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

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LARRY NIEMANN Director of Moot Court Program Mr. Niemann received his B.B.A. (1959) and his LL.B. (1962) from the University of Texas. He was a Quizmaster, Moot Court Chairman, a Consul, on the State Bar Team and Law Day Runner-up in Moot Court. He was Briefing Attorney to Supreme Court Justice Joe Grccnhill (1962-63) and has been in private practice with Niemann and Niemann since 1963- Mr. Neimann has been Director and Intcrscholastic Coach for the Moot Court Program since 1965. A member of Phi Alpha Delta, he is admitted to the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. He is the author of the Moot Court Manual. 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 Count)-, which he held until 1940. Since 1941, he has been a partner in Patterson and Patterson. He is also a Director and General Counsel for the Texas State Bank of Austin (since 1945). Mr. Patterson’s present practice is general with emphasis on title work, wills and probate, banking, corporation, and mortgages. He is a sponsor of Praetors Legal Fraternity and the Legal Aid Clinic Committee. Mr. Patterson is admitted to practice before many Federal District Courts and is a member of the State Bar of Texas. He teaches Office Practice and Legal Aid. DAVID W. ROBERTSON Associate Professor of Law Mr. Robertson graduated in I960 with a B.A. degree and then received an LLB. 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 Casenotc and Best Comment awards. Mr. Robertson was Legislative Assistant to Sen. Russell B. Long(1961-62) and then served as an assistant professor at LS.U. until 1964. He was editor of the Louisiana Bar Association Neusletter on Tort and Workmen's Compensation Case (1963-64) and was Consultant to the Louisiana Bar Association Law Reform Committee and Reporter of the proposed Business Comorations Statute (1963-64). The authorpf several articles, he teaches courses in Admiralty, Jurisprudence, International Law and Torts Seminar. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi and has been awarded the Order of the Coif. 25

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ROBERT E. MATHEWS Professor of Law Mr. Mathews is a product of Yale (A.B. 1915) and Chicago (J.D. 1920). He has been President of the League of Ohio Law Schools (1951-1955) and of the Association of American Law Schools (1952), as well as a member of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO. Mr. Mathews hits engaged in private practice in Chicago (1920-1922), in government practice in Washington, D. C. (1942-1945), and as Associate General Counsel, National War Labor Board (1944-1945). Since 1941 Professor Mathews hits often acted as a labor arbitrator. Besides teaching summers 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 (New Delhi, India—1961-62), Harvard (1963-64), and Texas (1965). 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. Labor Mission to Bolivia (1943). Besides being the first Editor-in-Chicf of Labor Relations and the Law. Mr. Mathews has edited Partnership and Agency. Employment Relations and the Lau and Readings on Labor Law. He is author of Problems Illustrative of the Responsibilities of Members of the Legal Profession and is serving on the Executive Committee of the National Conlcrcnce on Education for Professional Responsibility. ROY M. MERSKY Professor of Law and Director of Research Professor Mersky, a Wisconsin graduate, received a B.S. (1948), an LL.B. (1952) and a Masters in Library Science (1953). From 1948 to 1949, he studied at the London School of Economics and the Faculte du Droyt at the Sorbonne. After a brief period of private practice in Wisconsin, he was Associate Librarian and Research Associate at Yale Law School from 1954 to 1959. He served as Director of the Washington State Supreme Court Library from 1959 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965. he served as Professor of Law and Law Librarian at Colorado University- and in 1965 came to Texas. He serves as faculty advisor to the Human Rights Research Council, is Executive Director of the Texas Law Review, and holds memberships on the Special Lectures and the University Instructional Television Committees. He has served as a consultant to the National College of Trial Judges, the Office of Economic Opportunity and worked with the ACLU. Mr. Mersky has written Water Law Bibliography 1847-1967 and a work on Justice Louis D. Brandeis. He is presently working on abibliography about Judge Jerome N. Frank, and is collaborating with Albert Blaustcin on a book of profiles of the U. S. Supreme Court Justices. KEITH E. MORRISON Professor of Law Mr. Morrison has an A.B. degree from Kansas (1931), and M.S. degree from Wyoming (1939). and an LLB. from Yale (1948). He is a member of the Order of the CoiL From 1939, Mr. Morrison was an agricultural economist from the doming 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. Mr. Morrison is a member of the Library, Curriculum, Summer School and Standards of Work Committees, and is a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity.

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MICHAEL P. ROSENTHAL Visiting Associate Professor of Law A graduate of Columbia (A.B. 1956, LL.B. 1959) Mr. Rosenthal was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. After serving as a law clerk for Judge Harold R. Medina of the Second Circuit, he went into private practice in New York from 1961 to 1964. As a consultant to the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, he authored the Proposals for Dangerous Drug Legislation in the Task Force Report (1967). He also acted its a Reporter on Dangerous Drugs for the Rev ision of the Texas Penal Code. He is admitted to the New York Bar and is a member ofPhi AlphaDelta. Mr. Rosenthal teaches Criminal Law and Restitution. yk. fZJ b 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 LLB. 1947). Whilcthcrc.hcwas Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. For a year after his graduation, Dean Ruud taught at the University of Kansas, and in 1948 came to the University of Tex as. From 1950 to 1952, he was on leave from the law school and served as Assistant Executive Director of the Texas Legislative Council. He has been chairman of the Law School Admission Test Council since 1966. In 1967 he became a member of the American Law Institute Committee of Review of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, a member of the Council of the Section on Corporation, Banking and Business Law, State Bar of Texas. He is one of the five Commissioners from Texas to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. A member of Phi Delta Phi, he is admitted to the Minnesota and Texas Bars. An author of several articles, he teaches 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, Dallas, for three years. In 1963, he returned to Harvard as a Teaching Fellow and in 1965 received his LLM. degree. With that he joined our faculty in 1965 as an associate professor and has begun to display his great enthusiasm for his subjects in his courses, Labor Law, Introduction, and Legislation and his work with the ACLU. 26