The Law School catalog for 1916-17, which may now be procured at University 2, shows many changes: seven new members have been added to the Faculty, four entirely new courses have been added, ten courses show a change in instructors, and 20,000 volumes have been added to the Law School libraries.
The new names in the Faculty list are as follows: Jens Iverson Westengard LL.D. '98, Bemis Professor of Law; Albert Martin Kales '96, Professor of Law; Zechariah Chafee, Jr., LL.D. '13, Assistant Professor of Law; Judge Francis Joseph Swayze '79, Lecturer on Professional Ethics; William Goodrich Thompson '88, Lecturer on Brief Making; Allan Reuben Campbell '99, Lecturer on New York Practice; Chester Alden McLain '13, Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellow.
The new courses include a half-course on Contracts and Combinations in Restraint of Trade, by Professor Kales; one on Jurisdiction and Procedure of Federal Courts; by Professor Frankfurter; a course of twelve lectures on Professional Ethics, by Judge Swayze; and a half-course on Modern Developments in Procedural Law, by Professor Scott.
The course on Torts will be given by Professor Pound and Professor Westengard; Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, by Assistant Professor Chafee; Partnership, by Professor Frankfurter; Property, by Professor Kales; Admiralty, by Professor Westengard; Municipal Corporations, by Professor Frankfurter; and Voice Training, by Mr. Chenoweth. In addition, Assistant Professor Chafee will help Professor Wambaugh with his course on Insurance--Marine, Fire, and Life, and Professor Kales will share the course on Property with Professor Joseph Warren. The following courses, which were omitted this year, will be given in 1916-17: Quasi-Contracts, Patent Law, and New York Practice. It has not yet been decided who will take the course on Evidence, given last year by Dean Thayer.
In Langdell Hall there are now upwards of 45,000 volumes of the Continental Law of Europe, as against 36,000 last year. Langdell and Austin together contain 170,000 volumes, an increase of 20,000. The average expenditures for books and bindings during the past five years has jumped from $20,000 to $25,000.
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