Blackstock, Leo G., 1899-1972. Blackstock taught at Trinity
University (1924-25) and Sam Houston State Teachers College (1925-27)
before joining the faculty of The University of Texas in 1927 as
Professor of Business Law. He was also a Visiting Professor in the
School of Law (1953-66), teaching military law and legal accounting.
During 1937-39 he took a leave to serve as Chief Examiner, Gas Utilities
Division, Texas Railroad Commission. Blackstock was called to active
duty in the U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General's Corps, in 1940. He
served in the New Guinea and Philippine campaigns (1944-45) and
prosecuted Japanese war criminals as Chief of the Prosecution Division,
General Headquarters, Tokyo (1945-1948). He left active duty as a
colonel and returned to his teaching duties at The University in 1948,
until his retirement in 1971. He received his B.A. (1923), M.B.A.
(1925), and LL.B. (1933) from The University of Texas.
Scope and Content: Case files contain correspondence,
reports, and case files relating to Blackstock's service as prosecutor
in trials of Class B and Class C war criminals in Japan, and in
courts-martial. Instructional materials include manuals, outlines, and
handouts for courses on military law. Printed materials on military law
include slip opinions, manuals, newsletters, and other material.
Military records contain rosters, orders, memoranda, and other records
documenting Blackstock's service in the Judge Advocate General's Corps,
U.S. Army, and also include correspondence and oaths of allegiance of
the Ledgue of Deffenders [sic] (1942-1945), who apparently fought the
Japanese in Mindanao, Philippines. Faculty papers relate to Blackstock's
service as a faculty member in the UT-Austin School of Business and
School of Law. Photographs show Blackstock and other participants in the
Judge Advocate General's School. Sojourn in Occupied Japan, by Graham
Belcher (Mrs. Leo G.) Blackstock, describes life in Japan during the
U.S. occupation.
Arrangement: Organized in the following series: I. Case
files, Japanese war crimes, 1945-49. II. Case files, courts-martial.
III. Instructional materials, military law, U.S. Army. IV. Instructional
materials, military law, University of Texas School of Law. V. Printed
materials, military law, 1940-1955. VI. Military records. VII. Faculty
papers. VIII. Personal papers. IX. Photographs, Judge Advocate General's
School, 5 items, 1952-1953. X. Maps, Third Army maneuvers,
Texas-Louisiana, 5 items, 1940. XI. Sojourn in Occupied Japan / Graham
Belcher Blackstock, 1 volume, 1979.
Butte, Woodfin Lee, 1908-1981. A professor of law at the
University of Texas from 1964 until his death on 19 Sept. 1981, Woodfin
L. Butte was a specialist in international law, particularly Mexican and
civil law, and published several law review articles and a casebook on
Mexican civil law. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1931, and later
practiced law in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Caracas, Venezuela. From
1939 until 1964, he worked as an attorney and executive for Standard Oil
of New Jersey and its subsidiaries, and traveled and worked throughout
Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Butte came to The University
of Texas as a Visiting Professor of Law and Research Associate in the
Center for Latin American Studies in 1964, was appointed Professor of
Law in 1965, and took emeritus status in 1975. Born on 1 Nov. 1908,
Butte was the son of George C. Butte, dean of the UT School of Law
1923-1924.
Scope and Content: Several files of clippings and
unpublished writings deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Also present
is an edited, unpublished typescript entitled "A Civil Law Reader: being
code extracts and cases from France and Mexico and other Civil-Law
countries, selected, translated and edited for a first-year course-book
in Comparative Law, or for the General Reader; with text and notes",
which includes annotations apparently by a publisher's reviewer. In
addition, there is a large folded color map of the Middle East, Butte's
curriculum vitae, and several figurines and other curios from Latin
America.
Scope and Content: A collection of publications authored by
the School of Law faculty which documents the development of legal
education and legal scholarship at The University of Texas. It includes
books, mimeographed casebooks, complete issues of journals, article
reprints, photocopies of articles, and a few typescript drafts &
speeches. As of 1996, the collection contained works by 151 authors,
with over 200 items added each year. Since at least the 1980s, the
Tarlton Law Library has asked law professors to donate their
publications. Other items have been transferred from the Law Library's
general collection, separated from manuscript collections, or donated by
others. The earliest item in the collection is GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE
LAW OF TORTS by John C. Townes (1907), and the earliest Law School
casebook is Leon Green's CASES ON CIVIL PROCEDURE IN TRIAL COURTS
(1925).
