1957 he joined the faculty of Iowa. In 1965 he left that school, acted as a visiting professor at Michigan, and then joined the faculty here as a professor. Engaged in little private practice, Mr. Wcintraub docs consult with other attorneys on conflicts problems and in drafting especially complex contracts, one of which has been widely copied and concerns hiring of independent contractor” drivers in the trucking industry. He has written many articles on Conflicts and Constitutional Law, is the co-author of books on workmen's compensation, federal procedure, and university education. A member of the Curriculum, Grade Distribution, and Summer School committees, Mr. Wcintraub teaches Conflict of Laws and Contracts. J. HENRY WILKINSON, JR. Professor of Law Mr. Wilkinson entered the law school with a B.S. in Commerce from South Carolina (1934). He had already been engaged in public and private accounting (1934-37) and had been with the Internal Revenue Service from 1937 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1947, the three year gap having been spent in the U.S. Navy. While in law school, Mr. Wilkinson was Law Review Student Editor and received the Order of the Coif. In 1949 he graduated from Texas with an LL.B. with Honors and taught a summer session here in 1950. From 1950 to 1957, he practiced law in Midland and in 1957, he joined the faculty in his present position. Mr. Wilkinson, however, still engages in some Federal Tax practice. He has written several articles on federal tax problems, including one related to depreciation, another on the investment tax credit, and one on life insurance and estate planning. A member of the Permanent Tax Council, of the Law Review Board of Directors, and of the Library and Course Advisement committees, Mr. Wilkinson teaches Federal Taxation, Income Tax, Oil and Gas Tax. Estate and Gift Tax, and Legal Accounting. He is also a member of Phi Alpha Delta.