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I 01. 6 NO. 4 AUGUST 196 . - '. .-.-- - , ,.I Law School Francis Allen Joins Visitors' Committee Law Faculty in Fall r - -1 Is Appointed In September, Francis A. Allen will join the Michigan Law% School faculty as professor of law, teaching constitutional, crimi- - -' Appointment of a Committee of Visitors for the Law School rial, and family law. He comes to Michigan from the University has been announced by University President Harlan Hatcher and of Chicago, where he has been a professor of law since 1956. Dean Allen F. Smith, of the Law School. The group will meet for Professor Allen has a national reputation in the field of crimi- - the first time Nov 9 and 10, at the call of Ralph M-Carson, na1 law. He was formerly associate editor of the Journal of president of the Lawyers Club. Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science. He served on the - Establishment of the Visitors' Committee is in accordance Illinois sex Offenders Commission in 1952-53 ; was &airman of ,;?- with the new bylaws of the Lawyers Club, which provide for such a joint bar association sub-committee to draft a criminal code for. a committee to "meet at the Law School at least Once a year to Illinois; and is a member of the Illinois Academy of Criminology examine the Law School's program of undergraduate, graduate and the American Correctional Association. and continuing legal education, and legal research, its contribution A native of Kansas City, Kans., Professor Allen received his : to the legal profession and the improvement of law and society, A.B. degree from Cornell University in 1941 and the LL.B. from :iC, and its relationships to its alumni. It shall make a report of its Northwestern University in 1946. He holds an honorary M.A. lyi.<c findings to the President of the University, to the Board of degree from Harvard University and an honorary J. D. degree ~overnors(of the Lawyers Club). and to the..fyulty ofdthe Law- from Cornell. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order' School." - - 3 St .,by 2L! :.IJ -T--,L :;- :+:-'<- L -'L ! 2 of the Coif. + -k4* = The tentative agenda mnounced by Mr. Carson lor the first From 1946 to 1948, Professor Allen was legal secretary to the - ). meeting includes visits to classes, reports from faculty On vari- .,5 late Chief Justice Vinson of the U. S. Supreme Court. He taught ' . s,'') 7 OUS phases of the Law sch001'~program, and a meeting with the in the Northwestern University Law school, 1943-1953, and at a :'<.$ Law School administrative officers. Among topics listed for con- ,,8 :4 Harvard, 1953-1956,-. prior to joining the Chicago faculty six sideration are faculty appointments, placement of graduates, years ago., , .: , .+ .;. ... 7 - .I .I.i, .- 7 4- -. +, quality of students, curriculum, and research. .. - . 1. - 4 Members of the Committee of Visitors are: Paul L. Adams, _ ,,-. -'', - L Lansing ; A. H. Aymond, Jr., Jackson; Henry A. Bergstrom, Pitts- - & . .*-::;;. y'n ::.! :Ti'-!..-1 tr :; .- ..u: -2 - burgh, Pa. ; John R. Brown, Houston, Tex. ; Harvey W. Clarke, 0.; J. Don Lawrence, Ypsilanti; David R. Macdonald, Chicago, Id Spokane, Wash. ; Stephen H. Clink, Muskegon; Glenn M. Coulter, Ill. ; Edward C. McCobb, Grand Rapids; Frank M. McHale, In- .. Detroit; Allan B. Diefenbach, Akron, 0.; George E. Diethelm, dianapolis, Ind. ; Donald F. Melhorn, Toledo, 0.; Edgar M. Mors- 4 New York; Carl E. Enggas, Kansas City, Mo.; Benton E. Gates, man, Jr., Omaha, Neb.; John P. O'Hara, Detroit; John H. -*- Columbia City, Ind.; Harry G. Gault, Flint; William D. Gowans, Pickering, Washington, D. C.; N. Michael Plaut, Keene, N. H.; . ' Detroit; W. A. Groening, Jr., Midland; Philip A. Hart, Washing- Ira M. Price 11, Los Angeles, Calif.; Donald L. Quaife, Dearborn; ton, D.C.; Hazen J. Hatch, Marshall; H. Winston Hathaway, Benjamin M. Quigg, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward D. Ransom, Muskegon; Charles P. Henderson, Youngstown, 0.;Carl R. Henry, San Francisco, Calif. ; Ronald M. Ryan, Battle Creek; Talbot Alpena; Allen C. Holmes, Cleveland, 0.; Jason L. Honigman, De- Smith, Detroit; George A. Spater, New York; John S. Tennant, troit; L. Douglas Hoyt, Denver, Colo.; Edward Hutchison, Fenn- New York; Stanley G. Thayer, Ann Arbor; Paul R. Trigg, Jr., ville; Clayton F. Jennings, Lansing; W. F. Kenney, New York; Detroit; Samuel G. Wellman, Cleveland, 0. ; Renville Wheat, Alan R. Kidston, Chicago, Ill.; Thomas V. Koykka, Cleveland, Detroit; Herbert E. Wilson, Indianapolis, Ind.J=J.+:' -'- - .