Arrangement: Arranged by author. Most publications of
current faculty are on display in the Faculty Writings Exhibit.
Finding aid: Items added since 1992 are entered in a
database; inquire in the Tarlton Law Library's Rare Book Reading Room
for details.
Filvaroff, David B., 1931- . A specialist in civil rights
and international law, Filvaroff was professor of law at the University
of Texas, 1973-1988. Before coming to Texas, he clerked for Justices
Frankfurter and Goldberg, worked in the Justice Department under
Nicholas Katzenbach, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law
School. He left Texas for the deanship at the University of Buffalo
School of Law in 1988.
Scope and Content: The Belgrade CSCE meeting files
(1976-1978, 3 boxes) are from the Belgrade Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe, 1978, the first follow-up meeting to the 1975
Helsinki Accords. Filvaroff served as senior adviser and consultant to
the U.S. delegation headed by Ambassador Arthur Goldberg. The Montreux
Meeting of Experts files (1976-1979, 4 boxes) relate to the Montreux
(Switz.) Conference on Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes,
1978. Filvaroff was chief of the U.S. delegation to the 35-nation
conference, required by the Helsinki Accords, which focused on
developing legal mechanisms for settlement of international disputes.
Materials include reports, memoranda, notes, conference documents,
agendas, official statements, position papers, printed materials, and
drafts.
Arrangement: Files are in their original order, generally
chronological.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Green, Leon, 1888-1978. Leon Green taught at The University
of Texas School of Law (1915-1918, 1921-1926, and 1947-1977) and Yale
University (1927-1929). In addition, he served as Dean at the University
of North Carolina (1926-1927) and Northwestern University (1929-1947)
law schools. Green was a distinguished legal scholar and wrote a number
of works which had a profound effect on the course of tort doctrine in
the United States.
Scope and Content: The Leon Green Papers include
correspondence, literary productions, speeches, printed material, and
law school administrative and teaching material. Most of the collection
reflects Green's activities as an educator and legal scholar.
Finding aid: A checklist for the collection is available in
the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Hargrave, Helen, 1894-1985. Helen Hargrave, a 1926 graduate
of The University of Texas School of Law, served as Assistant Law
Librarian (1930-1939) and Law Librarian (1940-1965) at the Tarlton Law
Library, University of Texas, and continued to work part-time for the
library from 1965 until her retirement in 197l. She served as President
of the American Association of Law Libraries and contributed
substantially to the planning of the law libraries of UT Austin, Texas
Southern University, and the Texas Supreme Court.
Scope and Content: This collection consists primarily of
the working records of the Tarlton Law Library including correspondence,
and administrative and personnel records. Also included are materials
relating to Hargrave's efforts during World War II to maintain contact
with students and faculty of The University of Texas School of Law
serving in the military, through publication of the Law School Newsheet.
Other materials relate to Hargrave's activities as a Law School faculty
member, her involvement in the American Association of Law Libraries,
and her efforts to document the Law School's history. Some personal
correspondence and financial records are included. Photographs separated
to Helen Hargrave Photographs.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Related records: Additional correspondence with servicemen
during World War II and other materials related to the Newsheet (30 in.)
are in the Helen Hargrave World War II Collection, Center for American
History, University of Texas at Austin.
Hodges, Gus M., 1908-1992, interviewee. Gus M. Hodges,
professor of law at the University of Texas from 1940 until his death in
1992, was a leading authority on Texas civil procedure and an enormously
popular teacher. He earned his law degree from the University of Texas
in 1932, and practiced personal injury law in Dallas before returning to
the School of Law as a faculty member.
Scope and Content: The interview covers Hodges' early life,
education, and his reflections on legal education and the growth of The
University of Texas School of Law.
Finding aid: Published as: GUS M. HODGES: AN ORAL HISTORY
INTERVIEW (Austin: Jamail Center for Legal Research, 2002); includes
index.
Laycock, Douglas, 1948- . Harold Douglas Laycock (1948- ),
a University of Texas at Austin law professor, is a nationally
recognized authority on religious liberty litigation and remedies. He
has argued several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, testified before
congressional committees, and written dozens of legal commentaries.
