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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 11 Volume WINTER 1963 Number 1 Seven New Appointments The Class of 1965 Four new members, including one from Ghana, have The class entering the School in October, besides being been to the of the Law School. appointed Faculty of excellent quality, shows great diversity of origins, both Three distinguished lawyers from abroad also have as to home states and undergraduate degrees. The 149 been members of the appointed visiting Law School students in the class come to the School from thirty-six faculty during 1963. states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico; they hold degrees from eighty-four different universities Continued on page 12 At the dinner for entering students, Visiting Committee and Alumni Board, left to right: Kenneth Montgomery, Charles R. Kaufman, Edmund Kitch, Class of 1964, Paul Kitch, JD'35, and Charles Boand, JD'33. Harry W. Jones The new permanent appointments are: HARRY W. JONES, named Professor of Law. He will teach mainly in the field of jurisprudence. Professor Jones recently was appointed Director of Research of the American Bar Foundation, a neighbor of the Law School. He is currently Cardozo Professor of Jurispru dence at Columbia University School of Law. Professor Continued on page 3 The annual dinner for entering students· 2 The Law School Record Vol.ll,No.1 The Justices of the Illinois Court are shown in the Supreme Judge's Conference Room, adjoining the Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom, to their in a case from just prior hearing argument their regular calendar. Clockwise, from left, The Honorable Joseph Daily, the Honor able the Honorable Roy Solfisburg, Jr., Harry B. Hershey, [D'Ll, the Honorable Ray I. Klingbiel, the Honorable Walter V. Schafer, JD'28, the Honorable Byron House, and the assistant clerk of the Court. The Courts on the Midway the Through generous cooperations of courts and coun sel, the hearing of actual cases from regular calendars continues to take place in the Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom. During the past academic year, the School was host to the Supreme Court of Illinois, with then Chief Justice Schaefer and Justices Daily, Hershey, House, Klingbiel and Solfisburg sitting, and to the Illi nois Appellate Court, with Presiding Justice John V. McCormick, JD'16, and Justices John Dempsey and U. S. Schwartz. The Honorable Jacob Braude, JD'20, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, presided over a com The Kirkland plete jury trial, and the Honorable Walker Butler, Judge Weymouth Courtroom, shown during one of the occasions on a of the frequent which case from the regular calendar of a Superior Court of Cook heard a matter County, trial or court is heard, with the court concerned in appellate sitting chancery. in regular session at the Law School. Vol.ll, No.1 The University of Chicago Law School 3 Seven New Appointments- University of Auckland (1938), editor of the New Zea Continued [rom 1 land Herald page (1942-51), New Zealand Ambassador to the U.S. President of the UN 12th Jones, 51, has taught at Washington University, St: Louis, (1952-58), General As sembly and New Zealand on The Missouri; the University of California (Berkeley); and (1957) representative since at Security Council He will deliver a series of 1957, Columbia. He was for several years Editor (1954-55). lectures and in in-charge of the Department of Legislation of the Ameri public participate seminars and confer ences with students and members of the can Bar Association Journal. His writing includes Mate Faculty. XAVIER who is Professor rials for Legal Method, Economic Security for Americans, BLANC-JOUVAN, of Law at the of and Cases and Materials on Contracts. He studied law at University Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, as Visiting Professor of Law from 1963 to Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and grad February 1, June 15, 1963. He holds the of Licencie en uated in 1934. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oriel College, degrees Philosophie from the of Grenoble and des Oxford, in 1934-35 and received a master of laws degree University (1950) Agrege Facultes de Droit et des Sciences from Columbia University in 1939. Professor Jones will Economiques from the of Paris He is the author of assume his teaching duties at The University of Chicago University (1959). Les Rap- in February, 1963. ports Collectifs du Travail aux Etats-Unis (Paris, Dalloz, DAVID P. CURRIE, named Assistant Professor of Law. 1957) and was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the He will teach courses in Conflict of Laws and Agency. University of the Republique Malgache at Tana narive last He received his A.B. from the College of The University spring. Professor Blanc-Jouvan will assist Pro fessor of Chicago (1957) and law degree from Harvard Law Max Rheinstein in the Foreign Law Program. DUNCAN M. School (1960). He served as law clerk to Judge Henry J. J. DERRETT, Reader in Oriental Laws at the School of Friendly of the Second Circuit, Federal Court of Ap Oriental and African Studies, University of peals, during 1960-61 and to Justice Felix Frankfurter of London, as Visiting Professor of Indian Law during the the U.S. Supreme Court, 1961-62. He is the author of Spring Quarter of 1963. His major published works in clude: "Federalism and the Admiralty: 'The Devil's Own Hindu Law, Past and Present (Calcutta, 1957) Mess'" in the Court and The He Supreme Review of 1960. His ap Hoysolas (Oxford University Press, 1957). received his M.A. pointment was effective August 1, 1962. degree from Oxford (1947) and his PhD. DAVID M. EVANS, named Assistant Professor of Law. degree from the University of London (1949). He He is in was Professor of Law at the charge of the tutorial program at the Law Tagore University of Cal cutta in 1953. School and will teach the course in Restitution. He re ceived his B.A. degree in Law (1959) and his LL.B. degree (1960) from the University of Cambridge, and Placement-The Class of 1962 the JD. as a Commonwealth Fellow from the The degree employment choices of graduates of the School con Law School of The of in 1961. Dur University Chicago tinue to be quite diverse. For the most recent graduating 1961-62 he was a Fellow at ing Teaching Stanford Uni class, the distribution was as follows: versity School of Law. His was effective Private Practice with appointment Chicago Firms . 19 October 1, 1962. Private Practice with Firms Outside Chicago (4 in New York KWAMENA BENTSI-ENCHlLL, formerly Senior Lecturer City, 2 each in Kansas City, Minneapolis and Los Angeles, 1 each in in Law at the University of Ghana, named Senior Teach Bridgeport, Conn., Hartford, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, N.C., Winston-Salem, N.C., Fort ing Fellow and Instructor in African Law. He will assist Wayne, Ind., Joliet, Ill., Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., and Hollywood, Calif.) 20 Professor Denis V. Cowen in the course in Prob Legal Law Clerks to Judges 13 lems irr the Nations of Africa and assist in Graduate .. the .. New Work .. .. .. .. .. .. 11 Nations program of the Law School. Mr. Bentsi-Enchill Federal Government 4 Local Government received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford (in . 1 Teaching . 3 1947 and 1950), has done graduate work at Harvard Corporate Legal Departments . 3 Law School where he received his LL.M. in 1961, . degree Miscellaneous . 4 and has been work at this law doing graduate school Military Service 21 since 1962. His January, appointment was effective Sep Unknown 8 tember 1962. .. 1, Total . 107 to the Appointed visiting professorships were: At first glance it might seem that the number in pri SIR LESLIE K. who MUNRO, is the Secretary-General of vate practice, apparently thirty-nine, is unusually small. the International Commission of in Jurists Geneva, Swit However, when twenty-one military tours of duty, thir zerland, as Professor of Law the month teen and Visiting during clerkships eleven graduate programs are com of 1963. Sir Leslie received his LL.B. and ML and January, pleted, when virtually all those in the unknown cat from the of Auckland and are degrees University (1922 egory added, it is a reasonable guess that 80 to 85 He has been Dean of the 1923). Faculty of Law at the per cent of the class will be found in private practice. 4 The Law School Record Vol. it, No.i The Class of 1937 ties range far beyond them. Considerable time and effort is channelled into civic and educational enterprises, repre ELMER M. By HEIFETZ, JD'37 senting a wide variety of interests. More than half of us were in military service during World War II. Roughly As we to we have received word from go press, fifty-four two-thirds of our number presently live and work in of classmates.

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