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 (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.

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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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RUSSELLJ. WEINTRAUB Professor of Law The school's principal authority on conflict of laws, Mr. Wcintraub 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 numerouscourts-martial whileserving as operations-intelligcnce 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 does 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. He is co-author with Scoles of Conflict of Laws 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. Hchas 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. JERRES. WILLIAMS Rex G. Baker and Edna Heflin Baker Professor of Constitutional Law Mr. Williams received his A.B. from Denver (1938) and then went to Columbia for his LL.B. (1941). While at Columbia he was an editor of the Law Review and was a Kent Scholar. Among his later honors is the $3750 Ross Essay Prize of the American Bar Association (1963). From 1941 to 1942, he taught at Iowa and then spent the next four years as Judge Advocate in the U. S. Air Force. In 1946, he joined the faculty as an associate professor. His present practice is limited to serving as a labor arbitrator. In addition, he has served as Associate Director of Staff, Study of Federal Loyalty-Security Programs, N. Y. City Bar Association (1955-56) and as Chairman, Southwestern Regional Manpower Advisor)- Committee under the Secretaries of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare (1964-66). Mr. Williams is presently on leave to Washington, D. G wherchc is Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Mr. Wiliams has written a book on the Supreme Court and has edited a casebook on labor relations and another on constitutional law. He teaches Constitutional Law, Labor Law, Employee's Rights, Legal Profession, and Law and a Free Society, an undergraduate government course. A member of Phi Delta Phi, he is admitted to the Texas Bar and to the U. S. Supreme Court.