- LAW QUADRANGLE NOTES From the Dean . Professors Blume, James A look at the past often helps to illuminate the present. I Begin Retirement have recently been looking at some historical facts, to compare today's Michigan Law School with the same school of the past. Two long-time members of the Law School faculty retired and T pass the results on to you in the hope that they will be of from active teaching in June. They are William W. Blume and Laylin K.James. - __-- ____ T. interest. Enrollment over the years has had Professor Blume, a native of West Virginia, was educated in its ups and downs. It was 750 in the Texas and Tennessee, receiving his B.A. degree from Texas Chris- year 1911-12, 865 in 1951-52, and tian University, studying in the Law Department of Cumberland 955 in 196 1-62. Non-resident enroll- University, and earning the LL.B. degree from The University of ment has been fairly constant, rang- Michigan. In 1928, he received the degree of Doctor of Juridical ing from 50 per cent to 60 per cent, Science, also from The University of Michigan. A faculty member of the Comparative Law School of China, in Shanghai, Professor Blume also served as dean of this school from 1921 to 1924. In 1927. he joined the Michigan Law School has grown from 17 in 1911-12 to 37 faculty, and in 1936 was named to a full professorship. He has full-time resident professors in 1961- written extensively, particularly in the field of legal history. One DEAN SMITH 62. The growth reflects not only a of his most recent articles is "Legislation on the American Fron- substantial increase in the number of tier," dealing with laws of the Northwest Territory, Michigan courses in the curriculum, but increased responsibilities which Territory, and Indiana Territory, published in the hlicltigan Law have been assumed by the institution. Research activities and Review this spring. service to the organized bar have been greatly expanded. Professor James is a native of Ohio, and earned both the A.B. The library, one of the truly great collections in the United and J.D. degrees from The University of Michigan. He taught at States, has grown from 3 1,000 volumes in 1911-12 to more than the University of Pittsburg Law School prior to joining the 305,000 in 1961-62. Periodicals have increased from 24 fifty Michigan law faculty in 1929. In recent years, he has headed the years ago to the remarkable number of 4,080 serials received to- Law School placement service, assisting graduates in finding day. Annual acquisitions run to almost 8,000 volumes, and the positions. He is an authority on corporation law and is the author task of organizing the library, finding space for the books, and of Cases and Materials on the Law of Bzlsiness Associations. providing services which will make this resource available to its maximum potential is one which calls for substantial effort. Pro- fessor Hobart Coffey, Law Librarian since 1926, has been re- sponsible for this growth. Despite growth and change, the Law School remains a continu- Visiting Faculty Will ing institution which carries forward the strength of the past. It Include Alwyn Freeman is noteworthy, for example, that Professor emeritus Ralph W. Aigler was a teacher of every class which held a reunion this Four visiting appointments to the Michigan law faculty for spring. He joined the faculty in 1910 and served until 1954. Pro- the 1962-63 year have been announced by Dean Allen F. Smith. fessor emeritus John Waite served from 1912 to 1951, and Pro- During the second semester, Alwyn V. Freeman, now the U.S. fessor emeritus Burke Shartel from 1920 to 1959. The late Edgar representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency of Durfee taught from 1911 to 1951, and Grover Grismore from the United Nations, will serve as visiting lecturer in law. His ap- 1914 to 1951. These names, which are familiar to all who have pointment has been made possible by the Law School Fund. Mr. worked in legal education, provide inspiration to the members of Freeman is a native of Detroit and earned the A.B. degree at The the present faculty to continue their efforts in training the best University of Michigan. He graduated from the Harvard Law lawyers in the country. School and is a diplomate of the Universitaire Hautes Etudes Internationales. Mr. Freeman has served as legal counsel to the Department of Alumni Gather at State and as a consultant to the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations State Bar Meetings Committee. He has served on numerous international commis- Law School alumni have held special meetings in connection sions and conferences, as a member of the United States delega- with several recent bar association or other gatherings. tion to the U.N. General Assembly, and as director of research of On May 23, alumni in the Washington, D.C. area met at the the Hague Academy of International Law. time of the annual meeting of the American Law Institute. Dean Also named to the visiting faculty for the coming year were Allan F. Smith and Associate Dean Charles W.