Laycock earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in
1973, clerked for Judge Walter Cummings of the U.S. Seventh Circuit
Court of Appeals, 1973-74, practiced law in Austin, Texas, 1974-76, and
taught at the University of Chicago Law School, 1976-81, before coming
to the University of Texas School of Law School in 1981. His specialties
include freedom of religion, employment discrimination, remedies, and
commercial law. He married University of Texas sociology professor
Teresa A. Sullivan in 1971.
Scope and Content: Legal documents, correspondence,
creative works, and printed material, 1971-1988 (84"), arranged in seven
series, document the pro bono case work, teaching, administrative
activities, and research of Douglas Laycock. Legal case files
representing approximately one-third of the material cover venues from
Texas and Illinois county courts to the U.S. Supreme Court (three cases)
and address a wide range of topics, including habeas corpus, race
discrimination in employment, and securities fraud. The use of
statistics in law is demonstrated in case files and described in course
materials, which otherwise consist largely of annotated legal opinions
and exams for classes in civil procedure, commercial law, employment
discrimination, equity, governmental immunities, and remedies. Although
most files of creative work -- concentrating on religious freedom, civil
rights, and education issues -- lack complete drafts of articles or
presentations, they include correspondence with editors, reviewers, and
participants in arguments Laycock was studying, as well as research
notes. Laycock's active opposition to the Robert H. Bork nomination to
the U.S. Supreme Court is reflected in his accumulation of
correspondence with Senator Joseph Biden and reports published by People
for the American Way Action Fund, NAACP Legal Defense and Education
Fund, and the Public Citizen Litigation Group. Sex discrimination in
insurance files include correspondence, legal case files, articles,
legislation, and other materials created or gathered by Laycock and and
his wife, sociologist & lawyer Teresa Sullivan, for articles,
contributions to legal briefs, and testimony at congressional committee
hearings. Student files hold letters of recommendation and grade
reports, with little other correspondence.
Arrangement: Organized into the following series: I. Legal
case files, 1971-1987; II. Creative works, 1973- 1990; III. Robert H.
Bork nomination, 1987; IV. Course materials, 1977-1985; V. Student
files, 1977-1988; VI. University of Texas at Austin Law School, 1982-
1987; VII. General, 1977-1987; VIII. Sex discrimination in insurance
files of Douglas Laycock and Teresa Sullivan, 1940-1987, bulk 1974-1987;
IX. Sound cassettes, 1984-1988.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Restrictions: Permission from Douglas Laycock required for
access to folders marked "Confidential" or "Restricted".
Related records: Subsequent accessions of Laycock's files
are cataloged separately.
Laycock, Douglas, 1948- . Douglas Laycock (1948- ), a
University of Texas at Austin law professor, is a nationally recognized
authority on religious liberty litigation and remedies. He has argued
several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, testified before
congressional committees, and written dozens of legal commentaries.
Scope and Content: BOX 1: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
files, 42 U.S.C. §2000bb et seq. (1993 Supp. V), 1990-1995 (8"). BOX 2:
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah case files, 113 S.Ct.
2217 (1993), 1987-1994 (15"). BOX 3: Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of
Hialeah transcripts (3 binders, 10"); Recent religious liberty cases
resolved as of November 1995 (A-E) (4"). BOX 4: Recent religious liberty
cases resolved as of November 1995 (F-Z) (16"). BOX 5: "Death of the
Irreparable Injury Rule" & related remedies work (12"). Privileged
materials removed by Laycock.
Laycock, Douglas, 1948- . Douglas Laycock (1948- ), a
University of Texas at Austin law professor, is a nationally recognized
authority on religious liberty litigation and remedies. He has argued
several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, testified before
congressional committees, and written dozens of legal commentaries.
Scope and Content: BOX 1: Publications files for "Modern
American Remedies" (1st & 2nd eds.), 1985-1994 (15"). -- BOX 2: Case
files & briefs, cases on religious freedom & remedies, 1995-1996
(10").
Arrangement: Files maintain their original order.
Restrictions: Permission from Douglas Laycock required for
access to folders marked "Confidential" or "Restricted".
