ROSCOE POUND - NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED CIRCA 1956 CO-SIGNED BY: RALPH J. BAKER, JAMES ANGELL MACLACHLAN, ZECHARIA CHAFEE, LIVINGSTON HALL, ERWIN N. GRISWOLD, DAVID F. CAVERS, AUSTIN W. SCOTT, WARREN ABNER SEAVEY, JOHN M. MAGUIRE, GEORGE K. "G. K." GARDNER, WILLIAM EDWARD MCCURDY - HFSID 72720

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL FACULTY, 1955-1956
13½x12 newspaper photo, signed by 12 of the professors. The faculty is seated hierarchically, with all 11 front-row scholars signing below their images.
Newspaper Photograph signed: "Roscoe Pound", "Ralph J. Baker", "James A. MacLachlan", "Zecharia Chafee, Jr.", "Livingston Hall", "Erwin N. Griswold", "David F. Cavers", "Austin W. Scott", "Warren A. Seavey", "John M. Maguire", "George K. Gardner", "William E. McCurdy", 13½x12. In all 12 signatures. The Harvard Law School faculty for 1955-1956 is pictured, identified in row order in the printed caption. The seating arrangement is hierarchical, with the most senior professors in the front row, and each of these has signed below his image. (The one exception is McCurdy, who has signed despite his fourth row status. Pictured future luminaries like Archibald Cox and Kingman Brewster, had not yet achieved senior status.) ROSCOE POUND (1870-1964) was Dean of Harvard Law School (1916-1936). An influential critic of "legal formalism," Pound advocated "legal realism," the view that judges should rule with the public interest in mind. Breaking with the New Deal after President Roosevelt's "court-packing" proposal of 1937, Pound became a forcible critic of the flexible judicial mindset he had earlier espoused. He remained on the faculty after resigning from the deanship. RALPH J. BAKER received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and practiced tax law in Harrisburg before accepting an appointment to the Harvard Law School Faculty. JAMES A. MacLACHLAN (1891-1967) was an expert on bankruptcy law, and a founding member of the National Bankruptcy Conference (1935), aimed at proposing amendments to antiquated bankruptcy rules. ZECHARIA CHAFEE (1885-1957), called "dangerous" by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was a leading expert on the First Amendment, highly critical of government abuses of civil liberties. He was also expert in legislative apportionment, involved in Congressional redistricting after the 1930, 1940 and 1950 census. He was the uncle of former US Senator John Chafee, and the grand uncle of Senator Lincoln Chafee. LIVINGSTON HALL (1903-1995) served as a US Attorney and in private practice before returning to Harvard Law School as a professor (1932-1971). The American Bar Association named its Juvenile Justice Award (his specialty) in Hall's honor. ERWIN N. GRISWOLD (1904-1994) was Dean of Harvard Law School (1946-1967) and US Solicitor General (1967-1973). He testified as an expert witness on many desegregation cases, including Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), served on the Civil Rights Commission, and was President of the American Bar Association. DAVID F. CAVERS (1902-1988) taught Law at Duke and served as counsel for the Office of Price Administration during World War II before joining the Harvard law faculty (1946-1969). He was expert in the process of resolving differences between the laws of different jurisdictions. AUSTIN W. SCOTT (1884-1981) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1909 to 1961. A widely recognized authority on the law of trusts, he was at work in the HLS library two weeks before his death, taking notes for the annual revision of his treatise on that subject.  WARREN A. SEAVEY (1880-1966), an expert on agency law, taught law in 5 states and 2 foreign countries, founded two law schools and was dean of a third before joining the HLS faculty in 1927. He was a Reporter to the American Law Institute on four topics. JOHN M. MAGUIRE (1888-1978) was a partner in the prestigious Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr before joining the Harvard Law School faculty (1923-1957). An expert on taxation and on the rules of evidence, he was a consultant with the Treasury Department during World War II. GEORGE K. GARDNER, who retired from the Harvard Law School faculty in 1958, was widely published in legal topics as diverse as loyalty oaths and free speech in public places, usually cited as G. K. Gardner. WILLIAM EDWARD McCURDY, author of a casebook on the law of persons and domestic relations (1939), authored a widely cited study of insanity as a ground for annulment or divorce. One vertical and one horizontal fold. Lightly worn. Slightly creased. Minor nicks and tears at edges. 3-inch separation at crease at right edge, does not affect signatures. Lightly toned at edges. Otherwise, fine condition.