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

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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

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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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WARREN F. SCHWARTZ Associate Professor of Law Mr. Schwartz joined the faculty lost year after having spent the years since his graduation as an attorney in the Civil Division, United States Depart ment 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 LL.B. at Columbia in 1954. While in law school he was Research Editor of the Law Rniew and was a Stone Scholar. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa. Admitted to the New York Bar, the Texas Bar, and the bars of the U. S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals, he teaches Contracts, Evidence, and International Transactions. MARSHALL S. SHAPO Associate 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 whcrchc gained some teaching experience as an instructor in history (1960-61), before working on his LL.B., which he received in 1964. He has received a Ford Fellowship for graduate work in law at Harvard and has written for the Northwestern Law Review, as well as for the Miami Law Review, of which he was Editor-in-Chief. He is Chairman of the Legal Aid Committee and is a member of the Curriculum, Library, and LBJ School for Public Affairs Committees. He teaches Torts, Family Law, Injuries to Relations and a special Internship Seminar on Law and Poverty. Mr. Shapo is a member of the Florida Bar ALLEN E. SMITH Associate Professor of Law Mr. Smith received a B.A. (i960) and an LL.B. (1961) from Texas where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review, on the National Moot Court Team, Grand Chancellor, and a member of the Order of the Coif. He was also First Year Class President, and a member of the Board of Governors and the Board of Managers of the Moot Court Program. After graduation, he was law clerk to U. S. Circuit Judge Joseph G Hutcheson, Jr. and from 1962 to 1964 went into general practice with Orgain, Bell, and Tucker in Beaumont. In 1964, he came to Austin to practice and joining the faculty here as assistant professor. He is the co-author with Dean Green of Cases on Torts. Mr. Smith is faculty advisor to Chancellors, and Chairman of the Law Gerk and Scholarship and Loan Committees. He teaches Torts, Judicial System, Employee’s Rights, Admiralty, and Jurisprudence and is a member of Delta Tlieta Phi.