Mathews, Robert Elden, 1894-1983. When Robert E. Mathews
joined the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law in 1966, he
had already retired from a 40-year career as a law professor at Ohio
State University, where he had established a national reputation as an
authority on labor law, agency, partnership, labor law, and the legal
profession. Mathews also taught courses in these areas as a visiting
professor at Harvard, Columbia, and the India Law Institute in New
Dehli. During World War II he was an attorney for the Board of Economic
Warfare and the National War Labor Board. He was elected president of
the American Association of Law Schools in 1952, and was a member of the
American Law Institute, the National Academy of Arbitrators, and the
International Society for Labor Law. Mathews retired from the Texas
faculty in 1970 but remained active as a teacher and scholar.
Scope and Content: The professional and personal life of
Robert E. Mathews is documented in correspondence, printed materials,
creative works, financial documentation, reports, legal and legal-style
documentation, photographs, and a work of art on paper, 1917-1980 (13.9
linear feet ). The majority of the material represents his professional
work, both as a law professor and with the legal profession as a whole.
Dominating this group are course materials arranged by course title
which he used primarily during his tenure at Ohio State University and
the University of Texas at Austin, and as a visiting professor to other
institutions (1925-1980, 5.7 feet). This group also contains significant
amounts of correspondence and printed material regarding teaching
opportunities (1955-1970, 0.5 feet); professional colleagues (1932-1975,
2 feet); and his professional affiliations, such as the American
Association of Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the
International Commission of Jurists, the International Society for Labor
Law, and the National Academy of Arbitrators (1939-1976, 1.5 feet).
Drafts and finished versions of some of his publications are found in
his papers (1942-1975, 2 feet), most notably those regarding the
³problem method² of teaching which Mathews devised and introduced. Other
collected publications, and reference and research materials are also
part of his papers (1939-1976, 1.3 feet). A much smaller group of
material provides insight into the personal life of Robert E. Mathews
(1917-1974, 0.8 feet). Correspondence with friends and family makes up
the bulk of this group. Noteworthy are the papers by and regarding his
father, Shailer Mathews, a noted Baptist theologian and co-founder of
the University of Chicago Divinity School (1917-1973, 3 folders).
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Restrictions: A limited number of folders are restricted
because they contain student grades; consult the archivist for access to
these materials.
Related records: The Robert E. Mathews Photographs
(1865-ca. 1965; 4 items) includes images of Mathews, his father Shailer
Mathews, and his mother Mary Philbriels Elden Mathews.
McLaurin, Lauch, 1854-1920. A professor of law at the
University of Texas School of Law (1907-1920), Judge Lauch McLaurin
(1854-1920) was born in Simpson County, Mississippi, and privately
educated in Hinds County and Brandon, Mississippi. Graduating from the
University of Mississippi with a B.A. degree in 1874, McLaurin studied
with Gen. Robert Lowery for the bar which he passed at the age of 21.
Setting up practice in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1876, McLaurin became
the youngest man ever appointed to the office of Chancellor (1883-1890).
In 1890 he resigned the office of Chancellor of the 10th District of
Mississippi to move to Dallas where he established a corporate law
practice with Judge Bookhut and later with Gen. A.P. Wozencraft. Their
clients included Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company and
Postal Telegraph-Cable Company. In 1907 McLaurin resigned from his
lucrative private practice to accept an appointment to teach law at the
University of Texas which he continued to do until his death on Dec. 21,
1920. McLaurin and his wife, Ida Steven McLaurin, had no surviving
children.
Scope and Content: The bulk of the collection consists of
McLaurin's course materials for Commerical Paper (1911-1920),
Constitutional Law (1910-1920), Municipal Corporations (1909-1920), and
Suretyship and Guaranty (1911-1920). Of particular interest are the
materials from the investigation of Dr. Albert Benedict Wolfe of the
University of Texas Department of Economics and Sociology on charges of
promoting socialism and free love. Included are correspondence, the
transcript of the proceedings, McLaurin's personal notes and draft of
the committee report, and the findings of the investigating committee
(1920). McLaurin's personal papers consist primarily of financial
records, insurance policies, and materials relating to his real estate
holdings in Dallas, Texas (1890-1920) including tax bills and receipts,
statements of account, and deeds. Of note is the T. Richardson
correspondence (1920) in which Richardson, a 72-year old postal worker
in Boston, former Black Republican and principal of the black school in
Port Gibson, Mississippi, appealed to McLaurin to help him obtain the
federal pension denied him by the postal service. The papers of Tom
Scurry, a law student who lived briefly with the McLaurins in the spring
of 1919, are also included in the collection.
Arrangement: As with other men of his era, McLaurin bundled
his papers in used envelopes or secured them with string or rubber
bands. Correspondence, financial records, and legal documents are often
arranged together to maintain the original order of his papers.
Roberts, Oran Milo, 1815-1898. Known affectionately as "The
Old Alcalde", O. M. Roberts oversaw the founding of The University of
Texas as governor and became one of the original faculty members of The
University and its Law Department upon leaving office. Roberts first
served on the Texas Supreme Court 1857-1861, and was chief justice of
the court 1864-1865 and 1874-1878. He was elected president of the
Secession Convention in 1861 and commanded the 11th Texas Infantry
during the Civil War. Roberts previously taught law at the antebellum
University of San Augustine (Tex.) and organized a private law school at
Gilmer, Tex., in 1868.
Scope and Content: Title leaf bears typescript title with
handwritten additions, and ownership stamp of "R. L. Batts / Austin".
Following leaf of ruled paper is handwritten, with title "General
Lecture / The Elements of, and / the Different Kinds of / Governments /
delivered 1st of Session / to Senior Law Class." in ink, and text of
"Introduction" in pencil. Following 9 leaves are typescript with
extensive handwritten corrections in ink. Final leaf bears handwritten
colophon: "The foregoing descriptions of governments may / well serve as
the foundation of an interesting book, / to be taught to law students in
the University of / Texas. / [signed] O. M. Roberts". Leaves bound with
string.
Simkins, William Stewart, 1842-1929. Professor of law at
the University of Texas (1899-1929), William Stewart Simkins was the
most colorful character ever associated with the Law School and is
associated with many Law School traditions. A Confederate Army veteran,
Simkins was admitted to the bar in Florida in 1870 and moved to Texas in
1873. He practiced law at Corsicana until 1885, when he and his brother
began practice in Dallas. Several of his publications became standard
textbooks at many law schools including the University of Texas.
Scope and Content: Handwritten records kept by Simkins of
his law practice in Dallas, Tex., include information on clients,
witnesses, evidence, court dates, and fees owed. Cases generally
involved debt collections, insurance, securities, or secured
transactions. The notebook's printed and ruled pages are designed for
law practice; about half the pages are blank. Typed label on front:
"W.S. SIMKINS / ROOM 305 SCOLLARD / BUILDING" and handwritten, "Ex
Gratia Dei--". Handwritten on inside back cover: "W.S. Simkins / Room
509 North Texas Nat. Bank Bld. / Dallas, Texas".
Smith, Bryant, 1888-1973. A professor of law, University of
Texas, 1926-1939, Bryant Smith received his LL.B. from the University of
Colorado (1916) and a J.S.D. from Yale University (1927). Before coming
to Texas he taught law at the University of Colorado (1919-20) and
Washington University (1920-26), and taught at Arizona after leaving
Texas. He taught and published in constitutional law and a variety of
property and business law topics.
Scope and Content: Materials include: text of a speech
Bryant gave in 1933(?) to the graduating class of his alma mater,
Guilford College, N.C.; typescript draft of "The Menace of the Years",
which was published in POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 54:2 (June 1939),
161-174; correspondence and partial typescript drafts for a work
critical of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education
decision and racial integration in general, entitled "Racial
Contradictions and Paradoxes" and/or "The National Conscience and
Southern Wrong", which was rejected in 1964 by Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Photocopies of originals.
Smith, Hubert Winston, 1907-1971. As an educator, author,
attorney, and physician, Hubert Winston Smith was a leader in the field
of legal medicine and a promoter of what he called the "Law-Science
Movement" in the mid-20th century. Smith received his law degree from
Harvard University in 1930 and practiced law in Dallas, 1930-1936. He
began medical studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1936 and
transferred to Harvard Medical School in 1939, receiving his M.D. in
1941. He was a research fellow in Harvard's medical and law schools,
1941-1944, a legal medicine officer in the U.S. Navy, 1944-1945, and
taught legal medicine at the University of Illinois, 1945-1949. Smith
went to Tulane University in 1949 and founded the Law-Science Program,
which offered continuing education programs in legal medicine to doctors
and lawyers. In 1952, Smith came to the University of Texas School of
Law where he directed the Law-Science Institute, taught legal medicine,
and also founded the independent Law-Science Academy. His law-science
continuing education programs received enthusiastic response from
attorneys. Smith left the Texas law school faculty in 1965 in the wake
of controversy over his work as defense counsel for Jack Ruby in 1964
and his fundraising for the Law-Science Academy. At the time of his
death Smith was on the faculty of the law and medical schools at the
University of Oklahoma. He was also an early developer of the resort
area at Crested Butte, Colo.
Scope and Content: Smith's office files (Correspondence
& subject files, 1940-1954; Instructional materials 1957 &
undated; Lectures, 1946-1954; Correspondence with suppliers, 1950-1954;
Organization files, 1942-1954; Publication files, 1943-1954; and
Law-Science Academy, Gulfport, Miss., 1958) measure 4 linear ft. They
consist mainly of correspondence with attorneys, medical specialists,
and educators relating to organizing and fundraising for his law-science
programs, consulting on litigation, Smith's academic career, academic
publications, speaking engagements, and related matters. The
correspondence also documents relations between the legal and medical
professions; faculty affairs in the law and medical schools at Tulane,
Texas, and Illinois; and the development of the plaintiff's bar,
particularly in Texas and Louisiana. Other publications and printed
materials documenting the Law-Science Institute and Smith's professional
and research interests are contained in Law-Science Institute general
materials, 1942-1957; Publications, 1940-1948 & undated; and
Conferences & meetings, 1947-1958 (1.5 linear ft.). Legal briefs (1
linear ft.) include appellate briefs and an opinion that Smith wrote
during 1931-1936 while he was an attorney in Dallas, all dealing with
insurance claims. They also include briefs and transcripts, mainly from
personal injury cases during 1949-1956, which Smith collected, including
several authored by famed plaintiff's attorney Melvin Belli, an
associate of Smith's. University notebooks (3.5 linear ft.) contain
Smith's handwritten class notes from his days at Harvard Law School
(1927-1930) and the medical schools at the University of Edinburgh
(1936-1938) and Harvard Medical School (1938-1940).
Arrangement: Smith's office files retain their original
order; file classification numbers have been retained in folder titles
within parentheses, i.e. "(8C.2)". The remaining series were created by
the archivist from scattered materials.
Related records: Other materials relating to Hubert Winston
Smith and the Law-Science Institute are found in the W. Page Keeton
Papers, Charles T. McCormick Papers, Helen Hargrave Papers, and the
University of Texas School of Law Records, all housed at the Tarlton Law
Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Extent: 10.5 linear ft. (20 boxes & 11 three-ring
binders)
Stayton, Robert W., 1883-1963. Robert W. Stayton, legal
educator and authority on Texas civil procedure, was a 1909 graduate of
The University of Texas School of Law. He practiced law privately,
served on the Board of Legal Examiners and the Commission of Appeals,
and was president of the State Bar Association before becoming joining
the UT law faculty in 1925. Stayton served as a member of the Texas
Judicial Council, 1929-1946, created to study the organization, rules,
procedure and practices of the Texas civil judicial system. With the
Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure,
1940-1961, he chaired the Subcommittee on Trial Procedure (Actual
Trial). After the revised rules, called the greatest work of
jurisprudence in the State, were adopted by the court in 1941, Stayton
was chair, 1942-1944, of the newly formed Subcommittee on Interpretation
of Rules (of the Committee on the Improvement of the Administration of
Justice of the State Bar), formed to assist in interpreting the new
rules by providing advisory opinions to lawyers. Staytonıs life long
commitment to civil procedural reform was evidenced by prolific writings
and by several research projects.
Scope and Content: Minutes, proceedings, correspondence,
reports, memoranda, printed material, creative works, and legal-style
documentation reflect the involvement and activities of Robert W.
Stayton in the formulation, interpretation, and evaluation of the Texas
Rules of Civil Procedure and in the study of the Texas civil judicial
system, 1939-1950. The records of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee
(1939-49, 4.5 linear feet: 10.8 boxes) thoroughly document the
establishment and activities of the Committee related to the drafting
and promotion of the new rules. While the bulk of the committee's
general records (2.7 linear feet: 6.5 boxes) consists of correspondence,
reports, proceedings of institutes, and printed material, less well
documented are the activities of its six subcommittees, which range from
studies of existing procedural statutes to drafting procedural rules.
