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

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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.

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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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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 (LLB. 1962), where he wrote for 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 witten 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, Moot Court and Oral Advocacy, University Student Health, and Law Review committees, and is a member of Phi Beta G amm a Fraternity. JOHN F. SUTTON, JR. Professor of Law Having received his LLB. 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 Coun, 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 course in Evidence, Torts, Legal Profession, Oil and Gas, and an Evidence Seminar. JAMES M. TREECE Associate Professor of Law Mr. Treece was graduated from the University of Illinois (B.S. 1959, M.A. 1962 and an LLB. 1961 ). While in law school, he was Editor of the University of Illinois Law Forum. From 1961 to 1962, he was a teaching assistant at Illinois, an assistant prolessor at Rutgers (1962-65), an associate professor at Rutgers (1965-66). He joined the Texas faculty in 1966 after having visited here in 1965. He has written articles on Antitrust and Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights and in various law reviews. Mr. Treece teaches Government Regulation; Antitrust; Patent, Trademark and Copyright; and Constitutional Law. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar and to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta.