| IN MEMORIAM
A. LEON GREEN
A. Leon Green, professor emeritus of law, died
on June 15, 1979, in Austin. He was 91. Burial was at Austin Memorial
Park.
Professor Green was born on March 31, 1888,
in Oakland, Louisiana. He earned his bachelor's degree from Ouachita
College in 1908. He earned his law degree from The University
of Texas at Austin in 1915. His teaching career took him to Yale
University in 1927, where he taught until he accepted the deanship
of the law school at Northwestern University in 1929. During his
1929-47 tenure at Northwestern, Professor Green rebuilt the law
school program, transforming it into one of the strongest in the
nation in the 1930s and 1940s. He also taught John Paul Stevens
and Arthur Goldberg, both of whom would later be appointed to
the United States Supreme Court.
Professor Green taught at The University of
Texas School of Law for a total of 38 years. He first became a
member of the faculty at the University in 1915, teaching until
1918. He returned to teach at UT Austin until 1929, and again
from 1947 to 1977. Professor Green gained the reputation for teaching
more different courses and introducing more casebooks into the
law school curriculum than any other teacher in the history of
the school. His other accomplishments included creating first-rate
courses on Texas procedures and originating the idea for the Texas
Law Review, the oldest law journal in the Southwest, which
continues to be published by the law school. At UT Austin, he
also trained another future justice of the United States Supreme
Court, Tom C. Clark.
Recognized universally as a distinguished scholar,
Professor Green published numerous legal studies. His major works
included Rationale of Proximate Cause, Judge and Jury,
and Traffic Victims: Tort Law and Insurance. Professor
Green also gave many lectures throughout the United States, including
the Harry Shulman Memorial Lecture at Yale and Rosenthal Lectures
at Northwestern.
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John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
Biographical sketch prepared by Teresa Palomo
Acosta and posted on the Faculty Council web site on November
17, 2000. Additional biographical sources can be found in the
Barker Texas History Center and the New
Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association,
1996.
The UT Law Library Archives has addtional materials at http://www.law.utexas.edu/rare/archives.htm
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