Especially well documented, through the general and numbered
correspondence and printed material of the Subcommittee on the
Interpretation of Rules (1941-47, 3.33 linear feet: 8 boxes), is
Stayton's participation in answering practicing attorneys' inquiries
regarding application of the new rules. The Stayton Research Projects
(1934-1950, 2.58 linear feet: 1 box, 11 binders), primarily deals with
"A Study of Pendency in Texas Civil Litigation," whose results were
published in several articles in the Texas Law Review. The study surveys
the grounds and rationales of holdings of the Texas Supreme Court from
1886 and those of Texas appellate courts from 1931, with access
facilitated through a project explanations book. The records of the
Texas Judicial Council (1940-[1950], 0.20 linear feet), while dealing
with ethics and judicial administration during the 1940s, provide only
sketchy coverage of these topics and Stayton's involvement.
Arrangement: Arranged in four series: Supreme Court
Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, Subcommittee on the
Interpretation of Rules (of the Committee on the Improvement of Justice
of the State Bar of Texas), Texas Civil Judicial Council, and Stayton
Research Projects.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Related records: James W. McClendon Papers. Texas Civil
Judicial Council Records.
Stumberg, George Wilfred, 1879-1964. A professor of law at
the University of Texas from 1925 until his death in 1964, Stumberg was
a nationally recognized authority on conflict of laws, criminal law, and
admiralty, and his textbooks on these subjects were used in law schools
across the U.S. Recognized as an outstanding teacher, he was promoted to
the rank of "distinguished professor" in 1941. He held law degrees from
Columbia and Yale, was a Rhodes Scholar in 1913-1914, and taught law at
his alma mater, Louisiana State University, before coming to Texas.
During World War II he worked for the Board of Economic Warfare.
Scope and Content: Correspondence and news clippings,
1942-1944, document Stumberg's firing by the Board of Regents for his
protest over their dismissal of three University of Texas economics
professors in 1942 for political activities. His research and writings
are documented in a partial manuscript for the 3rd edition of his
PRINCIPLES OF THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS (1963), miscellaneous notes, and his
extensive annotations in casebooks by himself and others. Also present
are a few clippings about Stumberg, correspondence on Law School
matters, and class materials.
Restrictions: Honor Council case file may be viewed only by
permission of the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law.
Related records: Additional correspondence on Stumberg's
firing and subsequent reinstatement is in Stumberg's personnel file in
the Personnel Files-Deceased Faculty (UT School of Law Records, Office
of the Dean), L86/9.
Scope and Content: Personnel records of deceased faculty,
maintained in the Office of the Dean of the School of Law. Included are
Edward Weldon Bailey, Marian O. Boner, Woodfin L. Butte, Parker Fielder,
Julius F. Franki, William F. Fritz, Carl Fulda, W. St. John Garwood,
Leon Green, T. J. Gibson III, Warner A. Hancock, Helen Hargrave, Gus M.
Hodges, Albert P. Jones, Robert E. Mathews, Charles T. McCormick,
Charles J. Meyers, Clarence H. Miller, Keith E. Morrison, Woodrow
Patterson, Michael Rosenthal, Millard H. Ruud, Hubert Winston Smith,
Harold W. Solomon, Robert W. Stayton, E. Wayne Thode, George W.
Stumberg, Bernard J. Ward, Jerre S. Williams, Joseph Witherspoon, and M.
Kenneth Woodward. Besides personnel records, most files also include
news clippings, memorials, news releases, and publications. Files for
Boner, Green and Williams include photographs.
Arrangement: Within each accession, files preserve original
alphabetical arrangement.
Ward, Bernard J., 1925-1982. Bernard J. Ward, legal
educator and authority on the federal courts, practiced general law in
New Orleans, 1949-1953, and taught in the law schools at Loyola
University, 1952-1953, Notre Dame University, 1954-1968, and the
University of Texas at Austin, 1969-1982. At Texas he taught federal
courts, remedies, Texas procedure, and a seminar on the Supreme Court. A
member of the American Law Institute, Ward spoke frequently at
educational conferences for the federal judiciary, and was highly
regarded by both students and federal judges. He drafted the Federal
Rules of Appellate Procedure, which are used throughout the federal
courts, and was co-author of "Appeals to Court of Appeals," a well-known
treatise. Ward served as reporter to the Advisory Committee on Appellate
Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States 1961-1968; the
Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial
Conference, 1970-1971; and the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules,
1971-1978. He was a member of the Standing Committee from 1978 until his
death on May 7, 1982.
Scope and Content: Correspondence, printed material,
minutes, memoranda, and literary productions document Bernard J. Ward's
activity in the legal profession, both as scholar and public servant.
Ward the public servant takes primacy over Ward the teacher, not only by
the sheer preponderance of material on his work on the federal rules
committees, but also by the insight that material provides about its
creator as an esteemed legal authority. The papers bulk with
correspondence in the periods 1961-1969 and 1971-1978 when he served,
respectively, as reporter to the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules
of the Judicial Conference of the United States and as reporter to the
Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. The first series documents the
formation and membership of the Committee on Rules of Practice and
Procedure and its advisory committees. The four following series,
beginning with Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, 1961-1969, are
marshaled chronologically, to reflect Wardıs successive service on the
various committees. The subseries on rules (e.g., Rule 23 under the
series, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 1971-1978) manifest the
process by which those rules--from their conception through various
drafts and proposed changes--arrived at their final form. The last two
series relate Wardıs career as a law professor at Notre Dame, 1954-1955,
and the University of Texas, 1966-1982, with correspondence that also
documents his service on the federal rules committees and and his
personal relationships with the federal judiciary and other legal
scholars.
Arrangement: Organized into seven series: I. Standing
Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, administrative records,
1960-1981; II. Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, 1961-1969; III.
Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, 1969-1971; IV.
Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 1971-1978; V. Standing Committee on
Rules of Practice and Procedure, 1978-1982; VI. Notre Dame Law School,
1954-1955; VII. University of Texas School of Law, 1966-1982.
Arrangement within series is generally chronological. The original order
of the creator has been retained when possible.
Williams, Jerre Stockton, 1916-1993. A nationally
recognized legal scholar, labor and commercial arbitrator, and judge on
the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (1980-1993), Jerre S. Williams
spent most of his professional life as a professor of law at the
University of Texas at Austin (1946-1980) where he specialized in
constitutional law, labor law, administrative law, and the legal
profession. As a leader in legal education, Williams served on the
Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools
(1972-1974), holding the presidency briefly in 1980 prior to his
judicial appointment. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as
the first Chairman and organizer of the Administrative Conference of the
United States (1968-1970), a federal agency charged with improving
government administrative processes, while on leave from his teaching
duties. Williams was also Chairman of the Southwestern Regional Manpower
Advisory Committee (1964-1966).
Scope and Content: The collection consists mainly of
correspondence, creative works, printed material, and photographs kept
by Jerre S. Williams at his office in the University of Texas School of
Law. A large portion of it relates to Williams' career as a professor at
the School of Law (1946-1980), mainly course lecture notes, exams, and
student evaluations, together with correspondence and news clippings.
(3.5 feet). Also well-represented are drafts of his manuscripts,
speeches, television and radio scripts, and articles (3.5 feet),
reflecting Williams' prolific writing and lecturing activities.
Approximately 1/3 of the papers consist of material relating to
Williams' role as the first chairman and prime organizer of the
Administrative Conference of the United States (1967-1970), the American
Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, the
Southwestern Regional Manpower Advisory Committe, and other professional
organizations. His family life is well-documented through
correspondence, printed material, photographs, and creative works of
family members, particularly his wife, Judge Mary Pearl Williams (1
foot).
Arrangement: Organized in the following series: I.
University of Texas School of Law, 1946-1980; II. University of Chicago
Law School, 1960; III. Professional Materials, 1949-1979; IV.
Administrative Conference of the U.S., 1967-1970; V. American Bar
Association, 1953-1980; VI. Association of American Law Schools,
1956-1980; VII. Creative Works, 1950-1980; VIII. General Materials,
1934-1982.
Finding aid: A detailed finding aid to the collection is
available in the Tarlton Library's Rare Book Reading Room.
Related records: Records of Williams' work as a labor and
commercial arbitrator are in the Jerre S. Williams Arbitration Files and
most of his publications are in the Faculty Writings Collection, Tarlton
Law Library, University of Texas at Austin.
